Most of the time it is frustrating when you are unable to get the best out of your internet connection. Be it a home broadband or mobile broadband, most of them nowadays won’t reach the promised speed. Some people feel cheated especially when they’re paying fixed monthly fees and they can only use their internet connection in a satisfying state only for a few days in a month maybe due to weak signals or some techical problems. There might be some technical limitations which we can’t do much but only to bark at the service provider asking them to make it better.

But what if the telcos and internet service providers are able to provide stable and good broadband services and you want to access to some websites but they are not available for your country? Yes, again you feel frustrating because although you have a good and fast internet connection, you can’t access those websites. So, what should you do? Bark at the telcos again? Let me introduce you to something that you might concur with me that it will solve one or two of those problems, read on.

I’ve been introduced to BolehVPN and have been given a chance to try it hands on. What is that? you asked. BolehVPN is a Virtual Private Network service provider. I’m not good at explaining it technically but if you interested to know from that aspects, go to this LINK. Basically the picture below can explain how it works.

I’ve been testing in on mobile broadband (I use Celcom and DiGi) because I think some users nowadays rely on that more instead of home broadband, especially if you’re always on-the-go like me.

The benefits I get from using this BolehVPN were as follows:

1. Download speed increased especially if you’re into P2P downloading like torrents (ooppss!). I’ve downloaded a file of 349MB in less than an hour (about 40 minutes) which usually took few days. In these sense I felt very much liberated because downloading a large file using normal ways with a normal connection (without VPN) always a pain in the a**. Most of the time it was so agonizing.

Downloading speed increased when using BolehVPN. Do note that speed might vary depending on broadband plan and speed.

2. Able to access websites that are not available for the country and those websites that are limited by the ISP (internet service provider). Well, this my friend, is one big advantage of BolehVPN. Take for example you want to listen your favourite songs online, you found a good online radio station but its acessibility is not available for our country. So, what do you? Yeah of course we have youtube but what if your youtube also loads in a slow rate? Of course, with BolehVPN you can kill two birds with one stone, literally, whatever that means to you. So, yeah, you can access that favorite radio station of yours and then load your youtube vidoes faster.

3. Secure online activities, which will protect your details such as location and IP. Need I say more?

4. Specific settings and configurations for specific purposes. Every server used in BolehVPN can be selected to optimize your surfing purpose. For example, you want to do streaming of movies and videos, you can choose specific server for that. You have to try and explore it yourself if you wan to understand more about different configurations for different purposes.

5. And of course flexible and cheap packages. If you’re not a heavy user, you can opt for a short term subscription for as low as RM30 a month. If your subscriptions expired, your account will remain there untill you renew or buy a package again. So, you can choose which package is suitable for your needs. You can even try BolehVPN first for as low as RM5 for 3 days before you decide to go for longer packages.

So, what do you think? Sounds good? What I’ve stated above is just a tip of an iceberg. You’ll discover more if you try it yourself. If you’re still hazy of what this is about then go to www.bolehvpn.net for further informations. Who knows you’ll join me in the “cult” of internet liberationnnnnnnn!!!! Oopps