Who uses a VPN on here

All this I have nothing to hide,blindly obey authority stuff can get you into serious trouble.

Your life,behaviour,actions,friends,games,everything about you is yours,it does not belong to any authority,it will not be protected by any authority.
You have to take the responsibility for yourself otherwise you may as well just get used to being told what to do.
 
Well for one VPN can help you watch stuff such as netflix which you could only watch if you lived in the US. It appears as you have a US IP address and allows you to stream TV shows on US version of netflix. Another big one is if you download stuff P2P and are worried about getting your activities traced. Another for me is when im on the go i like to check emails and check online banking so if im using mobile or wifi i can just log into my VPN on my mobile and my connection is then encrypted so im anonymous.

Lots of other benefits too. Gaming wise if your IP banned you can get around this with a VPN. Some games might require you to have a certain IP such as Korean MMO games would only let you play when you had a Korean IP address.
 
I also used PIA for a few years and cant fault them, they were pretty cheap and the speeds were good. I needed a VPN that had servers in the MENA region though so I left them recently for vyprvpn who have also been good but albeit are much more expensive.
 
How fast is vypvpn,I was thinking of trying them because of the speeds they say they have and their own DNS system.
 
I use ExpressVPN and have done for the last few months. Regularly comes out fastest for speeds. Unfortunately it is quite expensive though.

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I host my own OpenVPN server on my router at home which is used for security/encryption when using public WiFi/other peoples WiFi etc.

I only use a VPN at home if I need to bypass region restrictions.
 
I've got an OpenVPN server on a Pi at home. I connect to it when on public wifi and also it provides a secure entry to my home network should I need to access anything on my NAS that's not in the cloud.

I also have low range IP cameras, which I'd rather not expose to the Internet, so the VPN allows me to get to those without port forwarding / punching holes in my firewall.
 
One of the obvious requests for people is the need to route through VPNs on a per application basis(easy on Linux, more troublesome on Windows - ForceBindIP etc). Here's one easy solution from reddit -

Yes, my client doesn't support split tunnelling or per application control but there is a simple way to add it.

Proxifier allows per application routing through a SOCKS proxy(it also allows SSH but most providers don't offer SSH/SOCKS). So what we need is a SOCKS proxy Proxifier can use that will send traffic over a VPN. Here's how you do it, it's quick and easy.

Boot up a virtual machine running Linux e.g. Ubuntu. Go to the terminal and use SSH to create an instant SOCKS proxy on the virtual machine's network interface e.g. if your bridged network interface is 192.168.1.212 type this at the terminal -

Code: 
ssh -D 192.168.1.212:1080 192.168.1.212

That will start a SOCKS proxy on the VM's network interface(I'd advise dropping the Ubuntu firewall with - sudo ufw disable - just while you get things working).

Now inside the VM connect to one of your provider's VPN servers(you can use openvpn and a config file if they don't have a special Linux client).

At this stage you now have a virtual machine connected to a VPN and providing a SOCKS proxy on its bridged network interface i.e. port 1080 on 192.168.1.212 in this example.

So now all you have to do is run Proxifier, tell it there's a SOCKS proxy on 192.168.1.212:1080 and just select what apps you want to use that proxy.

You can of course script all this so your VM starts at boot and connects automatically ...

This technique is basically just two short command lines, ssh proxy, and run VPN client, then run Proxifier - simple, quick, works with any VPN provider(maybe you could have multiple VPNs from your single VM and multiple SOCKS proxies and route different apps to different VPN servers - haven't really looked into it).
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Hi Guys

Im thinking of installing vpn software soon. I tried Mullvad today it was dreadfuly slow 2mb/s. Do any of the good vpn software give you a free trial? I am trying to download using p2p and it seems bt are throttling, im lucky if i can get more than 1mb/s for all my downloads, this is using torrents with a high amount of seeds compared to peers. I tried using Deluge and Utorrent but the same problem. I see some give money back but i dont want to pay without being sure its giving me good speeds.
 
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Hi Guys

Im thinking of installing vpn software soon. I tried Mullvad today it was dreadfuly slow 2mb/s. Do any of the good vpn software give you a free trial? I am trying to download using p2p and it seems bt are throttling, im lucky if i can get more than 1mb/s for all my downloads, this is using torrents with a high amount of seeds compared to peers. I tried using Deluge and Utorrent but the same problem. I see some give money back but i dont want to pay without being sure its giving me good speeds.
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https://airvpn.org

No referral links please

think it's 2 euro for a 3 day trial,try the german and dutch servers.
 
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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