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A VPN service is something that encrypts all your traffic and routes it through an anonymous company, then out to the internet.
If someone were to spy on your internet traffic at the ISP level, all they would see is loads of data that they can't understand, going to and from this anonymous company.
You can have entire network VPNs which will route traffic for all your devices automatically without even doing anything different on the device itself. You can have device-specific VPN connections that might be an icon you click on your smart phone, or something in the system tray on your laptop; that will only protect the traffic to/from your one device.
The whole-network VPN connections are typically more expensive, and often require additional hardware on your network. The single device VPN connections are much more economical, but you have to micro-manage it and babysit it.
If you really want to hide, and do questionable shit, go through a VPN, then use "Tor Browser" which is like what they use in hacker movies where the FBI can't trace their call because it's going through France and Russia and shit. Then you find secret darknet markets and buy illegal things with "tumbled" Bitcoin. "A+++ #1 cocaine in the EU!!" They seriously have eBay of darknet, with seller ratings and everything. It's insane.
Once you do get a VPN service, there are usually several different ways to connect to it. Read through this technobabble to see which is the most secure (don't use PPTP).
This reminds me of the time Apple removed their time remaining estimates on the Mac. Next thing they'll be asking for is to hide your battery status cos that totally isn't important.
How about an AI that compares signal strength over time to other carriers and other Android devices and produces a graph that shows which is the worst (spoiler: cumcast).
But no, that'd be too consumer friendly, like how Cumcast helped delete the worldwide net index that showed which ISPs are the best/worst.
Can't be revealing too much now. Consumers might complain, can't be having that.
You’ll be pleasantly surprised by AT&T fiber. We have had it for about 1.5 years after moving to the area. We had Comcast prior to that. Night and day difference.
Edit: Seeing as this has drawn a lot of comments, here's a speedtest being on day 9 of my billing cycle w/ 600GB+ usage - https://www.speedtest.net/result/7808727971.png. Some people don't trust speedtest.net so I checked fast.com (netflix CDN) and got 580Mbps down, 540Mbps up.
Ready for this sub to rage? I've been working out of the Rogers building downtown Toronto (not for Rogers, mind you):
I recommend iVPN
A bit more pricey but the Service is absolutely amazing, including the customer support. They also don't throttle your bandwith, you get all of your internet speed (and I can confirm that).
There's a guy who tested nearly all VPN services and ivpn had the best test results: VPN comparison
You can have better connection and those forgotten people in caves with 1000ms will still kill you 10-15 sec after you killed them on your screen.https://www.speedtest.net/result/8911857612.png My connection for reference. P2P is horrible and bungie should feel bad for relying on it
To be honest if the low bandwidth streams keep up they are going to have to do this in the UK as well, I'm giving some real thought on cancelling based on the last couple of months.
I'm at 200mb+ down any speed service I test and they keep pushing me onto grainy what look like 480p at best streams and no I pay for the middle package not the basic one.
I don't expect 4k I just expect at least 720p and I'm just not seeing it.
What a terrible article. I don't know whether to think that the author has some kind of agenda here or is just plain ignorant.
> What you can do is, you can configure your Firefox not to use this feature. However, it is configured to use the Cloudflare resolver as default.
Purposely misleading.
TRR is configured to use Cloudflare by default yes, but is also OFF by default. Following the instructions given to turn it off just changes the trr pref from 0 (Off by default) to 5 (Off by choice). Well done.
> My local ISP seems more trustworthy to me than a big US-based corporate which acts under the guise of a selfless privacy rights defender.
Must be nice in Switzerland with such trustworthy ISPs. I mean, they'd need to be given that Switzerland has some of the most draconian data retention laws in all of Europe.
As opposed to Cloudflare who at least claim that they will never log your IP address and have had their systems audited to ensure that.
>Let's stop here for the moment and repeat: With Mozilla's change, any (US) government agency can basically trace you down.
>If there is anything wrong with your government (for instance corruption, collusion or fraud) and you have information to publish about it, the government will be able to trace you down. This puts any whistleblower at risk.
This is where I can't decide between agenda and idiot because this claim is so laughable. Even if you don't trust Cloudflare your government has far easier access to your local ISP's logs than they do to Cloudflare's, and you know for certain that those ISP logs are there. Any whistleblower not using TOR is at risk anyway, but using TRR to Cloudflare certainly doesn't make it any worse.
The US also ranks 8th in fixed broadband connection speeds compared toFinland at 40th.
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And considering how much bigger the US is and more spread out it is, I would say the US clearly has better internet.
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Throw in the fact that according to this article, that is from 2010, all people only have the right to 1Mbps connections. It does say that they'll have everyone on 100Mbps by 2015.... but it's closing in on 2020 and they're only at 58Mbps. Government is great guys!
Ha ha! I wish I had Charter. If you had AT&T U-verse you wouldn't have anything bad to say about Charter. Or Comcast. Hell, my 4G internet from my phone is faster than my AT&T "24 Mbps" on most days.
Only if you blindly believe Iranian state propaganda. Trump could declare free 100TB internet for everyone, infrastructure doesn't get created as easily as that.
