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VPN recommendations?

Neil Coffey  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
Local time: 14:07
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Sep 11, 2011

Slightly off-topic, but I know some translators use VPNs.

Can anybody recommend a decent VPN service. I've so far been using PureVPN, and things started off well, but recently the quality of service and support really seems to have declined so I'm looking for alternatives.

So, can anyone offer an alternative that ideally:

- offers decent bandwidth
- is reliable-- e.g. doesn't randomly disconnect, drop bandwidth etc
- ideally, supports encryption (L2TP/IPSec)
- offers connection to a variety of countries, including UK/US/France
- nice-to-have: offers a fixed IP (that really stays fixed and by "fixed" they don't mean "randomly changes from time to time")
- ideally, isn't too expensive (e.g. in the order of $10-$30 / month)


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Sushan Harshe
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try this one! Sep 12, 2011

http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/

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Stanislaw Czech  Identity Verified
United Kingdom
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not exactly a vpn but Sep 12, 2011

Logmein could be a good substitute - https://secure.logmein.com/products/default.aspx

Best Regards
Stanislaw


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Dallas Cao  Identity Verified
China
Local time: 21:07
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BreakWall VPN Mar 13

Hi Neil,

I am a user of BreakWall VPN ( https://breakwall.net ). They primarily work for people in China accessing blocked sites but they meet your needs perfectly.

Server in UK yes.
Static IP yes.
L2TP/IPsec yes.
Reliable? yes from my experience
Cheap? OK.

Dallas

[Edited at 2012-03-13 06:44 GMT]


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