vpn provider

Hello folks. I'm in the market for a good vpn provider. One that works through a router because I have various bits of hardware I want to go through a vpn........
I have no experience using vpn so something easy and simple would be good. Ive been looking about for a provider but cant decide so help would be greatly appreciated. .....

What is the purpose of the VPN as that will have a bearing on who is best to deliver it for you.

Hello ian. Its for torrents and newsnet. I have a network hard drive for this. Also xbox live and I have two wd live media players.

I use Giganews which gives a free Golden Frog subscription

Airvpn is worth a look.
They are very open about their server load so you can judge which one to connect to.
Link
They have some guides on the site for Tomato and DDWRT and you can download custom Openvpn config files.
I even managed to get it working with a Synology NAS. The problem being having to use a personal certificate as opposed to just a username and password.

This is a speedtest through one of their UK servers:
Speedtest

I still think I am pretty naive here. Apart from obfuscation of what you are doing (for whatever reason) what is the benefit of using a VPN as these services do not need a VPN to operate?

Is this to stop big brother spying (ie NSA), to stop the copyright holders knowing who has done the download or is there another reason that I just don't understand for adding additional overhead to what is essentially simple downloads?

Ian I do realise the things that I mentioned don't need vpn to operate but my isp in their great wisdom have decided to cap my connection when I'm downloading torrents. So this is why I'm looking a vpn.........

LOL .

Will the VPN be free, or will the total cost be greater than using an ISP that doesn't do that?

Edit - currently with ADSL24/Coms?

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 19-Mar-14 14:01:45)

Hi gmoorc I also have a synology nas. The only problem is being a novice at all this I think I would get lost very quick trying the set it up.......lol
Apart from vpn is there any other options I could look into.

Hello robertos. I pay a high price for what was a very good service but now I regret to say its not the same.....
I dont like to drop names cause it's not my way but I have considered moving to a different isp. I was looking at a few price's and I might just have to bite the bullet and move

Well if you want to use the Synology it is very easy to connect to a VPN provider as long as they use password authentication. Just use the VPN client app.
If using torrents you would probably want a VPN service that will allow you to forward ports. (Configurable through a website rather than a client app on a PC)

Airvpn use client/server/key certificates which requires a fair bit more work to use on a Synology box. Link.

If it were me however, and given your exchange with Bob, I would be looking to move to a different ISP. Rate limiting is so last year

Can't offer any other solutions to avoid traffic shaping if they are using clever DPI kit. A virtual private server/seedbox maybe but then I think that's moving into the realms of overkill just to bypass traffic management!

You could try a VPN for around a fiver if you just want to see how you would get on with it.

Thanks very much for all your help folks. I've decided that I'll just change isp and stop a whole lot of hassle. .........

Very wise .

In reply to a post by saboo1690:

Ian I do realise the things that I mentioned don't need vpn to operate but my isp in their great wisdom have decided to cap my connection when I'm downloading torrents. So this is why I'm looking a vpn.........

Aha, that is cool as that finally gives me a reason for someone doing it barring the obvious. Be interesting to know what the ISP thinks about people using VPN to get around their blocks though - especially if it is in their Ts&Cs. But, that is possibly the best reason for VPN I have seen to date.

In reply to a post by saboo1690:

Ian I do realise the things that I mentioned don't need vpn to operate but my isp in their great wisdom have decided to cap my connection when I'm downloading torrents. So this is why I'm looking a vpn.........

If it is just for torrents, I would look at a seedbox instead. The torrents run on their server, then when done you download the file through your browser, the same as any normal download.

seedbox.eu do one at �7 a month