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Well, if you wanna do this, VPNGate is a great free VPN from some university in Japan with tons of servers around the world - lots of Asian servers for you to use for unlock too! Here
The purpose is to give people who are locked behind firewalls blocking the net in their home country access to an unblocked internet. This here, covers the academic reasons why
You don't need to install any kind of client for this, Windows can connect to SSTP-based VPNs natively.
VPNGate is a pretty good place to find them if you don't have a paid one, just filter by "MS-SSTP", pick a Korean/Japanese one and copy the IP address.
Then on Windows 10 just go to Settings -> Network -> VPN then click on "Add a VPN connection" and paste the IP, after that you can simply turn it ON/OFF from the notifications panel.
On previous versions of Windows the VPN stuff lives on the Control Panel instead, under network devices iirc.
>This is correct. I tried to get /ggrevolt/ to help with this, but it didn't gain any traction.
Not surprised. Considering that particular board doesn't actually seem to want to do anything, unless it's falls into it's particular view point.
FYI for anyone who wants to go ad hunting via VPN, get vpn gate it's free, there's no bullshit, it's an academic project and has servers(China to Vietnam to S.Korea to Mexico, Cambidia and Turkey, and so on) all over the world where you can hunt down ads at your leisure.
OP usa VPN ~~Mexicana~~ (parece que a Mexicana está em Dólar agora) e compra, paguei 90 temers no BF1.
EDIT:
- Baixa o programa SoftEther VPN aqui
- Procura uma VPN Mexicana dentro do próprio programa.
- Entra no site da Origin e compra com um cartão internacional, não testei pelo próprio programa.
Eu comprei na minha conta mesmo, não criei outra.
Steam bani na hora se fizer isso.
EDIT 2: Eu fiz a compra alguns meses atrás, e parece que nesse meio tempo eles colocaram o preço em dólar. Ainda sai mais barato, mas testem outros países.
Pessoal da gringa compra pela Índia também, mas nunca testei.
EDIT 3: Não compre key Russa porque ela é diferente da Global.
For those who don't have a paid VPN and get the WASH error at the download fase. Here are the instructions to resume the client download.
- Go to this website ( http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx ) and download the SoftEther VPN client.
- Install the SoftEther
- When it's installed, follow the instructions to make a VPN client adapter. (very easy to do, just 2 clicks)
- Click on the "VPN GATE PUBLIC VPN RELAY SERVERS" and search for Korea vpn and connect to it.
- Open the downloader from Black Desert and resume your download, when it starts downloading again, disconnect your VPN to download at full speed
If obtaining a VPN is an issue for you, there is a free, totally adfree, highband option called softvpn. These are volunteer(university) VPNs around the world, but understand they may log your activity and may yield to surveillance. Also, many of them do not reroute your DNS queries, so configure your browser to use OpenDNS in combination with softvpn.
As 3141592652 says they all pretty much keep logs at least for a while (Usually 2 weeks) but if you want some free VPN's to use check out this website http://www.vpngate.net/ almost all of then you can use OpenVPN with and download the config files straight from the website hope it helps you out!
I recommend VPN gate. It's completely free and using VPNs hosted in universities, libraries, volunteer computers, that kind of staff. It started as an experiment dedicated to destroy all Internet restrictions and very user-friendly. Asian pool is especially large (it started from Japan).
Try this VPN service developed by researchers at the University of Tsukuba. It's free, it consistently works and since the servers are peer hosted by individuals who volunteer, they are much less likely to be blocked. Speeds aren't that great compared to commercial VPNs, and all servers keep logs for two weeks, so it's pretty much useless if you want a VPN for privacy and I definitely wouldn't recommend torrenting or doing anything unlawful while connected, but if all you want to do is watch Abema, then it's perfect.
Hey man! My uni blocked all gaming access, so I connected my laptop to a free VPN service here
I'd suggest connecting to a nearby VPN outside your country.
If you're on Windows 10, I can walk you through setting it up. And I can confirm it works. I'm in Malaysia, and I connected to a Singapore VPN and am getting 60 ping in game, which is damn good.
You seem to have not bothered to try and understand their logging policy, where they state that ID, IP address, and the hostname of destination VPN Server are all logged for a period of up to 3 months, as well as packet contents. You be the judge of what they do with that information.
