interesting.. I've got a lifetime sub to VPN unlimited but if this is a freebie it'll be a handy spare I suppose - even if it's a limited offer

#edit

just signed up with the code and validated email and everything seems fine

I'm not very clued up on the whole VPN thing so forgive dumb question: Would this mean I can watch catch up when I'm in Greece for example?

Already had a 50Gb, now have a 60Gb too on my google account. Thanks :smile:

The 60 GB might only be for 1 year.

Please could anyone help a noob
Can I put this on my router so I would have a vpn on anything I have connected
Many thanks to anyone who helps

Is this windows only or is there an Android app too?

read the deal post ..

Hot. Already had this since December 2016 but don't use it much. Upgraded my 15GB free to 60GB now.

Thanks!

Just signed up for this. I’ve wanted to try a VPN for a while and this seems like a good way to try.

fast.com tells me I’m losing. 24Mbit passing through the UK VPN on my iPad but we’ll see how it goes.

hanks and heated

Cheers OP

How reliable is this for speed? I use PIA mostly c and that manages line speed for torrents most of the time.

Opera browser has a built in VPN ......do we still need an external VPN?

ZenMate is totally free

does the free Windscribe offer a reasonable torrent connection? My humblebundle "deal" for speedify VPN 1 year was terrible as the only server usable for torrents was unusably slow

Cyberghost is free as well, had no issues so far.

Top job

Most countries on there seem to be under the premium offer which isn't free ofcourse?

I use Windscribe coming from Cyberghost and it (Windscribe) is brilliant. It works for torrents, no restrictions on sites and speed is so quick I basically don't notice (which as a compliment is about as good as it gets). Never had connection problems (unlike Cyberghost where they blamed me), they have Windows, Chrome, iOS and Android apps/extensions and most importantly you can sign in on any number of machines at once - Cyberghost made me sign out each time and if I forgot I couldn't use it.

As someone else said, iPlayer seems to block any VPN so you really need to leave a PC running and setup your own proxy or similar is all I can think of.

I'm using the Pro version courtesy of Humble Bundle. I will test apps on it if people ask (e.g. Channel 4, iPlayer, etc) so at least you know before jumping in.

Can I use this vpn on my tplink router so I can use on all devices?

Also how the Android app anyone used it going to download it soon.

Does anyone know if you can use this with openvpn? When I go to the page to get the configuration for openvpn I don't get an option to 'generate credentials' and instead there's a nice "upgrade" button.

Could be useful for Premier League football especially if they keep on blocking the streams.

Just signed up and installed onto my mac and browser. I've genuinely no idea what a VPN does or is, but I've been told I need one. How do I get this to work on my fire stick so I can stream football etc.?

What does it me on my profile when it says:--

^ Resets usage back to 60GB, every month on the 18th for you. :nerd:

For android you need Pro accounts on open vpn or ikev2... So can't even get credentials for putting the VPN on

Working on iOS for me.

What ever vpn you use, make sure you understand how it works, I believe Windscribe does not vpn all the traffic by default.
use this tool to check - the torrent checker is especially helpful, so i'm told!
ipleak.net/

Worked for me, thanks

i've got libreelec installed on my android box and this doesn't work with the VPN add-on i have, so i doubt i'll use it that much but i'll try and use it enough on my PC just so it doesn't get closed for inactivity or anything like that.

Thanks

Yes but you have to pay for pro to get that. There's guides for DDWRT, Tomato and ASUS which look easy to follow on the website.

How do I install on android?

From here: play.google.com/sto…=en

Great! Thanks OP.

same

Free is 8 countries:
United States Canada United Kingdom Hong Kong France Germany Luxembourg Netherlands

So no beinsports / hotstar :disappointed:

Just want to use this with torrents and streams, so do I just need it on my laptop or on the router?

I'm liking Fast.com

laptop will be fine. I configured torguard on my old router and it was really slow. I use an old netbook for any downloads

Thanks for letting me know.

I too have the previous 50GB of this Freebie + a former 40GB version of the exact same too!, hehehehe.

Looks like I'll be having a fresh 60GB one too. :-)

Lol.

Seems on android everything requires pro

damn linux version is 64-bit only.

rules out using on my old netbook

might have to find another device for downloading

woohoo. signed up. had to use an email address so not 100% private but I used my spam email address and woohoo 60gb :smile:

shame only windows or linux 64 bit but hey!

Would this work for smart tv please?

