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I’ve only been using VPNs seriously for the past few days, since the UK laws have come in.

I have previously used VPNs for occasional regional issues like accessing Polymarket to see how badly my 12 x $1 bets are doing.

I actually have no need to use VPNs despite the recent regulatory change, no site has asked me for ID, including X which I have posted a few things to.

I’m using VPNs now primarily as a protest against the latest government over reach.

My conclusions, VPNs are fine, they work and the speeds are fine, but I’m definitely struggling with the latency. Streaming YouTube is fine, but waiting for a simple web page to load is the kicker, it is noticeably slower and is wasting a significant amount of my time.

I’ll probably turn off the VPNs for default browsing and only turn then on if I am challenged to provide unnecessary ID.

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Discussion

Condor 5mo ago

I have 24/24 VPN on hardware router. Use wireguard instead of other slower VPN. Latency will not be an issue

mike 5mo ago

Not an option for me, I'm mostly using Mullvad inside Tailscale.

I use Tailscale to connect my various sites together as a single LAN and Mullvad sits inside Tailscale and is the only VPN that doesn't break my virtual LAN.

I use Mysterium on a separate desktop fedora Linux box as it isn't included in my VLAN and so I get a chance to test it as a user. Something that interests me as I've been providing Mysterium exit nodes for several years now and earning enough money to fund my broadband and VPNs 😂

Condor 5mo ago

Great... Pat your shoulder. Success in life

mike 5mo ago

I was hoping for a little more in the success department TBH 😂

DrDaniel⚡️BlueRidgeBitcoin 5mo ago

Maybe I'll VPN to the UK just to screw with them.

mike 5mo ago

Yes, do that.

The surprising thing is my VPN exit nodes in the UK are doing roaring business 😂

halalmoney 5mo ago

"I have previously used VPNs for occasional regional issues like accessing Polymarket to see how badly my 12 x $1 bets are doing."🤣

mike 5mo ago

True 😂

DagzTagz 5mo ago

VPNs that allow different protocols are nice for this… “stealth” is nice in the situations you might use them because they get around even some instances of deep packet inspection so let’s say someone is limiting your VPN for censorship… stealth could allow someone to circumvent that because it makes your connection look like it’s just regular internet traffic but it’s so. slow.

Wireguard is preferable to reduce that latency though and you can use smart configurations to switch in and out when deemed necessary (the protocol detects when VPNs blocks are being used)

mike 5mo ago

My private Tailscale VPN, which is built on top of wireguard is extremely fast and very low latency 💪

cr0bar 5mo ago

I have a wireguard instance set up on one of my servers running on port 123, usually lets you connect to the VPN on public WiFi without going through the captive portal since most allow NTP through 🤭

mike 5mo ago

Network Time Protocol? 😳

cr0bar 5mo ago

Correct

cr0bar 5mo ago

A lot of captive portals let you use NTP without authenticating, I guess it’s so your clock is correct for SSL or something. But if you run wireguard on your server on port 123, and connect to it, it’s tends to let you though. Plus wireguard is UDP too (like NTP) so there isn’t even a protocol mismatch. 😁

mike 5mo ago

Using the NTP port to carry VPN traffic reminds me of the best legal advice I ever heard.

If you're asked:

"Can you tell me the time?"

Always answer:

"Yes" 😂