VPNGate is the one I’ve been using for Netflix. You can get it here http://www.vpngate.net/en/
I recommend that one because several others I tried didn’t work. You just connect to a Japanese VPN within the program and then refresh Netflix and you’ll have the Japanese selection! I’ve been watching the crap out of the movies :)
It's by some Japanese (I think) university. It requires downloading, not just a google chrome extension. I don't have my laptop on me to go check the exact name but give me a sec and I'll find it. Edit: Here it is
Sure give this a try. http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
Download the first one with VPN client + plugin.
After you install it, you get list of countries and try it with a few of them, now on fighpass. Hell if you can proxy into India and buy it from there that's even better. Here's the breakdown of prices from july, it's before ufc 202 so info about ireland is outdated, but the rest of it should be accurate. http://imgur.com/a/QX0Y0
I've used that VPN client, it's free from some kind of Japanese university students, legit stuff. Like I said you only need it to buy PPV and start the stream, after you can shut off VPN and use your own fast internet.
So got a couple of questions in the comments. I'll try to answer them here.
Do i need a VPN to play the actual game ? Yes that seems to be the case. While the actual download of the client does not require a vpn, the website and the game client does. Access to the website is just denied by the webserver unless you have a japanese IP. I tried to launch the game from the website then before granting the launcher permission to start my game i disconnected from the VPN. My game started up but crashed soon after with an error message that said something about Wi-Fi. That leads me to believe the actual game client also requires a Japanese IP not just the black desert website.
Where do i put the files? Both files should be put in the same directory, BlackDesert_live.exe is the actual setup "program" and BlackDesert_live_1.zip just contains game data. Do not extract/unzip BlackDesert_live_1.zip yourself, the installer expects BlackDesert_live_1.zip to be in its directory.
My download is still slow, help? I used bitcomet as recommended by someone else on this subreddit. I believe the file server that hosts the file, limits speed per connection. So any decent download manager that splits the file and downloads from multiple connections simultaneously should speed up the download. If all of this confuses you, just install bitcomet and use it's HTTP download feature then uninstall it once the download is finished.
Tip: As a lot of people have already mentioned SoftEther is a good VPN utility. I fetched it from here http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx which includes the VPNGate plugin which lets you find a Japanese VPN easily with a few clicks. You can find help how to do it on Windows here ( http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx#windows )
GLHF, PEACE
to get Best free VPN ever is by
1) downloading OpenVPN Connect app from app store.
2) go to http://www.vpngate.net/en/ in Safari.
3) choose the country you want and then open it with OpenVPN Connect app.
4) select Add
5) choose connect.
Its the best VPN i've ever used (paid or free) its free and the website also offering a PC app and im using it both on iOS and PC and its Great to me.
Previously I have been using subscription services for my VPN needs too, but recently I've switched to using free VPN servers on:
It's more flexible because if one VPN server stops working, you can switch to another one.
I use VPNgate to unlock my game earlier but every other VPN should also work.
(http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx)
- Install a VPN programm
- make sure Origin is closed
- start the VPN Programm and connect to a USA server
- start Origin and play mass effect Andromeda
- have fun Playing :)
you can disconnect from the VPN when you are in-game. but you have to repeat these steps every time you close Origin.
What I recommend: http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
With a list of around 100 VPN servers, it's free and open source. No Australia but there are Japanese servers in which the game will unlock in 30 minutes.
Quit origin, connect to the VPN, launch Origin, voila.
EDIT: Switched link to the one that comes with a plugin with the servers.
Don't get stuck waiting on commercial WTFast dumb authentication email, use the open source academic research VPN tool from University of Tsukuba, Japan:
Easy install, fast servers, and help science.
.... dude cookie injection is the safe way:
Get Kancolle Viewer or KC3 Kai
If you have to use a VPN use the Tokyo University's VPNGate, but there is no reason to for normal gameplay.
> DNS unlocker
Ditch that malware ASAP, get and run scans with MalwareBytes, that DNS tool is know to have viruses.
Next time check Google to see if the software you trying to use is know for viruses.
Actually there are VPNs that'll increase your ping by 4. FOUR. I'll just drop a link to Softether here which is free and has such VPNs that are stable, super fast and won't increase your ping alot.
Crunchyroll (right click on the video to remove subtitles).
With a VPN (I use http://www.vpngate.net/en/ as it's free and a lot of sites don't detect it since it's a small operation)
- Netflix JP
- Amazon Prime JP (you need to pay for a subscription)
- I'm sure Hulu JP would work (if you pay for a JP subscription)
- For tokusatsu, I wrangled a subscription out of tokusatsu-fc.jp/ through the Google App store with a VPN
Netflix Japan has subtitles for EVERYTHING it seems, so that is really helpful when watching dramas, anime, and the like.
