Thread: VPNs

Originally Posted by Sumbitch

No doubt that's close to home, EH? Where do you relocate your server when needed?

Well I mean I'm in Thailand and US Netflix is a bit of a bitch to get working nowadays so that specific ExpressVPN server location 'Denver' works well here.

Anywhere when I want to spoof. Cant really use the same VPN Server Location over and over again or a pattern could be recognized.

If its being slow I will switch to a random Singapore server in the list and try that first as a default go-to.

Originally Posted by Sumbitch

Right and PGP can be a bitch to learn which is why a lot of buyers skip it.

A lot of sellers will not do business without PGP encryption, and its pretty dangerous to try and do it without it.

Allegedly.

Originally Posted by Slick

Well I mean I'm in Thailand and US Netflix is a bit of a bitch to get working nowadays so that specific ExpressVPN server location 'Denver' works well here.

And you get 50 mbps? That's damn good. What is your mbps wo the VPN?

Originally Posted by Sumbitch

Can you post a layman's instructions here?

Well there really isn't a layman way. Its gonna be OS Specific but it looks something like this:

This is the message I want to send:

Teak door is a British Colony.

And this is the encrypted version:

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Comment: <<SNIP>> - <<SNIP>>

hQIMA8c0ikNZDxpJAQ/+IE5jETlM+SnDd9/3ifh58JawJBJEy1YWect9xS08B/Ao
J3eL2aPAhm+uxxFG0j8oYw0wAMikMNlCtBQQmnaUqr2ipCSgKH gHqgMj7Z87dKv9
3ZbjC7qhtXRqY41AUMhcn6+9/uTd1fTtQqXgTMd3MhBHGJhuLqSsumg9WOI/pnHZ
2BkTcRqnn7Eta42fIMl/MET4rB+QHJN62DHH5HUYcXO9MAPc4fIm83ergn+Zvv+F
Ky2MYAeY4mAfVJ6f8BLxybA3VEakKnPaRerApes7MgDHueanqz 9SbH1ythx8Oaew
CvfA4PPBVZN3hTANuRR36S9gFaWlJV0ESSKmsAN/pYJMxVqZE4+y0JNvDPjiIWy/
UFRTL3cLmeK5Gh1Pa0GtgBLUevrH4dnVspXzFyX0r7cKLhOvry qm3DxCFFttfd0P
SoCpUKM00HJkGjwc0jGT0rtvNRdRdZcymzltfcpnoZ/ZTPFfvwc7tLs5ioEibW5q
7DHEI4t64IgS6XqiuFHebaCtsCjOvddvBpmSdE6ifqNkW+nQ27 pl3cGkqP6SS98X
vSpmcsIj48QyyWjJRluQVlXfc2xNbu+3LNGyxQD5OZ3pZgclAn GJy9D2yQ5AwkaZ
8ALc0DV2Y9Wew/cjCTw5dz8qnL3af8+2nsO49AGjTWb95Xcn6D/uXiELBa9D7o2F
AQwDrTeOx1YIfYgBB/4mbdwFmjAkvneazKDuGcGPW22NVbuzIvLWB31Cmaf3Qr4i
fFRFIJIoA5hQzqAsdD7boZrAqN2qRAnI5Y7XuQMQk7FWIIyYDO N6m0O+o2t7endq
lQF/wKJALRFBVdgts8Dcthvgk9RzKyHKPrnulFCVWBohdUoV+QCXqs XEPc6lqVra
I9RJ3g3yLEf0MgFaw6/qpmMUgJKIdfLwdPKIx+4oceyx1CmM0CduhoaD02p6FPW2
2LcXJ0YUxVQu5ffeTVAVpdfiEhFcvR1qYRflSyMPJjxrEczEin VLihLwiQY8jo4z
B/lwuSHYGzLD19RvOLYLFHXpBIEDzQGMc8Hiio2C0lkB18uaRCUU e3b4/F1oD/ge
kyxT8btgACFz7HMl/1HsHnk97XOlkAsbYCLh2LyVqyA3pf3p6ND5NrhwPDvOEP7p
NIqBIQ60pcUNDc01VS0/rvzZtWipzuvwkQ==
=jdqa
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

And there are "keys" that need to be used but basically that wall of garbled text is the only text you would send to a person.

^ but how do you create and use the keys that provide encryption?

Originally Posted by Sumbitch

And you get 50 mbps? That's damn good. What is your mbps wo the VPN?

Pretty much when I just do a simple test thats by default to Bangkok or Korat. Maybe 35ish peak hour. No VPN.

Originally Posted by Sumbitch

They also recommend you maintain a "safe" house for delivery. That's a squat, man. Who has one of those with a valid PO address, especially if you live in a foreign country?

Sellers don't care what address you use, or where the address is, as long as they state they don't mind shipping 'overseas' and sellers will also ship to known buyers with good feedback or a long history.

The address thing isn't really an issue, but PGP is for a lot.

Allegedly.

Originally Posted by Sumbitch

^ but how do you create and use the keys that provide encryption?

Fuuuuuuk ok give me a minute on that.

^ get yourself a jug of samosas and take all day.

