VPN Recommendations and Discussion

[PeteC]

Some, maybe not all, VPN's advertise that the sites that go thru them on the way to you are checked for virus and malware. Or, they warn you if you're connecting to a site with a bad history of same. Whether it's true and 100% of the time I don't know. I think Express VPN says something about it on their site?

[Hahuahin]

This is an old tread but I try a question anyway. I invested in Express Vpn a month or so ago and are very satisficed with their product.
However, now first before Christmas I tried to connect to their server in home country and to my surprise it functions great so I could see news and some Christmas entertainment programs on the Pc from back home.
So my question; Is it anyway I could see the programs on my TV screen via the PC?

Thank you.
hahuahin

[Dannie Boy]

This is an old tread but I try a question anyway. I invested in Express Vpn a month or so ago and are very satisficed with their product.
However, now first before Christmas I tried to connect to their server in home country and to my surprise it functions great so I could see news and some Christmas entertainment programs on the Pc from back home.
So my question; Is it anyway I could see the programs on my TV screen via the PC?

Thank you.
hahuahin

Yes, just connect an HDMI cable between your PC and TV - that’s what I use to watch TV. I also use Express VoN but find that it often buffers and the programme stops for a number of seconds from time to time


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[Hahuahin]

This is an old tread but I try a question anyway. I invested in Express Vpn a month or so ago and are very satisficed with their product.
However, now first before Christmas I tried to connect to their server in home country and to my surprise it functions great so I could see news and some Christmas entertainment programs on the Pc from back home.
So my question; Is it anyway I could see the programs on my TV screen via the PC?

Thank you.
hahuahin

Yes, just connect an HDMI cable between your PC and TV - that’s what I use to watch TV. I also use Express VoN but find that it often buffers and the programme stops for a number of seconds from time to time


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Thank you. That's great

[GroveHillWanderer]

This is an old tread but I try a question anyway. I invested in Express Vpn a month or so ago and are very satisficed with their product.
However, now first before Christmas I tried to connect to their server in home country and to my surprise it functions great so I could see news and some Christmas entertainment programs on the Pc from back home.
So my question; Is it anyway I could see the programs on my TV screen via the PC?

Thank you.
hahuahin

Yes, just connect an HDMI cable between your PC and TV - that’s what I use to watch TV. I also use Express VoN but find that it often buffers and the programme stops for a number of seconds from time to time


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Depending on what model of TV and what operating system you use, you might not even need a cable.

I have a 6-year old Sony TV and with Windows 10, my laptop can connect wirelessly to the TV. It's a little unreliable at times so I often use a cable anyway but I would imagine a more recent model of TV would probably have better wireless connectivity than my old clunker..

[pharvey]

Is this something worth looking at? Tad expensive perhaps @ +/- US$250, will you be able to access BBCiPlayer?.....
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[Dannie Boy]

It would require further research but if it does allow you to access say the BBC iPlayer from Thailand, then the one-off cost would be recovered after less than 3 years of using a VPN provider such as ExpressVPN.

[buksida]

Pretty much everything on iPlayer is downloadable anyway so I personally will stick with Express.

[pharvey]

It would require further research but if it does allow you to access say the BBC iPlayer from Thailand, then the one-off cost would be recovered after less than 3 years of using a VPN provider such as ExpressVPN.

Exactly - but not just iPlayer, this (if it works) covers a multitude......

Pretty much everything on iPlayer is downloadable anyway so I personally will stick with Express.

Granted, but these days I'm also looking at security which these guys "profess to provide" the majority of other VPN's don't. My company's laptop sees straight through the VPN I currently use for iPlayer/Sports etc. (when outside UK).

I'm stuck in the UK at the moment and whilst having access to a multitude of sports, movies and TV, I'm still the selfish barsteward who downloads from P2P sites - hence a VPN. However, I don't class my VPN (or Internet connection) as secure - 2 "neighbours" have had their Internet accounts "hacked" and apparently attempts on their bank accounts made.

If this system does what it says it does, I may well be interested. My concern is, I need to be able to set a UK IP address.

[buksida]

All a VPN does is encrypt the data and mask the IP address. You'll want an internet security suite such as those provided by Kaspersky or Norton if you want more security.

The 'hacking' you speak of has probably been a phishing attack which happens when personal data is leaked/stolen - usually from social media. Neither a VPN nor a security suite can prevent this, only more vigilance with what personal info you share online.

[pharvey]

All a VPN does is encrypt the data and mask the IP address. You'll want an internet security suite such as those provided by Kaspersky or Norton if you want more security.

The 'hacking' you speak of has probably been a phishing attack which happens when personal data is leaked - usually from social media. Neither a VPN nor a security suite can prevent this, only more vigilance with what personal info you share online.

Understand what you're saying with regards to the VPN and IP address buks and thanks for clarifying. These guys though are stating a "DPN", not "VPN" - a supposedly different system?

[hhinner]

This appears to be a shared resource network. Their 2 boxes Deeper Mini and Deeper Nano are both sold out. If you visit the website (deeper.network) you can check the FAQ and the white paper. The monthly newsletter is interesting in that its latest issue is last July.

[PeteC]

So as not to get the TOT thread too far off topic, I think if you open up the full Express VPN menu and try to select locations that are used less by subscribers than the "Smart Locations", you may get better results simply because those servers are less busy.

Human nature for people to select the choice that hits them in the face when they first look, leaving other servers under used?

[Dannie Boy]

I’ve often tried other locations - there used to be more but now just 4 UK locations and sometimes the BBC iPlayer still picks up that you’re not in the UK. I normally stick with the one that works until something goes wrong, but this morning only tried one alternative and when that didn’t work assumed (wrongly) that it was all of the UK locations. I’ll keep it under review

[buksida]

The 'smart locations' change depending on where you are - the network attempts to find the fastest connection outside the source country. Routing through Singapore instead of Bangkok gives me a much faster and more stable connection (and zero censorship or DNS issues), I don't use it for TV.

As an update Dannie, did they sort out the issues you were having before with iPlayer?