Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend?

Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by xxdesmus on Thursday October 02, 2014 @03:28PM (#8402576)

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-services-take-your-anonym... They log basically nothing (so they claim). Fast speeds, tons of locations, OpenVPN compatible. Zero problems for 2 years now.

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by Oculus on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:21PM (#8403421)

I would second Private Internet Access. They have a shitty billing system (need to cancel your current account if you want to switch to a yearly plan), but it I've found it Just Works(TM). Really happy with their service.

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by switch007 on Saturday October 04, 2014 @06:29AM (#8409198)

I've recently had issues with PIA where traffic just stopped routing, necessitating a reconnect. Also the Mac client connects probably 50% of the time and often gets in to an unrecoverable state - but that might be OS X/Openvpn's fault, not PIA.

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by Someone1234 on Thursday October 02, 2014 @11:54AM (#8401238)

I've ran a VPN via Amazon's AWS "free" tier (approx. $5/month for 12 months). Works both on Windows (with appropriate UDP encapsulation configured for IPsec traffic[0][1] on both client and server) or via OpenVPN on Linux.

I'd imagine OpenVPN would work just fine on Linode or DO. And Windows/OpenVPN would also work via Microsoft's Azure platform.

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/kb/926179 [1] The key term to Google is: "AssumeUDPEncapsulationContextOnSendRule"

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by sarciszewski on Thursday October 02, 2014 @11:52AM (#8401224)

I've used AirVPN, Cryptostorm, and iPREDATOR in the past. No complaints with either of the three.

That said, if you're trying to hax0r the NSA or something crazy like that, don't expect a VPN to save you.

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by N0RMAN on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:08AM (#8400557)

Streisand (https://github.com/jlund/streisand) on Digital Ocean, 5$/Month

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by tmod on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:37AM (#8400641)

I'm 90% sold on this. For the last 10%.. Is it easy enough to choose/change your VPN region on Digital Ocean?

Say for example I want to use Netflix from the US today, and Germany tomorrow for general web surfing.

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by kakashi19 on Thursday October 02, 2014 @12:46PM (#8401614)

I would recommend you set up your own VPN so you fine-tune it to suit your need. However, if you can't, then choose VPN providers maintain their servers on their own network instead of renting servers from others. Checkout IPVanish: (http://www.vpntips.com/hidemyass-alternatives/#ipvanish)

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by sjs382 on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:26AM (#8400597)

I've used both prgmr.com and DigitalOcean. I would recommend either.

Use my referral link to get $10 in account credits at DO: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=9fad2cc71fbc

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by philgourley on Thursday October 02, 2014 @10:22AM (#8400817)

VyprVPN is my weapon of choice. Only bad side I can see after months of use is lack of coverage inside the China firewall.

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by yapper on Friday October 03, 2014 @09:48AM (#8405508)

Do you have the Chameleon protocol activated?

David Y.

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by khnd on Friday October 03, 2014 @06:51PM (#8408076)

tunnelbear is great.

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Re:Ask HN: Which VPN Providers do you use/can you recommend? by jpetersonmn on Thursday October 02, 2014 @02:15PM (#8402165)

box.pn

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