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Originally Posted by CYF
I don't think that's going to speed up your browsing any. We understand what you're trying to do and everyone here is telling you it doesn't work.
You might want to look at using a compression proxy, or else a cellular dongle attached to your computer... but that comes with a monthly fee. Although Virgin Mobile has one that's pre-pay month by month and uses the Sprint network. So if Sprint is good in your area I'd lean towards using that.
You could always switch hotels too  |
I guess that I made it sound like my only concern is browsing.. and I think
you're right that it won't give me much of an advantage for simple browsing because my local connection has terrible ping times most of the time anyway. So
looking at something on the remote machine would be just as slow as trying to pull it from any other web server. I do understand that.
I'm thinking more in terms of multi tasking. With the faster remote connection I could be watching movies online, downloading some things in the background and uploading some files all at once.
I just don't know how much overhead the VPN adds as far as bandwidth... I can (most of the time) watch a 480p program on hulu through this hotel connection without a problem. But that doesn't necessarily mean that I'd have enough bandwidth to watch that same program from a remote machine, because of the overhead of the remote connection software ..... right??
If I DO decide it's worth doing,
What about my idea for setting up a virtual machine on the remote computer? Would it need its own network card? Can I access it through an IP I assign to it through the router config?