well, depending on whether you use a free or paid service will make a difference in both service quality and setup. I use a paid service myself. It's $7 a month and is fairly reliable. I have tried some free services, but they are mostly hit and miss and are not always as secure. the service I use is located here: www.privateinternetaccess.com and they have both client software or you can setup manually. Unfortunately, their client software for the mac is not accessible, so I use a manual setup in the preferences pane. It works reasonably well. I have also done the manual setup in windows 7. This has allowed me to be able to have dropbox and a few other services when I am behind a firewall (like over at Voc rehab) THeir IT folks have gotten on my case more than once, until I pointed out to them that their own policy does not forbid the use of a vpn (it does, however, forbid the use of sharing services that are unprotected on their networks). I even had one of them try to break into my machine (at my request) and they found it well nigh impossible. I had the firewall on that win 7 box setup so that only traffic on the VPN was allowed in or out and everything else got dropped. That took a lot of heavy customization on my part to make it work.
so, if you want to run a VPN, which these days is pretty much going to be a must now that ISP's aren't required to keep your info private, it is highly recommended.. btw, a lot of the free vpn services are not all that bandwidth friendly. thats why I use the service I do. they can support up to 20 Mbits/sec. for what I do, thats a must have. -eric On Apr 9, 2017, at 9:17 AM, E.T. wrote: > The recent discussion about VPN got me interested but I was not ready to > look into it at the time. > > I know the setup is done in Network prefs but where does one get > information on VPN servers etc.? Thanks. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard. . . > "God for you is where you sweep away all the > mysteries of the world, all the challenges to > our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off > and say God did it." --Carl Sagan > E-mail: ancient.ali...@icloud.com > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: macvisionaries+modera...@googlegroups.com and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
