On 23 August 2012 19:43, Peter Corlett <ab...@cabal.org.uk> wrote: > On 23 Aug 2012, at 07:22, Toby Wintermute wrote: > [...] >> I'll try VPNing back to my shell account and see what happens.. can't >> be any slower than 3G already is.. > > IME, this will make HTTP *faster* because it bypasses the bloody awful > transparent proxies that mobile telcos insist on using to mangle web traffic. > > It'll also stop said proxies from popping up the "we think you're trying to > visit a porn site, so we've blocked it as an excuse to try and sell you our > own soft porn service" page when you're visiting vile corrupting sites such > as camra.org.uk.
Sounds like it's worth setting up OpenVPN on my mobile as well then! (I was thinking "tether mobile, then run vpn from laptop" but maybe I should go "openvpn from mobile, then tether it") Thanks for the all the advice so far :)
