Anca Dinculescu4 days ago · 6 min read

Go from Zero to Hero with these New VPNLocations

Easy guide on how to chose your VPNlocation like a PRO

Generally used to epitomize how the right or wronglocation can determine the outcome of a property saleor a new business venture, the phrase “location,location, location” acquires new meaning whenreferenced in Tech. Just as sometimes access to venture

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capitalists is somewhat more di�cult, if you’re not inSilicon Valley, Alley or Prairie, often digital accessrequires geographical variables to wire.

You can buy the right home in the wrong location and might find

yourself distant or completely cut off from some of the amenities a

better neighbourhood can proffer. You can change or remodel your

house, but, ordinarily, it will remain attached to the land. Much more

enticing than being pinned down to one particular geographical place,

our digital lives often extend far beyond our geographical coordinates.

You might be a french citizen with a industrial Design degree at the

OSU in Ohio working remotely from Sidney for an US company that

operates in Singapore with an innate passion for video games and

plenty of geographically dispersed friends from back in boarding.

Naturally, you will encounter geo-restrictions when connecting to

your remote workplace or when you digress to getting your hands on

Witchers 4 (!on the absolute latest timezone release), or even when

communicating with your friends from abroad. Having a VPN in place

to bypass geo-restriction, while keeping your privacy, hidden under

rocks, is the way to go, keeping your data encrypted, while giving you

tunnel vision to distant locations.

Geared with brand new locations from California to Florida, from

United Kingdom to Germany or Australia to Japan, My IP.io comes

with brand new locations to chose from.

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Introducing a much more location diverse dedicated VPN service, our

latest server acquisitions are located in:

USA California

USA Oregon

USA Ohio

USA North Virginia

USA Florida

Brazil

United Kingdom

Germany

Australia

India

South Korea

Singapore

Japan

Ok, but what’s the right location foryou, right?

Here are some tips on how to chose theright Location for your VPN:Looking for access to Censored Content: Google, Facebook, Twitter or

Skype?

The no brainer here is to select a location where access to these

services is not restricted.

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The Chinese internet, for example, goes by very strict policies imposed

by a variety of laws and administrative regulations, controlled by an

authoritarian government that tries to neutralize critical online

opinion. It’s an unprecedented censorship system in all rights, that

turned the Chinese internet into the largest digital boundary the

world has ever seen. Beijing walls its homeground internet from the

rest of the digital world for two decades, preventing technology

companies like Facebook to tap into the Chinese market.

It’s no news that the Chinese market is home to a copycat cultural

habit, but at the same time China and not Silicon Valley is cutting

edge innovation if we were to quote New York Times. “While still

lagging in some important areas, China managed to protrude Baidu

instead of Google, Weibo for Twitter, WeChat for Facebook or Alibaba

instead of Amazon. Letting users hail a taxi or order a pizza without

switching to another app., the rich, resourceful Chinese digital world

is proving itself to be worthy of causing a real great split between

China and the rest of the world.”

There are many ways of circumventing the totalitarian Chinese

surveillance system, such as proxy servers or VPNs. Any company

selling VPN services in China must comply with regulations, hence

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register with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Plus they’re constantly targeted by the local authorities and are often

slow and unstable. As monitoring and surveillance is not confined to

the Great Firewall, but built-in social networks, chat services and

VoIP, the best solution falls in the court of companies outside China.

MyIP.io is a self-managed VPN network platform, delivering fast, secure

and reliable VPN service ,with servers located in France, Romania and

Canada, hence is not subjected to Ministry of Industry and Information

Technology or DMCA compliance.

Long story short, if you’re in east Asia try to connect to Singapore or US;

or if you’re in the Middle East, try connecting in Europe.

Looking for Security and not necessarily circumvent geo-restrictions?

The first thing to consider is the nearest location to yours.

Learn about the layers of encryption built into your VPN service. They

say that a VPN is only as good as its encryption capabilities, but

encryption in itself is not the simplest of topics. The terminology used

to determine how secure a VPN connection is, can get very confusing,

very quickly. Slapdash to the point of being misleading, many VPN

providers describe the encryption they use in a telegraphic manner or

worse, they don’t describe it at all.

Essentially, when using a VPN app., data is encrypted at each end of

the tunnel and decrypted at the other end. The tunnel itself is simply

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the path connecting two locations (flashback to a tunnel going under

a mountain, where the mountain is the internet and the tunnel is the

safe path through the other side). When it reaches the internet, each

data file is broken into a series of packets to be sent and received by

devices connected to the internet, as the de facto manner in which

data travels online. In this context, tunneling is the process of placing

an entire packet within another packet (yeah! Just like a Russian

nesting doll, a Matryoshka of files) before being sent on the internet.

That outer packet protects the inner packets and ensures that the

“cargo” moves within the virtual tunnel. While the tunnel itself is not

encrypted, but encoding can be added, a VPN needs more than just a

pair of keys in order to apply encryption. This is where protocols come

in.

My IP.io comes bundled with a variety of VPN encryption protocols,

supporting all the latest security protocols including PPTP, IPSec, L2TP

and 128bit –AES, OpenVPN cipher. When you use the MY IP.io app, you

can easily switch between protocols, although it’s recommended that you

stick with defaults.

Now that you know how to address the “location” aspect of a VPN,

remember that My IP’s latest server locations were hand-picked to

deliver the most reliable speed. We continuously update our server

locations by analyzing numerous data points, among which:

Connection success rate, Customer usage and Speed.

When choosing a location it is also important to check things like:

Speed Index, Latency, and Download Speed, as these are all

important factors.

This is what they mean:

Speed Index: shows how fast the VPN server is; the higher the

number, the better the server.

Download Speed: it tells you how fast your VPN server is able to

download information; also the higher, the better.

Latency: it’s the time it takes for a data packet to go from your device

to reach the VPN.