[loser777]

Situations like these are how I justify keeping a low power 24/7 box on at home. In situations where I don't have my own (trusted) connection, I'll just ssh tunnel a SOCKS5 proxy to my home server. I only have a residential internet connection at home, but 2mbps is surprisingly snappy for casual or emergency on the go web browsing. With boxes out there (e.g. rPi) that push power consumption far south of 10W, it makes even more sense to do this now.

Of course, it also doubles as an IRC idler/whatever else you can think of.

[voltagex_]

Yep, I have a Dreamplug with dual ethernet and an attached USB hard drive. Last I checked, the hard drive used more power than the machine itself.

SSH is done through key authentication and there's an OpenVPN server if the network I'm connecting through isn't too locked down.

Next trick is to do IP-over-DNS and I'll be all set where ever I am.

Now if only someone would come out with a USB3-capable board with dual-gigE (I don't mind if it can only push 500Mbit each port)

[icebraining]

Next trick is to do IP-over-DNS and I'll be all set where ever I am.

iodine[1] is a fairly easy way to set that up. I just made a tunnel.mydomain.tld subdomain, pointed the NS records at my VPS and run "iodined 10.0.0.1 tunnel.mydomain.tld"

[1] http://code.kryo.se/iodine/