[OpenWireless Tech] France SFR open system

Eugene Smiley eug.smiley at gmail.com
Mon Nov 5 10:58:26 PST 2012


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:33 PM, "Andy Green (林安廸)" <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> It's also interesting to look at your wr703 plan the other way around as
> well... so that when you are on the road, your home router could act as your
> VPN server.
>
> So you connect from your hotel wifi or from one of these free VPN-only APs
> to your home router, who then proxies your traffic through your otherwise
> idle home connection at no extra cost.
>
> You don't need a VPN pipe fatter than your end-end bandwidth anyway; since
> it's just you using your own home router you get up to half your home
> bandwidth remotely that way, which is probably more bandwidth than the
> shared WLAN AP would give you.

Since I have a VPS which runs my web and mail server, I am planning to
use it for my VPN endpoint. I am already paying for it (only$6/mth)
and when I assemble several wr703n boxes to pass out to family or
friends is when the extra bandwidth (1TB) comes into play.



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