Need a VPN recommendation

[xkm1948]

Had enough of my ISP so I have finally decided to go with VPN. Any good recommendations?

 

[eidairaman1]

Had enough of my ISP so I have finally decided to go with VPN. Any good recommendations?

OVPN

 

[prasoooon]

Betternet, a chrome free extension.... Its good for surfing anything.
Or hot-spot shield elite if you are taking about software version.

 

[Kursah]

Had enough of my ISP so I have finally decided to go with VPN. Any good recommendations?

Depends on what you're doing. If you want a VPN to encrypt your data outbound, there's a lot of options. I have used PIA VPN for years now with great success. It works quite well overall, and has been an affordable service. I only use it when I want to though, not 24/7, nor for all my devices through my router. But I can usually achieve 40-60Mbps download speeds on my 60Mbps connection which makes me happy. Being able to use it on 5 devices is pretty nice too...the app gets the job done. Can use OVPN, IPSEC, etc.

If you want a VPN connection to access your home network, then I recommend OpenVPN. Works quite well and you can set it up on a router, server, virtual machine, PC, old laptop, whatever...depending on the speed you have and need.

Do not settle for less than OVPN or IPSEC though, PPTP is not good enough. AES 256 encryption, SHA 256 hash, RSA 2048 key (or 4096) should be what you use...the higher the settings the lower the bandwidth performance, the higher the latency because of processing and encryption overhead. But encryption is kind of the point of a VPN tunnel...so if you're not going to run decent levels of encryption, then might as well not run a VPN at all.

There are other options that might be better than PIA for an external VPN source, but I have yet to find a need to look.

 

[pigulici]

I used PIA vpn too, good one...

 

[lorraine walsh]

That really depends on what you want and what features you consider are the best and what protocols you are looking for I personally liked the features of PureVPN, HMS and PIA but I settled on PureVPN as I liked their no logs policy and they had an offer going which made its cost very reasonable

 

[qubit]

Had enough of my ISP

In what way have you had enough of them?

You ok to let us know who you're with?

 

[Shou Miko]

@qubit yeh that would be nice to know.

Also what u planning to use ur VPN for?

I use TorGuard personally I got a 50% off for life coupon so I get 50% off for life when I pay every 3 months and speeds are always around 100/25 mbit which is my connection.

 

[silkstone]

I was on PIA and it's service was great. I especially liked how they offered a proxy.

I switched to VPN Unilimited a couple of months ago. I changed simply because a lifetime licence was $30 (they still have offers from time to time) and I only occasionally use a VPN and then it's just for geo-locked content.

 

[xkm1948]

I constantly need to share whole genome sequencing raw data with my collaborators. In the past we used to mail external hard drives. Problem with that is a) A lot of times the HDD arrives damaged and data difficult to recover. or b)My collaborators forgot to mail me back the HDD I bought. Eventually the cost of HDD starts to get to me so I am trying new ways to share data. I tried FTP, but that would only work when I am using University internet and it is slow as hell. So we moved on to P2P. Hoping this can speed up the process of sharing data among multiple labs distributed across the nation. Here comes in the story of my ISP mediacom. They would constantly put warning messages over my browser whenever I try to access P2P at home. It seems they don't care what P2P you do, as long as it is P2P they will be freaking out.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into some lifetime license or OVPN later.

 

[Kursah]

If you host an OVPN server on your network and give them limited access to say a specific network share where you put your data sets. Or even better, make them host an OVPN tunnel that you connect to and can use to transfer.

The nice thing with those methods is you won't need to force your HTTP traffic over the tunnel (though you could if you wanted). Essentially making the tunnel useful only for data transfers.

Another option is setting up an SFTP server on their end that you can connect to and upload your data sets. That might keep you from getting flagged for P2P.

With the cost in lost and damaged hard drives over years or however long...setting up a small linux smb file server that could also easily host the VPN tunnel. Give it locked down access privileges, maybe even a unique subnet or VLAN and keep things secure and tidy.

I guess it depends on how you want to do this. I would imagine a direct VPN tunnel to them would be best.

If you both have hi trust you could create a site-to-site IPSec VPN tunnel as well...but then both LANs would have access to each other (depending on firewall rules). I would think an OVPN setup direct one way or the other would be best and could essentially even be free the they or you have the resources to host the server services....which really doesn't take much.

I've ran on OVPN server on a 12 year old Toshiba laptop for an artist to connect to a print shop to print on the large format printer. 2 years later still working great.

 

[newtekie1]

I had PIA, in fact I still have an active subscription. But the speeds were too slow, and port forwarding was/is broken. The fact that you get a different forwarded IP every time you connect was a pain too.

I switched to A string and love it. Speeds are fast, and you always get the same port when you connect.

 

[silkstone]

I constantly need to share whole genome sequencing raw data with my collaborators. In the past we used to mail external hard drives. Problem with that is a) A lot of times the HDD arrives damaged and data difficult to recover. or b)My collaborators forgot to mail me back the HDD I bought. Eventually the cost of HDD starts to get to me so I am trying new ways to share data. I tried FTP, but that would only work when I am using University internet and it is slow as hell. So we moved on to P2P. Hoping this can speed up the process of sharing data among multiple labs distributed across the nation. Here comes in the story of my ISP mediacom. They would constantly put warning messages over my browser whenever I try to access P2P at home. It seems they don't care what P2P you do, as long as it is P2P they will be freaking out.

Thanks for the suggestions. I will look into some lifetime license or OVPN later.

PIA would be good for that then as you can set up a proxy on your torrent client, then use your ISP for everything else.

 

[unr3al]

Had enough of my ISP so I have finally decided to go with VPN. Any good recommendations?

Have a look at anonymous-proxies.net.
Pros:
-Fully anonymous connections;
-24/7 dedicated support;
-multiple datacenters;
- vert fast activation;
- high-speed interneet;
- on demand locations

Best regards,
unr3al

 

[infrared]

I've been looking into getting a good VPN myself, thnx for all the info people

 

[monim1]

Because of your first time with VPN, you may probably think to use free VPNs. But free VPNs have few drawbacks. It makes internet connection slow, takes time to connect, even many free VPNs don't perform securedly. Previously, I've used many free VPNs but stopped using them for years because paid VPNs are much more reliable and comfortable to use. For the last few monthes I'm using Hidester VPN. It's best thing is that it connects quickly and can change server within only a second. Also the internet connection is secuerd, private and fast. No issue with the price. You can Log in up to 5 devices simultaneously.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Actually all those VPNs are very slow. I have a 200Mbps Internet line, can I find a VPN that can support 200Mpbs or more?
Thanks!

 

[Shou Miko]

Actually all those VPNs are very slow. I have a 200Mbps Internet line, can I find a VPN that can support 200Mpbs or more?
Thanks!

I know some ppl that uses Torguard on 1/1gbit connections and they get from 800-1000mbps so I will be surprised if u got less but again not every server gives u good speed.

I been using Torguard about a yr now and it works and I still get around 100-110/25-30mbit it swings a little and without vpn I see around 110/28mbit from my isp directly from the same servers so I won't complain.

I don't think this is bad since my data needs to travel far and being encrypted along the way:

 

[Prima.Vera]

good info. thanks!