Tin please step inside - VPN info

YLWFVR

YLWFVR

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Any recommendations on a good VPN provider? What are key features too look for when choosing a particular provider?

Thanks
 
I am on the Cisco VPN network right now and it works pretty well. My daughter works at GM and they also use Cisco.....

I don't see Cisco on the list....
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For corporate connections NetMotion is the best but it has a per seat licensing fee. It has the golden cookie which gives session persistence, great for mobility if you move from from address to address or bounce between connections. Cisco AnyConnect is a good second choice with no fee.
 
Cisco is a client being used to connect to TMC in the above pic, he's asking about actual VPN service providers.

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The Man said:
Cisco is a client being used to connect to TMC in the above pic, he's asking about actual VPN service providers.
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So, Cisco is NOT the service provider? I am a mechanical guy and all I know is that I connect thru the Cisco dialogue box... ;)

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YLWFVR said:
Any recommendations on a good VPN provider? What are key features too look for when choosing a particular provider?

Thanks
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Just get something that doesn't log traffic and maintains anonymity. The list posted by Rumblestrip lists those that do and do not.
 
"Best" VPN service is going to heavily depend on what you're going to use it for. Bypassing blackouts, BT, hacking, etc... all have different needs.
AWS ec2 is the best IMO, assuming you know what you're doing. Why trust anyone if you don't need to? Oh, and it's pretty much free for the first year.
 
Yeah, you may have a VPN from work, like Cisco, Watchguard, Firebox, etc...but typically those are driven by the hardware your company uses as its firewall. When you VPN in, they know whos logged in by your credentials, and your limited to what they allow you do to. If you get a 3rd party VPN, its basically the same thing, only they dont keep any of that info and allow you, or dont allow you, to do things that otherwise you would be worried about being caught..lol Since they dont keep any of the tracking, law enforcement, has a difficult time to track you. Especially if the VPN provider is in another country. Perfect example would be Netflix in Europe, its not allowed. People there use a VPN in USA, and Netflix thinks its a US customer.
 
AWS EC2 is a great idea. You can get 1 vCPU and 512MB of RAM for less than $5 per month. That's plenty enough resources to run OpenVPN.
 
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AWS EC2 is a great idea. You can get 1 vCPU and 512MB of RAM for less than $5 per month. That's plenty enough resources to run OpenVPN.
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Yup and it's actually even better than that. When you sign up for a new AWS account, they provide a defined base level of service for free ("AWS free tier") for the first year in an effort to get more people playing with AWS (read: getting people hooked).

AWS Free Tier Details: https://aws.amazon.com/free/
- 750 hours per month of a t2.micro Windows or linux instance (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 30GB EBS SSD disk) which is enough hours to run 1 instance 24x7 for the month.
- Unlimited network transfer inbound
- 15GB network transfer out for free. Additional TX out is ~$0.10 per GB depending on the region.
- Can launch that free instance in any of the AWS regions - Sao Paulo, Ireland, Frankfurt, etc... or elsewhere in the US (east or west coast)

Combine the AWS Free Tier ec2 t2.micro instance with an auto-provisioning (user data) script like this: https://blog.ls20.com/ipsec-l2tp-vpn-auto-setup-for-ubuntu-12-04-on-amazon-ec2/
and you have your own, 100% managed by you & only you, 100% automated build, free VPN server that can be launched in any of ~15 countries.

But, you do need some AWS & linux admin skillz. This is not for someone that can barely spell Windows7.

Not that I would ever use a VPN setup like this myself, but I "hear" that it works wonderfully for bypassing NHL and MLB blackout of Red Wing & Tigers games.
And with the auto-provisioning script, if you're really paranoid, you can launch the server in < 5 minutes before a game and terminate it as soon as the game is done. It doesn't even need to be a persistent server.

And Tin, for people like us running RouterOS (e.g. MikroTik routers), you theoretically could, say, set a static route for your troubled traffic such that those destination IPs route out to the Internet over the L2TP VPN connection, while leaving the rest of your traffic alone. Which makes for a very simple solution, say, trying to get the MLB or NHL app on a Roku working where you cannot install/force a VPN app on the client side. All theoretical of course....
 
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