VPNs or Virtual Private Networks as Fast As Possible

virtual private networks or vpns for

short are used today for many reasons

but all of them fall under the same

general umbrella securely connecting an

individual client often a pc to a larger

server or provider now in the past these

types of connections were mostly used in

business settings when a large employer

wishes to allow employees access to a

secured internal network over the

internet while working from home or in

the field but it's becoming more and

more common now to see them used by even

small businesses or even individuals who

for a range of reasons wish to keep

their activities online secure and

private reasons that range from the

completely understandable to the legally

and or morally gray to the downright

paranoid and delusional now the first

step of the security process for a vpn

involves creating a tunnel protocol

which acts as well a tunnel or conduit

for the information packets being

transferred to pass through it creates a

security layer which instantly

terminates the connection whenever it

detects an intrusion and then reconnects

the client back to the server using a

different route avoiding the compromised

point points or the entire previous

route all together the next time around

some services even utilize highly

specified routes which they consider to

be lower risk than other ones usually

based on some sort of internally

established metrics or a working

partnership with the operator now inside

this protective hard chocolate tunnel is

where the gooey caramel and nougat

center or data can be found this data is

also encrypted as one might expect but

on top of this further efforts are made

to ensure that the contents of one's

email don't become public sony anyone

beyond standard encryption non-linear

transfer methods such as utilizing

multiple routes for the traffic or the

introduction of dummy code into the

information packet prevents prying eyes

from seeing anything but a small garbled

slice of the overall pie so to summarize

the way a vpn security works i'll turn

this into a classic analogy it's like a

taco inside a taco within a taco bell

that's inside a kfc within a mall that's

inside your brain

okay then linus if data transfers happen

in basically the same way that all other

internet traffic does while offering a

tremendously higher level of personal

protection and the ability to access

secure networks from abroad then there's

no downside right let's just use them

all the time well actually basically

yeah vpns are super cool but come on man

these videos are pretty much a formula

at this point you know the other shoe

was going to drop

although some vpn companies have made

utilizing their service as easy as

double-clicking the correct icon and

beginning to surf and they're getting

more affordable than ever some pages and

services might not work correctly over a

vpn and content loading performance can

be affected as well since encryption

efforts coupled with what can be

considered less direct routes can lead

to a slower overall experience in many

cases though this can be solved quite

easily by keeping another stock web

browser installed on your computer for

non-mission critical use and it's also

worth noting that many vpn users

actually report faster speeds on certain

popular sites such as youtube at peak

times presumably because their traffic

is avoiding some of the congestion seen

along the other traditional routes there

are some other less easily addressed

problems too though in buildings with

shoddy wiring packet loss can look like

the network is compromised causing the

connection to be continually dropped and

re-established and another is the widely

reported one where the nsa in the united

states has actually been known to flag

accounts for using keywords related to

accessing these services meaning that

seeking out extra security could

potentially open one up to intrusion

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