Brad Fonseca via talk wrote:
Another question: is there any hit to the speed of the network if I'm using a VPN? I've seen a drop in download and upload speed when I'm on my work's VPN versus when I'm not.
Yes you will notice a drop in download and upload speeds. This can't be helped as every requests has to go though the VPN tunnel access their Internet and come back down the tunnel to give you the response. Also I have heard a Canadian ISP (cough Shaw cough) that like to throttle P2P traffic in a effort to stop people using BitTorrent[0]. They consider VPN a P2P protocol for some crazy reason (do a Google Search for "vpn throttle canada isp" and you will see what I mean). Anyways, I have used it to circumvent certain annoying country blocks on a video streaming site (cough Vevo cough) and haven't noticed that large of streaming difficulty (video start time takes a couple seconds vs. a couple milliseconds which doesn't really matter as long as I get to watch the latest Beyoncé video before most Canadians). [0]: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth_throttling#Canada> -- Have an awesome day, and happy open-sourcing :-).