Thursday, June 9, 2016

Virtual Private Networks






VPN Servers

Have you ever tried to listen to some content from another country only to find out that they are blocking the connection from your country?  I discovered this problem when the 2012 Olympics were taking place and I wanted to watch some of the events in the UK.  Unfortunately, they were blocking connections from the United States.  By using a VPN Tunnel to the UK, I could trick the networks into thinking that I was in the UK by using a client that expatriated my connection and routed the signal through the UK's VPN Server.

Here is a good place to get a VPN Client, it's open source, and easy to use.  It's called VPN Gate and it creates a Virtual Private Network connection to any VPN server in any country.  It is sponsored by the University of Tsukuba, Japan.



http://www.vpngate.net/en/