VPN service for Calgary [Region specific question]

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/r/Calgary do you use a VPN or a smartDNS service for work, home or play? I am considering subscribing to a service to secure traffic at home and to use on my personal laptop in client locations that have specific firewall rules which do not allow me to access my target addresses or ports. (AKA Tunneling).

So the question I pose to you users? Which service do you use? and are you happy with the speeds and up time? I’m not interested in entertaining any illicit activities just plain old boring bypass for services I have running at home, work, and cloud data.

With so many available I am at a loss which will work best for our city as many of them are overseas and look shady AF.

Thank you for your time.

Should you have no input on this topic to kindly ignore this post.

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This VPN service has been great for me:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

Paid VPN is always preferable in my opinion

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Stay away from HideMyAss. They were great until I wanted to cancel, then someone at the company stole my credit card info.

As for a good one, ExpressVPN is what I am using right now, and I like them. I get great speeds.

For services like Netflix in different regions, we were using Unblockus, but it is pretty much useless now, so I cancelled.

TOR works great for browsing the internet encrypted, checking emails, etc.

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SurfEasy. Michael Geist, one of Canada’s top privacy experts is a board member, and if he trusts it, so do I. :slight_smile: $2.99/mo

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I use VPNGhost (www.vpnghost.net). They are local and pretty damn fast. They had some issues with torrenting so they opened a few servers in Europe that are torrent specific. I think they are about $40/year. For that price you get keys for around 25 servers around the world. It’s not much but they are fast and reliable.

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If you’re up for it you could get a basic-as-fuck VPS and just SSH into it as a bounce point, and have all your traffic go through it. This way you would retain complete control.

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I’ve used SlickVPN for a few months now and have had good experiences with it.

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Nothing ilegal? just bypassing? use proxy.

 

Something ilegal? need encryption and privacy? use VPN (OpenVPN, L2TP, SSTP, Softether Client…etc)

 

Need to watch Netflix US, UK, etc? Use SmartDNS (can build your own)

https://www.reddit.com/r/SmartDNS/comments/4oep4q/how_to_build_your_own_smartdns_in_1_click_using/

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Does it work with USA Netflix?

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+2 works great for me too

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PIA

+4. Customer for years. Mobile App is a nice touch. Speeds are usually great.

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+6? 7?, using it for a couple years on a few devices with great success

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Torrents are less than 500kb/s.

What are you getting?

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Do you guys run it via the software on the OS or at the router level?

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Seconded ExpressVPN. I have used surfeasy in the past but wanted the ability to configure my router with OpenVPN. ExpressVPN is a bit more expensive but the speeds are great and it does allow OpenVPN client/server depending on your device.

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I should also mention that it is the only one successfully working for other Netflix regions…

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Nice tip. I had WiTopia and I’ve used it for the past 4+ years and my subscription just ended. I had close to zero issues with them but I did read a list that WiTopia logs their users activities, etc. There’s a free trial with VPN Ghost so I’ll try them out.

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Oooo, I used that one as well a few years ago. It was full of spyware.

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Most vps providers have had their entire ip blocks blacklisted by netflix if thats what you are wanting to do.

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Not anymore unfortunately. Netflix has been playing IP-address-whack-a-mole and has added PIA addresses to the block list apparently.

Whatever, you can just torrent anything that they won’t offer legitimately. Their loss (not Netflix, I’m talking about the content distributers and content licensing middlemen).

I personally prefer to pay for digital content out of principle, except in cases where they create artificial barriers like that.