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AT&T is charging an extra $29/month to opt out of “tracking information”

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Re: AT&T is charging an extra $29/month to opt out of “tracking information”

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Post by FireBeyond » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 10:14 PM UTC

azurelogic wrote: post #6

Fortunately, you can host your own VPN server on DigitalOcean for $5/month. Heck, you could probably even get away with one of atlantic.net's $1/month servers.

Does that $5/month VPN account crumble or get shut down (if it can even attain in the first place) gigabit speeds?

$5/month on DO gets you 1TB of transfer at who-knows-how-much mbps.

Re: AT&T is charging an extra $29/month to opt out of “tracking information”

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Post by FireBeyond » Wed, Feb 18, 2015, 10:17 PM UTC

joshbaptiste wrote: post #13

not an issue , these days you can get an OpenVZ VPS for $15/yr on lowendbox.com that gives you 1 or 2TB bandwidth a month, tunnel your web traffic via "ssh -D" and your done.

Err, sure. And that $15/yr box will give you 1TB bandwidth a month, which you can instantly half (transfer in, transfer out), and have a 10mbps uplink, which you can instantly half, for the same reason.

Oh good, your gigabit fiber is now limited to 500GB/month at 5mbps or less.

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