Jeff Liebermann wrote:

> Sonic runs IPSec which is about as good as it gets. If you can live
> with PPTP or an SSL VPN, you can terminate the VPN with any commodity
> router that supports PPTP or SSL VPN's, or a Linux server, or even a
> Windoze 2000/2003 server. The catch is that the box or server has to
> be sitting on a fat pipe, which usually means sitting in the ISP's
> server farm.

Yeah, that's why I don't do my own. I had Sonic until earlier this week.
I gave them a lot of chances to fix their service, but it was
unbelievably flaky, somewhere between my DSL modem and them. Then I
realized that they had upped my price from $30 to $50/month, and I was
getting under 1Mb/s throughput, so I went back to AT&T. While the tech
support at AT&T is unbelievably horrendous, so far (1 day) the actual
DSL service works much better with no intermittent drops several times
an hour.

> One that looks interesting is iPig:
> <http://www.iopus.com/iPig/>
> which offers a free VPN server (iPig Server Express Edition):
> <http://www.iopus.com/iPig/download/>
> I haven't tried it, but if you have a Windoze box running somewhere,
> it might be an easy solution.

I don't think it's free anymore, except for very limited periods of time.

I'm trying out Jwire now.