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What VPN do you use?

Posted on 12/2/14 at 2:03 pm
Posted by beaver
The 755 Club
Member since Sep 2009
46861 posts
Posted on 12/2/14 at 2:03 pm
With the Sony leaks, I decided if I'm going to torrent I should finally pull the trigger and get a VPN

Paid for a month of PIA (Private Internet Access) to try it out and it seems to work great and has awesome reviews. What do you use? Can you tell me pros and cons of different ones including PIA?

I've seen the fact that PIA is based in the US listed as both a pro and a con
Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George
Member since Aug 2004
78072 posts
Posted on 12/2/14 at 2:13 pm to
Most of those, especially the US based ones, will give up your info if handed a subpoena.
Posted by StraightCashHomey21
Aberdeen,NC
Member since Jul 2009
125476 posts
Posted on 12/3/14 at 2:39 am to
private internet access

which is great since I don't live in the US.
This post was edited on 12/3/14 at 2:40 am
Posted by UltimateHog
Oregon
Member since Dec 2011
65868 posts
Posted on 12/3/14 at 2:48 am to
PIA.
Posted by TigerNT
Member since Dec 2014
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Posted on 12/6/14 at 10:57 am to
I actually use several VPNs, PIA, IPVanish, Hidemyass and our own. I do this mostly because I travel a lot and rely on fast, secure connections. There are pros and cons to all of them:

- HMA, the market leader, has a vast network, tons of IPs, but it isn't the fastest
- IPVanish, another big player, has a lot of IPs and mostly really fast connections
- PIA, love them, many IPs but sometimes not where I need them to be, fast connections
- Our own, a pain to setup, only one IP in one location, but blazing fast and yes, very private

If you search, you'll fin tons of review sites, sadly, most of them suck. I mean, how objective is a review of a service that pays you an affiliate commission for every sale? Or worse, I read the review and wonder if they ever actually tried a particular service LOL

One HMA review I found helpful (because I use a Mac) was [link=(adeepbite)]https://www.adeepbite.com/hidemyass-vpn-review/[/link] . If you are nervous about the logging thing, you might want to check out [link=(vpntips)]https://vpntips.com/hidemyass-alternatives/[/link] , another site, where they list the pros and cons of some major Hidemyass alternatives. For full disclosure, I am not associated with either site LOL

Setting up your own VPN has many advantages, speed, control, security, IP probably not blocked by anyone because it is not used for spamming etc..., but it has one major drawback: You can't easily switch regions or IP if you are looking to unblock region restricted content.
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