Questions about VPNs?

Question

I was looking at this:

http://www.softether.org/

and I'm still not sure exactly what it will do for me. Would a VPN such as this not only disguise my identity from a website, but also from logs in a game such as Minecraft? If I were to ping a website with command prompt while using it, would the website see my real IP?

Answer 1

From the look of it, that's a download site. You'd have to install the server and client on two different computers, and then traffic from the client would look like it's coming from the server. So if you took your smartphone or laptop to somewhere that you didn't trust, or that was doing a lot of filtering/logging, like a school, you could tunnel to your home computer and hide your traffic from the school admins. Yes,a VPN would tunnel all traffic (well whatever you configured it to tunnel, but normally all) including pings, and the website would not see your client IP.

Answer 2

I've personally never heard of softether. I looked at the website and saw "alternative to openVPN" so I assume that softether is just a program used to connect to a VPN server. To connect to a VPN, you must have a VPN server (I recommend "IPVanish" as it has many different high speed servers to choose from, all servers are annonomous, and no data transfer is logged whatsoever) and a VPN client (Such as OpenVPN, although IPVanish includes its own optional user friendly VPN client) to connect to the server. If you end up researching and doing this here are a few pointers: be sure to disable IPv6 in your network adapter settings, change your DNS, and set up advanced firewall rules to only allow traffic from the VPN to/from your minecraft game in case your VPN disconnects. You can monitor your IP address as well as your DNS at dnsleaktest.com

Answer 3

this is a vpn programme from a Japanese university, and it would definitely serve you with ip masking that will ultimately hide your identification, unblock sites, prevent you from being logged in games using multiple IPs, and if you were to ping a website with command prompt while using it, the website wont be able to see your real IP,

these are all specifications of any reliable vpn programme including this one (Softether) too.

I have been using purevpn a reliable service, best of it is that it has 300+ servers...:) ty

Answer 4

I highly recommend employing VPNPower for you to unblock sites. I've been using them since four years. http://goo.gl/WQVHcN