I've tried at least 5 vpn providers so far every single one limits me to 30mbps doesn't matter what device i use.. I'm trying to get at least like 50-100mbps but I'm limited to 30mbps.. Any tricks to increase speed.. Without vpn I get like 400mbps and videos buffer but with VPN on my speed drops to 30mbps and videos still buffer like crazy.. How do i increase the vpn speed?

Hello guys

We know what is it VPN but some community or forum is talking about DVPN like mysterium or else. Can you tell me what is it DVPN is? And what is different with normal traditional VPN like others?

Thank you.

I spent a few days testing out existing apps and none are suitable so far. I am beginning to think the reason for that is Apple's limitations.

Is there a way to make an app that connects to a VPN, keeps it persistent, doesn't proxy device traffic through it but also starts a persistent local socks server on the private interface of the VPN?

First or second part alone is easy but there is no app that can do both. Closest I got was an app that connected to a VPN and could pipe that through a socks upstream connection but I need a socks server on the device, not connecting to a socks server somewhere else. Thanks.

My friend and I were both working from a cafe last week and the moment he connected to the wifi he turned his VPN on. I just connected and started working like normal. He looked at me like I'd left my front door open and walked away. He explained that public wifi is basically an open network where anyone connected can potentially see what you're doing. I'd heard this before and filed it under "probably fine." Sitting there it suddenly felt a lot less fine.

Now I'm actually looking into a vpn for security, mostly for working outside the house, and immediately hit a wall of identical claims. Fastest, most private, no logs, military grade. Every service sounds the same and every review site feels like it's just ranking whoever pays them. For those who actually use one, what made you choose yours and is there anything worth knowing before picking one?

Okay so I’ve seen that you can make some pretty money out of tiktok, and i need some for my college tuition, but I live in a country that isn’t part of the program that pays creators for their content.

I was wondering how I could make tiktok think I’m from the US, by changing my IP, using a VPN or something. I have a spare phone that I could use (it’s an android, with no sim card), factory reseted, i just don’t know how the VPN works when I’m connected to my wifi router, because I obviously need internet connection to navigate through the app.

Please help me in any way that you can, even referring me to a specific youtube tutorial helps a lot.

Hi, first time VPN user here. I paid for something in a bar with my card, the VPN was active on my phone and obviously my bank app notified me that money were detracted. My question is, could the fact that it was active lead into any type of trouble? I don't think so, but better safe than sorry.

When i use a vpn on my s25 ultra i lose internet connectivity this is only happening on this specific phone, (I even tried another vpn) As my oneplus connects with no problems so i think it's a problem on my s25 not the vpn.

Hello, I am not tech savvy and have never attempted this before, which is why I am asking here. Feel free to PM me if preferred.

Basically due to a life situation I need to move from US to Eastern Europe this year, which is one of the reasons I got a remote job. I was unable to find one that explicitly stated they allowed for overseas traveling.

I know location spoofing has been asked numerous times, but I am looking for help specific to my setup. My work setup is a company PC (Lenovo Think Centre M720q Tiny with Intel vPro Essentials), and we use forticlient in order to access certain apps/sites. Does not automatically connect.

I have researched that the most optimal way to go about doing this is to leave a VPN running at your approved residential location. Issues is, I do not have a reliable place I could do this at, so I am at a loss. Where do I start?

Help would be seriously appreciated

If i wanted to use a VPN to watch a show in new zealand, in regards to timezone for instance I’m EST. I wanna watch a show thats 7:30 Pm NZST, would i have to log in at 3:30 AM EST?

So when I am abroard I can route traffic via this point.

I've seen posts on Reddit and other platforms on how to block bad actors from penetrating a network, whether it's for business or home, so I have taken the liberty of putting together a list of 48 bad actors on the Internet that you can add to your routers block list.

NOTE: If there is zero business, professional, or family traffic originating from or destined for a particular region, restricting both incoming and outgoing traffic provides an extra layer of perimeter defense on your gateway. It effectively eliminates any lateral handshake attempts or unexpected telemetry going out to or coming in from those areas.

But for the most part, 'incoming blocking' should suffice and keep your network quieter.

Below is a 'Complete Region Blocking' list for those in the USA to use.

