How to find server name or address for VPN setting?

F22 Simpilot said:

Yes, a VPN will accomplish that, BUT! from a remote location from outside your house. If you plan to roll a VPN SERVER not a client VPN in Windows, then your home computer running the VPN server needs to be on all the time. Plus there's port forwarding involved which is a massive security risk unless you add a hardware firewall like OPNsense, pfSense, Untangle, etc. There are way easier ways to do this if this is what you're trying to do.

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Do you have some kind of VPN plan from a company and they don't already provide a software or OpenVPN instructions and you intend to use the Windows built-in VPN client software?

I have a funny felling you don't know much about VPNs. If your goal is the use of a VPN to help keep your public Wi-Fi hotspot connections secure, then consider something like IVPN. VPN for Privacy & Security | IVPN | Resist Online Surveillance You can pay for a week and test it out. Or a month or a year, just make surer you select the right option because a year is set as default.

Hi F22 Simpliot,

First, you correctly noted that I don't know much about VPNs.

Second, it's not for my work, so I can't get VPN from my employer. It's just for myself, for my connections to banks, etc.

And lastly, the third. I used to have VPN from Norton. But recently I decided that why to pay Norton if I can have the same for free from my Windows built-in. So I downgraded my Norton to bare antivirus. Do you think it's a bad idea and I should upgrade my Norton subscription back to a package that included their VPN?

Thanks

You said that you are afraid to have a bank connection with only user name, password and non-encrypted. If you have such a bank, immediately change to another. But I doubt if such banks exist. The financial institutions I know all use encrypted connections and 2FA procedures, which use an independent check via a different communication channel. VPN will not further improve the security.

March said:

Hi F22 Simpliot,

First, you correctly noted that I don't know much about VPNs.

Second, it's not for my work, so I can't get VPN from my employer. It's just for myself, for my connections to banks, etc.

And lastly, the third. I used to have VPN from Norton. But recently I decided that why to pay Norton if I can have the same for free from my Windows built-in. So I downgraded my Norton to bare antivirus. Do you think it's a bad idea and I should upgrade my Norton subscription back to a package that included their VPN?

Thanks

You can totally do it for free with the basic instructions I laid out. It's not hard, just some reading. But in your case you want to CONNECT to a VPN server that's not your own which means you have to buy a VPN service. I did make mention of three possibilities.

Do note that there is a lot of hype with VPNs now-a-days. At home the bank will already provide a secure connection and you can check that by looking at the little padlock symbol in the browser's address bar.

A VPN is something you'd want more for being out and about and connected to an insecure Wi-Fi network. Other than that you don't really need one. Again, there's a lot of hype out there and many people who are not very computer savvy get sold on this stuff.

Callender said:

It beats me why banks in the rest of the world have not moved to chip and pin with PIN Sentry card readers.

I've been saying the same thing every time I log into my bank's website. And this is not some small bank either. You know what they use for 2FA? A text! A freaking text message with a massive 8 digit long number. I feel bad for the elderly...

zebal said:

What beats me when a banker offers me mobile banking, I decline in favor to physically visit the bank and then they strangely look at me.
But isn't the banker supposed to know that there is no greater security than visiting the bank yourself?

I've visited the bank once... to get some 50 cent pieces. Turns out they nor any other bank carries them and had to be specially ordered. That, and a lot of banks won't take your change unless it's rolled. So you're forced to take all your change that's simply not rollable due to not meriting rolling criteria and use that kiosk greed head BS at the grocery store. The payout is an Amazon gift card (A certificate number) which is free or you pay a small fee for the cash. Da faq is wrong here?!