NordVPN. As a basic user who would like to have access the web via VPN on mobile and desktop, NordVPN fulfills my needs. I would say that the desktop client is a bit buggy (sometimes logs my username out for no reason). iOS client is solid.
Ask HN: What VPN service are you currently using?
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#322My favorite is IVPN. It's true that I've written stuff for them. But that's in part because I've known the CEO, Nick Pestel, for several years. And to the extent that I trust anyone, I trust him. But also, they're one of the older VPN services, and one of the first to accept Bitcoin. And their apps are well designed. I also like AirVPN, Mullvad and PIA a lot. I don't know anyone there personally, but they're all stro…
I recently switched to IVPN from Nord (a month or so ago), and I'm very glad I did. Great interface, and it never goes down. NordVPN is always advertising their massive server network, but I was always getting booted off and having connection problems. I rarely have these problems with IVPN.
Just FYI, but "massive server network" often means a bunch of VPS in a few data centers. With devious cross-AS announcements to make servers geolocate as desired. It's easy to discover the truth, by using numerous ping and traceroute probes, and doing triangulation.
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#323I've been running my own personal OpenVPN for several years now. Normally either running on AWS or GCP or Linode.
Incidentally, I posted on HN yesterday volunteering to setup free VPN. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19241382 . Happy to set one up for you, or anyone in this forum.
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#324Nord is the best, no logs, clean, enough nodes, speed is okay
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#325Suggestions for a novice to learn how to use a VPN? My sites are on shared hosting and want to switch to VPN, but don't know anything about it.
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#326Earlier quoted context omitted.
For some of us, we live in jurisdictions where all ISPs are legally required to keep all metadata for all connections. (In tinpot pseudo democracies with governments who fail to understand technology but pass intrusive laws governing it anyway, then declare "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.") In that case, a few bucks per month is a pret…
Did you just describe Australia as a ‘tinpot pseudo democracy’? Not that this is a high point in Australian politics with the game of musical chairs that is going on. I’ve just never heard someone living there be so down on it.
Yes. Yes I did. :sigh:
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#327Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could start here: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Gigabit_Networks_... >It is easily possible to saturate a 100 Mbps network using an OpenVPN tunnel. The throughput of the tunnel will be very close to the throughput of regular network interface. On gigabit networks and faster this is not so easy to achieve. This page explains how to increase the throughput of a VPN tunnel to near-linespeed for a 1 Gbps…
Earlier you claim you will only ever hit ~300Mbit, but then you link to an article where the author hit 885Mbit throughput after tweaking a few settings and ensuring OpenSSL was using AES-NI.
Yes. But that article never worked for me.
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>No, but.... The above error was from my office So.. IT that manages the certs and the gateway, use a MIMT 'attack' to decrypt all your traffic, scan/read it, and then encrypt it again to send it out to the wilderness of the Internet. This is what the browser is messaging. Notifying you that "something is wrong with the connection. Browser is not sure what exactly, thus pointing the finger on the certificate. Perhaps…
The reason this warning will appear in Firefox is that it does not use the OS certificate store and it uses a built-in store. The corporate MitM cert will have been added to the OS root cert store so other browsers will trust it but it probably hasn't been added to the Firefox one.
Yep, sounds like they're lazy.
They should be using a script like this to inject the cert into Firefox:
https://github.com/eggsome/AddFirefoxCert
Although:
1. I don't like to encourage this kind of behavior (I only use this for "good")
2. The certutil tool needs to be recompiled from the mozzila sources for new firefox.
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#329I use NordVPN, largely because they were recommended by a friend. But I only really use them to reach sites blocked by my ISP. So I find it really useful to use their Firefox plugin which doesn't affect other applications I'm running at the same time.
I switched to Nord from Private Internet Access because their apps looked nicer. I regret it entirely. NordVPN has been noticeably less stable, slower, and their apps aren't actually that nice to use, and can be slow and buggy. PIA looks a bit "programmer art" but it's far better.
What client were you using when you were using PIA? The UI was drastically improved with the release of the new client in January and you may like it a lot more.
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#330ExpressVPN has been a really great experience in terms of price and ease of use. Been a customer for a few years now.
Long time ExpressVPN user here too, switched from BoxVPN which was slow and unreliable. ExpressVPN on the other hand has been well worth the cost. As mentioned by others, their software is A+ and stays out of the way for the most part. I don't use it to stream netflix while traveling, so that's never been a problem for me. I'm on a gigabit network at home and have found that the throughput speed is pretty good...beyond satisfactory for sure. I don't plan on switching.