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Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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I have 1GB fiber, do they offer 1GB speeds? How badly would using them as my VPN affect my speed?
IPsec at 1gbps needs a powerful router. A Juniper SRX 320 that I have can only can reach about 500mbps.
PFSense on a cheapish high clockspeed server will easily get there. Total cost about a grand, a bit more if you want to use a low power no fan solution.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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PIA's offer and their policy on retention might be good, but they're still a US company and they still tried to smear several other VPN companies (including ProtonVPN). Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.
I just about dumped PIA for the same reason. Downloaded their newest update, and it is soooo much better.
The stupid fight they had with ProtonVPN and NordVPN did it for me.
Reddit mods had to close some threads because the people copypasting PIAs (mostly baseless) allegations under every comment even slightly positive about either ProtonVPN or NordVPN were getting out of hand.
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn...
Here's the account that has done nothing but attack ProtonVPN https://www.reddit.com/user/common_sense7
Has a hint of Mafia to it.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#314Earlier quoted context omitted.
PIA's offer and their policy on retention might be good, but they're still a US company and they still tried to smear several other VPN companies (including ProtonVPN). Their clients are also messy memoryleaky electron apps with outdated chromium embedded.
There are new apps that are not based on chromium [1]. [1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/download
Interesting point to pick from the ones I bought up. I guess that's an improvement.
Would you mind addressing the other one, particularly who from PIA this is?
https://www.reddit.com/user/common_sense7
Interestingly one of the comments seems to allege that's you. Hm.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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100% this. VPN marketing appears to have really gotten to people, everyone's always asking about it. Real reasons I can see to use a VPN service 1) You want your traffic to reliably egress in that country. i.e. I live in New Zealand but to access some Australian TV on demand, I need to "appear" in Australia. 2) Errr, I can't think of any others. If you are really trying to hide your traffic from your ISP: 1) Change I…
If you are not too worried about privacy and just want to appear in another country or get around your cafe's system blocking some pages, I use hotspotshield.com or occasionally hideme.com in their free forms. Hotspotshield is actually quite handy. I just had to use it to access https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ as Pret a Manger had decided that deserve blocking for some reason. Hideme seems kinda unreliable but…
Regarding the whole privacy thing - this is the "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear" argument. There's plenty of information around on the arguments for and against [0].
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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I keep mullvad + Wireguard in my back pocket for when there's no choice but VPNing. It's been a perfectly workable combo so far.
how do you use wireguard from your phone (i assume that's what you meant by pocket). I thought wireguard was all cli based for now and no good UI (I use Linux desktop and Android phones)
Just an expression of speech :). On Linux and macOS, I use the native stuff, on iOS I use the app the Wireguard team produced. I believe they've produced an Android app too.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#317This might sound dumb. But, I use ProtonVPN because Mozilla partnered with them and I place trust in Mozilla’s ability to make a more informed choice than I can make — largely due to their access to information and on hand knowledge and expertise. https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/10/22/testing-n...
I use ProtonVPN (and ProtonMail) for business but I haven't been that impressed so far. For personal use (e.g. BBC abroad) I just use OpenVPN on a Raspberry Pi. I recently wrote a full review on my blog (so I won't repeat it all here): https://unop.uk/protonmail-review/
Just want to let you know you can delete your payment method by visiting the "Payments" tab within the Settings of your account.
Also, Bridge is receiving a lot of attention internally. Your v1.1.1 experience will continue to improve.
Appreciate your feedback.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have 1GB fiber, do they offer 1GB speeds? How badly would using them as my VPN affect my speed?
I've been using PIA with gigabit fiber for two years, and anecdotally I've not noticed a difference.
I had the same experience when I had such a good connection a couple years ago.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
#319I use Algo[1] on a variety of VPS providers. It supports IPSec, but I only use Wireguard through it. Supporting OpenVPN is an explicit anti-goal for Algo[2]. I generally strongly recommend against using VPN providers on false advertisement grounds -- VPNs fundamentally cannot provide strong anonymity properties, but that doesn't stop many providers from listing anonymity as a selling point. In terms of the property V…
Algo is also significantly cheaper than most offerings. A Digital Ocean instance is $5 a month.
If you do much video or file transfer, you'll easily go over the 1TB you get with your $5 Digital Ocean droplet.
Re: Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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There might really be nothing to it, as the Proton* people claim. Or at least, just a somewhat iffy roll-out of their VPN, using Tesonet staff. But on the other hand, I gather that Mozilla has picked ProtonVPN for its integrated VPN testing. And they seem competent and privacy-friendly. Also, whatever they did with ProtonVPN, there's no reason to believe that there's anything wrong with ProtonMail. That's arguably th…
I'm not sure why Mozilla is still held on such high esteem despite multiple gaffs.
It's largely desperation, perhaps.
But they do seem more privacy-friendly than most.