Hey TS forums, I need to find a good VPN with no logging, little to no speed difference, and ease of use.
I've already tried PIA but I found speeds disappointing and its software isn't the best.
Thanks
- Typhon
I use hide my ass only because my company pays for it XD I cant say I recommend or hate it, its okay, does the job (although it does cut my speeds significatly)
If you scroll down on the page below any of the VPNs will do just fine. I would recommend doing a trial and seeing which best works for you. One company might have good speeds compared to others.
Here's a couple to look at or some.
EDIT: All listed within those links follow the no logging policy.
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https://www.proxpn.com/twit/index.php - no logging. Highly recommended from the lads at SecurityNow.
Otherwise Purevpn is good - start and end pointst are logged because they have to by law. But they have servers everywhere on the planet. Fast speeds and all protocol support.
F-Secure Freedome, basically this one routes stuff through F-Secure so it works same time as protection even for phones. Comes with goofy whos trying to track me map. :D
I've heard horrible things about ProXpn... I love SecurityNow, but I think they looked at the money from the sponsorship before actually using the service...
I just ran across this article today. I discovered it on www.wired.com and they linked to this. "Your VPN Probably isn't private."
Popular VPNs leak data, don't offer promised privacy and anonymity
Posted on 30 June 2015.
Virtual Private Network (VPN) services can be used for circumventing
Internet censorship and accessing blocked content, but researchers warn
that you shouldn't believe the companies' claims that they offer privacy
and anonymity.
Read more: http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=18571
Hidemyass has been known to keep logs in the past, and I consider them as one of the providers that cannot be trusted because of it.
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CyberGhost is terrible... please guys for your own good don't pay for CG It may be secure, but its not worth the terrible speed. I went back to private internet access and it is miles better.
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I have been using BOXPN for over a year and am quite happy. No logging no charging for extra bandwidth and its decently fast. you can get 1 3 or 12 month signups. if you get the 12mo its 2.99 a mo supports 3 simultaneous connections and supports Open VPN. (and all the other popular VPN protocols ) no trial but they have a 7 day money back grantee
all this info and more here
^^^^^^^ With VPN on.
There's enough servers to choose from that if you're having issues with one just disconnect and connect to another. I run a speedtest everytime I connect to make sure. Most of the time I see no speed loss at all and if I do connect to one that has even a few mbps less I just switch to another until I find one that's on par with my speed tier. CyberGhost is not in anyway terrible, especially with all of the new features in version 5.5.
I do have another option for ya: (a bit more involved)
get the amazon aws free tier, setup a Red Hat server and then run an openVPN connection between your pc and that server. The speeds you get are amazing ^.^
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+1 for PureVPN - many, many countries to log in through.
Is a VPN really worth it? i hear the protection doesn't help that much from people identifying you. :)
-50% off till 1 Dec 2015 10:00am GMT
Bought it myself and good guy F-Secure added trial days on top of that year. :D
and I feel like I'm becoming some fanboy right now, but this is pretty cool.
Depends who you're trying to hide from. If it's the government then yeah not going to help much. But if you're trying to hide your traffic from an ISP or someone sharing a network with you (public WiFi), or if you're trying to not get done by some anti piracy group then a VPN will work for you.
The encryption is encryption, no one can see what your traffic is (unless there's some secret back door that no one knows about) but the anonymity isn't magic, you're just adding another jurisdictional layer between you and whatever you're connecting to.
If you're worried about tracking from websites then a VPN probably won't help much either as they mostly use cookies or user authentication or something like that rather than tracking your IP.
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Something to keep in mind when choosing a VPN provider
I'd stay away from any providers who support port forwarding unless they've fixed the issue.
You reminded me from this post.
https://community.f-secure.com/t5/F-Secure/Is-BitTorrent-allowed-with/ta-p/65934
Due to requirements placed on us by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) legislation, we are not able to support BitTorrent or other peer-to-peer file sharing applications on many of our gateway sites, which either reside within the United States, or are hosted by a company based in the US.
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Given our promises on privacy and anonymity, honoring the DMCA requirements is challenging for us. We have therefore chosen to technically block peer-to-peer file sharing on the affected VPN gateways. When such traffic is detected by our software, the VPN user’s network connection is temporarily restricted by a firewall, leaving only web (http/https) services available for that client. Other applications may obviously be affected by the restrictions. The restrictions are automatically lifted when Freedome is disconnected.
While BitTorrent is a perfectly good and legal protocol as such, and it is often used for legitimate purposes, it is most commonly used for downloading and sharing copyrighted material, such as movies. We are, however, not technically able to detect between legal and illegal uses of BitTorrent.
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Gateway sites currently limited by this restriction:
Australia
Belgium
Canada (Montreal)
France
Germany
Hong Kong
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Poland
Singapore
United Kingdom
United States