Hide traffic from ISP - encrypt? Proxy? VPN?

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I recently signed my guest house up with a small start-up ISP. Helping out a fellow small business sort of thing, but the ISP is run by a guy who doesnt like adult content.

My guest house guests have started dropping hints that they'd like to be able to access adult content which I had blocked using OpenDNS. So I'd like to give them the access (it'll effect my business if I don't) but also still like to support the ISP who will moan or even cut me off when if he see's the adult traffic. I can obviously move back to Telkom but am trying to avoid that.

I'm sure there's a way to hide my traffic from the ISP but unsure what to google or where to start. I do most of my own support using 'how to's' on google but in this case there seems to be so much fake stuff (malware?) that I'm afraid to hand over credit card info with out proper research. Please let me know if this is possible and if so what to search for?

So basically: How can I browse porn without BigBrother finding out?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Ps - I'm not new on MyBB. The ISP owner is also on here so I'm trying to keep things relatively anonymous.
 
Seriously overcomplicating things. You want open internet, if the ISP cant provide, get a new ISP. I dont think his business will last anyway. Blocking adult content now, what is next?
 
calypso said:
Seriously overcomplicating things. You want open internet, if the ISP cant provide, get a new ISP. I dont think his business will last anyway. Blocking adult content now, what is next?
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this

[video=youtube;kV7ou6pl5wU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV7ou6pl5wU[/video]
 
Rather than supporting him, I would be suing him for monitoring my traffic.
 
Change your ISP. I would also surf it, then nail him when he reports on him monitoring me...
 
ijacobs3 said:
Is it legal to monitor traffic?
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http://mybroadband.co.za/news/security/70330-who-can-spy-on-your-internet-browsing.html

So basically ISP can do whatever but government "can't"

The Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Act 70 of 2002 (Rica), which came into effect in 2005, makes it illegal for any authority to intercept communication without the permission of a judge designated to rule specifically on all interception applications in South Africa.
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It is illegal for an ISP to monitor the content that their subscribers access unless compelled to do so with a court order. They can only legally monitor your total bandwidth usage and lower level network layer for optimization and routing purposes.
 
garp said:
It is illegal for an ISP to monitor the content that their subscribers access unless compelled to do so with a court order. They can only legally monitor your total bandwidth usage and lower level network layer for optimization and routing purposes.
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And unethical.

Also remember proxy servers which store content.
 
Thanks for the replies!! I had no idea monitoring is illegal. I'll chat to him about it but reckon he's not actually monitoring it. He said he'll block sites if there's excessive traffic to them. Maybe thats the same thing?

I know I can change ISP's but as mentioned above I dont really want to. Hence the proxy/VPN option I'm trying to learn about.
 
Change ISP.
Not sure why you'd want to pay for

a.)the ISP and then
b.)a way to circumvent the ISP's pedantic rules when you could just change to any other ISP.

edit: Sorry - posted this before seeing your latest reply.
 
saor said:
Change ISP.
Not sure why you'd want to pay for

a.)the ISP and then
b.)a way to circumvent the ISP's pedantic rules when you could just change to any other ISP.

edit: Sorry - posted this before seeing your latest reply.
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The ISP costs are really cheap for the bandwidth because he's a startup and I'm one of the first business customers.
 
MickeyD said:
How will he know what sites your guests are visiting? He may not monitor to that level without a court order.
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Thanks. I didn't know this. So basically he can monitor stuff but can't do anything about it without court order?
 
20Questions said:
Thanks. I didn't know this. So basically he can monitor stuff but can't do anything about it without court order.
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He can only monitor your usage (time and quantity) and which protocols you are using to access the web. He may NOT monitor what web sites you are visiting.
 
Your ISP is insane, and so are you if you don't leave immediately.
 
ISP legally shouldn't know what you are surfing.

If they are complaining to you...they aren't a real ISP.
 
This isp guy must know where the bodies are hidden or something.
 
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