Someone wrote to me today who is outside of North America and realized (correctly) that Streamingradioguide.com can’t be used from Asia and Europe.<\/p>\n
I suggested he look into getting a VPN connection that is very secure and allows you to “look” like you’re in the United States when you’re actually anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n
Here is one such service
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I don’t even have a passport, so I have no first hand experience with a service like this. I do have experience in the past year using a VPN – it was okay, but it does have drawbacks. The main one is latency – everything you do has to be relayed by the gateway. For instance, if you’re connecting to a work network, and you have “network drives”, if you were actually on the company WAN, those drives are as fast as if they were local drives. With a VPN, each operation to those disks requires end to end acknowledgmnts on multiple layers. One internal software package to the company that would take a minute or two to upgrade took close to an hour over the VPN. Bandwidth was not the bottleneck, it was the constant “did you get it?” hand shakes<\/p>\n
Anyone have experience with these?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Someone wrote to me today who is outside of North America and realized (correctly) that Streamingradioguide.com can’t be used from Asia and Europe. I suggested he look into getting a VPN connection that is very secure and allows you to … Continue reading