From: Joseph Jackson <jjackson@aninetworks.net> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:42:43 -0700
-----Original Message----- From: Jeroen van Aart [mailto:jeroen@mompl.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:33 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster
Kevin Oberman wrote:
That said, the actual, published document has some huge issues. It pays excellent lip service to net neutrality, but it has simply HUGE loopholes with lots of weasel words that could be used to get away with most anything. for example, it expressly excludes and wireless network.
Not having read any of the articles and not having researched the matter of network neutrality much at all. But wouldn't using either a VPN service or setting up VPN on one or more virtual servers at strategic locations of your choice avoid this? Unless "they" try to bandwidth limit your VPN tunnel(s) indiscriminately. Or did I miss something blatantly obvious?
At least VPN does a great job of "routing around" GeoIP blocking...
The way I understand it is if you aren't paying for preferred service then your VPN traffic would be at the bottom of the stack on forwarding. So while it gets around GeoIP stuff vpns would be subject to the same quality of service settings as any other traffic that isn't paying for a faster service.
Joseph
VPNs are very handy for this, but it is worth remembering that it is not free. All of the traffic has to traverse the network to the VPN box and then to the client. This can hit congestion issues, but always increases RTT and that can be a real pain. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751