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Re: Does Windows 11 have any tricks to make free VPN connections easier?

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Paul wrote on Sat, 24 Aug 2024 13:27:05 -0400 :

> While there are probably a few people using VPN, I don't
> know if we have the depth of experience to answer your question.

Your advice is always wizened by experience, Paul. I appreciate that.
I thought most people on this newsgroup used VPN daily, don't they?

The main difference is they're probably using payware VPNs, right?
And payware VPNs often come with their own proprietary client setup.

None of those people using proprietary clients can help answer questions.
Only people who use the thousands of free public VPN servers can help.
 
> Maybe a forum that discusses FreeVPN has the right individuals
> for a question like this (web forum). Since there are a number
> of people hosting this, they must gather somewhere for discussions.

Long story... (grab a seat)... (you've been there with other products).

Oh, there are forums, allright. Run by VPN nazi's. Serious control freaks.
 <https://forums.openvpn.net/>

The vpn moderators (e.g., TinCanTech) are Draconian to the degree that
almost justifies my just-a-bit-too-early use of Godwin's Law on Usenet.
 <https://forums.openvpn.net/viewforum.php?f=37&sid=52016d4715a21cabe70e2d9cf34baafe>

It's not so much that the mods don't let you register using a known VPN as
your IP address, nor so much as they don't let you post a new thread until
you've proven yourself for months answering other people's technical
questions (which, let's be serious, a noob just can't do without spewing
garbage into dozens of threads to establish a silly-ass presence).

No. It's not that. All of which is easy to overcome if you already have
knowledge of VPN (which I do as I've been using it for years on Windows).

No. The problem is they are downright religious zealots in terms of how
they want you to use the openvpn product - which is *always* via the GUI.

They cannot stand any question about running openvpn in batch. 
They hate it.

They don't only shut down or lock any thread that goes even slightly off
road from how *they* want you to use openvpn, but they *remove* the thread.

That's even worse as you can't search to find anyone else asking the
question where the only questions allowed are on the pavement queries.

They will not allow you to discuss any use model but the GUI use model.

If there's another openvpn-developer specific forum, I'm unaware of it,
although the vpngate.net site has its own forum for its users.
 <https://forum.vpngate.net/index.php?sid=c8af5c44d80fc073130539d84145c763>

The problem there is completely different where the main problem is that
the answers are few and far between no matter what topic you may ask.
 <https://forum.vpngate.net/viewforum.php?f=11>

Worse, they also only use the product with the GUI that they provide.
 <https://forum.vpngate.net/viewforum.php?f=7>

There's no advantage (that I know of) of using their SoftEther GUI.
At least not when you are doing things the way that I am doing them.

Which is to randomly run any one of thousands of free public VPN servers at
any given time using a randomization batch file originally provided by
Herbert Kleebauer (and a wget & geoip geolocation script by Marek Novotny).

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  Re: Does Windows 11 have any tricks to make free VPN connections easier? Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2024-08-24 13:27 -0400
    Re: Does Windows 11 have any tricks to make free VPN connections easier? Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-08-24 19:07 +0000
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            Re: Does Windows 11 have any tricks to make free VPN connections easier? Andrew <andrew@spam.net> - 2024-08-27 05:59 +0000
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