[Q] VPN advice please

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are there any benefits of creating a vpn and using it on my g1? i was thinking of streaming videos over the internet to my phone for when im elsewhere.

can anyone point me to novice instructions on how to set one up.

what would be useful is the ability to set up a vpn and have a shared drive that can be accessed like you would if you shared a folder to another pc.

i know of drop box and the like but im sure the quality of the pictures i transfer has gone down. is this the case?

Is there a reason why you need to stream videos over a VPN? You could use a webserver instead? Setting up VPN servers/clients &/or webservers can be tricky...even more so if you then want to mount a remote filesystem after you establish a VPN.

well i dont just wanna use it to stream audio and video. i want it for transferring files across via the net when im not at my pc. i know i can use dropbox for this but like i said, im sure the quality is reduced on images i have transfered through that, or am i imagining it.