anyone using any services that do this? Either VPN or Proxy based. How much are you paying and is the service reliable ?

You offering to run one stinky?

thinking about it. just trying to work out if it's worthwhile, I'm pretty sure I can get a baremetal machine in a local datacentre pretty cheap and I've been doing some experimentation with OpenVPN and it all seems quite doable.

I just need to work out if it can cover costs, I don't imagine one could charge much more than $5-$10 / month for such a service.

How-much upstream bandwidth out of interest, I might be keen on a pipe.

I've been running openvpn for a while now its bitching awesome, and doesn't have the f***ery that is ipspec if your running nat

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yar, we've got a mate with a us server and we're looking at vpn options, preparing for the worst

definately a good idea stinky!

FYI, I have a post I'm preparing about a new VPN service from giganews that I'll be putting up in the next few days - it sounds pretty good

If you've got the know-how to DIY it, www.slicehost.com is a god-send for Aussies looking at US colo

I just need to work out if it can cover costs

haha something tells me you will

let us know when you're taking orders =)

I've set up a test server at home. If anyone's keen to try it out send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you a user/pass and openvpn instructions.

just remember it's my home, so don't use all my bandwidth or go anywhere dodgy.

Hopefully Rudd will quickly pass a law that makes intentionally trying to thawt the Internet filter a crime, then this thread can be added to the blocked list for instructions on crime.

Are you going to allow the (allow all trafic) through it

Also I can offer the same from home as well but my up speed s***ty at under 2mb

Why not setup a SOCKS5 proxy on a cheap VPS and point your browser proxy configuration at that.

I just wish hulu and a few other things were available. Wouldn't even use it THAT often. Like the other day I was keen to catch Sam Worthington on leno and conan and s*** without having to check when he was on AUS tv. Ended up just getting the 350meg.

just remember it's my home, so don't use all my bandwidth or go anywhere dodgy.

Well ... when you say dodgy do you mean normal person dodgy ... or stinky alien tentacle snuff raping horses dodgy ?

he means asian women crushing kitten with her high heels dodgy

i would hope that sort of dogdy is non censored dodgy

if you are only using it a little bit then EC2+putty can be pretty cheap. just bring up an instance when you want a proxy and put it down when you are finished. you can get an instance for $0.085 per hour. expensive if you leave it on 24/7 but if you only use it for 2 hours a day then it is like $5/month.