Hey you, online worker, you got that connection all encrypted and tunnelled to your favourite websites and services? I know a huge percent of you do because I’ve been keeping an eye on the vpn/rdp stats recently — a lot more people are using VPN’s to connect to the web and also using RDP or Remote Desktop to maybe connect to the companies network.
But if your not then one of these might be a good fit for you.
I recommend all of them in equal measure and I’d heartily recommend getting maybe a couple and rotating around the usage of them — you know to test for speed and connection quality, it’s good to have a backup on a backup!
https://speedify.com/blog/coronavirus-plan-of-action — good to see speedify reacting to the current isolation in place news for digital workers.
Most VPN’s these days have much better plans if you pay for a yearly or tri-yearly package and once you have a decent provider that you know is gonna stay around you don’t mind renewing these — especially for the peace of mind it brings you and additional features like for instance for me using Netflix party together or platforms in the US where I need to have an America IP address.
please do note that the ibvpn url is an affiliate link, they are a vpn company that I’ve trusted for multiple years and suggest the ultimate vpn package which is currently 50% off if you use the code ‘STAYHOME2020’
services mentioned in the video
speedify
https://speedify.com/desktop-vpn
ibvpn
https://my.ibvpn.com/aff.php?aff=7371
mullvad
https://mullvad.net/en
tunnelbear
https://www.tunnelbear.com
My personal favourite is the ibvpn solution because the ultimate package gives a lot of additional services for complete all around security and allows up to five devices too, especially like the socks5 support — if you are just starting out tunnelbear is simple, cute and easy to use.
If you are a zoom user all of a sudden from having far too many video chats and meetings then maybe take a look at speedify as that recent offer and updated codebase for optimising for live streams might be really useful for QoS (quality of service) in their latest version 9.6
Speedify is also great if you have a home internet wired connection and an unlimited 4g/5g cellular data package too because you can actually bond the connections together to give you either a faster connection or a redundant connection if one goes slow for any reason, highly recommended you give that a test out — the fastest the better right? :)
Enjoy, stay safe, just one less thing to think about in the middle of adapting to the potential new working from home life for the next six months potentially at least here in England!
Have a great week!
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