In reality the US has, on average, the 8th best internet speeds worldwide. Iran has some of the worst in the world with 122 countries ahead of them. Source
https://www.romania-insider.com/bucharest-gaming-capital-speedtest
https://www.speedtest.net/insights/blog/gaming-cities-lowest-latency-2019/
> First place Bucharest, Romania is home to super-low ping, a lightning fast download speed and a thriving gaming culture. From Bucharest Gaming Week (which includes the CS:GO Southeast Europe Championship and the FIFA National Tournament) to their numerous local game studios, Bucharest is a great place to be a gamer whether you’re online or out and about.
Not really. It is not like they have Surfshark, which is 83% off via their Black Friday deal.
Just got banned myself. Use a vpn. They only ban your vpn and not your actual account. I recommend windscribe. https://windscribe.com/
I went on the discord looks like others are also flooding the discord. Was telling people to just use a vpn because it bypasses the ban. Kissanime support asked for my ip. I reply "I'm not dumb" then instantly banned.
I was on a gigabit connection so not long at all. A good rule of thumb is to go to www.speedtest.net, do the test, see how fast your internet is. That second number, the upload speed, divided by 8 is about what your upload should be in MB per second. So if you are getting a 10mbps upload speed you'll probably get like 1.25 MB/s so say 100 gigs is what your syncing. Math, math, math, and we've got about 22 hours on a relatively slow connection, 2 1/2 on a 100Mbps, and like 15-20 minutes on gig......... sorry used to work for an ISP.... =P
Yea, I got one of these and ended up fixing it for good.
My son gave his friend our WAP password for his phone and then the little punk friend decided to go on a downloading spree. How does one give out give out the WAP password and still remain safe?
Let me tell you.
I set up a PFsense router. with an openVPN connection to the Netherlands.
All my machines have a static IP address. Anything requesting a DHCP address gets sent through the VPN and comes out the Netherlands. I'll never see another Rightscorp notice again.
edit: If you set one of these up, make sure to have the DHCP clients use openDNS or Google and NOT your DNS server on the router or provider. Also create a rule blocking all traffic from the DHCP clients to the WAN, to ensure the WAN traffic gets blocked in case the VPN goes down.
> We have received multiple subpoenas and court orders requesting subscriber information. Our response was identical to what we send in case of a DMCA related request. We were never ordered to log users (although there were requests), but since we’re in Canada which has no mandatory data retention directives that apply to VPNs, we wouldn’t need to comply.
https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-services-keep-you-anonymous-in-2019/
Link to rankings + some fun rivalry matchups
I'm disappointed that UCLA/Stanford aren't the 2 fastest ones since we're the birthplace of the internet
Yes - you're looking for PFSense. There are other options too, but I'm a big fan of that one. I use something similar as my current router, a Core i3 PC with a pair of dual-port server NICs, running PFSense. It has no problem handling NAT, firewalling, Squid proxy, blocking lists of known bad actors, etc.
You see, other VPNs will market themselves as SUPER CHEAP PER MONTH.....as long as you buy it for 3 years in advance making the "super cheap" part a bit deceptive.
We decided to one-up everybody and make the absolute cheapest plan that ANY VPN offers at just 1 cent per month. Just pay $1000 in advance and you'll get it for almost 8000 years! GREAT DEAL!
It's obviously a joke but it IS purchasable and some people have bought it. But if you wanna return to the normal plan then you can just click this link and it will remove the "promo": https://windscribe.com/upgrade?promo=nodeal
I don't get it... I mean it's not like anyone would use more dial up modems to increase the blocksize.
Why should anyone restrict their network based on a technology that's almost 2 decades out-of-date at this point?
Heck, [The global average internet speed was 5.6Mb/s] less than 4 years ago. Now it's 10x that
I'd be against a gigantic increase, but I think there's pretty clearly room to compromise on the blocksize without "adding more modems."
Some people don't want to pay for a VPN for one torrent or a one off thing. Windscribe has a great privacy policy as well. Logs are deleted within three minutes of disconnecting and you don't need an email to use the free plan. Just a username and password. IPs aren't stored at all. "We do not store connection logs, IP timestamps, or sites you visit (we are firm believer that one's browsing history should be taken to one's grave)."
Source: https://windscribe.com/privacy
There's a couple of things you could do. If you had two separate internet connections, you could use load balancing to get a faster connection by combining the two. Connectify Dispatch works great for that.
If you want a faster connection to your local network, you could use LACP teaming to bond the two connections together to make a 2Gbps virtual interface. You will need a switch that supports LACP though, and it's tough to take full advantage of this unless you have multiple client machines download files from your computer. Another benefit of this is if one port happens to fail, it will continue to run off the other port. Really only helpful for servers though that need 100% uptime.
Of you could turn the computer into a simple Pfsense router.
Or you could just bridge the connections in Windows making them act similar to a switch. Gives you the possibility to plug other ethernet devices into it, for example if you want to use your laptop simultaneously at your desk, you could plug it into the other ethernet port if your don't have a switch nearby.
