Knowledgebase : Squid & SOCKS5 & L2TP/IPsec & WireGuard
A nice new video created by one of our members describes how to double your safety in a few easy steps. This method does not only double sour safety, but allows Haxxfoxxms access. (This is NOT to be confused with our own socks5 solution!! The Proxies shown in the video are not from us and are scanned Proxies from different ressources from all over the world) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Hct2kSnn4 [1] Links: ------ [1] http://www.yout...
Since March 2013 every Member has a so called SQUID proxy included in his Account and is free to use if desired. To explain what a SQUID proxy is and what it is good below a little overview first. nVPN offers on each of its countries and for every member by default a SQUID Proxy solution, which can be used as a standalone proxy, OR in combination with OpenVPN. YOU CAN EVEN CHAIN ANOTHER VPN: "OTHER VPN SERVICE USING OPENVPN => NVPN SQUID" D...
Since June 2013 every Member has a SOCKS5 proxy included in his Account by default and is free to use, if desired. To explain what a SOCKS 5 proxy is and what it is good for, below gives a brief overview first. NVPN OFFERS ON EACH OF ITS COUNTRIES AND FOR EVERY MEMBER BY DEFAULT A SOCKS 5 PROXY SOLUTION, WHICH CAN BE USED AS A STANDALONE PROXY, OR ADDITIONALLY IN COMBINATION WITH OPENVPN. IN ORDER TO GAIN EXTRA SAFETY, YOU CAN AS WELL START C...
Benefits of L2TP: [+] ALL VERSIONS OF WINDOWS since 2000/XP and Mac OSX 10.3+ have built in support for L2TP/IPSec. [+] FAST SPEED even while traffic still being ENCRYPTED (latest tests show slightly/notably better speed results compared to OpenVPN UDP and even more so over TCP!) [+] Supports PORTFORWARDING [+] IPsec is a known secure standard and has shown no known critical vulnerabilities when used in conjunction with AES [+] Using a ...
Benefits of IKEv2: [+] IKEv2 is light on bandwidth and FASTER [+] IKEv2 is MORE COMPATIBLE and PORTABLE in many aspects [+] IKEv2 provides INBUILT NAT TRAVERSAL [+] IKEv2 has INBUILT TUNNEL LIVENESS CHECKS, if tunnel is broken down on peer, it has facility to detect and re-establish the tunnel [+] IKEv2 provides comprehensive authentication capabilities. It provides EAP AUTHENTICATION and hence it is suitable to integrate with existing a...
Update 16.12.2019: Our WireGuard implementation goes live, but first things first, there are some important things to know which we will further below but some light on. WHAT IS WIREGUARD? Simply put, Wireguard is an experimental VPN protocol that is supposed to offer a more simple (partly faster, not not necessarily) and more secure option than current protocols. There are some major differences between OpenVPN (the industry gold standard) an...