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speedgooseyesterday at 10:00 PM1 replyview on HN

To continue on the analogy, many people using a VPN wear a mask but they also keep the same unique combination of clothes that they were wearing a few minutes earlier without a mask.


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DeepSeaTortoisetoday at 2:20 PM

Wearing a mask in public while wearing your unique style of clothing, BUT you may be able to exit your apartment building through the service entrance if your landlord is into spelunking and replaced the front door with a nutty putty cave imitation.

I cannot overstate how much of a pain it was to share 51Gbps of peering with 40M other homes and 60M mobile customers. Luckily they now have made generous upgrades, shoving an additional 15M to 20M customers through a whopping 371Gbps.

Unless of course the network your traffic is headed to has deep, widely open and sufficiently climatized pockets.