> the device they use needs further explanation
Probably an MitM proxy like this one. It's very simple to do: you just need to install a custom SSL cert on the phone, which allows any gateway with the corresponding SSL key to decrypt all the traffic. The same tech is used by many corporate firewalls to also inspect HTTPS traffic, and decent prosumer firewalls like pfSense can do it, too.
There are other people in the thread going on about SSL certificate pinning (which can prevent the above MitM interception), but Google don't appear to be using hard pinning: I've seen plenty of people use Google services from Android and Chrome on corporate networks that have such SSL-intercepting firewalls without issue. I just MitM'ed a couple of Google apps on my iPhone without any problems.
> It is a scare piece.
It's certainly at least a bit stupid. The phone is recording your location via GPS, which is obviously unaffected by turning of WiFi and pulling the SIM.
Download it, try it, enjoy it.
If you have BSD / Unix experience, awesome, it'll give you even more control over it. If you don't, no worries, the router has a web interface, and it's REALLY straightforward and has a lot more features and power than a bog-standard router (hell, you can run an OpenVPN server on it, plus IPSEC, plus monitoring and traffic logging, plus QoS - this is the kind of thing you'd pay Cisco / Juniper a couple of grand for).
Romania, Thailand, France have better Internet speed than the USA according to the Speedtest Global Index. Laughing in Danish that is also higher than the USA.
First pick an opensource firewall
Here i will help... Buy one of these
https://www.pfsense.org/products/
Then lock out Microsoft
Start by adding these address to your Firewall.
- dns.msftncsi.com
- ipv6.msftncsi.com
- win10.ipv6.microsoft.com
- ipv6.msftncsi.com.edgesuite.net
- a978.i6g1.akamai.net
- win10.ipv6.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
- en-us.appex-rf.msn.com
- v10.vortex-win.data.microsoft.com
- client.wns.windows.com
- wildcard.appex-rf.msn.com.edgesuite.net
- v10.vortex-win.data.metron.life.com.nsatc.net
- wns.notify.windows.com.akadns.net
- americas2.notify.windows.com.akadns.net
- travel.tile.appex.bing.com
- www.bing.com
- any.edge.bing.com
- fe3.delivery.mp.microsoft.com
- fe3.delivery.dsp.mp.microsoft.com.nsatc.net
- ssw.live.com
- ssw.live.com.nsatc.net
- login.live.com
- login.live.com.nsatc.net
- directory.services.live.com
- directory.services.live.com.akadns.net
- bl3302.storage.live.com
- skyapi.live.net
- bl3302geo.storage.dkyprod.akadns.net
- skyapi.skyprod.akadns.net
- skydrive.wns.windows.com
- register.mesh.com
- BN1WNS2011508.wns.windows.com
- settings-win.data.microsoft.com
- settings.data.glbdns2.microsoft.com
- OneSettings-bn2.metron.live.com.nsatc.net
- watson.telemetry.microsoft.com
- watson.telemetry.microsoft.com.nsatc.net"
Or just use linux... But you know Fuck Microsoft and their bullshit.. Just starve them of the data and use the shit out of their products for free.. Make them regret giving it away for free. It is the best solution..
Edit most of you know that host file edits dont make a difference as they are hard coded into DNS.aspi and cannot be bypassed through the host file.. External firewall and route them to 0.0.0.0
vpn always keep logs and can't be trusted. A VPN will do more harm than good to your privacy. Before we dig deeper into this, we need to establish a baseline: When anonymity is involved, no VPN can be trusted.
First, it’s a black box and your security is based on trust. We all know how that works out. Two great articles to give you full context: When law enforcement knocks on a VPN’s door which cite a LulzSec member case, and VPNs are lying about logs.
Second, there are also cases where the service is trustworthy but simply not on par with the technical requirement thus, leaking your information.
Windscribe is a good Canadian owned one. It has a free service that has a generous amount of data for the free one. You can tweet and get about 15GB per month or you can watch /r/efreebies for when they offer codes you can redeem to up it to 45 or even 50GB per month.
Of you can buy a "lifetime" (10 year) subscription like I did for unlimited badnwidth. The only things they log are that you connected to the VPN at all and how much bandwidth you used (to keep track of the free service) but they don't track what you're doing with that bandwidth.
It seems like Paul Sawers from Venture Beat isn't good at doing research, because the very page he links to says that it costs money for the desktop site:
>*Desktop versions require a Premium subscription from Google Play Store or Apple App Store
Someone posted a link a while back on r/efreebies for a VPN service that was $90/year, or $45/year if you used a virtual coupon for new members. I'll see if I can't find it for those interested as it has both a desktop VPN application as well as a browser extension to add redundancy.
Edit: Here's the link to the post, and here's the link to the website.
>You was from Denmark right
yep... it was kinda hard getting the pfsense box... first i had to go to https://store.pfsense.org/ and then i had to click BUY! can you imagine that?
you could also go to https://www.pfsense.org/partners/locator.html and find a local reseller. :)
As an alternative, you can do this on an amd64 or x86 platform with PfSense which is a very popular FreeBSD based firewall appliance.
https://www.pfsense.org/download/
PfSense has available a number of packages built from open source projects to install additional functionality, for instance antivirus and caching proxy.
