COOL HAND LUKE 2:05 Wed Mar 16
VPNs
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No doubt this has been done on here before, but anyway...
I've never bothered with these up to now but I'm starting to think it might be wise given the general direction of travel out there these days. Anybody got any useful suggestions or tips, fellas? Why do you use the one you use? What is good / bad about the well known ones?
Any (sensible) suggestions would be appreciated. TY
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Beckton Bill
3:42 Wed Mar 16
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I use Nord but only for my streaming service. It has an android app that works well.
It will cost money but I've tried the free ones and they are crap.
If you look out for a deal you can sometimes get a good offer of a few years. HotUKDeals or somewhere like that.
With regards to being fully hidden, Im no tech expert but I'm not sure you can ever fully be hidden. lots of VPNs keep logs and I'm sure Nord is no different.
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riosleftsock
3:50 Wed Mar 16
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the Opera Browser has a built in VPN that you can edit. Its not perfect, but it seems to work.
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Mike Oxsaw
3:51 Wed Mar 16
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I'm on my 2nd 3-year stint with Nord and until recently would not even hesitate to recommend them.
However, I've noticed a couple of issues that give me cause for concern; they may not be a problem if used via an app or through windows (as I don't use it that way) but I need to keep checking that it's still connected on a fairly regular basis under Ubuntu.
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REALGSA
4:05 Wed Mar 16
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I use nord vpn.
In regards to say sevilla tickets away in the home end. Even have a VPN their webiste restricted access.
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Nurse Ratched
4:13 Wed Mar 16
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I use Express.
No complaints. It's so simple, I reckon even a sociology graduate could use it.
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SecondOpinion
4:16 Wed Mar 16
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NORD
but deactivate your automatic renewal, that way you can get a discount when the licence is up for renewal
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On The Ball
4:18 Wed Mar 16
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I use Pure. Very simple on Windows laptops and Android phones/tablets. Got a five year deal a few years ago for what felt like peanuts, but can't remember how much.
Couldn't compare to any others as I haven't used any.
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Wils
5:04 Wed Mar 16
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I use Nordpvn.
I have Kodi running on a small Rasberry Pi connected to my TV. Every time it connects to a stream (Rising Tides plugin) it connects to the VPN.
Works like a dream. Though it sometimes gets some lag in the second half for some reason. Nothing a stop/start doesn't fix.
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Vexed
5:19 Wed Mar 16
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Express VPN for me, fast as you like, simple to use.
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wmc3205
5:30 Wed Mar 16
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get a GL.iNet GL-MT300N-V2 and let that be your vpn hardware.
purchase vpn and install it on there and allow that to control all your appliances using wifi
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COOL HAND LUKE
5:38 Thu Mar 17
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I appreciate the input - thanks to all. Some of the solutions are a bit too highbrow technically for me, for sure..!
The two prominent 'basic' ones seem to be Nord and Express, with the latter appearing to be the more 'plug & play' solution, which is about as much time and energy as I want to give to it right now. I'm going to have a nose around on them both and go from there. Thanks again to all who took the time to respond. COYFRRFSI - we need a result tonight - *kneels to pray*...
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Mex Martillo
8:10 Thu Mar 17
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I have used Express, to watch TV in the wrong country. Worked a treat, when free VPNs had failed. I did that through an ipad connected to the TV.
What I would really like to do is connect the router to a VPN so the apps on our smart TV think they are in the UK. Anyone know a simple way to do that? I couldn't understand stuff I read on the internet.
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cartis
8:36 Thu Mar 17
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Surfshark does the job for me.
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Lertie Button
9:02 Thu Mar 17
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Wearing thongs is the answer
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Far Cough
9:20 Thu Mar 17
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Mex, you need a router that will accept a VPN, not all routers do, my SKY router won't for example
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On The Ball
10:01 Thu Mar 17
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That's interesting Cough - my Sky router does. Wonder what the difference is?
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Far Cough
10:03 Thu Mar 17
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You have embedded the VPN into your SKY router?
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On The Ball
10:32 Thu Mar 17
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Ha - I LOLed at that as I have no idea what that means! No, it's just installed on the laptop and other devices, nothing clever. Definitely works though as I don't get moaning letters from Sky now.
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Far Cough
10:49 Thu Mar 17
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I know you can use a VPN with SKY, what I meant was, instead of having a VPN on all your devices, you can get a router that has a VPN already in it, thereby eliminating having a VPN on each device
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On The Ball
11:13 Thu Mar 17
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Ah, I see. So in answer to my question, the difference is that I didn't understand what you were saying as my knowledge is far too basic. This isn't a great shock!
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