VPN deal

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[Gareth]

Thanks! Been meaning to sign up for a VPN service to see if it'll solve my Time Warner / Backblaze throttling issue, but wasn't sure if I wanted all my traffic to go through the VPN and OS X doesn't make it easy to selectively route traffic and didn't feel like buying and configuring a new router to do this. My issue was that a lot of VPN's sounded like they'd be significantly slower than your direct connection, but some reviews said this service is fast.

Interestingly, when connected to the VPN, I get 21.5Mbps down and 7Mbps up. I pay for 20/2. Checked another computer not connected and got 21.5/2, so it's really weird that my upload is faster on the VPN?

Ran the Backblaze back-up app and those speeds still dropped (to 3.5/2) but the huge difference is that the rest of the internet seemed usable. Previously, on a direct connection, whenever the Backblaze app was running TW would throttle my internet connection so severely that it made it unusable. Often, web pages would load incompletely (i.e. just the text, no formatting, and that's after waiting forever), or they would time out. We'll see how it does in the long term.

[Fred_Also]

I haven't been able to get privateinternetaccess to run on a router yet. Works fine on a Mac Mini & MacBook Air.

I downloaded their instructions for DD-Wrt installed on a Linksys router and just can't get it to start when you reboot the router.

I read one review that you can't use the latest DD-WRT, need to back up one version. I haven't tried that yet.

The only problem I've had with running it on individual computers is when I set it up to route thru Romania & G-mail locked me out, thinking a hacker was working on mine & my wife's account. Finally changed passwords & got them to work again.

Fred