Spec me a VPN for overseas use

Tazzfalcon · 20 Oct 2014 at 17:24

Hi all,

I'm planning on doing some travelling out of the country to some places with a lot of public wi-fi and questionable internet privacy laws next year. Although I care more about the former than the latter.

I'll be using all sorts of devices including Androids, a Chromebook and at least 2 ios devices.

Ideally I'd like something inexpensive.
That can be used on at least 3 devices at once.
That doesn't keep logs.
Is well known - at least to people who know about these things.
And isn't likely to be blocked by national internet firewall thingy's.

Any thoughts? I'm pretty new to the whole concept of VPN's but I think they sound like a sensible precaution to take on public place wifi overseas.

Thanks in advance

On Holiday · 20 Oct 2014 at 17:50

Danny091 · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:34

Privateinternetaccess is quite well known. They apparently dont keep logs and let you use 3 devices at once $40 a year or something like that

coolbeaNs92 · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:41

Danny091 said:
Privateinternetaccess is quite well known. They apparently dont keep logs and let you use 3 devices at once $40 a year or something like that

You can pay by gift cards as well for further anonymity

Tazzfalcon · 21 Oct 2014 at 09:34

Archeum said:
Proper VPN companies will keep logs of the client IP & Timestamp as a minimum

Budget? Or are you looking for a free version?

Cyberghost Premium Plus (approx £6p/month) has a nice client in which you can choose quite a lot of servers and automatically connect to - this'll help if any of the IPs have been blacklisted by the ISPs etc.

Or you could rent a fairly cheap VPS or Dedicated (Kimsufi) and install your own VPN server which is a fairly straightforward task if you follow the guide properly.

Not sure about any others that will allow multiple devices etc for free, so can't recommend any free ones

Budget is up to £7p/m I would say but it would have to be super good for that as I'd probably need to cancel something else like Deezer or whatever to pay for it!!

Does Cyberghost Prem Plus work on all the devices incl. Chromebooks?

You say all VPN companies keep logs and stuff - why is that? Isn't that just as bad as an ISP if not worse?

Any other personal - as in - regularly used recommendations?

Cenedd · 21 Oct 2014 at 10:56

They keep logs because should you do anything particularly dastardly, when whatever the local equivalent of the Feds turn up demanding answers, they can plausibly say "No, not us it was this customer doing the kiddie porn."

If you've got a reasonable internet connection at home, you might be able to set something up there if you have a fixed IP.