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Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds)
From: Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2021 12:12:25 -0700
On 9/1/21 11:49 AM, Matthew Huff wrote:
Well, my point is that a properly pre-configured home router could probably make this plug and play. Openwrt can probably do what I'm thinking. Streaming should not be a problem but gaming/latency definitely is.IPv6 tunnels work great for network geeks, but rather poorly for home users with streaming, gaming etc...It's not necessarily the performance, it's either the geolocation, latency, or the very issue that started this thread - VPN banning. Remember, the streaming services couldn't care less about geolocation or VPN banning, it's the contractual obligations with the content providers. The content providers care about vpn banning because it gets around geolocation, which interferes with their business models (different release schedules to different regions, etc..) Been there, done that...Stuck on Fios with no IPv6. Ran into rather "interesting" problems with various streaming services with IPv6 configured.
I frankly don't understand why these home router vendors don't just adopt Openwrt and the like instead of maintaining their own code. They are extremely cost sensitive so you'd think that it would be a big win (yes, I know some do but, say, Linksys doesn't and their software is complete shit and I know this first hand). Why can't I have router distos just like Linux distos where somebody with clue does the work to customize distos with various features. My ISP could then just point at the ones they like too. It's really sad that home routers are completely treated like black boxes where people and their devices have no problem customizing them to their taste. My suspicion is this all a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Mike
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- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Tom Beecher (Sep 01)
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- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Lyden, John C (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Nimrod Levy (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Michael Thomas (Sep 01)
- RE: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Matthew Huff (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Michael Thomas (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Nimrod Levy (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Nimrod Levy (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) bzs (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Michael Thomas (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Tom Beecher (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Owen DeLong via NANOG (Sep 01)
- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Haudy Kazemi via NANOG (Sep 01)
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- Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds) Justin Krejci (Sep 01)