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The Chrome store still is hosting Hola: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hola-better-intern...
I wonder what caused the surge of all those 5-stars positive reviews within the last 24 hours....
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I recently bought a year for around $35 with some coupon code or other and honestly...I'm a bit underwhelmed. No matter what settings I use or what node I connect to, my ~100mbps (down) cable connection drops to somewhere between 1-10mbps. I was originally going to set up OpenVPN on my router so everything would go through it but I heard it can tax router hardware and lead to slower speeds so I figured I'd just test…
I have a 50Mbps connection and don't actively notice the speed drop but speed tests (which are not that reliable and I didn't do enough tests to really confirm) show about a 10Mbps difference (slower on VPN). My phone connection is never anywhere near that fast so I really don't notice it there. I'm sure that fast home connections will have more issues (as in being slower) but I'm willing to take the hit (as long as…
I'm still guessing it's either something I need to set up differently or it's Comcast somehow throttling it but I've tried both TCP and UDP set to auto and to each of the other choices they give you. I've tried connecting to the closest server and to others. And if I do the speedtests on their site (testing the speed of their connections) they seem to be as fast as you would expect.
Just not quite sure what to try next. I'm only out $35 and on the rare occasions where I really need to use it (occasional TV show torrenting), I have no complaints about longer waits since I'm not paying for them. At this point it's mostly just bugging me that I haven't found a solution.
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I recently bought a year for around $35 with some coupon code or other and honestly...I'm a bit underwhelmed. No matter what settings I use or what node I connect to, my ~100mbps (down) cable connection drops to somewhere between 1-10mbps. I was originally going to set up OpenVPN on my router so everything would go through it but I heard it can tax router hardware and lead to slower speeds so I figured I'd just test…
One possibility is that your ISP is throttling encrypted connections. It's something that seems easy enough to test.
Selling user's bandwidth is shady, but consistent with VPN usage (i.e. traffic routing). You can present it as "hey, that's our actual business model, we just forgot to tell you guys" and maybe get away with it. But this: Hola [...] installs its own code-signing certificate on the user’s system. Hola contains a built-in console (“zconsole”) that is not only constantly active but also has powerful functions including…
I suppose the lesson here is don't use "free" services until you fully understand the provider's business model.
I have zero connection to this company but if you are looking for a reliable, fast, unlimited VPN I would check out Private Internet Access ( https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ ) I've got a number of friends who use this and I've been using it for a little over a month and have nothing but good things to say. At $40/yr it's well worth it IMHO and provides a native VPN client, PPTP, and Socks5 (They have mobile ap…
I recently bought a year for around $35 with some coupon code or other and honestly...I'm a bit underwhelmed. No matter what settings I use or what node I connect to, my ~100mbps (down) cable connection drops to somewhere between 1-10mbps. I was originally going to set up OpenVPN on my router so everything would go through it but I heard it can tax router hardware and lead to slower speeds so I figured I'd just test…
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I have a 50Mbps connection and don't actively notice the speed drop but speed tests (which are not that reliable and I didn't do enough tests to really confirm) show about a 10Mbps difference (slower on VPN). My phone connection is never anywhere near that fast so I really don't notice it there. I'm sure that fast home connections will have more issues (as in being slower) but I'm willing to take the hit (as long as…
Yeah, I expected some latency and lower bandwidth due to the extra hops and their capacity but going from 100 to 5 is a bit much. I'm still guessing it's either something I need to set up differently or it's Comcast somehow throttling it but I've tried both TCP and UDP set to auto and to each of the other choices they give you. I've tried connecting to the closest server and to others. And if I do the speedtests on t…
So this is interesting to me because lately, I've been looking for a VPN that would work for my little brother who is trying to make it to the point that he can stream full time on Twitch. The problem is that he has been targeted by script kiddies, who found his IP address through Skype. Shame on you skype. That said, I've been looking for a good VPN for him. It seems that ProXpn isn't as solid as I thought it was be…
So if Skype relays through servers, they get flak for spying, but if they use P2P it's their fault for giving his IP out? The Skype options have a choice for exposing it. "Allow direct connections to contacts only". Make sure it's checked, and don't add bad actors to Skype.
I have zero connection to this company but if you are looking for a reliable, fast, unlimited VPN I would check out Private Internet Access ( https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ ) I've got a number of friends who use this and I've been using it for a little over a month and have nothing but good things to say. At $40/yr it's well worth it IMHO and provides a native VPN client, PPTP, and Socks5 (They have mobile ap…
I recently bought a year for around $35 with some coupon code or other and honestly...I'm a bit underwhelmed. No matter what settings I use or what node I connect to, my ~100mbps (down) cable connection drops to somewhere between 1-10mbps. I was originally going to set up OpenVPN on my router so everything would go through it but I heard it can tax router hardware and lead to slower speeds so I figured I'd just test…
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> Superfish, I'm willing to believe, was just incompetence/indifference. If Hola really is installing a backdoor with high privileges, then that's deliberate malice. But that's what Superfish was as well. Why are you willing to give Superfish a free pass on doing the same thing?
Yes, that's what Superfish was. However, I'm willing to believe that Lenovo's marketing department was incompetent enough to agree to bundling it without malice.