My Situation:

I moved from a suburb of Toronto where I had 10M/1M service on cable to a development north in Caledon where there are 100 homes with no reliable internet options (no cable, no DSL). I am currently using WiMax which is supposed to deliver 2M/256kbps, but in reality gives me 1M/70kbps with speed and latency varying greatly. There are a few fixed wireless services, but they are slow (512/256 kbps) and too expensive for the poor speed ($50+/month). I need to connect to work in Toronto via VPN. My WiMax service is almost unusable for this (the 70kbps upload is killing me). I run a server (web, email, proxy server) on a DSL connection in my in-law's basement in Mississauga (suburb of Toronto). This DSL connection is fast enough (5M/800kbps) with low latency. To my surprise, I have found if I tunnel web traffic from my home in Caledon through an ssh tunnel (with compression on) to my proxy server in Mississauga, I get pretty good throughput (around 1M/512 kbps) and the traffic seems reliable and consistent in speed. It's almost like the Wimax ISP (Rogers) is throttling the regular http traffic, but they can't really see what the ssh tunnel is because it's encrypted, so they leave it alone (yes, yes ... I know there is probably some less cynical explanation).

Proposal:

I want to set up something to funnel all my traffic (not just http traffic, but also VPN and anything else) from the crappy wimax connection through to my faster DSL server. I am open to other ideas, but specifically, I am thinking of an ssh tunnel. However, it needs to pick up a large number of ports (maybe every port except port 22 ??). I suppose I need to tunnel both TCP and UDP traffic (I don't understand TCP and UDP very well), but I'll start with just TCP, if necessary. At the very least I want to try this setup to see if it increases the reliability of my wimax internet experience in Caledon.

Any comments on how this can be done or if it can be done? I regularly tunnel VNC sessions and http through ssh, so I know how to set up tunnels, but I do not know how to open a wide range of ports (or all ports).

Apollo

Another thought is to have one box in my home in Caledon that acts as a gateway to the internet through a tunnel to my proxy server box in Mississauga. All traffic from Caledon would be channelled through this gateway box through the tunnel to Mississauga. I know that can be done, I'm just not sure exactly how to set it up.

I don't know about ssh, but you could do it with openvpn, and redirect all traffic through the vpn

Maybe this would help http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tunnel-660589/

Very helpful suggestions. I'll post back here when I sort it all out.

Thanks!