Saturday, February 13, 2010

Freedom of the Internet!


Internet freedom is, unfortunately, an ideal we can only dream where I make my home. Try to access any number of thousands of different web sites around the world and THE GREAT FIREWALL jumps on to your screen. "GO AWAY - HOW DARE YOU TRY TO ACCESS THIS SITE, IT IS FORBIDDEN BY THE MINISTRY OF KNOWNOTHING AND IJICY."
Along comes BlackVPN, initially a free VPN with nodes in the USA, UK and Netherlands, they started charging at the beginning of the year. Suddenly all the blocked pages are accessible and we can see why we shouldn't see them. Not only that, but the big No-No of P2P torrent file sharing is available to us too. Torrents are a real life saver for this particular British expatriate in the land of the most inane TV. Ability to access BBC I-Player is a boon too. Using the Netherlands node, I get speeds almost up to my connect maximum and can stay connected for days at a time. Before BlackVPN, my ISP cut my connect speed to Zero within minutes if I started downloading any torrent. This necessitated a shut down of the computer and router to connect to the net again.
In short, Black VPN has restored my little sanity and made the evenings survivable again. I thank them from the bottom of my heart.
I do not sign my name or give my country of residence here for the simple fact that accessing overseas VPNs from here is an imprisonable offence.
If you too might be interested in restoring some sanity to your Internet, BlackVPN configuration details and files can be found here:
Windows: https://www.blackvpn.com/content/uploads/blackvpn_windows.zip
Mac OS X: https://www.blackvpn.com/content/uploads/blackvpn_mac.zip