Sam
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Can anyone recommend any good UK VPNs, preferably with a large selection of servers/IPs to connect to?
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Dom
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HideMyAss and VPNUK are worth looking at, never personally used either though. A cheap UK LEB running OpenVPN would be another option although you obviously wouldn't have the server/IP selection.
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Sam
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I've used HideIPVPN in the past but they only have 4 or 5 IPs. Will check out those two you mentioned, Dom, cheers.
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James
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I use HideMyAss. Seemed to come out on top when I looked into it a while back.
Someone on here recommended UnblockUS but it's not a VPN and only works for a handle of sites.
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Sam
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Decided to sign up with SecurityKISS in the end. Seems pretty good for my requirements, and reasonably priced too.
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Toby
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Sorry to gate crash, but would using a VPN like the one you have chosen, would it avoid traffic shaping for Usenet as even using SSL ports they can see it.
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Dom
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I'd be trying the other SSL ports your Usenet provider offers before using a VPN, as you're likely to get slower speeds using Usenet over a VPN connection. That and most VPN services come with limited bandwidth.
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Toby
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Astraweb offers two and Plusnet can see them both 443 and 563.
I went unlimited with Plusnet and they said they would throttle, well thats one word for it, dropping at 6pm almost on the dot my speeds drop from around 850~kb/s to arouns 12~kb/s and i cant cope.
Arent VPN's SSL? That to me, means they would provide as much bandwith as i can take (within reason and i dont think 8meg is going to cause to many issues) Also, ive seen HideMyAss does unlimited bandwith for $11 which i could live with.
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Dom
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SSL just means it's encrypted. The VPN could still come with a connection (ie: limits your to 1Mbit etc) or bandwidth limits. So you'd need to read exactly what the VPN is offering and any restriction (having a quick look i can't see anything on the HideMyAss site).
Using a VPN might help you though.
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Toby
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cheers Dom, may roll with it for a month and see its only a few $'s. Not sure how long i need it for as looking to be on the move within the next couple of months anyway.
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