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Thread poster: Neil Coffey
Neil Coffey
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United Kingdom
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French to English
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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... See more
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) ▲ Collapse
 
Sushan Harshe
Sushan Harshe
India
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English to Hindi
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try this one! Sep 12, 2011

http://aws.amazon.com/vpc/
 
Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
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United Kingdom
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English to Polish
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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
 
Shouguang Cao
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China
Local time: 04:01
English to Chinese
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BreakWall VPN Mar 13, 2012

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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