paid vpn service recommendation as of october '14?

Discussion in 'privacy technology' started by imdb, Oct 5, 2014.

  1. imdb

    imdb Registered Member

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    thanks for the feedback. do you mind if i ask who your provider is?
     
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    How is the circuit latency affected by that situation? I have always read great things about your servers and operation. Thinking!!!!!
     
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    Our operations remain the same. Only one of our VPN servers was located in Malaysia and none of our customer panels are hosted in Malaysia as it is. No real change really. Maybe only payment currencies and billing entity.
     
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    Previously Malaysia was quite alright but with the recent change in law and policies favouring censorship, we thought it was time to move out. However many Malaysians do rely on our service and want to maintain their online banking options so we will still maintain the Malaysian entity for several tasks.

    Malaysia does have a Data protection privacy act and also has no mandatory logging procedures, but recently there has been some laws that indicate that authorities may mandate interception in national security issues. In principle, this seems ok but seeing how it has been enforced lately....that has given us some pause.

    The client software has already some improvements and the new layout is already ready...However...the software certification company is being a pain in asking us to prove our legitness (been struggling with it over a month). We also are debugging some issues with our lockdown feature.
     
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    Switched to BolehVPN a few weeks ago and love it. I can have proxies in one country with 80M torrent speeds. I can have full VPN in other countries and have my android devices connected all the time. Speed is great, service is great.
     
  9. imdb

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    thanks for the sincere answers.
     
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    That is strange. A GB would be a lot of pings o_O

    Maybe someone using PIA could do some Wireshark captures.
     
  12. navigat0r

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  14. navigat0r

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    Out of which reason? Monitoring mentioned on TF, or EFF's lawyer statement 'worst policy I've seen' (on the other hand EFF gladly takes their money), or just a lack of technical knowledge (as you can see in the tutorials linked above)?

    The thing that makes me want to give them a try is their support for SoftEther, I'm not sure if other companies support it, please if you know any other, let me know.
     
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    There was a story about them using Wireshark on one of their servers that was at one point used by a hacker, without any legal compulsion to do so. Look it up for details.
     
  16. imdb

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    all of the above and more. just perform a quick search in google and it'll come up.
    as for the softether support, check out cactusvpn.
     
  17. mirimir

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    As one of the certified paranoids around here, I note that users have no way to know whether other VPN services have failed in worse ways. Maybe proxy.sh was just honest enough to admit to going over the line to snoop on users.

    It's my working hypothesis that the services which I typically recommend don't do that. However, I have no proof. I've read their stuff, asked questions, searched for relevant comments and articles, and so on. But the only hard evidence would be falsification :(

    With such uncertainty, the key strategy is distributing trust. And so on ...
     
  18. navigat0r

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    I didn't wanna start a discussion about that monitoring incident again (that's what i meant with 'Monitoring mentioned on TorrentFreak). There's already plenty of articles covering that, and I guess there will always be two camps, those who agree and those who think it invades the privacy of the users. For me, when using a vpn I expect to be able to access the web anonymously, and there certainly is a difference between protection of anonymity and creating a safe harbour for things, that I would not do with my real ip. Of course other people have different expectations and I have no problem if other vpn companies give them this kind of protection. The fact that they announced the monitoring in advance is enough proof for me that proxy.sh respects my privacy (as mirimir stated, there's no way to verify this and be 100% sure).

    But what do you mean with 'more' @imdb? I couldn't find any other bad opinions about them. And thanks for the cactusvpn hint, just subscribed to a trial :) (although it's in Moldova, no bitcoins and they send the vpn pw to your email)
     
  19. imdb

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    or maybe they just had to admit it because they knew it would be on the news on tech sites sooner or later.

    @navigat0r:
    if you read the reviews and comments on various forums, you'll see that they're not much of a respected service provider. i never used it, so i can't give you any first hand info.
    and their pricing system is a joke with that boost thing and all.
     
  20. navigat0r

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    For 10$ you get access to 285 servers (1Gbps) in 43 countries, boost package would give you additional access to 5 50Gbps Backbone Servers in US, UK and Japan, well I dont want anything from US or UK and Japan is too far away. Access to most European countries is more important in my opinion, I think most other providers who offer that are US based. Airvpn is the only real alternative I know, but I was not satisfied with them.
     
  21. imdb

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    i just think it's too pricey for what it offers. and we all know that many people don't use most of those hundreds of servers their vpn providers offer, just once or twice maybe, for testing purposes.
    for instance, most of the hma subscribers connect only to a tenth of available servers. sure, there may be exceptions but not that many. usually people stick with a bunch of servers in a handful of countries.
     
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  22. navigat0r

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    I agree, most people just need a few countries, but they also have a 5$ package for those (US, Ukraine, Germany, Russia, France and Netherlands). And the vpn's recommended here are all around 10$, ivpn 15$, bolehvpn 9.99$, ovpn 10$. airvpn is a little cheaper with 7€. all prices for 1 month, without discount for 1 year subscription.
     
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    I like Securitykiss vpn. Don't like most of the servers available to connect to in the free version. Except Germany's, which is about as slow as dial up a lot of the times. Just need the pay service and faster internet.
     
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  24. Mayahana

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    FYI: Spooks setup VPN's to honeypot.. So be careful what company you choose. One popular VPN is actually hosted in a 'rented out' CIA office.
     
  25. imdb

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    you mean popular here or on the so-called "vpn review sites"?
     
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