VPM /proxy

Funnily enough I just read an article saying that all free/cheap VPNs are fronts for Chinese Intelligence . Good luck to them imho most are used either to watch illegal TV or p0rn. I think Duke’s use to improve security on public wifi is a lot less common.

Kaspersky is on Amazon’s Black Friday sale, and the 10 device version is £17 and includes a VPN.

I’ve not seen an Internet Security provider offering VPN as part of a product before…….interesting.

NordVPN are the only compay I’m aware of that are actively advertising on UK TV, emphasis on security not Netflix USA (although they actively support most UK and USA streaming services via VPN).

I still think if you are just interested in security when out and about then connect back to your own router (via openvpn) and you are as safe as you would be indoors. Placeshifting is a moving target, the bigger companies (e.g. NordVPN) react quicker, but it is cat and mouse.

Dave Rice wrote:

The free secure connection is limited to 300mb / day.

I thought that I’d give Kaspersky Secure Connection a try and the first thing I noticed was that as it was pretending to be in Amsterdam, Forumite thought I was a Johnny Foreigner and kicked me out. Haven’t bothered after that!!

It works but it’s too slow. Probably a setting somewhere, will look tomorrow. There is a ton of very techie settings in the configuration files. Pings aren’t too bad but actual website requests fail, probably NAT or gateways.

Netflix and VPNs? My guess is they keep abreast of the IP addresses the VPN providers use. That could be simply be looking at the amount of traffic coming from an IP (or block of) address. If you had your own VPN server based in another country that isn’t going to attract suspicion on the basis of traffic.

If I get the speed sorted out we can have a look at all this, it’s not going to cost anything for another 4 – 5 weeks and even then it’s only $10 for another month. I’m not going to send the boys around for that ?

I have a subscription with Private Internet Access that I use occasionally, but rarely.

As BL states, if I’m looking to secure my online browsing from unprotected WiFi (looking at you Travelodge!), then I’ll often use a VPN back to my Synology NAS. In fairness, that’s only a L2TP VPN I’m using – I should probably look at getting OpenVPN setup on it (probably before I fly to Geneva at the weekend!) However, in this instance, PIA will usually cover me (I’ve also used the Tunnelbear free app for small periods of time, but as the free data is like 300Mb a month, this is usually an “emergency” situation).

I could look at getting it set up on my GL.iNet router… That’s a handy little device. Supports OpenVPN, but I’ve used it in the past to just get around Travelodge’s two items on the Wifi policy.

I’ve officially given up, it’s just too fiddly. Couldn’t get the traffic flowing and setting up a user is just bloody awful and far too easy to get wrong and cockup existing users at the same time.

Still it’s cost me nowt and I may well have a look at other tutorials as it’s a good idea.

Well that didn’t take long. Found a script that did it all painlessly and correctly in minutes. It only does 1 user but can’t see that as an issue.

It doesn’t knock off much in a speed test, but despite the server being in London the traffic appears to be coming from Brussels.

If anyone want to help test this, just PM me. There should be loads of bandwidth available, 4 TBs comes with my number of servers and I’m using hardly anything.

Grab a raspberry Pi, set up your own. Works a treat for me.