Since it's based on a PC platform, you can build a router with as much or as little processor, RAM and disk as you wish. This allows you to run what is considered by many a commercial grade firewall on a device which consumes no more power than the TP-LINK router.
Another advantage of being PC based is that you can run it as a virtual machine.
Engineers in a lab, I'm sure. Regular consumers might have the bandwidth for it, but there are many factors influencing actual data rates, including backhaul, usage, device capabilities, etc. This is probably about as fast as it gets right now: (B66+B46+B46+B46+B4) https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/4988720048
I'm running pfSense. It's very flexible, and a good learning experience for me. I've got it configured to block ads at the router level via the firewall and DNS based blocking, so the vast majority of ads (including phone ads!) are gone without having to install anything on connected devices.
thanks!
the desktop parts is a firewall/router running pfsense for load balancing between multiple (slower) internet connections
the laptop parts is for gaming almost classic titles like the very first Command & Conquer, Red Alert, Quake 3, Abe's Odyseee/Exodus... for these older games that you'd spend hours and hours, it made sense to have a lower power rig to save on electricity.
> when you talk about pfSense you're really talking about the UI atop freeBSD.
Many people have this opinion, all of them are wrong. There are actually a lot of patches to FreeBSD base and some of the packages, in addition to the GUI. The "GUI" is also the configuration layer (the same PHP runs both).
In answer to OP: yes, there has been a fair amount of attention on the PHP GUI in the last year. You can see where people have reported bugs, we've fixed them, and made new releases.
If you're saying wanna-be admin as in you want to learn how to do these things, the best way to do this is to set yourself up a pfSense router and learn how to use it. It's open source and you can install it on pretty much any machine with two NICs and do what you're after. I had it running on a old celeron PC for years that served my entire home network, sometimes with three youtube videos and netflix going all at the same time without noticable issues.
You set up OpenVPN on the pfSense router, connect to that from anywhere, then interact with the rest of your network like you're plugged into it locally. This way, the only thing that's exposed is the OpenVPN port, which is going to require keys to get into.
If you're ~~extra paranoid~~ security minded, you can go on to harden your servers inside your network to add additional hurdles to attackers. If your router is compromised, sure an attacker is in your network, but now they've gotta take the extra step of breaking into your server.
Security by obscurity is dead. Picking a non-default port number isn't going to help you. Botnets scan everything all the time now, attacks are automated. It used to be you had to have something of value to really worry about attacks, but nowadays they're just looking for another zombie to add to the horde.
-rwsr-xr-x is likely using pfsense. You can install it on an old computer and use that as a router instead of buying a whole new device. There are several ways to do this inside of pfsense like using DNS, Squid / Squidguard like above, and Dansguardian. Check out /r/PFSENSE and https://www.pfsense.org/ if you're interested.
I'm going to have to disagree with this, especially in regards to small businesses.
A firewall is typically used as a perimeter security device, and should remain separate from any other systems hosting content, especially when said content is available to the internet.
It doesn't take much hardware to build a pfSense based security appliance (software is free), and run your hosting services on another system.
Binned a Sonicwall for a pfSense box at my previous employment. I'm currently using pfSense running on a re-purposed Citrix CAG just for captive portal public wifi. We have ASAs so I'll take what's been said here on board and see how far off the EOL is.
Providing us with a confirmed email during registration is the reason why you get 10GB instead of 2GB. We want your email so we can send you promotional material related to Windscribe, and get you to upgrade to a Pro account, since you know, that's how we make money so we can keep providing the service.
When you unsubscribe, we remove your email from the database entirely (something almost nobody does), as we try to keep as little personal info as possible. Since we can't send you promotional emails anymore, you get downgraded to a basic 2GB account. You also lose the ability to reset your password via "forgot password" form, since the email is removed.
This is discussed in the Terms of Service, that you agree to when you make an account: https://windscribe.com/terms
Well the PFsense sizing guide on their website recommends multiple cores at more than 2GHz each when working with over 500Mb/s speeds.
I think you've done well to get the performance that you have out of that poor little atom ;-)
I personally think you will be fine with a quad core xeon at 1.6GHz or so (or two dual cores) as for 100-500Mb/s they recommend one core at 2GHz.
Just make sure you get good Intel network adapters - I've had decent experiences with getting Realtek ones up to 1Gb/s but it seems I'm in a minority.
My ASUS router has this feature. Although I had to enable port forwarding for a couple of ports to get it to work. Another service I like that answers /u/taylormadein313's question is a program called Windscribe. On/off button. One second you're in Texas, the next you're in France.
Holy hell I'm insanely jealous.
Comcast is the only ISP in my area. At $80 / month, I get 3.46 Mbps up. Using Plex from outside the house is a nightmarish joke.
> Germans are comparatively slow on the Internet. According to the latest Speedtest Global Index, the Federal Republic of Germany is currently ranked 31st with 69.4 Mbit/s in the ranking of the countries with the fastest Internet access. This puts Germany in 25th place compared to 2017 and 2015 with 22nd place reached, worsened again.
> The Americans also enjoy fast internet. The USA ranks 8th with 117.3 Mbit/s.
Damn, and before I moved to Germany I thought US internet was already pretty mediocre.