For other sites, if you're watching an anime, Kamen Rider or Super Sentai show you can usually get the subs from here: https://kitsunekko.net/
Use Penguin Subtitle Player to overlay the subtitles on top of your screen so you can have japanese subs when you watch.
>How do I trust that the providers dont moniterr or find any personal info or financial info if Im banking online and stuff.
I don't use VPN's as such but I'd definitely look for "No Logging".
When I do use a vpn I use openvpn and a config file from vpngate.
A little PROTIP:
if you have a halfway decent bank and use a vpn for banking be prepared that they may stop payment made when you're using the vpn as your ip isn't likely to be from the same country as you normaly are using.
You can use the iOS built in VPN client http://www.vpngate.net/en/ is free and run by volunteers one of the L2TP/IPsec servers should work.
Probably 3rd party apps for this too but i'm not familiar with any of them.
I will share my method! It takes a bit of work, but you can listen to NHK.
First use a Japanese VPN. I suggest Tunnelbear, but any VPN will work, including the (free) ones you can find at http://www.vpngate.net. Follow the instructions for your phone: http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_l2tp.aspx#android
Download the Amazon app store:
https://www.amazon.com/androidapp
Open the app store and look for NHKネットラジオ らじる らじる. This can be found by searching for "radio" in apps and games.
Still connected to VPN, open your newfound app.
???
Profit.
Sorry for Lithuanian. TL;DR translation: Use softether, and this is how <instructions>.
Nieko tokio, parsisiusk Softether su VPN gate plugin'u, isirasyk, prisijunk prie serverio is betkurios salies kuri patenka i zona, kai programa priskirs tau ip, galesi nueiti i ju weba, uzsireginti, nusipirkti zaidima.
Kai noresi zaisti, atsidaryk vel VPN'a, prisijunk, pasileisi zaidima, kai pakliusi i serverio pasirinkima, galesi isjungti VPN ir zaisti normaliai su pilnu savo interneto greiciu. Source: been doing it for months on JP and now on EU/NA :)
I lately started using VPNgate, and it works like a charm. Apparently it's University-run and they have a lot of servers (Mostly Asia but there are some American and European ones, too)
Okay! Finally got it working. Many countries do not allow Youtube Live Streams, so it was difficult finding a connection that will work.
Edit: I just noticed this image which is from the official site. It shows that some of the countries that I experienced difficulties with should actually work. This might be due to network DNS caches having not been cleared when I switched VPN locations, although I believe the manager I'm using is set to do this automatically. Also this particular VPN provider hosts their own nameservers at each location and you get two at random upon connection. I should try again using the nameserver from the same country.
Countries that Don't Work: (Besides US/UK/AU)
- Netherlands
- Luxembourg
- Norway
- France
- Switzerland
- Iceland
- Latvia
- Turkey
- Czech Republic
- Germany
Countries that DO Work:
- Romania
- Russia
- Lithuania
- Hong Kong
- Israel
These are just some of the countries that I tried using my paid VPN service -- not a DNS redirect. If I get around to trying different countries I'll update this post.
The best bet for people in Canada would most likely be to connect through Russia or Romania. Most VPN services offer these two locations and they usually have very good connection speed (as opposed to using Asia/Middle East).
For those people looking for a free VPN alternative that is much safer than Hola and free options, check out: http://www.vpngate.net/
Well, the ones that are uploaded to YT are the easiest. Besides VPN software (e.g. http://www.vpngate.net , or a private VPN, which will have better performance but cost more), there are several youtube video downloaders whose servers are outside the US, and thus can grab content currently blocked by the Red Firewall.
But, the ones on Youtube are the small minority. AnDare has live broadcasts on NOTTV every weekday (or very nearly), but we only get an upload maybe every two weeks. So many episodes, lost... All Night Nippon broadcasts on NOTTV every week too, and sometimes a third party will upload the video, other times not.
The only thing to be concerned about is that your ISP can detect the TOR traffic coming to and from your IP address. It's recommended to use a VPN tunnel to relay your TOR client. Here's a free one http://www.vpngate.net/en/
Ah yep, you were right. I called my bank and my card had been deactivated by the anti-fraud system.
I've got both shows bought now. Can't wait for Sunday!
BTW if anyone's still looking for VPNs I've been using VPN Gate to access the site. I don't know how well it's going to work for streaming the shows, but it's free so may as well give it a try.
