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| Originally Posted by Adrian Kelland I'm still confused as to how you prevent you own ISP from knowing what sites you visit. |
If you open an encrypted tunnel between server A and B, your ISP may see the connection going to server B, but they havent got a bloody clue what that connection is for since its encrypted. Thats the simplistic view. There is a more complicated explanation, but you would find it easier to google tor or guardster than me explain it.
But beyond that you send requests via your encrypted tunnel to server B that then gets your webpage and sends it back to you via the tunnel. All the ISP sees is unreadable garbage assuming they care to do packet analysis on it.
So as far as the ISP is concerned i connected to some IP address on some port. The port isnt related to web browsing, in fact it isnt even listed as a service port for anything.
If it all goes through im leaving Virgin anyway, i've decided i should get myself a fully uncapped bandwidth, unthrottled, internet connection. So im looking at two Business Broadband packages that Demon provide.
On the 50Mb connection, who would need that. That is definelty a connection aimed at p2p. Even streaming HD doesnt need anything that fast.