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Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"?

From "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.comm, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"?
Date 2012-03-27 17:14 +0000
Organization MGT Consulting
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Patty Winter wrote:

> I was asking a friend about this capability a couple of months ago,
> and he came back with a warning about using the free open proxy servers
> (for various reasons) plus a long explanation of how he (a networking
> engineer) does it himself with a bunch of UNIX programs that I really
> don't feel like installing...

That's why you would pay for it. To get support and instructions.

Using a free proxy server is a good idea for watching TV or listening to
streaming audio, but you don't want to use it for anything that you send
sensitive data to or from.

While I'm sure most proxy servers are ok, there could be one that monitors
what you do looking for credit card numbers, etc. Free ones more likely
than pay ones.

There are also other options if they still exist. One was a company that
would put a slingbox in their data center and dedicate it to you. You used
the regular slingbox viewer on your computer. It was not cheap, around
a UKP a day, with discounts if you bought an entire year at one time.

Another was a company in Gibralter which was the far end of the spot beam
of the UK satellites. They were able to receive FTA (free to the air) the
BBC, ITV, etc. 

They streamed the signals to you and you paid them for the bandwidth.

It was legal in Gibralter, it may not be legal where you are, and they may
or may not still be in business.

Geoff.
-- 
Geoffrey S. Mendelson,  N3OWJ/4X1GM
My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(

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VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-24 21:17 -0700
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 00:41 -0400
    Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-24 22:09 -0700
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 08:42 -0400
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 13:20 -0400
        Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-25 17:44 +0000
          Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-25 11:14 -0700
          Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 18:14 -0400
            Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 18:29 -0400
        Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-25 11:13 -0700
          Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-25 17:39 -0400
            Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-25 21:11 -0700
              Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-26 00:40 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-26 01:08 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-25 23:16 -0700
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-26 07:19 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-26 10:55 +0200
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-26 16:10 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-26 22:18 -0700
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-27 07:09 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-27 04:46 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-27 16:39 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-27 17:14 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-27 20:00 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-27 13:45 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-27 20:04 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:48 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-27 13:23 -0700
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-27 20:44 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-27 16:01 -0700
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-27 22:52 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 07:56 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-28 15:47 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:54 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-28 03:42 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 07:58 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-28 20:59 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-27 22:45 -0400
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-28 03:43 +0000
                Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-28 21:05 -0400
          Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-25 18:28 -0400
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2012-03-25 01:48 -0400
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? David Sankey <David.Sankey@stfc.ac.uk> - 2012-03-26 09:58 +0100
    Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-26 08:31 -0700
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-26 08:43 -0700
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? "Geoffrey S. Mendelson" <gsm@mendelson.com> - 2012-03-26 18:09 +0000
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? ~± <info@nospam.net> - 2012-03-27 00:00 +0200
    Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? DaveC <invalid@invalid.net> - 2012-03-27 09:18 -0700
      Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? ~± <info@nospam.net> - 2012-03-27 22:54 +0200
  Re: VPN service that offers NOT "all traffic through VPN"? Maury Markowitz <maury.markowitz@gmail.com> - 2012-03-31 08:10 -0700

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