Last time that I posted a link here, that was about 2 years ago. I just wanted to spread the word about a tool that I made https://curl.io for myself, but thought that it could be useful for people, especially sysadmins.
I remember that I got huge of accurate and interesting feedbacks on this platform, so today, I'll try my chance again.
The dream of near-lagless VPN began in a cafe in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in early 2016. We wanted an ultra-fast but deadly simple VPN that even your mom could use it. Tunnello, a joint venture between a famous french VPN company and a new team of developers, was the outcome. After several months of R&D, Tunnello was soft-launched in beta in March 2016.
Tunnello is a next gen Google Chrome Extension. It uses new tech that (barely) affects the speed. It really really secure too, we use SPDY technology (which became HTTP/2) + TLS to encrypt your connection inside an AES-128 encrypted tunnel over an RSA-4096 bit certificate for key exchange. This delivers a nimble VPN protocol that is just as secure as the more clunky VPN setups, making it ideal for seamless web-browsing and video streaming with no lag.
We have been in beta testing since March and the community has really helped us with all their feedback on how to make Tunnello even better. We have improved the network quality and stabilized the connection. Our aim is global and we have already launched in 13 different countries, with some of those with strict censorship laws making it really challenging for us to continue to help our users bypass any kind of firewall, deep packet inspection so they can access the “real internet”.
Last but not least, please note that we don’t sell your data and we will never do it.
This has been a real adventure for us and we really love all the support that we get from our members across the world.
I have an account with NordVPN, and I can still max out my bandwidth at almost any of their endpoints (assuming the endpoint isn't too congested). How can you improve on the bandwidth bottleneck?
Well, technically, the SPDY technology (now HTTP/2) allow to multiplex connections flow, So SPDY will make faster requests on web browsing concern.
Plus, other VPN technologies (OpenVPN/PPTP/L2TP) got heavier headers, which takes more bandwidth.
How much bandwidth you got? With 150mbps Fiber, we were maxing out the bandwidth with Tunnello (120mbps+), but OpenVPN was struggling between 20-30mbps with more latency on the same server and line.
You can test it by yourself, we’d love to get a feedback if you could try both on the same country.
Hey, I'm not sure that the SSL certificate will change something in the trust of the website, because the file will be hold by the website anyway. So according to me, I think you have to encrypt your file before sending it to the server, that you'll be sure to be the only one who can read your file (and other people who you give your passphrase).
I've updated the website with gpg encryption w/ passphrase FYI.
Well, as I can see the most of you are worried about the security, that I understand.
So I've just added little help with a GPG encryption right from your terminal before sending the file.
I think this is the most important things I can make right now, while I do not plan to install SSL certificate given that I don't make money with this site, and the server cost is enough.
But if some of you, guys, are interested in more professional features, let me know, we can discuss about it.
Thanks for the feedback, indeed I didn't want to use momentjs to overload the speed of the site, but I didn't notice for that mistake, thanks I appreciate :-)
In my case, I going through several SSH (My Terminal => Bridge SSH => Target SSH) to get for example a backup. It's just easier for me to get the file back with curl.io instead of using something like SCP in this kind of situation.