You'll probably be kicked without a premium membership due to popularity. (kicked out in the first five minutes. it's popular)
You'll also need a VPN to get past regional locks if you live outside of Japan (try Hola add-on for chrome, if that doesn't work, use this: http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx#windows - it's free and it works pretty well for me)
Download a VPN program. I used this one http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
Install VPN program.
Start VPN program and connect to a US server
Boot up origin and begin pre load.
Disconnect VPN and leave the pre load running. Origin should reconnect and continue to download.
Impatiently wait for Nov 18th.
Proof that it works. http://imgur.com/im5ht4v
yeah it works, did it for fifa. I dunno if theres THAT much point in doing it as you only get it 6 hours before. If you are interested just click here and use VPN gate. Easy to use vpn program. **Edit Yes it does relock if you shutdown the game though i think you can turn the vpn off in game and it still works. Wont hurt to try anyway :D
Hanggang 3G lang dito sa amin sa Quezon anyway, pero Hindi ako makaabot ng 1mbps (125ish kb/s). at basura yung torrent: hindi makalampas sa 25 kapag di naka-VPN
I'm using http://www.vpngate.net/ for my VPN, make sure you've exited out of steam and follow the instructions for installation on the website. Choose the United States server with the most users (usually like 10) and connect. Re-open steam, sign in and head over to NBA 2K15 and see if it's changed from the 10th to the 7th. If it hasn't, create a new Steam account, log in with that and you'll notice you'll have all your installed games on that account and then head over to the NBA 2K15 store page to see if it's changed from the 10th to the 7th.
http://www.vpngate.net/en/ provides free VPN's from across the globe, they are user operated. I might give career mode a chance when it comes out in Korea/Mexico if I have some free time. I will not risk playing any online modes to be honest though.
Close origin, log on to a vpn and open origin again, launch the game and then close the VPN, it should be alright to play.
You need to install this Gate Client plugin: http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
A few things I've picked up while using Soft Ether:
I randomly get disconnected from the game servers, which usually results in having to close the game, selecting a new VPN server, then starting the game up again. Occasionally, trying to login immediately without changing relay servers gets through, but it's not always the case.
Also be sure to check the maintenance times as using some of the VPN servers show the ships being under maintenance.
Hulu is a good choice. There's plenty of disney shows on there and some good choices of Japanese kids shows etc.
You can just VPN your way through it, I used to do this when I was living in the UK and wanted to just have some crap on in the background.
I would recommend using http://www.vpngate.net/ja/ - and finding a decent exit. Use the VPN gate client rather than softether vpn http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx It gives choices without configuration.
a VPN would definitely solve that (or a HTTP proxy with keep-alive support).
For Non-Torrent traffic you can try http://www.vpngate.net/ It is free and is run by volunteers. Sort of TOR but VPN based.
I use http://www.vpngate.net/en/ for those shows not available here. You can select the county (pick the lowest ping with the least users with the highest bandwidth.) A bit tricky to setup tho. I also use it to torrent faster (my ISP is throttling my torrents)
I just torrent S5 of B99 tho (didn't know it was available in Canada). Kabitin pa din!
Edit: Free and open source yung VPNgate. Wag lang abusuhin sa pagtotorrent matetemporarily discnnected ka.
> There's also some other protocols such as L2TP/IPSec, IKEv2/IPSec and SSTP. But i don't really have any experience using those.
The SoftEther project provides a good introduction if you want to try these protocols out.
If you're on a Windows PC, and are willing to do the $3/Radiko subscription, it only takes about 5-10 minutes of one time setup to be equipped to listen.
Basically,
- Install OpenVPN for Windows - just run the installer exe.
- Go to VPN Gate, and click to download the OpenVPN file for the top rated Japan server on the list. Preferably grab one with several days of uptime, as those tend to be the nodes that are available 24/7 minus a weekly reboot. Uptime is listed in the table, and usually the top one for each country is fairly reliable.
- Right click on the OpenVPN tray icon and import that file.
- Right click again and click connect. Done with VPN setup. In the future, you just click connect as needed.
- For Radiko signup, you just pick a username/password and enter a credit card for the subscription. The first month is free. Built-in Chrome translation represents the registration forms perfectly fine as well.
The next broadcast is tomorrow morning your time, based on the time you noted you got up to order (9:15CDT?) :-)
Proxy settings are unreliable and are often ignored completely. I wouldn't recommend it normally but since you've been using random SOCKS5 proxies you don't seem to be concerned with logging. You could use something like VPN Gate which provides free VPN access through volunteer-provided servers.