Hey!!! Android app works - there are servers working! I connected to the US and know it works as netflix app gave me different shows and detected a blocker :P

Unless it has android, I doubt it. If it can run android apps? Maybe.

You could configure your router - but I did this and you cannot use the default ones from BT/Virgin but need a proper one and hack it with a custom firmware which is not an simple task. Best would be to buy a cheap android box and install on there?

I tested Germany and US and worked!

Because of privacy concerns about the Opera VPN - that's one reason.

i currently pay for a vpn for use with torrent downloads, i am not interested in anything that affects my browser etc. Is it possible to set this up so it only hides the ip of my torrent client and nothing else? I have a static ip with Sky and as i run a video server so can watch movies and my cctv from another property i don't want anything to interfere with that.

I pay for torguard. That takes over your whole internet on your device, though I recently discovered the 'lan bypass' feature on the app which allows me to screen mirror with it on devices whereas it didn't before (one device won't connect to torguard with this feature on)

You might just need to find a separate device for downloading and install it only on that? An old netbook like I do?

Hot. I had this as a back up to IPVanish but only had 10GB per month. Logged in, hit claim code and have been upgraded to 60GB. Thank you.

The fastest VPN I found so far - after trying some of the big ones - is AirVPN. If your computer CPU can handle 200mbit encrypted connection over OpenVPN, just try AirVPN's Netherland servers. :wink:

Why is it "free"? Usually, if you're not paying for a product, you are the product, and a VPN that collects data defeats the object.

Free is normally 10gb / month and only 8 countries

pro is unlimited and more countries

so I guess it's to get you used to the idea and get you to upgrade?

but yeah maybe they are tracking - but who isn't?

hukd must be!

Nobody ever thought that a load of these vpns could be wolfs in sheep clothing to catch unsuspecting TV and film pirates ? Just offer free and folks scramble for it thinking they are gonna be safe now

Possibly. Can see that an issue in China for sure!

Hi. I have Opera browser on smart TV , foes that mean ,as Goal mentioned above , how and where will I find /open it please and thank you in advance :thinking:

I'm with PIA but yeah, same here, I'm using old laptop for torrenting. Kill switch and leak features on, so if VPN drops connection, downloading also stops (does not continue over "real connection") - no head ache.

Been using this tonight and it's been excellent, no problems whatsoever. But anyone know which server would be best for torrents and streaming? Thanks

I moved from the free Windscribe to Pro several months back as I wanted more countries and to use on multiple devices.
It's been fine on Linux and the Windscribe Chrome extension works very well on my Chromebook.

Thanks claimed !

When i looked into vpns what i took from it about free ones was if your not their customer then they're your info basically becomes the commodity, why else/how is it even possible they can offer it for free.

Thank you- will use it as a back up for my paid vpn.

I have Windscribe pro. Cost me £30 from stacksocial using 'windscribe20' code.

That's lifetime access for unlimited usage and unlimited devices.

Much faster than the free service. Had no problems when torrenting either.

No option on ios for code

What is a VPN and why would I need it since its free

thanks

Precisely. Who knows what problems people are storing up for themselves in the future with these. :fearful:

i use setupvpn great free lifetime vpn for streaming, doesn't restrict my speed and no bandwith limits. I use the chrome for windows browser one, gives me a choice of 17 different locations. No configuration required. All you need to do is download it, set up an account, choose your location from drop down menu and you are done.

Can be used on chrome or firefox through windows, apple, or linux. There is an android version as well, but haven't used that.

For people wondering if it's worth paying for Pro, I would say it is and did - I only have a year subscription but it's been so good I would extend it. The Free one is pretty good but it is worth paying if you can get a good deal

You just need to get a proper paid sub to alleviate any issues. For £120 a year spread across 3 users (£40 a year) you can have all the sport you want on Android, Kodi, Plex or Web access.

Been using Opera but might give this a try. Thanks

Wow, this destroys my Internet speed... My 200mb virgin media barely gets 4-5mb when connected to this.

Seems good for free on the face of it, but You have to provide an email address?????!!!!

Which sub is that?

On your pc? What cpu you using?

