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Comment by drivebyacct2 | Hacker News Reader

And everyone's favorite VPN is...?

Private Internet Access[1] has been serving me well for a long time and they've got endpoints all over the place, from Oh Canada to the Netherlands. Things are consistently fast and reliable, their customer service is responsive, and you can log in from multiple devices at a time which is great. They're cheap too.

[1] http://www.privateinternetaccess.com

I like most of their policies, but they really need to be explicit about their usage limits.

  "You can only use a reasonable amount from our service. 
   How much is reasonable? You'll find out when you hit 
   it and we decide to drop the hammer, take your money, 
   and never speak to you again."

Where are you quoting that from? I can't find anything in the ToS about that and one of the features they list is "Unmetered VPN Transfer".

Really? Cause I found this:

  "Additionally, we may impose usage limits to our services,
   suspend or block services, or cancel any and all services
   at our sole discretion at any time. Finally, we do not
   guarantee the accuracy and timeliness of any data received."

You can see that little gem here:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/terms-of-service...

under Service Level Agreement

  "Subscriber understands that Privateinternetaccess.com
   also reserves the right to scale back or throttle
   bandwidth originating from subscriber accounts that may
   breach the present Agreement or in the event of
   excessive usage on the Privateinternetaccess.com network."

Same page, under Our Rights

Which is REALLY ODD that they would have those terms, because on their contact page:

"Are there any limitations on usage or bandwidth?"

  "We do not impose any restrictions or limitations on usage
   and/or bandwidth consumption. Please feel free to engage in
   any legal activity. "

Huh. Wonder which one I should believe?

That's very different to what you originally quoted! Having said that, yes, there is a discrepancy there, although I've got a feeling it's a CYA provision in case someone with Google Fiber decides to download all of YouTube.

>That's very different to what you originally quoted!

I will admit to some paraphrasing. :)

Was doing some reading up on this last night!

Torrentfreak had a handy article: http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-anon...

PIA for me. They take Bitcoin and XRP.

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com

XRP?

After some digging it seems to be another decentralized virtual currency like bitcoin.

"Ripple credits, aka XRP or ripples, are the units used as a transaction fee to protect the Ripple payment system from malicious attacks."

Previous HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5254395

I just use a seedbox. Check out Feral Hosting[0], they're great.

0: http://www.feralhosting.com/

The http://torguard.net/ SOCKS proxy service works quite well if all you care is bittorrent. They also offer a VPN product. They don't keep logs, which is something to look for in any decent VPN or SOCKS proxy.

If all you care about is bittorrent, why not just use private trackers for whatever you need?

You think DtecNet can't get accounts on "private" trackers?

https://put.io

https://airvpn.org/

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