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Ask Slashdot: How To Diagnose Traffic Throttling and Work Around It?
Aguazul2 writes "I live in Peru and use OpenVPN to connect to my own Linux VPS in the UK for non-live TV. Recently the VPN connection has slowed to a crawl (5% previous rate). Further investigation shows that all connections to my VPS from Peru (even HTTP) are equally slow, whilst the rest of the 'net seems fine. My VPS host says they do no traffic shaping, and connections from Germany to the VPS are fast. This leaves the NSA and Telefonica (Movistar) as suspects. Could the NSA be slowing all VPNs to/from South America because of Snowden and Greenwald? A traceroute shows traffic going through domains with NYC in their name — are my packets being indefinitely detained in transit? Or maybe it is Telefonica and their Sandvine traffic management? Either way this certainly isn't network neutrality, especially on an 'unlimited' plan. Is there a way to tell for certain who is throttling me? If Telefonica have throttled traffic to/from that one IP address, what options do I have to work around it? It seems that separate connections are throttled independently, so can I multiplex over many UDP ports without having to hack OpenVPN myself? This is really frustrating, especially with two untrustworthy parties on the route. I wonder, is this kind of mess the future of the internet?"
It's just amusing to me to see NSA as the scapegoat of the day for any quirk anyone experiences related to computers or connectivity in general.
No one ever got fired for buying... I mean blaming the NSA. :)
Unless you're an NSA whistleblower, in which case you are fired and prosecuted.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Hi, my facebook wont load and is showing more adds when it does. Do you think this could be the NSA snooping on my facebook and pushing me to buy audiobooks that will contain subliminal messages to hate Snowden and freedom?
Disagreeing with you does not make me a troll.
Who gave a slashdot account to that computer trained to tell jokes?
Didn't you know? Slashdot is a large Turing Test system. Most of the participants are AIs.
Interestingly, the most promising test results are with the "First Post" trolls. Apparently nobody can imagine that an AI could be that stupid.
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