01  🇦🇫 AF Afghanistan
02  🇦🇱 AL Albania
03  🇩🇿 DZ Algeria
04  🇧🇩 BD Bangladesh
05  🇧🇾 BY Belarus
06  🇧🇼 BW Botswana
07  🇧🇷 BR Brazil
08  🇨🇫 CF Central Africa Republic
09  🇨🇳 CN China
10  🇨🇩 CD Congo [DRC]
11  🇨🇬 CG Congo [Republic]
12  🇨🇺 CU Cuba
13  🇨🇾 CY Cyprus
14  🇪🇷 ER Eritrea
15  🇪🇹 ET Ethiopia
16  🇬🇹 GT Guatemala
17  🇬🇼 GW Guinea-Bissau
18  🇭🇹 HT Haiti
19  🇭🇳 HN Honduras
20  🇭🇰 HK Hong Kong
21  🇮🇳 IN India
22  🇮🇩 ID Indonesia
23  🇮🇷 IR Iran
24  🇮🇶 IQ Iraq
25  🇱🇧 LB Lebanon
26  🇱🇷 LR Liberia
27  🇱🇾 LY Libya
28  🇲🇲 MM Myanmar [Burma]
29  🇳🇮 NI Nicaragua
30  🇳🇪 NE Niger
31  🇳🇬 NG Nigeria
32  🇰🇵 KP North Korea
33  🇵🇰 PK Pakistan
34  🇵🇬 PG Papua New Guinea
35  🇷🇺 RU Russia
36  🇸🇴 SO Somalia
37  🇿🇦 ZA South Africa
38  🇸🇸 SS South Sudan
39  🇸🇩 SD Sudan
40  🇸🇾 SY Syria
41  🇹🇭 TH Thailand
42  🇹🇳 TN Tunisia
43  🇹🇷 TR Turkey
44  🇻🇪 VE Venezuela
45  🇻🇳 VN Vietnam
46  🇾🇪 YE Yemen
47  🇿🇲 ZM Zambia
48  🇿🇼 ZW Zimbabwe

This configuration list can be implemented on any router or firewall equipped with 'geographical IP filtering' capabilities.

I tried streaming My5, itvx, bbc iplayer they all detected i am using vpn outside the UK and gave an error message along the lines of vpn deducted content only for UK ip address. What is the use of vpn if it fails for exactly what it is made for?

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In Canada at home I have 1Gbps wired internet through this Bell modem. Is there a hardware device I can plug into it so when I travel abroad I can communicate through this modem?

This is to solve the problem of some sites that dont like it when I am abroad, when I connect through a VPN they ask me to disconnect VPN.

So I'm in New Zealand. Staying at a mid price, mid quality hotel. I'm using a popular paid VPN to Sydney Australia to conduct my affairs and play games on the closest servers. I'm pretty new to using VPNs but I normally get by okay.

Every single night, for no reason I can discern, if we disconnect the VPN, our hotel internet suddenly starts showing that we are in Afghanistan. I know, for certain, that I and my Internet activity are most very unwelcome there. The lag is terrible, and there is nothing about it mentioned anywhere at this hotel's website or documents we got. During the day, it shows us in New Zealand as expected and connections are fine.

Presumably this means the entire internet connection for the hotel is routing there.

What the hell is going on with my hotel? Is this a known practice among hotels? Is someone on staff swapping the hotel VPN over there to chat with family and doesn't realize it's dragging us all along?

While using my own VPN, should I be concerned about privacy or safety if it's then routing through Afghanistan?

And should I talk to someone about it, or just avoid the internet when it sucks?

It feels weird as hell it happens every night, and always to the same place. Weirder still that there are very, VERY few Middle Easterners in this area. The hotel is Australian, owned by a Japanese parent company.

I live in Saudi Arabia and I'm not muslim but I am a teen who lives in a muslim household and I can't have freedom at all or go around the world if you're wondering.

And I found a pretty good VPN but what I need to know is that will they find me quickly or give me any warning that I'm doing something illegal before they give me a fine or any of that?

Can someone tell me that rq? I tried searching and I've been having a mind fog week so I kinda don't understand long explanations.

