[NANOG] Charter Communications going to sniff traffic foradvertising?

Thu May 15 19:01:41 UTC 2008

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Luke S Crawford <lsc at prgmr.com> wrote:
> "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists at gmail.com> writes:
>> Oh, how do you know you can trust the VPN folks anymore than the
>> cable-modem folks though? eventually the same cost issues are going to
>> arise for the VPN folks as did for cable-modem/dsl folks (downward
>> pressure on pricing and infra/opex/capex costs going
>> up/not-decreasing).
>
> Unlike running fiber to your door, renting a VPS and setting up a
> vpn server is quite inexpensive to do yourself.

note the 'close to the user' part of the plan ... limit addtional
latency and user experience hit. but other than that sure.