Throttling and SafeVPN

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 05:31:12PM -0400, Tyler wrote:
> Well, that's the thing--  residential users shouldn't have critical data 
> -- however, with Teksavvy, I'm finally _allowed_ to run servers.

Lots of people use online banking.  Lots of people use VPN connections
to do work from home.  And who is to say if my data is critical to me or
not.

> Bell is getting around disrupting VPNs and regular business traffic by 
> relaxing the shaping during business hours, however, I've still managed 
> to clock an average of 25 seconds/message to receive TLS-encrypted email 
> from remote servers after about 4pm.  That's disgusting.
> 
> Being a big user of encryption, this Bell shaping is very painful...  
> TLS over SMTP, IMAPS, HTTPS, SSH, FreeNX over SSH, SCP, SFTP, OpenVPN, 
> and occasionally proxying to squid over SSH, etc, all encrypted.  With 
> the exception of most web surfing, almost everything I do is encrypted 
> and therefore throttled... meaning my 5mbits connection is now about 
> 30kB/s between 4pm and sometime in the morning.

They should simply provide the service they are getting paid for.

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Len Sorensen
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