Netflix Japan. Of course, the licensing won't allow you to watch from a non-Japanese IP address. But you can trick it into thinking your computer is in Japan with a remote VPN. These route your Internet activity through a host somewhere else to temporarily let you use the host's IP address. There are paid VPN services, but Netflix is on to them and they don't work for that. This one, apparently run by Tsukuba University students in Japan, still works and it's actually FREE: http://www.vpngate.net/en/ Download the software and watch the how-to video; it's pretty easy. I hope I don't contribute to its downfall by sharing it, but that's how you can get what you want (provided you have a Netflix subscription). Your Netflix account in the US will work in any country that has Netflix, provided you're in that country. You'll just get that country's content. Again, the VPN will make it look like you're in Japan.
Download this and connect to their free vpn
http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
Test their server first. Some are really slow but there are some fast ones.
Then open hotspot on your laptop or computer with that vpn (not your original wifi) and connect the switch to it.
Works for me.
I didn't buy them yet, but I did 2 years ago with a VISA, so I would say yes. ~~I'll update as soon as I will buy them.~~ As I said in another post, I bought medals with a VISA using this free vpn
For your second question, sadly there isn't an answer being good for everyone... This is my advice. Most of the VPNs nowadays offer a free trial (usually 2 or 3 days), so my suggestion is download some of them and try to play some content only avalaible in Japan (like https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/ or even Netflix if you have an account) and see which is that works better for you. Plus, most of the VPNs offer a 30 days refund if you are not satisfied, so you will be pretty safe in the end. As a final note, most of them offer a TCP/UDP option when you try to connect, theoretically UDP should be better for streaming videos, so if you have that option, you should try both. Btw, I will probably try this in the next days
3pm GMT on the 20th if you use a South Korean based VPN ;)
Here's a decent free one, don't try playing MP with it but it should be good enough to activate the game when it's time, just remember to log out of Origin before connecting to the VPN
Go here: http://www.vpngate.net/en/ and you probably want to look at their "how to connect" guide also:http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_windows.aspx
Download the client (SoftEther VPN) and set it up using the instructions, look for a South Korea VPN address, enter it in, and connect, then restart Origin when connected.
http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
Is pretty good. You can check it out if you want. That's the one I tend to use and it works very well.
Edit: I forgot to say that they do keep logs of things, (much like any commerical ISP) http://www.vpngate.net/en/about_abuse.aspx to make sure you don't do anything illegal. So you cannot use it for illegal activites if that's what some want to use VPNs for.
Try out PIA $40/y ($31/y when on sale) it has a 30 day refund and you are allowed up to 5 clients, they also include a socks proxy you can use on nearly everything. The max speed I've seen is around 150 Mbps per client and the speed is fairly stable. There is many other providers, but this is the one I like the best.
The other good free alternative is http://www.vpngate.net/en/.
this is the best free vpn i know, though you could find some that are way better if you want to pay a little fee, i've been using it to log in the launcher of BDO even though i live in africa for a very long time, and even though i ran into some lack of aviable servers some times it was really rare and it's pretty reliable.
That's what I used for the longest time. Unless something has dramatically changed, those work great, usually go to http://www.vpngate.net/en/ to get mine.
(Tend to have to replace them once a day though because servers go up and down so fast....)
The best way would be to go through a proxy in Japan. For example, by using VPNGate (my friends use to play region locked Japanese games). However, depending on the way the proxy is implemented, you may be biased based on who has used the proxy before you.
Stop asking for keys, you guys.
It's literally as simple as downloading the DE ovpn file from Mr-R00T's post, following this guide to the letter: http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_openvpn.aspx and you're through.
The key goes to the "customer" (ergo, the person who signs up on their site) on the 2nd of April so asking for them now won't do any good.
Exit steam
Launch this, select an Austrailian one server
Launch Steam, begin download. You might be able to terminate the VPN and get your full speed after that. You can on Origin, at least.
I've been connected to KR for close to 1 hour now with no problems (VPN was disabled once game launcher popped up).
Here's the link to Softether VPNgate: http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
Gonna update my initial response to you with a link too, in case anyone stumbles upon this.
I use VPN for both RU and EU, yea there are a couple of ways. Get IP and pass yourself and make vpn through windows network thingy. Then you have easier things such as WTFast and Softether VPN. You don't need much of a tutorial for WTFast and here is one for softether http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx
Also you can turn them off at channel select screen without disconnecting so theres that.
http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
I use this one. It´s free, doesnt take 10 minutes to load up as free WTFast. Install, double click relay servers, double click a KR, JP or RU (or any server that is within the EU/NA for later) server there depending on the BDO version u play.