They’ve said that lifetime subscriptions are permanently gone.
Once a service has gained enough early users there’s not much upside to offering a lifetime subscription; it’s a permanent ongoing cost that can be detrimental overall despite the one time revenues.
The 1337 deal is still on though!
Sites like www.speedtest.net optimize the test to get you the highest result possible; essentially they're trying to find out what your maximum speed is.
It's not a real world scenario.
Google's test will more accurately measure what your speed to their servers will be.
New VPN in town SurfShark did not yet let me down. Got it after my Express subscription deserted me this month. Since they are new, the servers are not overloaded and the speed is really great. However, they do not have desktop applications, only extensions for browsers. Since it suits my needs, Rick would approve. Lets hope the Shark will not tell a lie and hurt me.
OPSEC is not just your hardware and software setup, it also the way you behave. If you have the most "strong" setup of vpns and proxies, what does it help if you log into your email or facebook or instagram or netflix or whatever.
Before you plan your OPSEC (Google is the way) you should identify your threat model. If I remember right, there were great guides on ivpn which go into great detail and sure will give you some things to think about. Check them out here:
Szerintem, ha biztosra akarsz menni, akkor hostolj saját VPN szervert. Ahhoz képest nem nehéz.
- Veszel egy VPS-t a https://rackforest.com/-n (legolcsóbb is elég)
- https://www.getoutline.org/hu/home-ról letöltöd a telepítőt. Kettő van, egyik a manager, a másik a kliens szoftver
- A managerből kimásolod a hosszú parancsot és beilleszted SSH-val a konzolba
- Lefut a telepítés és csatlakozol rá az outline kliens szoftverével. Van windows-ra és mobilokra is.
Pro: - Szimmetrikus gigabites a RackForest VPS-e - Az országos internet exchange-be van kötve, 8.8.8.8-ra a latency 0.4 ms - Több eszközt is tudsz egyszerre használni vele - Vannak rá tutoriálok is - Tovább tudod értékesíteni👌👌
Con: - 1500Ft havonta - előzetes ismeretek kellenek a telepítéshez
Because it's a fully fledged, opensource, software firewall that can run on any number of hardware configurations with a shitload of services, addon support and super good firewalling.
I use a pfSense firewall at home. There is a plugin called pfBlockerNG that allows for Geo-IP blocking very easily. Click to install the plugin, select the countries you want to block (or select all and unselect the ones you want to allow), and activate it.
Pf Sence can do all you ask for,performance is not an issue as long as the pc running the router has enough ram(1 gig) and a decent cpu. All the documentation and some examples can be found here: https://www.pfsense.org/ The os is very powerful and can require a bit of getting use to because it is based on bsd but with a bit of practice it is easy.
A good VPN that doesn't store logs should suffice. Check out /r/VPN. ~~The best thing you can do is buy a router that supports custom Linux firmware such as dd wrt and apply the VPN directly on it so no data is leaked.~~ VPN Software should suffice it seems. You could repurpose an old pc and make it into a linux router with pfsense (this stuff is amazing) : https://www.pfsense.org/
There are also ways to have a failsafe so if the VPN fails, no data is leaked. Furthermore, if you pirate, a seedbox or using Usenet and downloading via SFTP would be very secure : /r/torrents, /r/seedbox, /r/Usenet, /r/privacy.
edit: changed router info. Also, you should look for a VPN with one or more servers/gateways that are located near AU to ease bandwidth loss.
I would go with Openvpn on a server or router if its supported. If you want to run it on a server you could look into https://www.softether.org/ , It's a nice looking solution that I use for my homelab.
I've found them to be pretty transparent, according to their Privacy Policy.
They're also pretty responsive and seem to have no issues keeping users in the loop.
I consider them to be trustworthy. Do some research, it's up to you to decide.
Edit: I believe them when they say they don't keep logs. Read that privacy policy I linked. It explains exactly what information they collect and why they collect it.
Windscribe is good and free. The free plan has a small amount of bandwidth, however if you register with an email address you can get up to 10GB monthy bandwidth for free (I used a throwaway email account to register for extra anonymity). There was also a code they circulated a while ago that bumped you up to 50GB monthly bandwidth for free. Code is: 50GBFREE
Not sure if the code is still valid but it is worth a shot.
You can also check out other options at https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/
There are good VPN's that are free so please ignore people saying that there aren't. You get more out of their services when you pay but that does not mean free VPN's are bad
The US is 33rd for average *mobile internet speed globally, which is decently high given the low population density.
*We’re 9th for average broadband speed.
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
For my own internet I'm getting 78/6 with 11 ms ping. I think I pay for 75/5.
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
this is the site yo'ure telling me to use. Usa is 7'th on the global speed index there with 120.30 Mbps
Wich means the country everyone complains about having slow internet is one of the fastest according to that data.
+1 on the UBNT ERL. We deploy them for our non-MSP clients, it costs them $99 and it's a great unit. Make sure to upgrade the firmware to 1.7 for some traffic tracking.
I've not used the VPN options on the ERL since I like SoftEther VPN so much. If you need VPN either site-to-site or mobile VPN, I highly suggest SoftEther VPN server running on a little 512M memory VM.
