Free VPN from RealVPN- First 50,000 Beta accounts

[ARK]

Giving away 50,000 beta accounts, already 20,300 taken.

PPTP and OpenVPN

Servers in US, UK, Germany, France and Netherlands

http://www.real-vpn.com/

[Jon Lai]

Signed up anyways even though I don't know what to do with it.

Any creative ideas?

[Tha DraGun]

Signed up anyways even though I don't know what to do with it.

Any creative ideas?

Its good to access sites that are only allowed to Americans. eg Hulu, Pandora etc.

[murdoc2k]

Just signed up. Thanks!

Time to look up how to get it working....

[JamesA1]

Worth a shot. But keep in mind that VPNs are like web hosts: it costs them nothing to sign up way too many users without adding any capacity. It's only as useful as the performance they actually deliver, especially for media streaming. Also you should never access any secure web site over an untrusted VPN - they see all your traffic, so it's a security risk.

Note: "P2P is only allowed on the Netherlands server !" (but many legit VPN services don't allow P2P at all, due to overwhelming traffic volume)

Quick test (OpenVPN and PPTP): it works, but too slow for video streaming on UK OpenVPN server (BBC iPlayer) and U.S. PPTP (Hulu, ABC, NBC). U.S. OpenVPN was ok on the minimal video bandwidth setting.

You need to update OpenVPN to the latest version 2.2.1 to work with their config files.

The PPTP VPN connection works on the HP TouchPad after installing the PPTP extension from the app store (but you must un-check the MSCHAP authentication and leave only MSCHAP2 allowed).

[redline]

I'm currently evaluating different VPN services, so 'thanks' go to ARK, and to JamesA1 for some useful info.

[Jon Lai]

Its good to access sites that are only allowed to Americans. eg Hulu, Pandora etc.

Cool! So how do I do that? I've got my username and password from them now. Thanks.

[ARK]

Cool! So how do I do that? I've got my username and password from them now. Thanks.

First setup your PPTP VPN

http://www.windows7hacker.com/index....-in-windows-7/

For US VPN use: us.real-vpn.com

Once you are connected, go to Hulu or Pandora and enjoy music/shows

[poorwingman]

Users limit: 68605 / 70000

How was the service been so far? Looking for a vpn server to get to US netflix/hulu as well as unthrottle BT

I saw one post earlier that talked about security because the VPN server can intercept all your data.. should that be a concern with these guys?

[rageking]

For those interested in VPN for bittorrenting, you will need the VPN service to support RPF (Remote port forwarding). Not all support it.

Without RPF things will be very slow.

[Jon Lai]

First setup your PPTP VPN

http://www.windows7hacker.com/index....-in-windows-7/

For US VPN use: us.real-vpn.com

Once you are connected, go to Hulu or Pandora and enjoy music/shows

Is it possible or is anyone familiar with how to setup Hulu/Pandora via VPN onto the ATV2 running XBMC? Thanks.

[YLSF]

Not sure as of tonight but for at least 3 or 4 days I couldn't connect to the Real Vpn server. Not sure what is going on on their end, saw a post saying they were working on fixing it on their facebook page a few days back.

[helloyouall]

approx. 500 still available

[ocaan]

all gone.

[laika99]

Connected to USA server on Dec 25 and streamed music through Pandora most of the day -> it worked well. Could not connect to USA or UK servers since Dec 26th. Now connecting but very slow browsing. They seem to be having problems, according to posts on their Facebook page.