Can anyone recommend a VPN?

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  • Colesy
    S2Forum Fiend
    • Feb 2009
    • 2982
    • Country: England

    #1

    Can anyone recommend a VPN?

    Have decided to bite the bullet and get a VPN as my ISP has started blocking some torrent sites.

    I know quite a few people on here are techy so thought I'd see what everyone was using?

  • mcandmar
    S2Forum Zealot
    • Apr 2004
    • 5118
    • Country: Ireland

    #2
    Let me guess piratebay? Stupid law just passed here requiring ISP's to block it

    Do you really mean VPN or are you looking for a proxy server?

    I've been experimenting with this https://www.torproject.org/download/...d-easy.html.en its basically a remote proxy/self contained web browser so you can access these blocked sites. As torrents are P2P all you need is to browse the site and download the .torrent file. Once imported into your torrent program it will download as normal. Its a bit slow and clunky but it works for the odd time i want to search a blocked site. Piratebay being the only one i know of over here.

    I'm sure there are countless other internet proxys available to do the same thing, but you have to setup your browsers to connect through them and to be honest i just dont trust them. You dont know who or what is looking at the traffic going through them.
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    • irishs2
      S2Forum Fiend
      • Apr 2009
      • 2455
      • Country: Ireland

      #3
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      • Jamo
        Retired OG Mod
        • Mar 2004
        • 21750
        • Country: United Kingdom

        #4
        just use the p i r a t e p r ox y sites

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        • 1781cc
          S2Forum Extremist
          • Nov 2011
          • 1253
          • Country: United Kingdom

          #5
          I use proxpn on mac and iPhone, iPad

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          • Colesy
            S2Forum Fiend
            • Feb 2009
            • 2982
            • Country: England

            #6
            Cheers for the replies. I use quite a few of the proxy sites at the mo but just thought it was time to get completely secure as I'm sure it won't be long before my ISP starts sending out letters if they've now started blocking sites.

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            • mcandmar
              S2Forum Zealot
              • Apr 2004
              • 5118
              • Country: Ireland

              #7
              I doubt they care about the content your downloading, they just dont like people using p2p as it creates a lot of network traffic, and usually people who download torrents are the ones using 100's of GB a month. A good customer is the one who pays £50 a month to read the news every now and again.
              91CQ20v - Gone to a new home
              93UR-S4 - The Magic Carpet
              94S2Bus - The Emerald Express

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