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MrLoopFx

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#162099 29-Jan-2015 00:19
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Hi there, I am a small time youtuber that has run into a wee bit of trouble.

At times, there are users that D-Dos myself which as i assume most of you know, knocks me off for a period of time. 

From my understanding A vpn will help protect me from such attacks. 

My interenet service provider will not help me at all with obtaining a vpn. 

In my touch screen router I have a Vpn Setting, however I do not know how to fill out the fields. 

I have had a look at the free vpn services out there, however from past experiences, when somethings free, it's either sh*t or very
unreliable.

I do not want to spend an arm and a leg, so I was wondering if anyone in these forums had any recommendations??

My skype is Dextereysink, It would be great to hear from someone on there in regards to this as well :)

I appreciate you all taking the time to read this and help me out. 

Thanks again

Dexter. 

By the way my routers options have these sorts of fields... + more which is confusing for me lol

 

 

VPN Type:

 

PPTP Client

 

 

 

 

Destination Host Name:

 

Remote Subnet IP address:

 

Remote Subnet Mask:

 

Username:

 

Password:

 

 

 


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  #1224512 29-Jan-2015 07:23
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If your home connection is being DDOS attacked a VPN won't help. It creates a tunnel from your computer to another, then your traffic emerges to the internet there. So instead of your internet connection looking like it's in NZ it'll look like it's in say the USA. Your requests go out on the VPN and come back over it, but the main internet connection is still working and anyone who has your IP can still DDOS you. Of course if you're on a dynamic IP that constantly changes the VPN will mask your true IP, and if a DDOS starts you can just disconnect and connect to another server.

However I think we need more background on evidence that you are being targeted by a DDOS attack. They're not trivial to arrange - not that I've ever tried - I guess you'd have to get in touch with some shady characters or run a tool to find vulnerable hosts to exploit.

If you do want a VPN though check out Astrill VPN, works well for me.

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