Whats the best VPN ?

[ellathai]

Hey I'm moving to Thailand soon and will have fibre to the house, I will be getting a VPN but there's so many of them saying the same thing and it's getting confusing, if any of you guys having a VPN could give me some advice of what you think of yours would be appreciated. Looking to watch netflix, dootv, aussie rules footy etc.

Cheers

Bruce

[wisheewashee]

No doubt , many will answer you ,but me I go for the simplest way that doesnt

cost any money and that is :-

1 .Download Google Chrome

2 .go to your extensions in the right hand corner and in the search find Browsec VPN .

you will see a green Browtec sign and click and change to one of the 4 countries listed.

Then check your Google search and Find your IP address just to check and make sure it works.

Its a free VPN and you can change the IP address UK / USA / Singapore / Netherlands

I use 3BB costing 590bht a month and for the past year with it I use the Iplayer BBC / ITV / Channel 4 without problems .

This is basic but works for me ,so because of that why pay an oversees provider .

[YeahSiam]

Free VPNs very dodgy.

They could be doing all

sorts of crap with your

machine and/or your

bandwidth. Google

"hola botnet"

[Chicog]

Free VPNs very dodgy.

They could be doing all

sorts of crap with your

machine and/or your

bandwidth. Google

"hola botnet"

yeah but there's sod all on my PC worth nicking and I don't give a toss if they know my browsing habits.

Swamp them with data I say.

[2fishin2]

Free VPNs very dodgy.

They could be doing all

sorts of crap with your

machine and/or your

bandwidth. Google

"hola botnet"

Please tell us why "paid" VPNs dont....

[ellathai]

So,any advice out there

[MikeWill]

No doubt , many will answer you ,but me I go for the simplest way that doesnt

cost any money and that is :-

1 .Download Google Chrome

2 .go to your extensions in the right hand corner and in the search find Browsec VPN .

you will see a green Browtec sign and click and change to one of the 4 countries listed.

Then check your Google search and Find your IP address just to check and make sure it works.

Its a free VPN and you can change the IP address UK / USA / Singapore / Netherlands

I use 3BB costing 590bht a month and for the past year with it I use the Iplayer BBC / ITV / Channel 4 without problems .

This is basic but works for me ,so because of that why pay an oversees provider .

Thank you for sharing.

[YeahSiam]

Free VPNs very dodgy.

They could be doing all

sorts of crap with your

machine and/or your

bandwidth. Google

"hola botnet"

Please tell us why "paid" VPNs dont....

The answer's in your question.

[2fishin2]

Ive used both and without a doubt free is better. In the end either they work or they dont. If they do and they are free....its mo better.

[YeahSiam]

Ive used both and without a doubt free is better. In the end either they work or they dont. If they do and they are free....its mo better.

OK, clearly you don't

have a clue what you're

talking about so I'll leave

you to your opinions.

[2fishin2]

Ive used both and without a doubt free is better. In the end either they work or they dont. If they do and they are free....its mo better.

OK, clearly you don't

have a clue what you're

talking about so I'll leave

you to your opinions.

Here's a challenge to you. How about trying to convince people of your argument that paid services are best. Give some evidence to support your argument. I gave mine, plenty of free ones do the job just fine. I can pick from many free servers all over the world to load up the VPN. Why do you think paid ones are better. What benefits do they give that makes them so special that you try and lump ALL paid ones as best and ALL free ones as bad.

Your basic argument is flawed.

[muratremix]

Ive used both and without a doubt free is better. In the end either they work or they dont. If they do and they are free....its mo better.

OK, clearly you don't

have a clue what you're

talking about so I'll leave

you to your opinions.

Here's a challenge to you. How about trying to convince people of your argument that paid services are best. Give some evidence to support your argument. I gave mine, plenty of free ones do the job just fine. I can pick from many free servers all over the world to load up the VPN. Why do you think paid ones are better. What benefits do they give that makes them so special that you try and lump ALL paid ones as best and ALL free ones as bad.

Your basic argument is flawed.

"If you're not paying, then you are the product"

Hola botnet explains it pretty well.

[SoiBiker]

Ive used both and without a doubt free is better. In the end either they work or they dont. If they do and they are free....its mo better.

Completely disagree. They can work intermittently with slow speeds and no choice of locations, or they can be reliable, fast and offer servers in all corners of the globe. But the latter will cost money.

