PPTP or SSL based VPN?

I am looking to use either HotSpot VPN (PPTP based) or Megaproxy VPN
(SSL based) for internet surfing at hotspots and also VOIP over Wi-Fi.

Could someone please comments on the pros/cons of each and which offers
better overall security?

thanks

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> I am looking to use either HotSpot VPN (PPTP based) or Megaproxy VPN
> (SSL based) for internet surfing at hotspots and also VOIP over Wi-Fi.
>
> Could someone please comments on the pros/cons of each and which offers
> better overall security?

Conventional wisdom is you should not tunnel TCP through TCP. It's a
performance issue more of a security issue--you get a lot more packet
round trips since both levels have to send acknowledgement packets,
etc. Also, if both levels drop IP packets (wifi will drop a lot), the
two levels of retry protocol interact badly and things grind to a halt.

It's better to use IPSEC which runs over IP directly, than to use two
levels of TCP.

Both PPTP and SSL-based VPNs offer adequate and practically equivalent
levels of confidentiality.

The Megaproxy SSL VPN (www.megaproxy.com) seems to provide Web browsing
capability only, whereas the HotSponVPN (www.hotspotvpn.com) should support
more protocols, as PPTP VPN is soething like virtual network cable. That is,
Megaproxy won't give you VoIP support, and you might have pproblems with
HotSpotVPN - depending on their IP addressing scheme and use of NAT.

Some Wi-Fi access providers support WPA that eliminates the need for
additional privacy tools. An example is T-Mobile Hotspot service - the
secure connection software is available from

http://client.hotspot.t-mobile.com/

You're welcome with further questions.

--
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-

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> I am looking to use either HotSpot VPN (PPTP based) or Megaproxy VPN
> (SSL based) for internet surfing at hotspots and also VOIP over Wi-Fi.
>
> Could someone please comments on the pros/cons of each and which offers
> better overall security?
>
> thanks
>