Is StackSocial trustworthy? I heard mixed reviews about this being a scam site so the prices are really good

Just the other day, two of my torrent sites I use wouldn't let me access them, came up saying this "Turn on TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and TLS 1.2 in Advanced settings ". Even though they were on, tried different settings but nothing. Just got this and all back up and running, thanks OP

Useful thanks but still leaking DNS queries (not using Windscribe) in Windows :-( Despite modifying about:config in Firefox, anyone else been able to be leak free in Windows?
It appears the Windows leaks like a sieve :-(

I've had no problem with them purchasing software. It all seems to work and has continued to work. Hardware cannot be purchased from the UK

Same issue here, I think Virgin Media has blocked loads of TPB proxy sites, just tried this and Opera browser with VPN enabled and it works, also working fine on my mobile phone via EE, so looks like a Virgin Media thing.



Cool thanks, been looking into get Windscribe from there but wasn't 100% sure about it.

Ok cheers. Yes it is an android. Will give it a go

Unless you have a router with a faster processor ideally dual core with FPU your speeds will be hit massively due to the encryption the router needs to do.

Thanks OP, signed up and used the voucher - great deal!

Can someone enlighten me with the benefits of having a VPN? Thank you.

I was using the Android app - not at router level. When I connect to my personal VPN server I've set up I get my full 200mbit without complaint. Similar encryption, so don't think this is a hardware issue...

(see my comment above - it was my phone. I don't automatically jump to it being an issue with my S7 edge or a laptop with an i7 processor when connecting to other VPN services maxes me out on my broadband without a blink.

You can get a lifetime subscription to the pro version from cult of Mac for $49.99 (less for 3 and 5 year subscrptions)

deals.cultofmac.com/sal…vpn

Does the Android app VPN all traffic e.g torrent clients?

Thanks, I found the same at SocialStack as someone said above. Lifetime always bothered me as there's no impetus to retain you as a customer (I'm sure it's fine) but I think it's a great price and I'll probably just pay for that when mine expires or now even.

I'm really impressed with Windscribe so far in terms of speed, reliability and app quality

chrs for the heat folks... don't think i've ever been so popular?!?!

If you're not paying for a product then YOU ARE the product. Only use this is you don't care about being tracked/monitored and your data being harvested and sold.

Free VPN's make money from selling your information. Nothings ever really free!

Think all of you that think it be good for watching online anonymously will be sorely disapointed. Wind scribe does not provide a good enough connection for video data

Do you have Adobe flash player installed?

This article helped me stop DNS leaks from webrtc/ flash player

zenguard.zendesk.com/hc/…TC-

Guess I'll buy the 3 year one from SocialStack for about £17..

Lifetime seems like a long time, if the product still around and technology hasn't changed

heat added; will it work for Kodi too?

used Windscribe a few times and ive upgraded to the 60 now thanks OP , i have been trying Nord over this weekend and its been a lot better to be honest but that's expected as their offer is 79 bucks for 2 years

Should work fine just remember Kodi does use up your free quota pretty quickly especially at 720 and 1080p

Yep, remember folks, if you're using this to download or stream pirate stuff, your IP address might be hidden from your ISP, but the company providing the VPN is most assuredly keeping a record of what you're doing.

I've heard from friends that having a VPN on your laptop does not really benefit when torrenting as you'll need it on your router? Ie, when youre on Vuza lets say and the torrent is downloading its not using your internet VPN anymore...

Depends on the router, I think. I use an Asus and if you go into the settings and add the logon for your VPN, everything you connect via that router is protected by the VPN.

That doesn't seem right to me!

Internet -> Your ISP -> Your router -> Your devices (e.g. phone, tablet, laptop, desktop)

If you put a VPN on one of your devices - say laptop - then only its data will be encrypted.

The other devices will not be affected in anyway.

But ALL data sent from the laptop should be encrypted? That's the whole point of a VPN?

So I disagree with what your friends say...

You are correct.

Thanks that helped as far as ipleak.net is concerned: that leak has gone, but according to whoer.net I'm stil only 40% anonymous! Think I need to set my actual network card dns to a dns in the country where the server is and also I need to change the time zone to the country time zone. Not particularly difficult I suppose.

Some say they don't. But in reality, if I was an isp, I think I'd target ONLY customers using a VPN if I was looking for a certain kind of traffic

Anyone know if it's possible to get this running on the Amazon Fire TV without paying?

Windscribe prides themselves on being a 'no log' VPN. While you can only take that at face value, it's about the best you can hope for from anyone

In the last 6 months I've not had a problem streaming video through Windscribe. And I only have standard broadband, not fibre.

Nord VPN is better?

Been getting slow speeds with Windscribe this weekend, starting to reconsider

Hmm. Good deal but I find that Windscribe restricts my bandwidth quite a bit. Worth having for free, anyway.