[YeahSiam]

Ive used both and without a doubt free is better. In the end either they work or they dont. If they do and they are free....its mo better.

OK, clearly you don't

have a clue what you're

talking about so I'll leave

you to your opinions.

Here's a challenge to you. How about trying to convince people of your argument that paid services are best. Give some evidence to support your argument. I gave mine, plenty of free ones do the job just fine. I can pick from many free servers all over the world to load up the VPN. Why do you think paid ones are better. What benefits do they give that makes them so special that you try and lump ALL paid ones as best and ALL free ones as bad.

Your basic argument is flawed.

Sorry but I don't have

time to enter into a debate

over such a no-brainer

issue. Google paid vs free

vpn then come back when

you've gained some

knowledge.

[2fishin2]

A VPN either works or not. Simple process for us the end user. Does it give us a masking IP so as to not report our actual address? If it does it then good to go. Paid or free doesnt matter however the service you use does. I use free ones that give me many choices of servers all around the world. They work perfectly fine and I pay nothing. You guys want to pay please be my guest however, dont group all free ones together and say they suck because, they dont. Of course some are better than others just like the paid ones. As far as google do a search on best free ones and see what you come up with, many kinds some good some not so good, same applies with paid services also. Pay if you like, I get same and probably better with a free service. And no its not Hola.

[samuijimmy]

Never had a problem with Hola on Chrome or Fire fox.... free is good!

I agree with Chicog 's comment!

[SoiBiker]

A VPN either works or not.

That's nonsense. Some of them offer better speeds than others. Some of them can leak your IP under certain conditions. Some of them offer a more reliable connection. Some of them allow bittorrent downloads - some block them. Some of them use stronger encryption methods than others. Some use a protocol that makes the traffic pretty much indistinguishable from normal use to your ISP. Some of them require more processing power to implement, which others are simple enough that a router can handle them.

They're not all the same. If you think they are, you don't understand what they are or how they work.

[2fishin2]

A VPN either works or not.

That's nonsense. Some of them offer better speeds than others. Some of them can leak your IP under certain conditions. Some of them offer a more reliable connection. Some of them allow bittorrent downloads - some block them. Some of them use stronger encryption methods than others. Some use a protocol that makes the traffic pretty much indistinguishable from normal use to your ISP. Some of them require more processing power to implement, which others are simple enough that a router can handle them.

They're not all the same. If you think they are, you don't understand what they are or how they work.

To a typical person reading this all he cares about is can he watch porn, Sky, or football. Can he download torrent without getting caught? How many people actually compare services and know about the details? Come on get real.

Nonsense is how people like you and other TV members take posts so rigid and have to argue about everything. Thats the true nonsense. OP had a valid question about VPN services and now the nitpickers like yourself have to chime in and turn it into a post about your being right and everybody else is wrong and full of kaka.

OP I can give you a source of a great free service not widely known about. PM me and Ill hook you up.

[YeahSiam]

Never had a problem with Hola on Chrome or Fire fox.... free is good!

I agree with Chicog 's comment!

Hola isn't even a VPN

product; it's a 'SmartDNS'

product. They've got no

servers - they just route

your traffic through other

users' internet connection

They offer zero encryption,

they track your browsing

habits and they sell your

information to thier

marketing partners. Good

luck to you, though

[YeahSiam]

A VPN either works or not.

That's nonsense. Some of them offer better speeds than others. Some of them can leak your IP under certain conditions. Some of them offer a more reliable connection. Some of them allow bittorrent downloads - some block them. Some of them use stronger encryption methods than others. Some use a protocol that makes the traffic pretty much indistinguishable from normal use to your ISP. Some of them require more processing power to implement, which others are simple enough that a router can handle them.

They're not all the same. If you think they are, you don't understand what they are or how they work.

To a typical person reading this all he cares about is can he watch porn, Sky, or football. Can he download torrent without getting caught? How many people actually compare services and know about the details? Come on get real.

Nonsense is how people like you and other TV members take posts so rigid and have to argue about everything. Thats the true nonsense. OP had a valid question about VPN services and now the nitpickers like yourself have to chime in and turn it into a post about your being right and everybody else is wrong and full of kaka.

OP I can give you a source of a great free service not widely known about. PM me and Ill hook you up.

