Hi! Okay folks I have my VPN up and running and it was far easier to setup than I'd expected it to be but first some background.
Perhaps someone could correct my explanation of what a VPN is if appropriate, to me its a private tunnel between you and the site or whatever you wish to connect to, in my case what I connect to are things like the CBS news stations etc - I have to hand it to the yanks, they sure know how to run 24-7 news stations but that's a matter for another time <smile> -. Someone on list suggested Hotspot Shield and that in my opinion is a very bad choice for a number of reasons. Firstly the free version that the list member suggested is peppered with advertising and tracking cookies, exactly what you don't want from a VPN. I would have perhaps tried the Paid version of Hotspot Shield had I been able to access the site properly. Followers of my Twitter have been suggesting Witopia at <http://www.witopia.net> so it made sense to try them next. I had several questions about the sort of package I'd need so I wrote to the tech support people at Witopia, I had an answer to all my questions back in about 5 minutes. I took the Witopia $69.00 plan for 12 months which seems to offer everything I need and probably more, its the one Witopia recommends if you want to watch TV and listen to radio. Now here's the interesting bit, Witopia told me that I'd have to install software on each PC I wanted to use on the VPN but this didn't turn out to be the case in my situation. As luck would have it I had to reconfigure my Billion modem and what did I discover whilst going through the various HTML screens of the configuration pages? A whole page devoted to VPN tunnels so all I had to do in the end to use my Witopia VPN tunnel was to type in my user name, configuration and password, modem took care of the rest and I can access everything now through my VPN using whatever device I choose it seems whether that device be a Mac, a Windows PC, IOS device and even my Logitech Squeezebox devices and that I'm really thrilled about. Now I also have access to services such as Pandora etc, I've not tried this yet but I plan to as I have a piece of software here I bought which makes Pandora totally accessible on the Windows PC and I can access Pandora through my Squeezebox devices, I suspect there's also something out there for Pandora for IOS devices too! ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
