Tagged “basics”
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"Border VPN" Is a Description, Not a Product You Can Buy
Three different borders get confused under one phrase. A VPN acts on one of them, partly on the second, and not at all on the third.
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How Does a VPN Work? The Short Answer
The one-paragraph version, plus the three different questions people are usually asking when they ask this, and where each is answered.
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When You Do Not Need a VPN
The situations where a tunnel adds nothing, plus the ones where it actively gets in your way and something else is the right tool.
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Which Kind of VPN Do You Actually Have?
Work VPN, consumer VPN, browser add-on: three different products share one name. Which you are holding decides what it will do abroad.
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VPN vs Proxy on a Network You Do Not Control
A proxy moves one application's traffic; a tunnel moves the device. On someone else's network that distinction is the whole answer.
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Why Use a VPN? The Reasons That Survive Scrutiny
Three reasons hold up, two are conditional, and the popular ones are wrong. Sorted for readers who work across networks and borders.
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How a VPN Works, in Just Enough Detail to Travel With One
Three parties, three different views of your traffic. That is the whole model you need to predict what a tunnel will and will not fix abroad.
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What a VPN Is, for People Who Keep Changing Networks
A VPN relocates the point where your traffic joins the public internet. Everything it can and cannot do follows from that one change.