Login, stay in the channel selection screen in BDO and disconnect from the VPN Server. Choose your channel ingame and you play with your native internet connection. This is the fastest option I figured. The free version of WTFast literally takes 5 minutes to fire up even before starting the game. Not worth it.
Not sure if this will help but this is what I did:
- Download and install client from here: http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx
- Picked south korean VPN
- opened origin once VPN connection was established
- hit play battlefront (game opened, joined tutorial)
- disconnected from VPN
- closed and reopened battlefront
http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx Download the file with Client Plugin and connect to the server in country where it launches first then start origin, after origin determine you location(fake location) you should close vpn client to improve you connection .
OpenVPN worked for me (after trying several other trials etc.). Just install OpenVPN, save the file in your C:\Program files\openVpn\config file, run openvpn as admin, rightclick openvpn down in system tray and select the VPN server. Wait for it to connect (icon should turn green), start steam and start unpacking. Woho!
Io sto usando VPN Gate, dell'universita' jappo di Tsukuba.
Scarichi il client Win (50mb) e scegli il nodo della nazione che ti interessa.
Non e' stabile come una a pagamento (ovvero a volte devi scegliere un altro nodo) ma per ora ci sto vedendo film e serie americane a nastro, senza costi mensili.
http://www.vpngate.net/en/
Seriously a guide that uses a specific paid service ?!?! :D Advertisement ? :P
Anyone that wants to access international betas use vpngate or WTFast
Both are free , wtf is simpler but takes more time to load and as adds , Vpngate is slightly harder but doesn't have any adds during load.
You can use proxy for connecting , you can disconnect from the proxy in the channel select and just select a channel.
This way you'll actually connect to the server without any tunneling ( only use it to loggin , and not to play )
0$ spent , no extra latency from vpn.
You need to use a VPN to give yourself an American IP address when starting the launcher.
I recommend SoftEther http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx or HotSpot shield but you may need premium to get an american IP.
Once the launcher has started (While having the VPN running) wait for it to update (Once the update has started I think you can turn the VPN off if the download is too slow but I have only tested this once).
After that you can turn the VPN off.
You also have to do this every time you want to play.
WOOHOO update; got a vpn to run (MS-SSTP) and finally was also able to set the connections up the way i needed it to work : dial up connection to my ISP -> VPN dial -> hosted wlan network with laptop & setting the vpn connection to shared with the hosted network.
now it's patching , woooohooo!!! the speed is another thing but that has to be expected , huh. for those not wanting to use additional software for a vpn use MS-SSTP vpns . found mine through google on http://www.vpngate.net/en/ (make sure to use the ones that have the information in the MS-SSTP column or you'll need software.)
I deleted my previous comment, im from Brazil, and buy from origin store in brazil, i connect to this vpn
http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx
after connecting following the tutorial, and restart origin and the time was the same, the time just changed when i put my origin in english US, dont know if this was the cause, but now its 21/09 at 12:00
so half a day of gameplay :D
http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
And yes you need a VPN to download the installer and login to the game/launcher. After that, you can disable the VPN and patch/play without VPN
You also can't patch it now, since you need Early Access to download and play it right now. You have to wait until the 31st.
Like other players mentioned, i'd recommend playing Arad Senki if you're thinking that you'll be staying in Japan for the long term. (If you moved to Japan, shouldn't you be getting to know the language?)
If, however, the stay isn't intended to be long-term, there is the option of using SoftEther VPN.
As you could tell from visiting the website, it's a free cloud of public vpn relay servers, that are accessible if you're in Japan, and only Japan. If you install that, and connect though one of the servers located in the United States, you'll be able to play just fine. BUT, out of courtesy for other players, you should never party. It's a peer to peer game after all. So, playing from far away, and through a VPN tunnel nonetheless, is going to be pretty laggy, no matter which way you look at it.
Ah, I'd been wondering if just installing the apk would be enough to run the game or not. I'm guessing you have to get it into your Google Play account first. You can either do it by following the tunnelbear tutorial in the wiki or through Softether VPN to proxy your PC to connect to the JP Google Play store (I used BlueStacks to install mine, so I'm not 100% sure if that will be enough or if your phone needs a JP connection at least once).