"Your Lifetime account will automatically renew at the end of the 10 year term at no cost if it's still active."
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This is from the Support Article in the knowledge base. Initially you had to send support a message before 10 years would pass but it seems they changed it according to this. I still have better part of a decade lol
https://windscribe.com/support/article/17/lifetime-account-expiry
While there's a time and a place for solutions such as pfSense, the situation OP describes is probably best served by a commercial, hardware-driven solution. Nexgate's support offerings are also questionable for such an environment: 8-hour SLA, 1-hour max ticket time, "high level" troubleshooting for non-Nexgate devices, etc. https://www.pfsense.org/get-support/software-support.html
You might also want to try SoftEther VPN. It's an open-source P2TP VPN server written by the University of Tsukuba in Japan. It is free, easy to use and most importantly it supports clustering and thereby scaling horizontally.
Hi, our privacy policy outlines our logging procedures in plain english: https://windscribe.com/privacy
In short, we only keep a tally of bandwidth used in a calendar month to enforce free tier limitations. We do not store IP timestamps, activity logs, or historical usage. We cannot terminate accounts for p2p/dmca related offenses as we have no way to trace individual user activity to an IP address, which is shared by hundreds of people at any given time.
Im unsure what you mean by encrypt usernames and passwords. Passwords are stored in a hashed format using bcrypt with a unique salt for each account.
All support is done in-house on self hosted open source helpdesk software. We do not use any 3rd party services (except for billing purposes).
We only provide tech support. If you lost your account you must use the provided tools to regain access, if you provided an email which is optional. If you haven't, then you're out of luck.
Hope that answers your questions.
Looks like you're all the way down in 91st place despite being over 16x smaller than the US. Imagine bragging about getting better internet speeds than Bubba in Montana.
Broadband improvement hai. Broadband speed nahi. Speed to abhi bhi China and US ki nearly 7 - 30 times zyada hai. here. ki kahin zyada hai. And I dont think that India has an improvement of 18.8 Mbps. I think its average speed is only 18.8 Mbps and that too, not everywhere. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/india
According to non ookla resorces the average speed of broadband in India is 6.5 Mbps which seems to ring truer.
Man, after ~~weeks~~ months of no dramas with my customer, they've had everything fall over yesterday due to a VPN issue on their side, then first thing this morning, it looks like they've lost access to everything that we supply them with that requires a licence.
Just as I was gonna chuck a sicky.
On the plus side, the NBN guy actually came at exactly 8am this morning and was gone in about 15-20 mins, leaving me with a fully functioning service. Looks like even the switch from Telstra to ABB has gone smoothly!
Theoretically work from home demand shouldn’t come close to 1080p and 4k streaming demand at 9 shouldn’t it?
I’ve been doing intermittent speed tests all day all week and I’ve seen nothing different to usual speeds.
I’d like to add though the 4G network might come under more strain. Some companies are giving employees 4G dongles (paid for by company) to work from home. But Australia’s 4G network is great to start with anyway.
NBN: https://www.speedtest.net/result/9154523055.png Everything normal
4G: https://www.speedtest.net/result/9154528504.png Download normal but upload bad. Though I could check back in ten minutes and get wildly different speeds.
FYI, account sales are forbidden by the Terms of Service:
> Prohibited Uses > > ... > > Rent, lease, loan, sell, resell, sublicense, distribute or otherwise transfer the Service without our prior written authorization.
Your account may be subject to sudden termination if the staff catches wind of it (and yes, they do monitor this subreddit).
I see this as a guide since it details the steps you can take. Taken from an Employee Surveillance Report - pardon the long image, it’s better seen on the article, or you can zoom in
Set up an OpenVPN server. You could install it on your existing Ubuntu VM (guide) or you could spin up a new VM and use something like pfSense.
You'd only have to forward a single port on your router (default is UDP 1194) and you need a certificate as well as a username/password to connect so it's secure. You can pick the level of encryption to use and it's very strong.
You'd then connect in from whatever device (there are OpenVPN clients for almost all platforms) and access everything via its normal LAN IP address. It's basically like you're directly connected to your home network.
No. The minimum hardware requirements are just 1 GB of disk (not 1 TB, just 1 GB). Almost any type of disk is fine if you're just using it as a firewall/router replacement, since there's very little disk I/O after startup. Even a thumb drive can work, but they're usually not terrible reliable for long term.
If you look at the prebuilt hardware that pfSense sells, it's all with eMMC flash drives or SSD drives, but that's for reliability, not speed.
However there are optional packages that will create a lot of disk I/O and use a lot of disk space - squid, for example. If you're planning on installing them, then you need more space, and need to pay attention to disk performance.
You can install pfSense on a small, slow disk, and then also add a large, fast disk for squid (or other packages) if you like.
You might also sling the gold membership for those that want to support the project, but don't necessarily need to buy hardware (or have hardware lying around and feel the appliances are "too expensive") or are non-commercial entities.
$100 a year, for me, is much better spent than drinking and tinkling out Charbucks. Y'all probably have a much better profit margin on that than the hardware, too, right?