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

I have paid for IPVanish and can barely browse when connected. Used it two years ago and it was great. Decided to sign up again recently and it takes minutes to open a page. Like being on dial-up again.

Have you selected the fastest and closest server? The servers are listed along with their current capacity (the lower the better) on their website. I chose the Bangkok server and Speedtest.net by Ookla - The Global Broadband Speed Test gave me a ping of 17 ms, a download speed of 70 Mbps and an upload speed of 30 Mbps, which is faster than what I'm paying for. For newbies and n00bs:

The ping is the reaction time of your connection–how fast you get a response after you've sent out a request. A fast ping means a more responsive connection, especially in applications where timing is everything (like video games). Ping is measured in milliseconds (ms).

The download speed is how fast you can pull data from the server to you. Most connections are designed to download much faster than they upload, since the majority of online activity, like loading web pages or streaming videos, consists of downloads. Download speed is measured in megabits per second (Mbps).

The upload speed is how fast you send data from you to others. Uploading is necessary for sending big files via email, or in using video-chat to talk to someone else online (since you have to send your video feed to them). Upload speed is measured in megabits per second (Mbps).

IPVanish is rated #1 by the Tor project:

What is Tor?

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security.

Why Anonymity Matters

Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location.

Originally Posted by Slick

The address thing isn't really an issue

Um, it depends on what is being mailed to you, EH?

Originally Posted by Sumbitch

Security is essential if you're doing any torrent downloads

For torrents a Seedbox is best-
You instruct it to download a torrent file to the hosts servers -which sit on a super fast connection.
It saves the file there for you, and seeds it too as required, and when you are ready you download it from there, as a normal file, to you own computer, which it sends at the top speed of your internet connection.

lol^

TestMy.net is what I normally use. Its a more realistic speedtest

What makes TestMy.net Different?

TestMy.net will provide you with real-world broadband speed test results in real-world conditions. We stand for the consumer not the ISP so TestMy does not inflate scores to make your provider look better than they are or host our test servers on the edge of ISP networks. Our speed test servers are configured to maintain quality of service for thousands of miles and are hosted in locations where many popular websites are hosted. We believe this is a more accurate representation of your true speed. Most Internet consumers don't think about the Internet service providers responsibility in peering beyond their own network. Many Internet providers send users to their own internally hosted connection test. When you surf the net, how often are you visiting a server within your hosts network?

For example Speedtest.net clocked me just now (Bangkok Server)



TestMy.net > Combined Test > Tokyo Japan > Result Details:

Speed Test Result Details for ID OCoWkbxj3.L6DikPNh7

TiP Summary - Minimum :: 9.21 Mbps | Middle :: 23.75 Mbps | Maximum :: 38.21 Mbps

Singapore Server:

http://testmy.net/db/SVEbN9njM.6LUnEZGi7

TiP Summary - Minimum :: 23.9 Mbps | Middle :: 29.45 Mbps | Maximum :: 31.63 Mbps

Testing to Bangkok with basic SpeedTest isn't a very good indicator of 'speed' as probably 99% of the internet the expat looks at is hosted outside Thailand, so right off the bat your bottlenecked by their international gateway.

Probably gonna get 10,000 times worse if the junta gets their single gateway.

You guys worry about Torrent downloads that much? Ive downloaded several terabytes of torrents without anything other than just downloading to my HD or External HD. Never had any notice in thailand.

In the states I had an ISP (Verison) throttle me due to their "Fair Use Policy" for the "Remainder of the Billing Cycle" once.

Thats it.

Originally Posted by blue

For torrents a Seedbox is best

and they provide an openVPN server which you could configure to do more than just access your stored files

Seedbox helps if you have a slow connection too
you can get the karma of uploading terabytes back too .

I used to use this dirt cheap one

https://justseed.it/index.csp

but now you have to pay by bitcoin, not sure how that works
I'll look into it when my brain is working better..
Anyone here use bitcoin ?

Originally Posted by blue

Anyone here use bitcoin ?

Thats kinda like asking about PGP Encryption. Bit of a bitch/sorta complicated.

Do you have a credit/debit card? Not a Thailand one, but a real deal western one.

https://www.circle.com/en

This is what I use, but its been a while. Complicated at first.

Originally Posted by baldrick

crypto curriencies and the various blockchains will be heavily used in the future - get familiar with them

you are dreaming a bit here, they are about to be made illegal eventually

mark my words, and come back in 3 years to see where it is

Originally Posted by Slick

Thats kinda like asking about PGP Encryption. Bit of a bitch/sorta complicated.

Originally Posted by Slick

Do you have a credit/debit card?

yes but I was hoping to use paypal to get the bitcoin

Originally Posted by baldrick

sign up to an exchange in your own country

i'll have look at that.

Upon further research - fuck this bitcoin with PayPal lark,
Einstein would have been scratching his head too

I'll wait for a bitcoin ATM to come to North Yorkshire

Originally Posted by blue

Upon further research - fuck this bitcoin with PayPal lark,
Einstein would have been scratching his head too

Yeah, you should have looked at it first before quoting Einstein. That link I posted, thats all you need. That, a smartphone, credit card, bank account.