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I recently moved to Japan and I'd like to use the internet as if I were in the states (for the purpose of watching American netflix and sports clips that are blocked in japan). Can anybody recommend a VPN or Proxy service that would do this? I don't mind paying. I'm looking for something respectable and above board. What I don't want is something shady that will spam we with adds and viruses. Thanks!
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Oct 12, 2015 05:56
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rent a vps and set one up yourself
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Oct 12, 2015 07:15
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mindphlux posted:rent a vps and set one up yourself I guess another requirement I have is that it must be relatively simple to do. I've got no idea how to set one up myself.
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Oct 12, 2015 07:41
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iddqd posted:I guess another requirement I have is that it must be relatively simple to do. I've got no idea how to set one up myself. A couple of colleagues of mine use this: https://www.tigervpn.com/ And they are very happy with it, I don't use it myself though. They are pretty critical so I usually take their opinions on something pretty seriously.
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Oct 12, 2015 08:04
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I have had a good experience with https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ so far. Their android/windows client is very simple to use and I get decent speeds on it.
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Oct 12, 2015 08:07
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Bohemian Cowabunga posted:I have had a good experience with https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ so far. One more recomendation for PIA. It's about one of the cheapest options out there - If you can get a year when they have a special on it's very cheap. It's also one of the fastest i have found for both response times and overall upload / download EDIT: If you just need American Netflix, Hulu and so on. Just use https://www.unblock-us.com Lilleput fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Oct 12, 2015 10:11
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Thanks guys, I'll try PIA.
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Oct 13, 2015 00:16
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I'll also be moving to an Asian country very soon that has a pretty draconian internet censorships policies. In order to circumvent a lot of their censorships I decided to follow this guide to create my own VPN through AWS' EC2 service. To my surprise, after following the guide step by step, I actually have a working VPN that works pretty well now. Unfortunately, like the OP, I also have no knowledge of computer networking/programming other than some basic VBA programming skills and have no idea how secure/stable this VPN would be in the future. I'd be really thankful if anyone familiar with how VPN works can help look at the guide and determine how safe and secure it actually is.
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Jul 7, 2016 07:44
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Shrinkage posted:...can help look at the guide and determine how safe and secure it actually is. It is safe enough in regards to someone stealing access to your vpn. Just don't lose your ovpn files or the key pair. The more worrisome thing is that it only uses the vpn for ipv4. If you have ipv6 enabled (you can see if you do by this website) then it is possible that you can have traffic that is not going through the vpn. This is no different than any other paid vpn provider, as far as i know none of them support ipv6 yet. You can set it up on servers you run yourself but it is not easy at all. If you have ipv6 connectivity that kind of traffic doesnt go through the vpn you could still be tracked. The best you can do is just disable ipv6 connectivity when you use your vpn. disabling ipv6
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Jul 7, 2016 08:27
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Incomplete Fish posted:It is safe enough in regards to someone stealing access to your vpn. Just don't lose your ovpn files or the key pair. Thanks for the info on disabling IPv6, I'll be sure to do what you've advised once I've moved in a month. My main concern with security is that I will be using the VPN to access my brokerage account which for some reason is blocked in the country that I'm going to. Even though the brokerage is protected by a 2 step verification system, I'd sleep better if I know that the data transmitted through the VPN cannot be seen by anyone else. Is there any good book that you'd recommend that comprehensively covers the subject of networking (and maybe on nework security too) and VPN?
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Jul 7, 2016 09:23
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Most VPNs/Proxies don't work with Netflix now since they've been pretty serious about blocking them.
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Jul 7, 2016 11:53
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Stanley Pain posted:Most VPNs/Proxies don't work with Netflix now since they've been pretty serious about blocking them. The one i built on AWS does. 
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Jul 7, 2016 12:23
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Shrinkage posted:I'll also be moving to an Asian country very soon that has a pretty draconian internet censorships policies. In order to circumvent a lot of their censorships I decided to follow this guide to create my own VPN through AWS' EC2 service. In China OpenVPN would be blocked after ~10 hours usage due to offline deep-packet-inspection. This is why the HK VPN providers ship a modified version to attempt to mask out parts of the protocol which are detectable. You generally need a few options at hand, one because many routers are cheap junk and don't always forward non-TCP protocols, secondly entire service blocking is not uncommon.
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Jul 7, 2016 14:49
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MrMoo posted:In China OpenVPN would be blocked after ~10 hours usage due to offline deep-packet-inspection. Do you have any opinion on if this applies to ssh tunneling, as well? I've never really known much about China's firewall and it seems like they could be blocking legitimate usage of vpns or ssh or any number of useful protocols by banning them arbitrarily
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Jul 7, 2016 21:53
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MrMoo posted:In China OpenVPN would be blocked after ~10 hours usage due to offline deep-packet-inspection. This is why the HK VPN providers ship a modified version to attempt to mask out parts of the protocol which are detectable. Fortunately i'll be moving to Indonesia instead of China, and from what I've heard it is pretty common there for people to use VPN to circumvent the censorships, so hopefully at least in the near future the VPN method should still work. Right? Can you talk more about these few options though, in case they become necessary in the future? And maybe some reading recommendations? I'm really lost on this subject matter. Shrinkage fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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Jul 7, 2016 22:00
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MrMoo posted:In China OpenVPN would be blocked after ~10 hours usage due to offline deep-packet-inspection.
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Jul 7, 2016 23:08
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Incomplete Fish posted:Do you have any opinion on if this applies to ssh tunneling, as well? I've never really known much about China's firewall and it seems like they could be blocking legitimate usage of vpns or ssh or any number of useful protocols by banning them arbitrarily So far I've only seen blocking on OpenVPN, what happens is that after it has been detected the IP is cut off so you cannot use it for anything. The ban lasts for ~4 months or so. I have OpenVPN, IPsec, and PPTP running on the same host and the other two were never blocked explicitly but many lovely connections simply don't support GRE or ESP pass through. I have the following toolkit running in Linode's Newark datacentre:
A lot of devices support multiple VPNs such as iOS, macOS, and ChromeOS, the latter limited on configuration options despite using StrongSwan & OpenVPN underneath. IKEv2 support is finally widespread so you don't have to use the "Cisco" VPN client in iOS any longer. I try to recommend using OpenVPN/443 in every country but China and for in China use IPsec IKEv2 with Tunnel Bear as immediate backup. Random hotels in Japan and South Korea like blocking everything but HTTP & HTTPS so choices do get limited. MrMoo fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Jul 7, 2016 |
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Jul 7, 2016 23:43
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Shrinkage posted:The one i built on AWS does. Of course, any custom VPN you build that sits on an IP range that isn't blocked by Netflix will work.
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Jul 8, 2016 11:39
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Shrinkage posted:The one i built on AWS does. Ha. Smart. Having said that, Netflix went ahead and blocked the IP range of most data centers so good luck to people rolling their own.
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Jul 8, 2016 12:04
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Shrinkage posted:The one i built on AWS does. I tried this awhile ago but Netflix is aggressively blocking nearly everything except residential IP space. I was surprised to find online that even most of the AWS pools (well except the ones they use) were banned, I'm unsure how you managed to get an address that works.
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Jul 8, 2016 14:36
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The Gunslinger posted:I tried this awhile ago but Netflix is aggressively blocking nearly everything except residential IP space. I was surprised to find online that even most of the AWS pools (well except the ones they use) were banned, I'm unsure how you managed to get an address that works. I have no idea, lol.
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