Sunday, October 28, 2012

VPN

I bought a year subscription to a VPN service. What this does is allow me to route all my web browsing to a link in the USA. This allows me to browse privately on the web. I am able to access sites like Netflix where you can't when you are traveling. So when I wake up at some ungodly hour, sick, or just in the mood fir a late night movie, I can now access my Netflix account. Sometimes bank will not allow access from other countries ip address where as now it looks like i am till in the USA . I put some professional information below for anyone intrigued.

A virtual private network (VPN) is a technology for using the Internet or another intermediate network to connect computers to isolated remote computer networks that would otherwise be inaccessible. A VPN provides varying levels of security so that traffic sent through the VPN connection stays isolated from other computers on the intermediate network, either through the use of a dedicated connection from one "end" of the VPN to the other, or through encryption. VPNs can connect individual users to a remote network or connect multiple networks together.
For example, users may use a VPN to connect to their work computer terminal from home and access their email, files, images, etc.
Through VPNs, users are able to access resources on remote networks, such as files, printers, databases, or internal websites. VPN remote users get the impression of being directly connected to the central network via a point-to-point link.

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