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Re: [NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu May 15 15:02:32 2008

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:01:41 -0400
From: "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: "Luke S Crawford" <lsc@prgmr.com>
In-Reply-To: <m363tfmo3c.fsf@luke.xen.prgmr.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Luke S Crawford <lsc@prgmr.com> wrote:
> "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists@gmail.com> writes:
>> Oh, how do you know you can trust the VPN folks anymore than the
>> cable-modem folks though? eventually the same cost issues are going to
>> arise for the VPN folks as did for cable-modem/dsl folks (downward
>> pressure on pricing and infra/opex/capex costs going
>> up/not-decreasing).
>
> Unlike running fiber to your door, renting a VPS and setting up a
> vpn server is quite inexpensive to do yourself.

note the 'close to the user' part of the plan ... limit addtional
latency and user experience hit. but other than that sure.

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