Just Got A VPN, should it be enabled 100% of the time?

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I saw cracking deal for a lifetime VPN sub for £13 with FastestVPN (not the most well known i know) and was too good to pass up on even if its not for a lifetime as stated, i basically used those free trial vpns in the past so i could buy xbox one games from other marketplaces and stream TV programs form other regions. Now that i have a VPN whenever i want is it best practice to have it enabled 24/7 or just enable it when i need it.

What are the pros & cons in having it enabled all the time?
 
Only use it when you need it.
If you have it enabled a do your banking they could do bad things!
Who do you trust more, ISP or some new vpn company based where?
 
lettuce said:
I saw cracking deal for a lifetime VPN sub for £13 with FastestVPN (not the most well known i know) and was too good to pass up on even if its not for a lifetime as stated, i basically used those free trial vpns in the past so i could buy xbox one games from other marketplaces and stream TV programs form other regions. Now that i have a VPN whenever i want is it best practice to have it enabled 24/7 or just enable it when i need it.

What are the pros & cons in having it enabled all the time?
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Thanks for this, just grabbed it myself, cost me £15.73 for a lifetime sub, but I pay that every 3 months to my current one, so thats a deal not to be missed, who cares if it slows my net down a bit, ive not tried it out yet, a bit too busy at the moment, but with 10 device support too, thats a great deal.

I only use mine when im torrenting, also on my Amazon fire stick.
 
Just saying thanks, as I also took that deal. I'll just use mine for torrenting (my ISP caught me once years ago and ever since I've used VPNs).
 
viathinair said:
Just saying thanks, as I also took that deal. I'll just use mine for torrenting (my ISP caught me once years ago and ever since I've used VPNs).
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Funny enough the same reason here, I got a letter off Virgin Media a few months back and used a VPN since.

Upon testing this FastestVPN, I get the best speeds connecting to France or Germany, nearly my top flatout broadband speed of 350mb/s
 
Yeah, got a letter and at first was worried, but turned out just had to read a few pages and take a trivial <2min test.

Haven't tested mine, but long as it's solidly at least half my normal speed, I'm good; but I'm hoping for fairly solid high usage, and my dedicated connection gives me hope on that.
 
It's entirely up to you. Anything you want to be anonymous for, enable the VPN.

Personally I only use mine to access foreign content which I cannot view without it.
 
Jamin280672 said:
Funny enough the same reason here, I got a letter off Virgin Media a few months back and used a VPN since.
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ISPs have supposedly given up on this now:
British ISPs throw in the towel, give up sending out toothless copyright infringement warnings - The Register


Creative Content UK, the organization that terrified British internet users by requiring ISPs to send out emails with accusations of copyright infringement, has decided to drop this questionable practice.

The Get it Right campaign, part-funded by the UK government, will no longer engage suspected pirates directly; instead, it will focus on education, and is due to launch a new initiative in the coming months.

“Having encouraged increased awareness of the value of genuine content and of its many legally available sources, in turn resulting in reduced infringing behaviour, the Get it Right campaign is now moving to its next phase,” a spokesperson for CCUK told El Reg.

“The educational emails sent by ISPs upon detection of infringing file-sharing activity have served their purpose and are ceasing, with the focus instead increasing the broader engagement with fans based around their passion for music, TV, film and all other kinds of creative content.”

The change of direction was spotted by TorrentFreak, a website which has chronicled activities of Get it Right since its inception.​
 
Even with a VPN, running Windows 10, your ISP , or at least your router, knows exactly what IP addresses you're visiting and how to resolve them.
 
Django x2 said:
Even with a VPN, running Windows 10, your ISP , or at least your router, knows exactly what IP addresses you're visiting and how to resolve them.
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Not true if DNS requests are also routed via the VPN. Any decent VPN client software will have "leak protection" for exactly this purpose.

Also, the VPN provider can't see your online banking details since all online banking sites are (I should hope!) running via TLS (HTTPS).
 
soulhunter123 said:
Not true if DNS requests are also routed via the VPN. Any decent VPN client software will have "leak protection" for exactly this purpose.

Also, the VPN provider can't see your online banking details since all online banking sites are (I should hope!) running via TLS (HTTPS).
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The vulnerability applies to Windows 10 machines with more than one NIC. I say vulnerability, it's actually a feature. DNS requests will leave across all enabled NICs and can be seen by the router.

You can easily inspect all of those requests using PiHole or similar.

ZTN and SPN are the future now, especially in large enterprises.
 
Django x2 said:
The vulnerability applies to Windows 10 machines with more than one NIC. I say vulnerability, it's actually a feature. DNS requests will leave across all enabled NICs and can be seen by the router.

You can easily inspect all of those requests using PiHole or similar.

ZTN and SPN are the future now, especially in large enterprises.
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Would that affect a VPN running in a Win 7 virtual machine on a Win 10 host? Thinking about it everything being passed out of the VM should be encrypted so I'm guessing no.
 
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