VPN How To’s
5 Things to Do Before Torrenting With a VPN
Torrenting with a VPN is a great first step. However, even if you do torrent with a VPN, you could be missing some essential security guidelines. In this post, we have created an infographic to help you with the 5 things to do before torrenting with a VPN. Are you looking for some VPN providers that are great for torrenting and P2P? Check out this post.
End-All VPN solution to Ending IP leaks
VPNs are amazing tools to encrypt your internet traffic, but like all widely used tools, they have vulnerabilities. If you’re not using a top tier VPN, you might be experiencing some form of an IP leak. Since VPNs are designed to protect your IP address, this can be a huge problem. IP leaks can be in the form of DNS leaks, IPv6 leaks, and WebRTC leaks. If you want to check if you have an IP...[Read More]
10 Most Common VPN Questions Answered
VPNs while easy to use, can be confusing and complicated things. There’s a lot of extra security features, configurations, protocols, and settings in each VPN application that can be useful, but hard to understand. Not only that but the VPN market itself makes picking a VPN hard since each VPN provider website promises everything and hides their weaknesses. A good majority of the time you...[Read More]
Best VPNs to Use With Torrents Time
Torrent streaming has been around for awhile, but just recently, a new website called Torrents Time has brought torrents into the browser alongside streaming capabilities. Torrents Time is like other popular movie / TV show streaming site, but the difference is that the files are sourced directly from torrents themselves. The process sounds a bit confusing, but after a quick download of the Torren...[Read More]
How to Use a VPN to Watch the SuperBowl for Free
Have you stocked up on nachos? Filled your fridge with frozen pizza rolls and jampacked your pantry full of soda cans? OR maybe you’re the healthy type–if so, hunt down those celery sticks and peanut butter! It’s party time, and you have to be ready! If not, it’s time for preparation, because this guide is going to show you how to use a VPN to watch the SuperBowl for free ...[Read More]
5 Easy to Use VPNS
VPNs are hot right now–and there’s a lot of reasons why this is: China restricting access to it’s huge internet user base Netflix limiting VPN usage based on geo-location BBC iPlayer blocking VPN use everywhere Countless countries placing restrictions on popular encrypted internet applications like WhatsApp But one of the biggest reasons more people are using VPNs is becau...[Read More]
How to Torrent with TorGuard VPN
Torrenting without a VPN can be dangerous. Of course, this depends on what you’re downloading, but even if you’re downloading content that is not illegally shared, you still may not want others to know your IP address. It doesn’t matter which application you’re using, whether that is uTorrent, BitTorrent, Vuze, or our favorite- qBittorrent–your IP address is shown t...[Read More]
How to Torrent with Private Internet Access VPN
Torrenting without a VPN is a risk. The reason is that your IP address becomes public to other users helping you download and share the file. Torrenting works through a peer to peer system and every user downloading a torrent file is in what is called a “swarm”. Worst case scenario is that some third party user enters the swarm to monitor and log the IP addresses of people downloading ...[Read More]
VPN OpenVPN Setup for Android and iOS
Unfortunately, only the top tier VPN providers have designed mobile applications. Our favorite mobile applications are easy to use, and don’t require you to install a bunch of stuff or configure your settings to connect. A good mobile VPN application only requires you to tap connect, and then you’ll connect. Check out some of these VPN providers if you want a good iOS VPN provider. Sou...[Read More]
Unblock Netflix with a VPN
Is Netflix not available in your country? Netflix unavailability is a common issue for users in countries where Netflix hasn’t worked out content license deals for their content distribution. A majority of the content on Netflix isn’t owned by Netflix itself (new shows excluding) so they can’t necessarily show the same content for every country they expand to. However, that doesn’t mean that you h...[Read More]
How to Use a VPN at Starbucks
I doubt the average person entering a Starbucks has VPNs on their mind. The crisp chocolatey, (sometimes burnt) scent of mocha invades their nostrils and the lazy music of the coffee shop lurs their mind into a false sense of security. By the time the average customer connects to the Wi-Fi connection on their phone, tablet, or mobile computer, they might as well be curled up next to a fireplace at...[Read More]
What is the difference between PPTP, L2TP/IPsec, SSTP, IKEv2, and OpenVPN?
If you’ve just started your VPN, or just looked at your VPN application settings lately, you might have noticed multiple options to change your protocol within the VPN. Don’t be afraid, these protocols aren’t that complicated. VPN providers give users control to select which protocol they want to use within their VPN applications. These protocols include Point-to-Point Tunneling (PPTP), Layer 2 Tu...[Read More]
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