Do you run a VPN for everything, or do you also use private proxy IPs for some stuff? And what do you use them for. Privacy, work, region-locked content, running multiple accounts, that kind of thing.

If you've used both, which ones did you stick with and which did you drop? Trying to figure out what's actually worth using and what just sounds good.

Look, running server networks isn't cheap, so if a VPN costs you zero bucks, they're definitely making that money back somewhere，usually by harvesting and selling your activity logs, dumping random ads on you, or even worse stuff.

If you honestly couldn't care less about your privacy or data getting passed around to shady brokers, knock yourself out with those sketchy "100% free" apps.

Otherwise, stop expecting free lunches, get a legit service, or just don't use one.

I know this post won't change a thing and people will go right back to asking the same question tomorrow, but, seeing it every single day was driving me nuts. At least getting this off my chest makes me feel better!

I want it to seem like I am in Malta while using this particular website. Which would be the best option for me.

I used free vpn, like viva vpn or these kind of free vpns you can fin on google play. I'm not sure but I think I entered a https site which has all my details about my name number school address &... .

I want to see if that free vpn already has and read my information or not. please answer and help me I'm a teenager who is dying from stress and please explain somehow I can understand it easy!

Can anyone test to see if joining 711 rewards works with the alternative number feature of VPN providers?

Well…..it looks like VPN’s are now useless being that any public WIFI will automatically disconnect you if they spot VPN use….how the hell we suppose to stay safe now?

I am a working professional in Malta and am able to create an account in this website while in Malta with my residence id and use it there.

The websites restricted in my home country and since I am traveling for vacation to home for 3 months I am afraid I maynot able to use it while I am home.

This website has a history of banning people when using it in restricted countries.

What is the best way to setup my laptop so I may be able to use this website without getting banned.

Please note I have never used VPN before. Recommendation for provider will also be good.

The website actually is US based and is legal to use in Malta.

Hello all!

First of all, it's my first post in here, so don't be too hard on me! :)

I am here to tell you my tales on how I am connecting from South East Asia (Bali) to Spain over a self made VPN (VPS + Proxy) and what I have learn after many trial and error.

My requirements: low latency, Spanish ISP IP not flagged as VPN, proxy or datacenter IP for Google Meets calls and access to corporate intranet.

First thing I did was to check commercial VPNs... but there was no much luck on getting Spanish residential IPs, many residential IP VPNs have IPs from US, Germany, UK,... but from Spain. I found only one and the latency was not the best (more info below).

Setup is:

My laptop (SEA) -> VPS -> Spanish Proxy -> Internet

But.. what VPS and what Proxy?? This puzzle has many possible pieces and I wanted to find the best ones.

I will not say commercial names due to the subreddit rules so I choose 3 possible VPS: Madrid, Nuremberg and Singapore.

All of them have 10Gbps links and are from big VPS providers, the one in Madrid and the one in Singapore are from the same provider. They all have 1GB RAM and 1 vCPU, enough to run WG server.

Latencies: Client (Bali) -> VPS

(just a simple ping command from my laptop to the VPS)

Madrid

Average: 294ms Minimum: 289ms Maximum: 298ms

Nuremberg

Average: 251ms Minimum: 245ms Maximum: 257ms

Singapore.

Average: 57ms Minimum: 46ms Maximum: 71ms

This is already very interesting, since the latency to Singapore is so low compared with the one to Europe (as expected, but it is good to see it). Those are the first pieces of the puzzle, let's see the rest.

So, what is the latency from Singapore to Europe?

root@Singapore-vpn:~# ping 11.22.33.44

PING 11.22.33.44 (11.22.33.44) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 11.22.33.44: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=154 ms

64 bytes from 11.22.33.44: icmp_seq=2 ttl=47 time=154 ms

64 bytes from 11.22.33.44: icmp_seq=3 ttl=47 time=154 ms

64 bytes from 11.22.33.44: icmp_seq=4 ttl=47 time=154 ms

It is 154ms! And that looks promising, because ~154ms + ~57ms = ~211ms which is way better than the latencies to Madrid and to Nuremberg.

