best provider thats cheap

**Beck38** · 04-07-2014, 10:04 PM

You need to 'turn on' your private mail here. But really, none of it is really some kind of secret.

Go to these folks:

http://www.sabaitechnology.com/

they do just about all the VPN services, I was one of their first customers (h/w) years ago, and go through:

http://strongvpn.com/strong_vpn_acco...FZZqfgodBy8AJQ

for VPN services. I'ms sure there are cheaper, but none perhaps faster. Good selection of cities, openvpn or pptp or both (get a good discount on multiple).

Like I said, though, it isn't 'cheap' and if you know your ISP is doing nastiness (like deep packet inspection) in order to send more adverts your way, it's a good deal. Also, of course, means that anything they are trying to block doesn't work any more.

Works for me. 99.99% effective.

**piercerseth** · 04-08-2014, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by Beck38

Go to these folks:

http://www.sabaitechnology.com/

The RT-N66 is a great router, but you can get one off newegg or amazon for $150 less and just flash a VPN build of Tomato yourself. Lot of tutorials out there, process takes less than 30 minutes.

**Beck38** · 04-08-2014, 02:36 PM

And tons, and I mean tons, of folks who tried to do just that, and ended up getting the Sabai OS package after running into major problems with that approach. Latest version is well worth the money, especially if one has various multiple devices (I have over 14) with a mix of VPN/non-VPN attachments, as is the accelerator package for folks who have or need the added speed. My original setup was 'taken out' by a UPS failure that also took a gigaswitch and an older PC which is just now being replaced.

**piercerseth** · 04-10-2014, 03:03 AM

*shrugs* I think it's disingenuous to sell what's essentially an off-the-shelf part with nothing more than a pretty UI at such a high premium. Bless the N66, but as it lacks any kind of crypto acceleration it loses serious steam at line speeds above 50Mbit.

For what'd you'd shell out, you could repurpose an old machine with a pair of gigabit NICs. Install pfsense, m0n0wall, Sophos' UTM etc. Spend the savings on your favorite vices

**Beck38** · 04-10-2014, 03:39 AM

Sure thing. Of course, you don't add in when the old thing dies, or the cost of supplying a good power (UPS) or the monthly cost of powering the thing (at my location, my electrical cost of 12+ machines running 24/7 is around $200/month).

And Yes, the N66 runs out of steam around 8-10Mb/s or so (works for me now, as that's the upstream speed I currently have, and I won't pay for the next 'tier' which is twice as expensive for double the bandwidth), which is why there is a dual-CPU box that takes some of the load off and jumps it up past 50Mb/s (when/if I get on fiber, then I'll get it, meanwhile a cheap secondary VPN fills out the 'leech'/download mode).

Again, yes, you probably could achieve the same with a dual-cpu box, but then again, the electrical cost and other incidentals, like keeping a hard drive and associated OS running (and yes, one could cobble together 'yet another' linux box, I have close to 10 already so no sweat there) but really...the costing just doesn't work out in the long run.

And electricity is the main sustaining cost at the end of the day. Putting together such a machine is about the same cost as the VPN router + accelerator, and together they pull about 10w of power (about the same as a CFL). A 'PC" doing the same job runs about 20 times as much current. That's another $20-30/month thrown at the power company that is STILL paying off Enron because FERC won't let them out of the 10 year old contracts the federal power supplier got sucked into.

I'll stay with the little boxes, thanks you.