Re: Free VPN or paid?
Let me break it down for you... A VPN is a VPS running VPN software, most likely on Linux.
Both options, VPN and a remote desktop to a VPS have open ports in order to connect your local machine to the remote host.
You can not hide a remote desktop... It uses ports and a protocol that are easy to detect... (Altho I doubt EB, AZ, PP look for this).
A VPN can be set to use HTTPS... (port 443) The same port all internet traffic is passed through. OpenVPN and SoftEther VPN protocol also wrap the encrypted VPN tunnel in SSL providing whats called HTTPS/SSL (for OpenVPN you have to configure the tcp port to 443).
HTTPS/SSL makes VPN data packets indistinguishable for normal internet traffic.
SoftEther Potocol can aquire the handshake (connection) to the server over HTTPS/SSL.... Making it undetectable... OpenVPN can not... It uses UDP port 1194 by default... but you can change it to any UDP port you want that doesn't cause interference but the handshake is still detectable if all ports are being listened to by the powers that be. (ie. China or other countries with internet censorship issues).
Last edited by nate; 07-26-2018 at 01:29 PM.
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