Since I got my new nifty Macbook Pro I have decided to visit Panera bread more often to work on some of my web sites and also get some blogging done. Working remotely offers a refreshing change from my home office.
Since I will be working off public wifi in these situations, I needed to have a VPN solution to protect myself from possible traffic sniffers and other nasty things that can happen on open wifi.
After a decent amount of research, I found Witopia and their PersonalVPN service. PersonalVPN uses SSL-VPN (via OpenVPN) which is more secure than other methods such as PPTP.
When using the VPN service, I haven’t noticed any network speed difference. I have had one issue though pertaining to the tunnelblick vpn software client they use. If the client is left running when shutting down, my macbook takes about a minute and a half or so to shut down. Not a big deal, but it was a little frustrating not knowing why it took so shutdown OS X.
If you are working remotely and rely of free wifi access, you need to protect yourself and your data. I highly recommend Witopia. Witopia is for BOTH Mac and Windows, but I can only comment on their Mac service.
For a Witopia discount code use shxpt to save 10%, bringing the cost down to only $36 for the year!
Update: Wiptopia’s PersonalVPN cost has been raised to $59.99 a year. Still, it’s a great bargain if you plan on using it a lot. The discount code above still works, saving you $6 off the registration cost, bringing it to $53.99
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If your still using Tunnelblick, and especially if you continue to have issues with it, then perhaps try Viscosity as an alternative.
Its written natively for the Mac, very easy to setup, and clean to use. Will grab your settings from Tunnelblick on installation.
Check them out here:
http://www.viscosityvpn.com
Cheers
Thanks for the suggestion. Installed viscosity and seems much nicer than Tunnelblick.
I just tried WITOPIA on my mac OS 10.6
and it really slows down my connexion.
do you have an idea of the problem ?