Hacker News Reader

It’s a good way to avoid traffic throttling as well. VPS providers are doing much different traffic shaping than an ISP.

View on HN

But the VPN traffic itself may be shaped as well.

Absolutely. Depending on your use case, you can queue downloads to your VPS nodes, then prune out things you don't need and even compress data before pulling it to your home.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com