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VPN Question
- Thread starter alzerm
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- Jan 14, 2011
i use private internet access, great customer support, cheap $40 a year, pretty decent speeds simple software.
tl;dr: anyone outside your lan watching your traffic will see the vpn's ip address.
so say you are torrenting something, someone else downloads the tracker info and starts looking up ip's to see where they belong to, when they get to yours it will be your vpn's ip not your own. all your pc's traffic is basically funneled through there.
deskdop>internet>vpn>internet>server
my vpn never goes down, but speed is iffy, its usually between 10 and 30mbs my max is 30mbs so idk how fast it can really go. but from what ive read, thats pretty good for a vpn.
tl;dr: anyone outside your lan watching your traffic will see the vpn's ip address.
so say you are torrenting something, someone else downloads the tracker info and starts looking up ip's to see where they belong to, when they get to yours it will be your vpn's ip not your own. all your pc's traffic is basically funneled through there.
deskdop>internet>vpn>internet>server
my vpn never goes down, but speed is iffy, its usually between 10 and 30mbs my max is 30mbs so idk how fast it can really go. but from what ive read, thats pretty good for a vpn.
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- Thread Starter
- #5
Those speeds would sort of irk me but seeing as I don't torrent at all anymore due to copyright infringement notices in the past I don't really need to worry. The only real reason I mentioned the torrenting was because of that popcorn time program. Doubt I would use it anyways seeing as I am pretty well off because of my bundled services (tv,phone & internet) and the intro pricing in my area for the next year. Have you heard of any info from them being forced out because of illegal activity using their service or are they pretty reliable in that sense?
How easy is it to shut off or not use the VPN for normal browsing?
Any data limits?
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- Dec 30, 2004
I also use PIA, no complaints here. I have an 18mbps connection (which I generally see about 20mbps) and I get full speed while going through VPN consistently, even with endpoints abroad like Switzerland. If you have a higher internet connection, you probably will see speeds diminishing. Most VPNs that you buy have their own client, and you connect to the VPN whenever you want to use it, the rest of the time you don't have to use it. From an end-user perspective, think of it as connecting to a secondary wi-fi network. Click an icon in your system tray, pick the VPN endpoint (whatever country you want it to route through), and connect. When you're done, disconnect.
Especially since I travel a lot for work, accessing work or personal stuff in the airport without a VPN would be a bad move. For $40 a year I get the peace of mind of completely end to end encrypted traffic, worth it for me.
Especially since I travel a lot for work, accessing work or personal stuff in the airport without a VPN would be a bad move. For $40 a year I get the peace of mind of completely end to end encrypted traffic, worth it for me.
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- Feb 8, 2005
- Location
- Seattle, WA
I am using PIA also, its cheap and works well (I built the VPN on my Pfsense router so all of my devices can use it. This also give me the ability to policy route, so only some of my traffic [such as torrent] goes through the VPN). I get 50 down, 10 up even through the VPN (I have a 50/10 connection).
- Thread Starter
- #9
Trying it for a month. Going to run Popcorn and possibly attempt torrents just to see if I get a copyright notice. Speeds seem fine so far as well. Policy based routing should be fine for a small network of 4-5 devices on a single router running dd-wrt or tomato right?
