Private Internet Access: A Budget VPN Provider

Private Internet Access is a VPN service that is highly regarded by privacy advocates. It remains one of my top choices for a privacy-oriented VPN service. The company operates out of the United States with gigabit gateways in the USA, Canada, UK, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. I’ve been testing their VPN service for about 12 months now, and I find …

Private Internet Access Makes Client Software Open Source

Private Internet Access has been my recommended budget VPN solution for many years. The service is reliable, and the company has often demonstrated that it keeps no activity logs. Two examples of this are these cases: 2016 United States vs McWaters 2017 United States vs Colby In both cases PIA were ordered to provide logs but could not and did …

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Notes On The Best Torrent Clients For Linux

qBittorrent’s strength is that it’s the most uTorrent-like client that isn’t uTorrent. Otherwise, there’s nothing really special about it. rTorrent’s strength is mainly how lightweight and stable it is. If you don’t use ruTorrent, it can easily handle over 10k torrents. If you do use ruTorrent, it’s one of the most feature-rich clients out there (though it stops being stable …

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The Best Free Usenet Servers 2019

There are a small number free Usenet servers available around the world. They tend to be slower and less reliable than paid Usenet servers.

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The Best VPN Routers Of 2019

A VPN-capable router is a convenient device — it can provide VPN connections to your computers and mobile devices via Wi-Fi. You won’t have to install a VPN client on each device. Instead, all your devices are routed via one connection to your VPN provider.

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The Best Usenet Client Of 2019

My pick for the best Usenet Client is: SABnzbd (Windows, Mac and Linux) On Android, the best client is PowerNZB, see my review here Another popular client is NZBGet, this client is a bit lighter on system resources than SABNZBd. SABnzbd: Free Usenet Client SABnzbd is a great downloading application that uses multiple connections for speed. SABnzbd is free and …

The Best Seedboxes With VPNs 2019

A seedbox is a dedicated, high-speed server for downloading and uploading files. Most people rent seedboxes to achieve very fast torrent or Usenet transfers.

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Tips and Rumors About Avoiding The Chinese Firewall (January 2019)

I’ve collected these tips and rumors about the Chinese Great Firewall. A few things to remember overall: Servers in Japan and the U.S. are most frequently blocked, Hong Kong is blocked less, and servers in Canada, Europe and Russia are almost never blocked Firewall restrictions vary from region to region in China Some restrictions vary from carrier to carrier, and …