Privacy, travel and home networking, written plainly, from the people building vploq.
The price on a VPN's homepage is almost never the price you end up paying. Most providers advertise something between $2 and $4 per month. That figure is real, but it applies to an introductory term of two or three ye...
Search for what a self-hosted VPN costs and you will find two kinds of answer. Tutorials that say "it's free, just use WireGuard," and forum threads that assume you already have a server rack. Neit...
Short answer: probably not, and you should check three things before spending anything. Longer answer: there is a specific set of circumstances where a hardware device is clearly the right buy, and...
Tailscale and ZeroTier both do the same thing at a distance: install a client on each of your devices, and they behave as though they share a local network no matter where they physically are. Both...
Tailscale is very good software, and most people who go looking for an alternative are not unhappy with how it works. They are unhappy with something around it. The cost once a household or team ou...
You built a Plex library. Hundreds of movies, TV shows, maybe a music collection — all sitting on a drive at home. Then you try to open it from a hotel room or a friend's place and hit a wall: buff...
You're sitting in a hotel room and realize the file you need is on your desktop back home. You're traveling abroad and your favorite streaming service thinks you're in the wrong country. You want t...
You're sitting in a hotel lobby in Tokyo, connected to the Wi-Fi, and you just remembered your favorite streaming library is geo-locked to your home country. You open your VPN app, tap connect, and...
You land somewhere good — Bali, Lisbon, Mexico City — drop your bags, and open Netflix to put something on while you unpack. It loads. You're logged in. Everything looks normal. But it isn't your N...
Commercial VPNs route your traffic through the provider's servers. They cannot give you access to your own home network. If that is what you need, to reach your NAS, your cameras, your home server...
