@scottalanmiller said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:
@JasGot said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:
@scottalanmiller said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:
@JasGot said in Trading a VPN for an SSH Tunnel:
Put a RouterBoardOS RB260GS at each house and use a free ddns service. $35each and yo're done.
Or a Ubiquiti Edge Router Lite will work too, just more expensive.
I use the Ubiquiti ERL for IPSec into my house from the office, my phone, and my laptop. Love it.
All more work and more money than easy and free.
Easy is relative. $70 for the two is only $10 more than he is currently paying for one year. Starting with month 15, it is free!
Comparing to a bad decision is misleading. You have to throw money away today, and ignore better options, to them create the "savings" of spending money. That's a false decision matrix.
The real comparison is against something free. That's the baseline to beat. Otherwise, nothing is costly compared to any contrived more expensive decision.
Example: I want a laser light show for my house, I don't need it, I just want it. The free option is to not buy one. Buying one is normally $100. But I could find one that is $200 and then say that the $100 is "free" or even "saving me money." But this is false, it's still costing $100 no matter how many more expensive alternatives we find.
It's like the 'sale' problem. The shirt was on sale for 50% off, I saved 50%!! No, you still bought a shirt you didn't need, money was lost versus the free baseline.
The wife gets mad when I tell her you save 100% if you don't buy anything.