Sorry but aren't you the

one who asked me to

present supporting

evidence to back up my

"argument"? Now you

realise you made a bit of

a fool of yourself by

gobbing off when you

didn;t really have a clue,

you're trying to make this

about the poster rather

than the topic.

[MikeWill]

A VPN either works or not.

That's nonsense. Some of them offer better speeds than others. Some of them can leak your IP under certain conditions. Some of them offer a more reliable connection. Some of them allow bittorrent downloads - some block them. Some of them use stronger encryption methods than others. Some use a protocol that makes the traffic pretty much indistinguishable from normal use to your ISP. Some of them require more processing power to implement, which others are simple enough that a router can handle them.

They're not all the same. If you think they are, you don't understand what they are or how they work.

I completely agree with that: "They're not all the same." And this is true for the paid and the free ones.

[samuijimmy]

Never had a problem with Hola on Chrome or Fire fox.... free is good!

I agree with Chicog 's comment!

Hola isn't even a VPN

product; it's a 'SmartDNS'

product. They've got no

servers - they just route

your traffic through other

users' internet connection

They offer zero encryption,

they track your browsing

habits and they sell your

information to thier

marketing partners. Good

luck to you, though

Well whatever it is, it works to get to programs I sometimes want to watch in other countries....

I tried a paid VPN trail, and it did not work!

[KC 71]

The paid ones dont exactly break the bank !

[steveb6]

Anyone tried Hotspot Shield Free VPN Proxy plugin for fiefox and chrome? It came out last month

[namarupa]

Hey I'm moving to Thailand soon and will have fibre to the house, I will be getting a VPN but there's so many of them saying the same thing and it's getting confusing, if any of you guys having a VPN could give me some advice of what you think of yours would be appreciated. Looking to watch netflix, dootv, aussie rules footy etc.

Cheers

Bruce

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In response:

I find Private Internet Access (PIA) suits my needs on all my devices seamlessly, good speed, no logging, no tracking, and relatively inexpensive.

Edited November 1, 2015 by namarupa

[KittenKong]

I find Private Internet Access (PIA) suits my needs on all my devices seamlessly, good speed, no logging, no tracking, and relatively inexpensive.

I used to use another VPN that cost about 55USD/year but I changed to PIA a few months ago because it was quite a lot cheaper and didnt cap bandwidth or prohibit certain protocols. It also offers a wider selection of nodes.

I find that the service works well enough but I hated their software which runs in the background, creates malware-like temporary processes with varying names and makes multiple connections to strange servers all the time (regardless of whether a VPN is active or not) apparently in order to pre-select the best node.

So I removed their software and just use OpenVPN with their servers, which works perfectly and presents no issues with background tasking at all.

[namarupa]

I find Private Internet Access (PIA) suits my needs on all my devices seamlessly, good speed, no logging, no tracking, and relatively inexpensive.

I used to use another VPN that cost about 55USD/year but I changed to PIA a few months ago because it was quite a lot cheaper and didnt cap bandwidth or prohibit certain protocols. It also offers a wider selection of nodes.

I find that the service works well enough but I hated their software which runs in the background, creates malware-like temporary processes with varying names and makes multiple connections to strange servers all the time (regardless of whether a VPN is active or not) apparently in order to pre-select the best node.

So I removed their software and just use OpenVPN with their servers, which works perfectly and presents no issues with background tasking at all.

That's a good idea to use OpenVPN- PIA does show one how to set that up, which is a nice thing to do- I'll check it out. Generally I'm happy with PIA. The price is right and certainly it works fine.

Yep. Just made the switch to OpenVPN with a PIA profile. Took less than a minute. Works perfectly! Thanks for the tip.

Edited November 1, 2015 by namarupa

[Somtamnication]

Also, Stacksocial has vpns on sale on occasion.

[deeks]

I have been using HMA pro for the last 3 years here,costs around $70 a year and after readind this toppic i think i will give PIA a go. My licence is expiring soon and PIA have a discount on now at $40 for a year. The benefet i find with HMO is the amount of servers, all over the world

[Thailand J]

The best VPN? There are websites describing and comparing VPN’s, very helpful to see which one is the best for you.

I was using Cyberghost free version which I had to wait in a queue to get in, until I signed up for PureVPN for US$49.95 a year, paid one year got another year free, don’t know if the offer is still on. Both worked fine for me.