Guys

My son who is in the UK has the iPAD (the new one). On occasions he will want to be able to use a VPN when away from the UK.

So he must need something like ExPatShield. Is there anything available in that line for the iPad please. There must be people over here who would, on occasions also like to use a VPN with an iPad.

So is anything available in that line for the iPad please ... thanks

Hi Jas,

If you search on the istore there are quite a few VPN apps. I was very very cautious about using one of these apps, but after alot of searching and studying, I decided to download two apps: VPN Express and VPN One Click.

After downloading both apps, I tried the VPN One Click last night and I was watching Saturday's edition of "The Voice". The app is so easy to install and you can watch BBC iplayer etc without any hassle. All these apps offer "trial periods", so just download them, try them out for a week or so and pick the one you like/works best.

Hi Jas,

If you search on the istore there are quite a few VPN apps. I was very very cautious about using one of these apps, but after alot of searching and studying, I decided to download two apps: VPN Express and VPN One Click.

After downloading both apps, I tried the VPN One Click last night and I was watching Saturday's edition of "The Voice". The app is so easy to install and you can watch BBC iplayer etc without any hassle. All these apps offer "trial periods", so just download them, try them out for a week or so and pick the one you like/works best.

Thank you Mr TT ... I have passed on the info to him.

The Ipad or should I say IOS 5 comes with a VPN mode.

Settings - General - Network - VPN

Hi Jas,

If you search on the istore there are quite a few VPN apps. I was very very cautious about using one of these apps, but after alot of searching and studying, I decided to download two apps: VPN Express and VPN One Click.

After downloading both apps, I tried the VPN One Click last night and I was watching Saturday's edition of "The Voice". The app is so easy to install and you can watch BBC iplayer etc without any hassle. All these apps offer "trial periods", so just download them, try them out for a week or so and pick the one you like/works best.

I just bought VPN Express and note it has a choice of USA or European VPN. I'm in the UK now but would like to know if VPN Express will give access to BBC iPlayer in Thailand? A VPN set up in some European countries will not give access to BBC iPlayer let alone Thailand!

Can you give it a go and report back?

Many thanks!

I use Witopia. They provide L2TP and PPTP services for iPad and iPads, and you can set to connect to any number of servers from many different countries. For example, you might want to connect to UK servers to view iBBC, and then later to a US server to view programmes from there. Witopia support is excellent, and they have specific and easy instructions for iPads and iPhones. Cost is US$50/year.

VPN is free, built into windows machines PPTP is the protocol no need to pay, all you need is a machine that stays connected to the internet.

VPN is free, built into windows machines PPTP is the protocol no need to pay, all you need is a machine that stays connected to the internet.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think you mean that PPTP is built in to Windows, but you still need to connect to a VPN service and I don't think Microsoft provides a free VPN service. You would still need to subscribe to one, just as you would with OSX or Linux, both of which also have PPTP networking capability built in.

For example, here is how to set up StrongVPN, which is a paid subscription-based VPN service:

http://strongvpn.com/setup_windows_7_pptp.shtml

VPN is free, built into windows machines PPTP is the protocol no need to pay, all you need is a machine that stays connected to the internet.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think you mean that PPTP is built in to Windows, but you still need to connect to a VPN service and I don't think Microsoft provides a free VPN service. You would still need to subscribe to one, just as you would with OSX or Linux, both of which also have PPTP networking capability built in.

For example, here is how to set up StrongVPN, which is a paid subscription-based VPN service:

http://strongvpn.com/setup_windows_7_pptp.shtml

Here is what I have setup, there is a computer that is always on and connected to the internet ( really not to hard to find, ask a friend or family member) enabled PPTP, which is very simple, got a dynamic dns http://freedns.afraid.org/ and client, then forwarded the port on the router. That's it you have a completely free PPTP, and most likely the person who owns the machine will thank you because they can use it as well.

Oh I forgot to mention this can all be done free and remotely with Teamviewer

Oh I forgot to mention this can all be done free and remotely with Teamviewer

Teamviewer is remote access and screensharing software for Windows, so I'm not sure how this fits in with VPN services.

By the way, screensharing is built in to OSX.

Oh I forgot to mention this can all be done free and remotely with Teamviewer

Teamviewer is remote access and screensharing software for Windows, so I'm not sure how this fits in with VPN services.

By the way, screensharing is built in to OSX.

I used it to setup the VPN on the other persons computer, so they had to do absolutely nothing besides install team viewer and give me their admin password. Now they and I have a completely free (besides ISP service bill) VPN.

Oh I forgot to mention this can all be done free and remotely with Teamviewer

Teamviewer is remote access and screensharing software for Windows, so I'm not sure how this fits in with VPN services.

By the way, screensharing is built in to OSX.

I used it to setup the VPN on the other persons computer, so they had to do absolutely nothing besides install team viewer and give me their admin password. Now they and I have a completely free (besides ISP service bill) VPN.

OK. So who provides the completely free VPN proxy service?

Oh I forgot to mention this can all be done free and remotely with Teamviewer

Teamviewer is remote access and screensharing software for Windows, so I'm not sure how this fits in with VPN services.

By the way, screensharing is built in to OSX.

I used it to setup the VPN on the other persons computer, so they had to do absolutely nothing besides install team viewer and give me their admin password. Now they and I have a completely free (besides ISP service bill) VPN.

OK. So who provides the completely free VPN proxy service?

All a VPN is a tunnel for tcp and udp packets, there is no "service" if you make the route then you can use it.

It's kinda like when you pay some company to host your website or you host it yourself on your own server.

The original post was asking about VPN service in order to watch programmes from the UK. That means a VPN service with a proxy. Sure, you could configure someone's machine in the UK as a proxy server, but I think the question here was regarding commercial VPN servers that provide hosted servers in other countries so that they could get around issues from accessing UK services from Thailand.

Kinda like when you pay a company to host your website.

TommyTucker, how did you install the bbc iplayer app on your ipad as I have been unable to do so as I have a Thailand Itunes account

Thanks

I have run into a brick wall with getting a VPN router. Even the ones that I try and order from the states wont ship to Thailand. Linksys E 2000 3000 4200 and even Buffalo routers.

Any suggestions