A point well made. If you're using a VPN to conceal some form of illicit activity, the company behind the VPN has a VERY valuable database for all sorts of reasons. Imagine if it were hacked......or sold......

fyi, i usually use CyberGhost!
i take onboard the slow performance comments, but i guess that largely depends on what you up to?
eg
- if using pirate pages, and BitTorrent/Bigly etc, then Windscribe does apparently have a decent level of security
- if trying to watch eg live footie streaming, then from exp. Windscribe *defo* not so good!!

hey ho... can't win 'em all?

incidentally, at (currently!) 1213 heat, this is now *comfortably* more than twice the level of the Dutch page i found this on!
not bein funny, but i prob best OK it past HUKD admins b4 i mention that page further???

I don't know what this is

without getting too "techie" about it, a VPN is a means of pretending you're logging on from a different place/country.
in practice, that *may* include accessing eg Netflix from "the U.S." to see the latest episodes (i've NO idea if that still works???), or accessing sites such as eg Pirate Bay that are currently banned, and blocked in UK (and other).

Can I use android app on my phone with free account

Yes, using the playstore link

It depends on which router you have. I have Asus router which is running aswrt . I have nordvpn installed at router level

Lots of FUD on here, why not just check the company's logging policy?

Also useful provider comparisons (though not this provider I don't think) available here thatoneprivacysite.net/

handy wee spreadsheet thanks, im pretty sure i will setup the 2yr nord vpn deal tonight , the 3 day trial has been impressive , with kodi , torrents and general day to day operating

Found the windscribe app how can I test that it working correctly on. My phone?

Where is the 2 yr NordVPN deal?

Not as great as I had hoped. Windscribe had completely throttled my bandwidth :unamused:

Before
After

This was working brilliantly all last week but the last few days its been the same with me.

Guess I'll pass on this. I'm also on VM

I've found it to be quite slow and intermittently disconnects. Free though so...

Guess everyone has signed up for the freedeal and testing it out! Maybe it will balance out after a few days.

opera browser has a free vpn built in...but has limited source country locations with the UK not being one of them

Most bad reviews are about training courses etc. I bought 2 year PIA sub for just over £30 from them. Works no problem. Tried to post that deal here, but turns out that web site is not allowed here. I think they accept paypal and that's what I used to pay for, so can always open the case and dispute.

The pricing page says you need to pay for openvpn configs, however on Arch Linux they seem to be in /etc/windscribe once you've connected with their cli utility once. I haven't done anything with them because using the cli utility works fine for what I need this for.

Might be worth looking at though

This doesn't let you watch foreign Netflix or Hulu right? :disappointed: Still good though.

Didn't try hulu but N-flix US was blocked. Didn't try other N-flix regions. Torguard allows me to use n-flix US but I have to pay for a private server.

Thanks for sharing, I'm more than happy to use this (especially with the voucher) after the things I've read about "free" VPN services without limits.

Will give it a go on the laptop tomorrow. Really should use a vpn

How long isit free for? Also vpn stop throttling but slow your bandwidth down

typo in the image. it IS winDscribe, isn't it?

correct, Winscribe is something different: winscribe.com/. Speech Recognition Software

Awesome. Signed up

Thanks! Had 10GB just upgraded to 60. So also works for current free subscription holders. Good job!

Would be awesome if they have future deals and they all stack!

Thanks OP

Installed the android app but getting " handshake failed" notification when I register..anyone else having trouble ?

I registered on the website first. Maybe that works better than through app?

Run your own vpn.

Thanks for the info!

Quick update. Installed, only decent speed is with French where I was getting 40mbs down 12 mbps up.
Upgrade for 30 quid for the year and get access to 17 other countries.

Tempting but will try this for a few weeks first

Also check out NordVPN, they've got a 3 day free trial and offering $80 for two years which works out around £32 a year.

Anybody with a decent router running this?

I've got an old TPLINK TL-WDR3600 running DDWRT but when trying out IvacyVPN it basically killed my network speed and left the router in a bit of a tiss needing a reboot to stabilize it.

This could be the VPN Provider so was hesitant about using another one and have been on-call since so haven't had chance to try Windscribe.

Was thinking of dropping some cash on a RT-AC88U or possibly a RT-AC5300 as I have a lot more on my network then 5yr ago!

Anybody running 150+ speeds through any VPN on their router?

;edit; Scratch all that, looks like pfsense is the way to go for anything over 50mbs - restoreprivacy.com/vpn…rs/

Germany faster than France for me now.

