Questions about a VPN.

[whiteboy]

Do you guys use one?
Does it slow down your internet?
Does it cover your whole network or is specific to each pc.
And does it cause issues with torrent sites? Do I need to let them know.

Considering Anonine

[Beck38]

Anonine - Swedish provider

reviews...
http://myvpnreviews.com/anonine/#reviews

If you are handy with programming/setup of routers, you can get dd-wrt and 'roll yet own' setup that will take your entire local network and port it through the vpn, either pptp or openvpn. Either that or put clients on each pc, but of course that either means 'swapping' the link around or paying for an account for each of them. There doesn't appear to be any 'plug and play' router boxes out there for this service, although I didn't look very hard; and then that box may be a 'chocking point', again, depending upon your ISP speed.

Biggest thing is, what the throughput is, and that depends on what your going to use it for (and what your local link speed is, of course, plus the encrypting router if any). Since they have what appears to be only one 'gateway' (in Sweden), it may or may not get you the throughput you want. Then again, who knows. Luckily, it is purchases on a 'month to month' basis, so you can try it out pretty cheaply (no contract).

[Hole69]

Why would you need one at all? I just use SSL, and that doesn't slow anything down.

[ddggdd]

I used one before, only on the dedicated download box, not slow and some pt permit it if you tell them first.
for #3: for not being caught by people behind that famous stupid oscar winning movie.

[whiteboy]

Thanks for the replies guys. I run a server that runs my client but I access the sites from a different pc. I guess I am more worried about utorrent sharing my IP then the log of the site.

Why would you need one at all? I just use SSL, and that doesn't slow anything down.

I do this as well but I was more concerned about my torrent client.

[Hole69]

I'd use a program that anonymizes your IP and leave it at that. Simpler. And if you use Usenet, why bother with the gigantic honeypot that is torrenting?

[zot]

There have been literally hundreds of discussion threads on this site about VPNs, so I don't know what I could add that I've not already said many times before.

But I will say again that I greatly prefer using (paid) SOCKS/HTTP proxies to VPNs -- for more reasons than I have time to list.

[nntpjunkie]

VPN is great for making your network traffic comings and goings private - little tip though, if you are torrenting make sure that there is nothing in the VPN provider's terms of service that prevent that or you could be like the many unfortunate souls who have been outed and reported by Giganews through their VyperVPN service.

[whiteboy]

I guess I will just continue to free ball and cross my fingers. I use usenet whenever I can. But sometimes it doesn't have everything.

[zot]

you could be like the many unfortunate souls who have been outed and reported by Giganews through their VyperVPN service.

Unlike the infamous HideMyAss incident, I've not seen a single instance of anyone complaining of being "outed" or "reported" by Giganews/VyperVPN, so please provide a link to this damning evidence to back up your accusation, if you wouldn't mind.

What I have seen, however, are user reports of Giganews cutting off service -or threatening to- for people who torrent and get their [*logged* by Giganews] VPN's IP address nailed by the copyright cops. But getting an internal reprimand is completely different from being ratted-out, as you seem to be claiming.