I know once it is working, you never need to worry about a proxy again for connecting; only the initial connection is a bit tricky, everything works fine through the normal Google Play store after that.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and I'll update the wiki accordingly.
Last time I went there there's no Imgur. Guess how my reddit experience went.
Grab VPN Gate and you are ready to go.
Fast, stable, and China wouldn't fuck with you 'cause you fucking VPN.
Only works if you live in an area with plenty of pools for IP addresses. I generally have the same IP for 8-15 months, and live in a city of 100k. Use VPNgate if you need to get around this stuff. Reddit might think they're in the big times, until they start banning a project who's entire premise is built around circumventing censorship.
1) You need someone living in japan to verify your account with their inland telephone number for a start and then you can pay with cards bought from online retailers.
2) You need a vpn to login to the website, after that you can close the proxy and play. You can pick a public one from http://www.vpngate.net/en/ connect with openVPN then once logged in you can close the program.
3)I don't think you can get banned, I only speak English and I've been fine. The people I've met who can speak English have mostly been people who have moved there to live but came from English speaking country and they have been extremely nice and helpful. I find most natives wont really pay much attention to you and none have ever been anything but nice to me.
The hardest thing is signing up for an account and getting passed Japanese captcha. You need to have google translate open and copy paste a lot of stuff. Also ingame every npc and all item info ect is in Japanese so you need to know the game very well as you wont be able to read anything!
Thing like doing your classes job change quest is pretty hard when you can't read the questions/answers but i got passed this with some help.
It is by far the most fun official server with the most active and friendly population but going in with no knowledge of Japanese it is a struggle to get up and running.
Excellent comment, learned a lot of things, thanks.
My concerns are mostly with the other party that may can monitor my activities while being connected to VPN. Why that happened?
Well, I connected with VPN to a Japanese server because I want to have access to a specific Japanese site. While I was connected with VPN, I went to my gmail to read a couple of emails. I have saved the password of my gmail so the browser doesn't ask for it whenever I'm accessing to my gmail (I have 2 step authentication enable though but it only pops up on new devices for the first time, so in my case it didn't because I have accessed many times so it doesn't ask for 2 step authentication anymore on my computer). At the "Last account activity" that gmail has, I noticed someone in Japan (Japanese IP) accessed to my gmail (that was me while using the VPN).
That's why I made the post. I wondered, when I went to my gmail, could the host see what I was doing, check my credentials (my saved password), could he by-pass the 2 step authentication etc.
Can they, for example, start checking my browser (history, bookmarks, saved password etc) if I have my browser closed while I'm connected with VPN?
I'm asking this because all I do is to open the browser (while connected with VPN), click a button (in my case, Start Game in a page) to launch a video game that is installed on my PC (region-locked that's why VPN is needed) and that's it, I can close the browser later when the game is launched.
Basically that's what I do. http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx
All I do is to open the SoftEther software, choose a Relay Server and find a host in Japan/Korea because otherwise I can't have access to some websites.
From what I understand, they can monitor what I do. Can they, for example, start checking my browser (history, bookmarks, saved password etc) if I have my browser closed while I'm connected with VPN?
I'm asking this because all I do is to open the browser (while connected with VPN), click a button (in my case, Start Game in a page) to launch a video game that is installed on my PC (region-locked that's why VPN is needed) and that's it, I can close the browser later when the game is launched.
Basically that's what I do. http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx
Your best bet is either Softether with VPNgate plugin or OpenVPN.
http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx
If it doesnt work on the first server keep switching till you find one that works. Regardless you will need to have a VPN active to play the game anyway so you should take the time to set it up.
I'm assuming you followed the following guide on how to set up vpngate+softether?
http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx
There is a test at the bottom to see if your outbound traffic is going through the vpn.
I found some free VPNs via Google here are the links http://www.vpngate.net/en/ and https://www.vpnme.me/freevpn.html I have not personally tested them with torrents but the VPN IPs seem to work fine (are pingable). Alternatively you can buy a very cheap VPS of like $2 USD /month and install some open source VPN server http://www.unblocksitio.com/open-source-vpn-servers/ that is best also for security (you own the VPS).
I live in Austria. Bought the game cheaper on mexican origin via VPN, played it 5 days before the european launch via south korean VPN. Works perfectly.
Here's a thread with some nice VPN instruction: http://www.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/2maetz/vpnhow_to_preload_and_play_early_guide/
I use this VPN, gives you a nice always up-to-date list of VPNs available: http://www.vpngate.net/en/download.aspx
Where do you get the server list from? That site only offers the client and server software, that I can see.
