![]() ![]() It’s not the 100 MB/sec down and the 10 MB/sec up we have on our connection but it’s not 2 KB/sec. When Witopia is working, you are looking at anything between 1 MB/sec and 8 MB/sec bandwidth up and down. ![]() After a whole day of programmer time settting it up, we were able to eke out 2 KB/sec performance. OpenVPN on a small VPS turned out to be an even bigger catastrophe. We cancelled the other two and got on with our lives. Our ideas of using VPN regularly in the various departments at Foliovision went down the tubes. With the obliging help of Witopia’s owner Bill Bullock finally we managed to get a single one of the personal accounts up and limping. So as someone who tried to buy three licenses last year (Personal x 2, Pro x 1) for my company and ran in circles for weeks with absolutely silly suggestions from Witopia on how to fix my configuration, I can tell you the dream was over, the shine off of the hood. When you update Viscosity to keep up with Mac OS X, it’s another crapshoot if your settings will carry over to the next version. Then something went wrong with Viscosity. With your Witopia VPN you got a free preconfigured Viscosity client. Then came Viscosity which worked a whole lot better. For years you had to fight Tunnelblick (one of the nastiest pieces of open source software out there, which requires advanced networking knowledge modifying a text file to get anything done: it defaults to not working and makes you move text files all over your computer, authorizing them each time you do). Witopia’s upgraded SSL service was always a bit of a crapshoot. Witopia SSL Service: Tunnelblick then Viscosity Both are secure but Personal is more easily blocked by governments or corporations as they can usually detect the protocol. Worse yet, when you would go to renew your subscription, you had to create a new account and login.įrom the beginning there were two services: Personal, which always included PPTP and now includes ipsec and L2TP and Pro which was twice the price and included OpenVPN. Your email address had a single subscription. Support was over email and a bit hope for the best. So the customer portal didn’t really work or hardly existed. The problem was Bill Bullock was obsessive about our security/anonymity. Here’s all the reasons you might want a VPN. Witopia would work with the built-in networking inside your Mac, specifically PPTP protocol. You’d just go and sign up at and you’d get an inexpensive and reliable VPN with nodes all over the world. It used to be really simple to get a VPN for Mac. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |