Who uses a VPN on here

Yup I use freedome. The only week link I know about is having to give them your cc details but I believe you can just buy cards.

I think the point is I just don't want people "easily~" knowing what I look at on the web. Not that any of it is dodgy (well most of it). The fact is I should be able to search the web in private.
 
dazzerd said:
I think the point is I just don't want people "easily~" knowing what I look at on the web. Not that any of it is dodgy (well most of it). The fact is I should be able to search the web in private.
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Apart from now the VPN is snooping on everything you do. They could be logging everything and selling the data on.

P.S. for search specifically you might like https://duckduckgo.com/ and https://search.disconnect.me
 
sare^baw's said:
I joined Airvpn 3 day trial, the internet etc is working fine. My torrent dowlads are still painfully slow, less than 1mb today. I thought using a vpn would prevent bt throttling torrent downloading.

It sometimes disconnects from the server it automatically picks in the Netherlands, do i connect to a different server? ALso what do i need to do to stop it disconnecting?
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Forward a port in the VPN then add that as your preferred port in your utorrent software.
 
I use duck duck go and disconnect,tried ghostery to start with but think disconnect is better now.
 
In the airvpn preferences you can set up a whitelist of servers you want to use so the client will only connect to those servers so you could connect to a few random servers run some speed tests then set the client up to only connect to the fastest servers.

I have drop outs sometimes myself but I've narrowed it down to being my ISP connection dropping so nothing much to be done there but on the air forums there are a few posts about stopping that happening,no 1 being enable ICMP on your router so the air servers can ping you if you go quiet.
 
APM said:
In the airvpn preferences you can set up a whitelist of servers you want to use so the client will only connect to those servers so you could connect to a few random servers run some speed tests then set the client up to only connect to the fastest servers.

I have drop outs sometimes myself but I've narrowed it down to being my ISP connection dropping so nothing much to be done there but on the air forums there are a few posts about stopping that happening,no 1 being enable ICMP on your router so the air servers can ping you if you go quiet.
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ok many thanks for the advice ill do some research and try what you said ;)
 
I think SSL tunnel,port 443 is the fastest to set in preferences,protocols too.
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There's loads of chat about it on the Air forums too though.
 
I use hidemyass for accessing UK and USA content... they have decent throughput as I can get about 40-50mbit down and 10-20mbit up through some of their servers.
 
Steve_bullockuk said:
Another PIA customer here. Can't fault their service and seems to work really well with OpenVPN/Tunnleblick (their own apps are quite poor).
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I have had PIA for over a year now and I think they are great, well worth the money for the peace of mind! Just don't use it on steam unless you have a alternative account for that russian pricing :D
 
I use a vpn on a raspberry pi to access my home network when I'm travelling :) I don't use it that often as my uses include accessing storage on my pc, but it means the pc needs to be on standby or sleep mode so I think I will use it more when I get a NAS.
 
I have OpenVPN server running on my NAS which means I can then access my network using that from anywhere I have internet access. I mostly use this if I am on public wifi for extra security and so make it look like I am in UK if I need to do things from abroad.
 
In terms of hiding your real IP address, is there any point using VPN software on individual computers? Surely a VPN Client connection at a router level is necessary to truly hide your IP, as otherwise all that traffic is router to your IP address anyway?

We use a VPN for iplayer.
 
The tunnel the VPN creates encrypts all the traffic from your machine,be that an individual PC or a router,to the VPN exit IP.

If the VPN software exists on your PC or router the end result is encrypted traffic from the hardware to the VPN exit point.

Using a router for the VPN means all traffic from that router will be encrypted,using VPN's on individual machines means only traffic from those machine will be encrypted.

Either way your ISP will carry the encrypted packets from your IP address to the VPN exit node IP address.
 
platypus said:
In terms of hiding your real IP address, is there any point using VPN software on individual computers? Surely a VPN Client connection at a router level is necessary to truly hide your IP, as otherwise all that traffic is router to your IP address anyway?
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What APM said.

The tldr is: VPN provider will see your "real IP" either way; internet will see the VPN IP either way.
 
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