Streaming addon (unblock your favorite geo-restricted video sites).Torguard also sells various addons such as: SOCKS proxy service starts at $5.95 per month with additional discounts for longer subscriptions. Here’s the pricing for VPN service alone: The price of Torguard depends on the length of subscription you choose and whether you bundle extras like SOCKS proxy service. Why use a proxy? If you don’t need encryption (your not worried about your ISP monitoring your torrent activity) then you may get the IP-hiding ability of a VPN without the speed penalty. Other popular services such as Private Internet Access and NordVPN bundle torrent-friendly SOCKS service at no extra charge. However, Torguard charges separately for VPN and proxy service (or offers a discount if you bundle them. Torguard offers the option of a zero-log SOCKS proxy (which can be configured with most torrent clients). This will wrap your OpenVPN traffic in regular SSL encryption and disguise it as standard web traffic. You can use either the STunnel or Torguard’s ‘Stealth Proxy’ feature (found in proxy settings) to disguise your OpenVPN traffic. Stealth Protocolĭoes your internet provider (or country) try to block or throttle VPN traffic? Would you rather your network administrator doesn’t know you’re using a VPN? You’ll love Torguard’s stealth feature. Generally speaking, the internet-level switch is more reliable and has a faster reaction time to VPN drops. One of Torguard’s two kill-switch options (Internet Kill Switch) Application Kill-Switch: Choose which apps (running processes) will be terminated if the VPN drops.Internet Kill Switch: Shuts down all internet access when the VPN tunnel drops.FYI, the purpose of a kill-switch is to prevent data from leaking outside the VPN tunnel in case the VPN disconnects suddenly. This means you can choose either of two kill-switch modes or combine them together for even greater security. Torguard also offers several other enhanced security features: Kill-Switch And 128-bit encryption is still strong enough to encrypt most online financial transactions such as online banking and credit card payments. Torrenting isn’t doesn’t really warrant ultra-high encryption strength. I find 128-bit encryption to offer the best balance of speed and security. None: no encryption (for torrents or unblocking streaming sites).You can choose from three encryption levels: Torguard offers industry-standard encryption strength and Ciphers. Try Torguard: Take advantage of Torguard’s 7-day free trial period Security/Encryption We suspect that they they save a bit of money by paying for less upstream bandwidth (which doesn’t affect most users anyway). There was a big dip in upload bandwidth, and this was consistent across many of the EU servers for Torguard. You’ll notice that despite the approximately 6000km distance between test locations, the download speeds barely declined. 145.55 Mb/s download (Switzerland p2p-enabled)
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