If you have a spare PC and the technical skills to install an additional NIC, you can set up a very bad-ass router (we are talking >1 million entry state tables here) that puts pretty much anything under $1000 to shame using pfSense. Throw in a nice 5-10 port switch and a Ubiquiti AP and you are good to go for right under $100.
Check out /r/PFSENSE
I'm not sure if it does ALL of the things you need, but I'm using pfSense pfSense (As a firewall)
BandwidthD will show you who is using how much, OR what domains are getting used how much.
RRD graphs show usage over various periods 8 hours, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 1 year.
It can also do throttling of various types and blocking of domains.
Edit: I think it can do most of that. It wouldn't exactly generate reports, but you can go look at the data and prind the graphs and tables.
Windscribe pro. It unblocks US & UK Netflix. They offer a free trial as well.
https://windscribe.com/support
Click on the chatbot and ask Garry for a free trial.
Why I use Windscribe: I got a very good price via stacksocial
That's actually what the firewall should reliably prevent from happening, or it wouldn't be a firewall at all. As Windscribe makes a clear distinction between their own firewall mode and the killswitch of other VPNs, it has to work properly.
Having said that, just activating the firewall in the main interface of the application isn't enough to provide total protection for what you were doing. In order to reliably halt all internet traffic you have to go into the preferences and choose "always on" from the firewall mode drop-down field.
Why? The firewall in the "automatic" only protects you if you are connected to the Windscribe VPN and at some point lose the connection. But as soon as you disconnect (which is what happens when you switch locations), I strongly assume the firewall will be disabled with it until it gets re-enabled upon having achieved the connection to a new location. This is what the FAQ says on the topic:
> What are the firewall modes? > > Choose the mode that suits you best. > > - Automatic (Default) - Firewall will be enabled when you connect, and disabled when you disconnect from a location. It will remain on if your connection suddenly drops. You should leave it in this mode unless you know what you're doing. > - Manual - You can toggle the firewall on or off whenever you want. > - Always On - Firewall is always on, and cannot be disabled unless you change this setting. You will not have any Internet access when you're disconnected from Windscribe.
I can't believe they expect me to wait 17 whole minutes to patch the game dude. So unfair. =O
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Europe is way ahead of North America.
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
I have fibre at home and truly unlimited LTE at nearly 150 Mbps for 20 USD / mo.
What American ISPs and carriers are doing is basically unprecedented in the West.
I’ve hit over 300mbps on T-Mobile LTE. I don’t think matching those speeds will be an issue once they receive sprints spectrum, if the merger goes though. https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/i/3568450514
When I moved I went from Comcast's fastest package at the time, 250 Mbps down and 25 Mbps up, to symmetrical gigabit and the internet now feels like an extension of my own home network. I don't have to use any traffic management rules at my router anymore, I can just let things go without any speed limitations, and everything else using the internet can't even tell I'm doing anything. I fully support everyone should have access to good symmetrical fiber connections, DSL & cable really do feel old after having fiber.
I'm on CenturyLink's price for life package for $65/month after taxes and fees.
Agree, Fiberlink 500 de la Digi, nu pica, nu limiteaza, ba chiar uneori primesc 750 mbps. (nu am afiliatii cu digi, doar am avut ocazia sa incerc si digi si romtelecom, am tras concluzia ca digi e mai ieftin si mai bun, asta in regiunea mea)
https://www.speedtest.net/result/8343435809.png
Here is what Surfshark says on the topic. Police can find certain information about you even if you are using VPNs, even without logs.
Correct. We're aiming for early September with no fixed release date, in case there are unexpected events or security updates. You can give it a try right now, install 2.4.4 development snapshot. We could use the help with testing.
I'd recommend a pfSense appliance. Buying straight from them will get you support as well and the available packages can provide some fantastic security benefits including Snort, IP blocking by category (country, known bad, etc). This appliance here sounds about perfect for your situation: https://www.pfsense.org/products/product-family.html#sg-2440
We also have a subreddit for pfsense if you want to ask questions there: /r/PFSENSE
Ok, looks like the VPN you sent me uses their own closed source protocol. Those are your choices right now: OpenVPN(Probably not going to work since you said that all other VPNs don't work), L2TP over IPSec, PPTP(Not encrypted, not recommended), shadowsocks and the softether protocol(Only one that worked for me). The easiest way to set up all but one of those in a user friendly way is [Softether](softether.org) (open source). I suggest that you keep a pc on at home and remote control it via team viewer in case you need to configure something or make sure it is still on. Follow this tutorial to install the server on a Windows machine. Open up port 443 and enable it in softether as well. Next, try to connect to your VPN server using the softether client and your public ip. Success? Go try it out in school! Make sure your public IP address didn't change. Softether also supports l2tp over IPSec and MS-SSTP if you're interested in trying that out. You can also configure softethers dynamic subdomain if you don't want to check the IP every day. Please don't hesitate to ask me if you have any problems, but also don't forget to tell me if it worked ;) Your bandwidth is limited by your home's upload speed though but it's as easy(if you've done it 3 times like me) as installing it on a cheap vps.
