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Re: VPN Review websights

Try BolehVPN, you won't be disappointed! I have been using the service for several months, very fast download speed, 24/7, 7 days a week. No downtime or slow down since I signed up 4 months ago. A custom OpenVPN client is used that minimize in the notification area. There are several options connecting to the server, fullyrouted, routes all traffic, proxy is used for individual applications, utorrent, jdownloader, WinSCP, chrome with plugin, even with a 3rd party ios app if you choose. You can also select preferred servers. Anonymous payments is available, logs are not kept, privacy is taken very seriously. I have not experience any issues but the owner/founder is active in the community for support. I was very satisfied with the service, I signed up for a year subscription costing only $7.15 monthly. If you signed up 30 days or more subscription, you get a bonus gift .

»www.bolehvpn.net/index.php
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke

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both outdated articles, and don't trust that sight with vpn advice since they are the main sponsors.

that's the unfortunate fact of most VPN reviews, even those on DSLR:

»Exploring The Best VPN Providers

This article is part of an effort to solicit paid content from the Broadband Reports community.

UPDATE: I recently upgraded my Linkideo service from PPTP to OpenVPN, and even though I didn't need the extra bandwidth it offers, the stability of an OpenVPN client is infinitely better than PPTP. I'm able to go to bed with a few gig of torrents in my que, and wake up the next morning still connected and all my downloading done - this is what I wanted all along, and now I finally have it just in time for the "Six Strikes" July ISP torrent crackdown. So if you try Linkideo or any PPTP based VPN and were dissatisfied, don't give up on them till you upgrade to their OpenVPN class service. You'll get rock solid performance, without the worry of some proprietary client doing God knows what else with your PC.

One trick I learned from trial and error with VPNs is never max out your connection, so if you have a 1200mbps IPS service, leave about 20% of overhead and set your max download speed on your torrent client throttled at 900mbps - this will increase the stability and consistency of your downloads, while also allowing you to do other things with your PC while you are torrenting such as web browsing and even low res streaming or limited online game play.

If you're referring to BolehVPN custom Openvpn client, you can use the standard OpenVPN client to connect to the network.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke

no Jay, I can't comment on Boleh - I'll leave that up to you.

if you read earlier in this thread i discussed another service
that required 1GB of program libraries to run at all, when
all you should need is a 2MB OpenVPN or near equivalent.
maybe when my service expires I'll give Boleh a try out.
Let us know when they have any under a Month promos.

I was fortunate to find a VPN service that met my needs on the first try. I also considered several of the vpn service that you mentioned earlier during my search. After reading some comments regarding slow downloads during peak time turned me off on most of them. Bolehvpn is definitely worth a try, I suggest trying a full 30 days trial. The bonus gift makes the service that much better, well worth the extra cost.
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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke

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I just switched from Linkideo to Mullvad, and will post a full review once I compile more data, below is just a taste... needless to say Mullvad is my new favorite anonymously paid, *Swedish based, no.logs no.caps no.DNS.leak low.latency OpenVPN 5eu/mo torrent friendly VPN service provider;

MULLVAD

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Re: VPN Review websights

Packeteers,

Thanks for the extremely high value thread. Now that you're using Linkideo, do you still use the VPNetMon to safeguard against PPTP tunnel drops (discussed in the hidemyass link)? I am wary of HMA since that lulsec fiasco but I guess I shouldn't automatically be suspicious of advice posted on their forums..

i'm using mullvad thru november, and in december i will try ibvpn (openvpn) for a month on the advice of a respected colleague, so it would be great if you could try ibvpn and post on this thread the same ubunto test i did while throttled at 1mbs and see how consistent your download is. performance wise mullvad is terrific, on rare occasions i can't get in or disconnect cleanly, but after trying so many VPN's it seems they all have similar problems so i don't complain as long as occurrences remain infrequent. linkideo reliability was dropping at the time that i left which is another reason why i'm glad i found mullvad when i did.

i find the openvpn 2.2.2 is so much more reliable and consistently faster than pptp that i no longer need to use vpnetmon to protect against a vpn failure exposing my public IP. if ibvpn turns out to be any good, their 12 month openvpn plan will be as cheap as linkideo's monthly pptp plan, so clearly i have no plans to experiment with pptp any longer. i do still keep vpnetmon loaded during large overnight torrents of HBO content as they are especially vigilant about their copyrights. however during such application i change the vpnetmon Softshutd Time frequency to 1,000ms as faster is unnecessary since it takes much longer for a failed vpn on openvpn to release your public ip than it does on a pptp connection.

BTW there is a lot of confusion about Sweden being a good VPN outlet country considering recent laws that were passed regarding EU Data retention laws requiring the last 30 days of logs to be kept. let me be clear - such laws only pertain to local phone and isp companies, and NOT to value added service providers hosted by local ISPs such as VPN's and Seedbox, so your activity logs are perfectly safe with a Swedish provider. as a matter of fact some Swedish IPS's are marketing the circumvention of this European law that Sweden's Piratpartiet hates by providing hardware VPN's inside their ISP modems to co-locate them to another part of Sweden and help anonymize their local customers for free.

It would not surprise me to see similar services marketed here in the USA once the "6 Strikes" MPAA/RIAA rules are fully enforced and understood by the average ISP consumer early 2013, as in Europe there are no laws against protecting one's self from being monitored by your own ISP provider, and using said protection is NOT considered by the courts to be any legal admission of "torrent guilt".

Here's another Mullvad test - it's a bit choppy because it's primetime in Europe at the moment. Mullvad seems to randomly outlet me in Netherlands or Sweden so the next time I notice I'm being outlet in Sweden I'll try to post another test - but it will be pretty much the same results. I have never once been outlet-ed in Germany, as many other Scandinavian VPNs seem to do.

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I thought I would let everyone know that Ibvpn, »www.ibvpn.com/blog/2012/10/dare-···iscount/ , is offering a Halloween discount of 25% if you signup by Nov. 1.

thanks AW - ibvpn seems to run such promotions quarterly in case you end up missing this one.

from this past summer: »www.ibvpn.com/blog/2012/06/get-o···nd-only/

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OK, time for my ibVPN quick review;

after nearly a Month of daily use, it's definitely the best i have ever tried, and i got it on sale under $4/mo.

PRO; 3 P2P outlets, so you always find one working at top performance condition, no DNS leaks.

PRO; above average email support - several questions were answered professionally within 18 hours.

PRO; Romania based - so outside the scrutiny of growing EU block anti-privacy legislation.

CON; you can use bogus register info, but it must be from your real public IP not through another proxy/vpn.

CON; manual openvpn /config files are buried on their forum not faq, so most use their proprietary openvpn installer.

You could try PrivatVPN,nVpn and IPVanish. Such good VPN providers. I use all three depending on what Country i want to pretend to be in, What Encryption, and what protocols i want. I prefer L2TP and SSTP over OpenVPN but that's just me.

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Re: VPN Review websights

Never tried ibvpn. And not trusting them either.

nVpn has DDoS protection.