skotl
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It is.I'm guessing that any vpn running on my premises on the back end of my infinity connection is bandwidth limited by the speed of that connection?
There are two very different kinds of solutions, though. If you have a home-based VPN then that means that you can access your own machines, systems, network etc from anywhere. It also means that you can "tunnel out" from your home address so if, for example, you are in France then you can go through your home VPN to access BBC iPlayer.
A VPN service, such as the one I use (torguard, but there are many others) means that you connect to their system not your home system. Two big benefits are 1) you are no longer dependent on the speed of your home connection and 2) most solutions have connection points in multiple countries so you can "pretend" to be in the country of your choice.
So with the VPN service, I can connect to a UK-based server if I want to use iPlayer or Netflix (as the account is limited to UK only) or I could connect to a US-based server to buy software at US prices instead of the rip-off £-per-$ price that they typically charge to UK users. It does also tend to be a lot faster than a home VPN, where you need to go into your home Internet connection, go out to whatever service you're trying to access, bring it back to your home, then zap it across the internet to wherever you happen to be sitting.
The downside of the VPN service (apart from having to pay for it [I pay ~£15 a quarter]) is that it doesn't allow you to access your home systems. But there are other solutions for that, including Dropbox, slingbox, gotomypc, etc.