Giganews - VyprVPN

Dave85 · 3 Dec 2009 at 19:38

Anyone else get invited to try VyprVPN for free tll june 2010 for being a diamond member for ages.

So far im using the us server farm to encrypt all traffic and its awesome, streamin vids from Hulu and tv.com as fast as normal and without the you must be usa messages.

<3 Giganews

Kol · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:11

DAvE18 said:
and its awesome, streamin vids from Hulu and tv.com as fast as normal and without the you must be usa messages.

<3 Giganews

Lightbulb moment! Yes, but didn't make the connection (mentally) re the above!

NathanE · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:41

It won't be long until the VyprVPN server IP's get blacklisted on sites like Hulu and tv.com though.

Pretty much as soon as the service goes public.

Many UK ISPs have got the Giganews USENET servers explicitly entered on their QoS platforms too. At least Tiscali/TalkTalk/Nildram do. Oddly, they don't have Astraweb's

Dave85 · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:51

Well hopefully they wont get blacklisted for a while, and it sounds typical of rubbish isp's to add giganews etc to there QoS platforms. Thankfully virgin 50mb doesnt

Kol · 3 Dec 2009 at 20:52

NathanE said:
It won't be long until the VyprVPN server IP's get blacklisted on sites like Hulu and tv.com though.

Pretty much as soon as the service goes public.

Many UK ISPs have got the Giganews USENET servers explicitly entered on their QoS platforms too. At least Tiscali/TalkTalk/Nildram do. Oddly, they don't have Astraweb's

Thought as much. My housemate uses giganews. I subscribe to astraweb. Luckily!

Robert · 7 Dec 2009 at 22:09

I've just set this up...what do you guys think?

wiiija · 7 Dec 2009 at 22:52

Its great, works a treat

Mod · 17 Apr 2010 at 23:37

Vypr VPN behind a NAT router

Hello all, sorry if I'm jumping in on this conversation pretty late but I've been trying to find info re a VyperVPN problem / query and wondered if anyone here could help.

I’ve set up Vypr VPN on my Macbook Pro laptop in the hope that doing so will give me extra security when using it wirelessly on my home LAN and elsewhere. It all seems to have connected OK and I assume that this would be a safer way of, say, accessing my bank accounts online than just via my standard WPA2 authenticated wifi connection. Anyway, it all seems to have setup OK and my Mac menu bar shows that both airport (wifi) and Vypr Vpn are connected and that I have an IP address in the correct range for VyprVpn (138.199.64.xxx) and a normal internal 192.168.0.3 IP address for the airport connection. Is this all as it should be?? I've opted to run all traffic over the VPN but how can I be sure that I’m indeed running all traffic through a secure tunnel?? If I visit web sites that can read my IP address, they still show the outside-facing WAN IP address of my Draytek Vigor router (82.xxx. xxx.xxx) assigned by my ISP.
Please advise as to whether I'm actually routing all traffic over VPN or if my router is somehow disrupting this process.
I’d be most grateful for any advice you may have .

Cheers
Mod

dovey · 18 Apr 2010 at 00:22

Worked a treat when I used giganews, it was also great for getting round o2's stupid traffic shaping which made spotify/you tube and all sorts of things unusable.

littledave · 18 Apr 2010 at 02:10

Managed to set mine up seems a bit slow tbh

ViRuS2k · 18 Apr 2010 at 03:58

its great but its uber slow, huge pings aswell as 30% speed drop.
but it works great for hulu.com ect ect

the commercials on hulu.com bug the hell out of me though LOL... wish there was a way to disable those completely.

but yeah for what it is it does its job well.

bigredshark · 18 Apr 2010 at 11:14

As mentioned, there's not much point for streaming sites, it's going to get blacklisted real quickly same as every other service of any size offering exactly the same thing...

Mod · 18 Apr 2010 at 19:02

It's all working OK now. :-)

Perhaps I didn't have it set to route all traffic over the VPN or just needed to log off and log on again but when I tried it again today, www.whatsmyip.org/ and www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/ both listed the IP address as one allocated by the VPN server and not my usual one so I guess it's all cushty, now.
Incidentally, my download speeds have only gone down a fraction (from 6.1 Mbps to 6 Mbps) so it's not too much of a payoff.
Cheers
Mod

ViRuS2k · 19 Apr 2010 at 04:02

bigredshark said:
As mentioned, there's not much point for streaming sites, it's going to get blacklisted real quickly same as every other service of any size offering exactly the same thing...

Stop being mr negative.
the vyprvpn service has been running for ages / months ect and it hasnt been blacklisted.

hulu still works, tv.com still works, so untill it doesnt less of the negativity. oki

ViRuS2k · 19 Apr 2010 at 04:08

Mod said:
It's all working OK now. Perhaps I didn't have it set to route all traffic over the VPN or just needed to log off and log on again but when I tried it again today, www.whatsmyip.org/ and www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/ both listed the IP address as one allocated by the VPN server and not my usual one so I guess it's all cushty, now.
Incidentally, my download speeds have only gone down a fraction (from 6.1 Mbps to 6 Mbps) so it's not too much of a payoff.
Cheers
Mod

Im glad your getting proper speed but its bloody terrible here

latest speed test results when connected to the vyprvpn usa 1 server.

when i disconnect from usa server and use default ip here is the results, this was 2 minutes after running the first test.

i either have a routeing issue or the vyprvpn isnt all its cracked up to be but at this point in time i only need it for hulu and its working pritty perfectly.