Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-06 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Feb 6, 2010, at 10:24 PM, Gadi Cohen wrote: Some more on this for those interested... it looks like NV just have some special rules that go into effect during times of peak traffic. My speeds and email are fine most of the time, but in the evenings this weekend suddenly my slightly less

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-06 Thread Gadi Cohen
Amos Shapira wrote: > Not relevant for me (I'm not in Israel) but have you checked the > connectivity of this box to the rest of the net? If it's through NV > then you might end up in (or close to) square 1. > Yeah, this was the main issue. A traceroute shows that it goes through 012.net. But

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 6 February 2010 06:54, Gadi Cohen wrote: > I set up a VPS (virtual private server, i.e. your own linux system > running as a virtual machine, with root access) in Israel.  I found one > for $29/mo, but I didn't look around too much since this is a 1 month > experiment for me.  Of course being l

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
> > This host is a 20$/month account, and is certainly not the cheapest. It > also doubles as my OpenVPN server. "This" == ?? > -- > Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is > http://tzafrir.org.il || a Mutt's > tzaf...@cohens.org.il || best >

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 10:17:26PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Gadi, > I don't know from which company you took the VPS, but you really want to > make sure it's not sitting under something like OpenVZ which could make your > VPS sometimes unusable if your "neighbor" in that machine is hitting

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Gadi, I don't know from which company you took the VPS, but you really want to make sure it's not sitting under something like OpenVZ which could make your VPS sometimes unusable if your "neighbor" in that machine is hitting his VPS with huge CPU load. Thanks, Hetz On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:01

Re: My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Gadi Cohen
I should also add that since the box isn't used for much else, and encrypted routing is hardly resource intensive, its actually very feasible for a whole bunch of us to share something like this. The $29/mo on the package I found comes with 500GB/mo. And it's not difficult to give out static IPs

My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

2010-02-05 Thread Gadi Cohen
Some of you may recall my occasional rants about ISPs in Israel. I'm quite a demanding user, and need good speeds and good access. Until now I've been jumping around between BezeqInt and Netvision. On some days I'm perfectly happy with either, on other days, I'm ready to tear my hear out. Today