Poor man's VPN (pay for only what you need)

Post by anderspitman » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 5:14 PM UTC

NavinF wrote: post #39

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #13

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> why bother Last I checked, wireguard had much better performance than sshuttle. May or may not matter for your use case, but it's a reason.

Yes! Last time I used sshuttle (bypassing content blocks in India by tunneling to a server in the US), my bandwidth dropped from 10mbps to 1mbps. Back then wireguard didn’t exist, but IPSEC could easily saturate the 10mbps link. I suspect it’s a combination of TCP-over-TCP and a horrible default buffer size that makes sshuttle unusably slow.

Post by crtasm » Thu, Jan 13, 2022, 6:07 PM UTC

jerjerjer wrote: post #93

goodpoint wrote: post #81

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My VPS costs 2$/month.

How much traffic do you get? What software? OpenVPN is a resource hog. I'm on a $10/year VPS with 100 Gb/month traffic. Not great, but not terrible.

Post by NavinF » Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 2:58 AM UTC

anderspitman wrote: post #101

NavinF wrote: post #39

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Yes! Last time I used sshuttle (bypassing content blocks in India by tunneling to a server in the US), my bandwidth dropped from 10mbps to 1mbps. Back then wireguard didn’t exist, but IPSEC could easily saturate the 10mbps link. I suspect it’s a combination of TCP-over-TCP and a horrible default buffer size that makes sshuttle unusably slow.

Pretty sure sshuttle doesn't suffer from TCP over TCP, similar to how normal SSH tunnels don't because they operate at layer 4 and copy the bytes manually onto the multiplexed connection. Layer 2-3 tunnels is typically where you run into issues.