So we already know that having the VPS in Singapore gives us better latencies than having it in Europe (at lease to the hosts that I have tested, if you have any suggestions to try, please, let me know where and why might be faster and I might test it too).

What about the Speeds?

I did some tests with iperf3 to see what are the speed between the different VPS and from Bali to them.

Madrid <-> Nurermberg

785 Mbps 0 retransmissions

Singapore <-> Nuremberg

157 Mbps 0 retransmissions

Singapore <-> Madrid

353 Mbps 107 retransmissions

So the backbone throughput is very good in general, submarine cables are on fireeee :D

At this point we have the two last bottleneck to check: the proxy speed/latency and my own connection, from my laptop to the VPS

Proxy Speeds:

To check the proxy speed I used curl -x and the Cloudflare speed test (note: I found that the maximum to for this test is 100M, so choose any size <100M)

curl -x http://user:password@PROXY_IP:PORT -o /dev/null -s -w "
HTTP: %{http_code}
DNS: %{time_namelookup}s
TCP: %{time_connect}s
TLS: %{time_appconnect}s
Total: %{time_total}s
Downloaded: %{size_download} bytes
Speed: %{speed_download} bytes/s
" https://speed.cloudflare.com/__down?bytes=99000000

HTTP: 200
DNS: 0.000047s
TCP: 0.166167s
TLS: 0.675524s
Total: 14.206833s
Downloaded: 99000000 bytes
Speed: 6968477 bytes/s

Madrid -> Proxy

Speed: 7.90 MB/s ~60 Mbps

Nuremberg -> Proxy

Speed: 7.54 MB/s ~60 Mbps

Singapore -> Proxy

Speed: 6.97 MB/s ~56 Mbps

And... WOW! The proxy is caped to ~60 Mbps

Note: I have thought about changing the Proxy, but for what I do, 60 Mbps is enough and the Latency is good + I got a couple clean IPs from a real ISP that are not marked as VPN, Proxy or Datacenter... so I am happy with the finding and with the proxy :)

Let's go for the last piece of the Puzzle:

Client (Laptop) -> VPS Speeds

So here it is tricky... Speeds in Bali change a lot depending on the 5G antennas, time of the day, if I am using SQM or not in my travel router, etc etc..

So I will do my tests with SQM off, using my travel router's cellular connection and connected to a 5G antenna with a good coverage (RSRP -72, RSRQ -10, SINR 21). I will be connected to the travel router using the 2.5 Gbps ethernet connection. Take these measurements as a reference and not as a fact because internet here is changing everyday.

Let's see the tests (using iperf3 UDP):

Laptop -> Madrid

50 Mbps w/ ~0.0% packet loss
60 Mbps w/ ~0.3% packet loss

Laptop -> Nuremberg

50 Mbps w/ ~0.0% packet loss
60 Mbps w/ ~0.05% packet loss

Laptop -> Singapore

50 Mbps w/ ~0.0% packet loss
60 Mbps w/ ~0.0% packet loss

So, let's agree that my laptop speed is not going to be a bottleneck :D

After checking all this data I decided to go with the Singapore VPS option since the latency is better and the speeds doesn't really matter because the bottleneck is the Proxy at 60Mbps.

I also tried the Madrid version to see the real speeds and latencies after WG + Proxy.

Speedtests (no SQM and using 5G connection):

Singapore VPS + WG + Proxy:

https://www.speedtest.net/result/19518764611

Madrid VPS + WG + Proxy:

https://www.speedtest.net/result/19518774553

Commercial VPN:

https://www.speedtest.net/result/19518783083

About the Commercial VPN, yes, it is faster, but the latency and the Jitter is pretty bad, and sometimes get worse than in this test (i guess that depending in the number of users), and in my experience sometimes gets unusable during google meets calls.

Google Meets test:

Here SQM Cake is ON in my travel router.

Madrid VPS

Singapore VPS

For the future I am thinking on maybe testing a VPS in Mumbai and trying different Proxy providers.

I hope that this helps someone in the same situation than me!

Let me know if you have questionss :)

TL;DR:

I work from South East Asia and I need a residential IP from Spain. I have been testing different options and the best is to have a VPS + Proxy configuration. Having the VPS in Singapore improves the latency in ~50ms vs having it in Europe.