[–] [S] 1 point 6 months ago

Hello,

Multi-hop is still available and included in the Pro plan.

We are in the middle of rolling out major upgrades for IVPN accounts, including new services available for Pro plans. During this rollout process we made an error which disabled Multi-hop in IVPN apps. We are working on the fix, it will be resolved today.

With this note I'm also sharing some good news - IVPN Pro device limits have been raised to 10 from previous 7, starting today.

Thanks for bearing with us.

Viktor IVPN

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Same way it happens with non VPN setups.

    Network Address Translation. Your personal device is assigned a private IP (likely from RFC1918 or 100.64.0.0/17 range) and that is unique to you for as long as the VPN tunnel is established.

    When the traffic leaves the public VPN endpoint it will be translated into a public address. All the website you are trying to access will do is respond to the public IP and there will be a translation table at the VPN provider saying which private IP to send the traffic.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    i believe this is because your vpn connection is assignd its own ip by the vpn provider.. like an internal temp address... their system routes all the traffic back to that internal address which they usually dont keep logs for.

    the outbound packets dont contain your actual external ip.. they only contain the vpns internal ip for your connection... maybe

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago

    I haven't signed up to them yet, but will be soon. They are legit, I have been following them on Telegram - not loads of updates, but usually big ones, and their hub (blog) - https://hub.xeovo.com/

    They also have plenty of guides on how to set up their service.

    They are using Hysteria

    It all looks fairly good from here, I was waiting for another sub to expire, but I think I will bite the bullet on these in the coming weeks.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I used to use Nord, but a few yrs back (3 or 4 maybe?) they raised their prices a lot.

    I'd heard of Mullvad - and it's payment system is month-to-month only so no big deal to quit if it sucked - so I went with it.

    It's an awesome system, payments are easy to take care of, and it has a multitude of different safety combinations you can tailor for your needs.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    The IP is only part of it. It depends on the site owners config, but usually they just send ppl with suspicious IPs or weird SSL handshakes through a "JS challange". That means you get a site "checking your browser" or so, that uses some maybe invisible JS things like painting in a canvas, that most bots can't do. If that diesn't satisfy them 100%, you may get that checkbox that launches extra checks.

    Only, if the site owner was ignorant, they may have decided to block your IP range directly. I'm working at a company where some of our customers actually blocked all russuian IPs completely, because they get a lot of attacks from there and can't trade with them anyway, due to the sanctions. Another customer blocked China completely. But those are exceptional, because most don't want native customers on vacation to get caught up in the block and therefore just use the challange.

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