Edit: Ah, here perhaps? http://www.vpngate.net
Edit 2: Yes, for anyone looking to do this for the first time, just go to http://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_softether.aspx and download the Soft Ether client + config on that page, and follow the instructions to install. There's a South Korean server in the list, I just used it to start my preload.
I would recommend using VPN Gate as you can pretty much connect and disconnect whenever. Select the download option with the plugin.
Yeah, I wouldn't cancel it. Try maybe pausing it, and then try out VPN Gate, and connect again. Mine froze a few times, and I just tried switching the VPN off and waiting a while, then connecting again till it started moving.
I've been using PIA for a couple of months now ($39.95/year) since it has good review from TorrentFreak. It can has 5 simultaneous connections so I share it between my laptop & phone and my wife's 2 PCs and phone. We also use it for heavy torrenting.
For gratis one you can use VPN Gate, though i don't think you can use it for heavy downloading.
Edit: I also highly recommend VPN to all of you who do online betting. Seriously guys, please play safe. I saw many betting/poker sites still haven't implement SSL so ISPs (and the police) can see your activity and hackers can steal your account easily.
You can get the apk at sky-hk.net, but I think you have to manually update. Alternatively, you can get a Japanese IP address using OpenVPN. For that, get OpenVPN Connect from the play store. Then, go to vpngate.net, go to the server page, get and open the config file for the JP server. After that, delete the app data for the Play Store in settings. With that, you have access to the JP store.
Virtual Private Network. You're essentially masking your IP address by sending instructions to another computer to do your bidding online.
So if your country blocked you from viewing a website, you can use a VPN to use an IP from another country to view it.
The link below is a free VPN service but it's a bit slow bandwidth: http://www.vpngate.net/en/
Yeah the same thing happened to me. I used a proxy at first but that didn't work either for some reason so I just used a free VPN service and it now works fine. I used this btw http://www.vpngate.net/en/ though I'm pretty sure you can use any VPN and it would work.
I got through this by using this tool. Scroll down to where it says "Russian Federation" and follow the SSL-VPN connect guide. Register an account on aa.mail.ru through the VPN and you should be good to go!
Figured id post back here on how i got it to work: I used VPNgate (http://www.vpngate.net/en/#LIST), downloaded the softether VPN client and selected a JPN server. Once you've selected and connected to a server, you can refresh the page i linked above to double check your current IP. Obviously, on your first vist it should read a US IP, and after you refresh the page upon selecting your connection, it should read as a JPN IP. Hope this helps...
May I recommend "VPN Gate" for getting around filters? I wouldn't trust it with super-secret data, but it's free and unlimited.
For iOS, follow this guide. (You'll need a server which supports "L2TP/IPsec".)
Sometimes the servers stop. Just revisit the website and switch the server to another working one.
I had to get codes manually ,took a lot of time,so be genuine ,take if you really need it
For other countries,find a free VPN
EDIT:
FREE VPN for all countries http://www.vpngate.net/en/
or try OpenDoor app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opendoor/id543808008?mt=8
If you want a free VPN for school, check out VPN Gate. Choose a server with L2TP/IPsec, as iOS supports that. Here's a connection guide.
I personally wouldn't use this for SUPER-SECRET stuff. You may want to read their anti-abuse and logging policies.
This isn't data limited IIRC, but occasionally you will have to change servers as some servers shut down or something.
I think most everybody already has their VPN running, but I'll leave this here just in case. I've always used SoftEther, as it works out of the box, no accounts or configuration necessary. Just pick a server off the list and away you go! There's no Australia/NZ servers, but if you're like me and don't usually play until the afternoon then Japan is good enough!
La manera más fácil de prepararlo es descargando un archivo que contenga una configuración que pueda ser cargada por OpenVPN. En VPNGate puedes encontrar unos archivos en base a servidores. Busca los que dicen "OpenVPN Config File" y descargas ya sea TCP o UDP.
this happens for me depending on the VPN. which one are you using?
I recommend SetupVPN chrome extension or OpenVPN on android using this link to download a .ovpn profile from japan
For OpenVPN you need to add a profile (.ovpn file) before connecting to VPN (the way to load .ovpn file on the app in iOS vs Android may be different). You can try to get free Japan VPN .ovpn profiles at http://www.vpngate.net/
Hmm, the website seems to block access from other countries.
Install VPN Gate and connect to a Japanese VPN server, then you should be able to access the website. Alternatively, you can view an archived page of the site here. https://archive.fo/y4481