Want to watch Hulu? Or BBC iPlayer? Use Spotify or Pandora? How about all of

them? These web services check your IP address to determine which country you are. For example, Hulu can only be used within the United States. In order to bypass this restriction, you’ll need to “trick” the website into believing you’re in Unites States, you can use an US IP address. There are two main ways: Web-proxies and VPN services. Web-proxies are often unreliable, show adverts and slow. Meanwhile, many VPN services requires a monthly fee to use. Well now you can with HideIpVPN. HideIpVPN is a brand new, and the only VPN service with an US and UK server.

What makes HideIpVPN special?

Advantages
- Hides your real IP address – provides a level of security and anonymity.
- Secure connection between your PC and the Internet (128-2048bit)
- Encrypts and compresses all traffic including Email, IRC, FTP, DNS, VOIP, instant messengers.

- Bypasses your ISP’s traffic shaping, including traffic throttling.
- No Logs are kept
- Anonymous Internet Surfing
- Amazing High Speed
Unlike HotSpot Shield, the speed is awesome. I got 1.5Mb/s using their UK server.
- Access sites restricted to US and UK residents.
This means you get the best of worlds across the pond. You get to use UK sites (BBC iPlayer, Spotify) and US sites (Hulu, Pandora, ABC, Fox, Amazon Video on Demand etc).
- No additional software is required (using the PPTP protocol)
- Works on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Disadvantages
Yes. There’s always bad news.
- No P2P or Torrenting allowed.
Which means you can’t download The.Taking.of.Pendlum.123.DVDRip.MAXSPEED.torrent using HideIpVPN. Nor OpenOffice.org. Sorry.
- Only 100 free accounts are available per month on a first come, first serve basis.
- Free Service only has PPTP, not OpenVPN which is more secure.

Premium Service
HideIpVPN also offers a premium service with OpenVPN, rather that the free PPTP, which is more secure. If you need more security, I suggest using this plan. In summary, you’ll get:

- OpenVPN access (instead of the less secure PPTP)
- Dedicated static IP UK/US Addresses.
- Faster transfer speeds

Exclusive Invites!
Now when I mean free, yes it’s free. But HideIpVPN only provides 100 free accounts per month and the October ones are all gone already. But here’s the good news. Josh Lam dot com has 50 Invites for the free HideIpVPN
service. How do you get them? Follow the instructions below:
1. Use this special link.
2. When checking out, use the promo code “JOSHLAM”.
3. The cost of the product will be $0. Continue checking out.

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Every day when you check your e-mails or chat over Skype, shop online or simply browse some sites you exchange millions of bytes of information through the Internet. Do you ever think about how information you send could be intercepted by some unwanted intermediary because on its way your information travels through quite a lot of servers and providers?

What is the difference between accessing the Internet directly and accessing it through Pr.ivacy?