I had a very old router and installed ddwrt on it and then torguard. It was very slow around 2mbs but on a pc I get.... 40mbs plus. So I presumed it was the encryption and the router couldn't handle it but never gone back to it to try lower or even zero encryption.

Have you tried changing your encryption?

It mentions raspberry pi router but has slow cpu. How easy is it to create a wifi hotspot in linux or windows and get that pc connected to a network via a vpn and therefore get it to share its vpn? I used to do lots of things like that with bt fon. I had unlimited access to bt fon but not all devices eg ps3 could access it so I used old pcs to just connect to bt fon and act as a hotspot.

I got the same wdr3600 with dd-wrt, and it does connect but at some point later it just drops off and won't reconnect itself unless you reboot it or disable vpn then re-enable. a bit of a hassle. i just gave up with it and configured my torrent client to use socks 5 instead.

I find this using Windows 10 native VPN as well, didn't know if it was the VPN or windows doing it. Was looking into Powershell scripts to check and reconnect etc. Then put it on the router and was slow and did the same, symptoms were pages taking ages to load and then timing out. Speedtest was abysmal!

This was for Ivacy mind, I haven't had the chance to try Windscribe yet (on call work sucks when it relys on the internet!)

50pc of 200mb a very fast 100mb!

Yeah but the cost of building a separate PC with the power decrypt it all real-time, the decent NIC cards to throw the data around, add in the decent WiFi card to handle the wireless side, configuring pfsense (not a simple task) and the time to get to that for only half over my speed.

Not as easy as and cost effective as using client based VPN but losing half the network protection!

If I went the powerful router way (top end ASUS) and a separate router running the VPN its still £300ish which I may as well throw into a separate PC.

Could also go to the commercial low end firewall/router route but still looking low end of £500.

Its all or nothing for me lol

This doesn't seem to be available now. Only 10GB free.

It still works, I just signed up. You have to use the voucher!

Just got round to setting it up. Speedtest could barely read it, it managed DL at less than 2mbps but couldn't complete UL. I went to NordVPN for their 3 day trial to check it isn't me or BT and that's 35mbps and 8mbps.

Anyone any ideas. I like what I read about windscribe but those speeds are no good.
THanks

Not sure what to say, I'm getting 58mb which is more or less line speed for me.

Are you on the recommended UK server?

Thanks I think I'll open a support ticket, I like the look of windscribe and the price is right but I'm not going pro with the current speeds.

Getting good speeds on all European servers using IKEv2.

UK

NL

Thanks for that I tried the Netherlands and that was even slower, approx 0.5mbps.

I'll try it in about an hour again.

Thanks! I'll take another look.

Thank you op. Downloaded and got the 10gb upgrade. No idea what to do now but there must be some instructions somewhere I guess. :thumbsup:

I'm gettting random regular hangs/disconnections with this in Chrome browser.

If I turn it off in chrome and windows I still get random connection problems

Problems onlt started after installing winscribe

Any advice or is anyone else getting these problems?

Have you tried uninstalling Windscribe completely?

Windscribe does have services running in the background and that could cause issues.

hmm..Virgin Media won't let me access the website.

I know it works as I can view it via Tor.

Which website? Winscribe?

i remember one time I couldn't access torguard on wifi (virgin media) but could on my mobile phone

You could download opera browser and use its built in vpn to go to windscribe website?

Had to do system restore and reinstall chrome clear cache /cookiie to get internet working properly after uninstalling Windscribe

Also works on existing accounts. Just login to your account and under Account Status click Claim Voucher.

Looks good based on this:
thatoneprivacysite.net/sim…rt/

Just tried using the voucher, but stated it is now invalid.

This still works... 50GBFREE


Read somewhere that the 50 code is lifetime but the 60 is only 12 months then back to 10.

says that code for the free upgrade is invalid

Anyone who signed up know whether the verification mail was instant or took some time? Signed up about 30 minutes ago and nothing has been received yet (yes, checked spam/junk etc). Logged in to my account and confirmed the correct email address too.

Pretty sure mine was instant. I think code has expired now for the extra 50?

Thanks, even the 10GB would be useful if I can verify my email though. Wonder if it has anything to do with me entering a code that is now expired.

Indeed it does, so thanks.

Been very impressed with it, apart from it liking to turn itself on occasionally, it doesn't support Linux and I can't get it work with US Netflix as they can detect the proxy server. However, UK Netflix is way better than it use to be.

Anyone had success and good performance when installing it on a router?