My end to ISP fustration: openvpn with a VPS

[Amos Shapira]

On 6 February 2010 06:54, Gadi Cohen <dragon at wastelands.net> 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 local, speeds to the box are
> excellent.  I then installed an openvpn server and enabled IP forwarding
> with NAT.

Congratulations.

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.

Also as others said - check the terms of promised bandwidth in your
contract, and how much you expect the hosting company to abide by
them.

Hetz Ben Hamo has a post in his blog about setting up a VPS in Europe
which might be cheaper and still very accessible from/to Israel. Not
sure how much this is relevant to you (depends on your destinations),
but maybe also worth consideration.

About NV network - many people who access tapuz.co.il from Australia
mention that they have intermittent problems to access it in the last
few weeks, traceroute's from Australia die on the NV->London hop. I
don't follow NV's network status but maybe it's related.

Cheers,

--Amos