SoftEther VPN is another (now open-source) option. It has support for loads of clients and protocols (including OpenVPN) and has some neat tunnelling features (VPN over HTTPS, DNS or ICMP)
Granted a speed test isn't a true test of reliability, but the only time I haven't gotten those speeds was when my modem got a problematic firmware update.
Look at Mr fancypants over here with 5-10 megabit upload speed. Meanwhile in Australia.
Good thing this isn't a speed test taken in the capital city of the country, that would just be depressing..... (Kill me).
Well, according to Ookla, the average mobile download speed in Afghanistan is 6.29mbps and upload speed is 2.70mbps. keep in mind that back in 2012 only between 5-10% of Afghans had internet though, and the download speed was around 0.56mbps, and wealthier, more westernized and technologically-savvy Afghans are likely to use Speedtest, and foreign military bases that use Speedtest may influence the results. Also, obviously the Taliban are not often residing in undamaged developed areas, so they will likely be using mobile or satellite data, which has much higher latency. Also, more tech-savvy members would probably have installed proxies or VPNs on their devices to avoid monitoring of their traffic and location by enemy forces.
Additionally, the vast majority of Taliban grunts would not have access to the internet at all, as the Taliban leadership sees it as a vector of Western corruption and immorality.
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states
Data is gathered based on people who run speed tests. The chart's accurate title should be, "Average speed of users who decided to run a speed test while on their network."
We should know, and account for: 1. How many people ran the tests from each carrier. 2. Why are they initiating the tests? (New area? Slow speeds? Etc.) 3. What are other carrier speeds in similar locations at similar times? 4. Where were the tests run?
I could go on and on, but aggregating 85 million speed tests run from an app to provide an overall performance score is pretty lame.
https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/afeb0a86-21e9-4d45-b002-c543ea9e88e1
FTTN. Connected last week. It all depends on your distance back to the node. Mine is approximately 392m.
Once your area goes live, you can go to https://futurebroadband.com.au/sq/ and enter your address. This will tell you what NBN estimates is possible for your address and so far I’ve found it to be accurate within 1Mbps over a few tested connections.
Also I’d suggest going with a high quality, highly skilled and transparent company such as Aussie Broadband.
If you like, I can assist you along the way and answer any questions you have. In exchange I’d ask that you use my referral code when signing up for Aussie Broadband so that we both get $50 credit. (I’m handing out my mums referral to get her a discount).
Refer-A-Friend Code: 1068923
Right let's take a look at this that tracks the amount of active 5G masts globally. Lets look at the UK and, more specifically, Scotland... since we're on r/Scotland.
There are only 14 active 5G masts in the whole country. The exact same number as there was at the beginning on the pandemic. So it doesn't look like there is any rush from any of the mobile providers to be upgrading the infrastructure during the pandemic. The number for the whole of the UK, 204 masts, has also remained the same since the beginning of the pandemic.
>or part of some plans to further an authoritative agenda, endgame being similar to how China operates?
How does one make the jump from "mobile technology that allows you to browse the web on your phone slightly quicker than on previous technology" to "iTs ThE sTaRt Of FaScIsM"? Gonny enlighten me because I just really can't get my head around that at all.
>Please show me the "public records of the money being given to these companies". I'll wait.
no need to wait long.
seeing as most of our major cities don't even have an actual fiber network 20 years after the target date, you might be able to make the connection that half a trillion dollars worth of infrastructure hasn't been laid.
please, babe, do explain where all these hundreds of billions of taxpayers dollars went during years of already profitable business with no real infrastructure improvement to speak of.
>I also look forward to seeing how the US does not have a "modern network"
uh, sure. let's go check some unbiased speed comparisons.
what's that? the US doesn't make the top ten for average broadband speeds worldwide, and doesn't even crack the top 30 for worldwide mobile speeds? whaaaaat?
the other issue that the US has is that we have a massive rural population that isn't getting anywhere near "average" speeds. our average speed is about ~130Mbps according to the above speed tests, yet we have nearly half the country trying to get by with less than 5Mbps.
how the fuck do you think we have a modern network when so many people are relegated to internet speeds DSL owners got nearly 30 years ago on literal telephone lines?
...lemme guess, you think the Super Nintendo is still bleeding-edge tech in 2020.
Not because their is partially true, mine is entirely untrue. In most of the first world, internet speeds are increasing greatly, both in speed and in reach. A small percentage, or certain countries have ended up staying behind the curve. How does that equal "internet not getting quicker"?
Both are absolute statements. And if we are talking averages, given he didn't specify in the slightest, he's just plain wrong. https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
That's just not true. I routinely get slightly above the speeds advertised by my ISP for the specific speed tier I pay for, as do many others that post here. I pay for a 50/5 line and, even though I have lots of little services that constantly check things on the internet, and am currently listening to a track on Mixcloud, I still got speeds over the 50/5...
Yes, you can use the free version for torrenting, but not on servers that have the "No P2P" flag.
They don't keep logs, except for the one that they need to see how much data did you use (for obv motives). As always, this is an easy thing to say, and we, the user, don't know for sure. Its always up to trust. (And I trust them, so... here I'm)
Here you can see their Transparency Report with how many DMCA request they receive every month, how which "Exactly zero requests were complied with due to lack of relevant data."