Do not simply share accounts with unknown people unless you're looking for trouble.
They could use it for illegal activities, and if authorities start tracing back to your VPN which would MOST LIKELY give in due to the fact they want to keep their operation licenses, they'll reveal the account's logs and the first suspect is always the account owner.

That is why you should always buy your VPN accounts with crypto currencies or vouchers.It's highly advisable rather than using debit cards or online banking which links back to your name.

Also each account depending on its price allows 2,5 or 10 simultaneous logins(ip addresses) which some people oversell it to more than allowed. If one of your shared members shares it elsewhere, your account will be locked out and detected for misused causing unnecessary trouble for you to beg your VPN provider to release your account again.

10K Nord VPN premium accounts
Just Google it.

This so called number 1 rated VPN is now probably running a ponzi scheme and after having sold thousands of 3 years validity accounts, they all suddenly got leaked.

If suddenly the go out of business and missing overnight, GG to all their subscribers.

These are the 3 VPNs you should AVOID instead if you care for your PRIVACY and SAFETY of your personal data.

Why? I'm going to let you think why BIGGEST and LOUDEST in the room are always the the giveaways.

ExpressVPN Really Based in Hong Kong?
https://vpnscam.com/expressvpn-really-based-in-hong-kong/


Top VPNs Secretly Owned by Chinese Firms
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/2524662...y-Chinese-firms

Isn't it funny that a country that bans the use of VPNs in its own country actually among the BIGGEST the world's VPN companies?
The AIM and MOTIVE is pretty much clear cut: SPYING on the masses.

Is NordVPN a Honeypot?
https://vpnscam.com/is-nordvpn-a-honeypot/


How can a VPN company get this big if it doesn't have big cables and money?
Not unless it has links with big brother's intelligence agencies, crime lords and "eagles"?

Best you do some good reading and decide for your own self if all these made any sense.

This post has been edited by Candy12: Oct 1 2020, 03:06 PM

How can a VPN company get this big if it doesn't have big cables, connections to big brother's intelligence agencies and money?

1) Of course it needs a BIG Company to Back it Up.
You can't be a promoting freedom and at the same time a SJW walking into some big brother state owned international TIER-1 IP transit carriers company(IBM Softlayer, Level 3, HE) and say hey let's sign a deal to allow my private servers to run on your network responsibility free?

2) Tailor the service and advertise directly to dark markets they wish to gain insight on. One way would be to offer direct Tor over VPN connections through the VPN provider and accept bitcoin. NordVPN does both of these things.

3) No intelligence agency or a world class Tier-1 internet carrier company would go through the risk and hassle of partnering with a VPN without first ensuring there would be massive advertisement funding. A true honeypot would continue spending maximum about of marketing dollars to convince people it was the best and most secure.

4) The VPN just needs to coordinate with intelligence agencies on frequent disconnections and “kill switch” features that do not work and purposely leak your IP address.

VERDICT: If any VPN provider has these 4 checkmarks/criterias MET it is already a HONEYPOT. Not GOOD.

A few more points for you to consider:

Who is London Trust Media which founded PIA?

Is PIA a "honeypot"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Internet_Access
https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/dz834...ome_to_its_end/
https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/commen...oxy_to_torrent/

That is a dangerous idea to consider. The VPN provider could be indirectly owned with your local government having participation stakes in it. Should you come to a disagreement with your local authorities or conflict, you'd be the first to be exposed and sought after with their own infrastructures.

My earlier article highlighted and brought up conditions and hints to look out for in shady VPN providers. They were created by corrupt to conceal their own crypto activities for their own privacy needs. What if they were involved in your country's politics and rule? Then you stepped on the wrong foot accidentally with your comments. Won't you be playing with fire on dangerous grounds?

You can't take those words and promises for granted bro. The requirements for VPN provider to gain access and rent rackspaces for their VPN servers with a data centre or teaming up with Tier-1 transit ISPs requires more than just money to make the deal. These major transit carriers and data centres are owned by powerful corporations having ties big brother/governments/intels.Just as how PIA once claimed that they only deal with bigtime Tier-1 carriers for hosting their serves to ensure that their servers are up to speed with enough capacity to handle their large customer base.

Then again you might still run a small time VPN company with limited capacity off shared VPS servers. Many will still have doubts about your ability to keep up with your customers needs and if it falls short you'll receive lots of complains about slow speeds with your VPN servers. Also your routing paths and latency might not be able to match that of the big players.

The best way is still to rent your own VPS and set up your own VPN service for personal use. You will have better control and privacy over it. My reason for using a VPN is to optimize my routing so that I can get the best latency results across all major continents to where I want to access. Of course I also want to max out my speed to wherever I connect to including major cities in Europe/West Coast USA and East Asia.

https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=5058233

It's owned by Kape Technologies whose owner was an ex-staff/member of Unit 8200, Israel’s version of the NSA.

The group also owns CyberGhost and ZenMate VPN.

Can be trusted? I have used PIA before.

Many of their servers have very high traffic, many of them are blocked by Google due to suspicious activities and blacklisted by Spamhaus.

Some of the European and East Asian vpn servers when you surf to Google, they will load the Arabic and Indian version instead.

Nope, the server is Softlayer SG, HK and Japan. Why the IP is Saudi Arab/Hindi based?

What's the point then if if you want to be geolocation based in the country you chose but the server points elsewhere, the local services there will ban you from using them.

No la, I think the administrator who configured the servers logged into his own Google account in the server caused a bad misconfiguration. Also he could have remotely access the servers from his own country and forgotten to clear his own personal Google credentials while configuring them.

There's a reason why the server ISP is locally based but somehow it got identified as some other country when you load Google/FB. Most of its users logging into them aren't locals??

A word of advise.

Don't waste your money on cheap VPNs. They can't afford to maintain and provide high capacity servers with good hosting providers in a long marathon.

It used to work well during the days when we were on slow DSL connections with just few Mbps plans but nowadays if you've got FTTH lines with over 100M, you'll not get speeds anything near to your ISP subscribed speed.

Didn't knew that even with peering agreement with M247 with TM and TIME the latency to Singapore is still this bad (>130ms).

I'm guessing something is very weird going on with these European providers who have PoPs in Asia playing tricks with their customers or our own local ISPs are intentionally throttling their customers.

Not just M247 Infra Singapore suffers from high latency from Malaysia. Even Telia Singapore Carrier nodes are also affected very badly. When you have ping times >100ms to even Singapore Tier-1 carriers it's not something normal.

Few possibilities:

1) These European ISPs are only PRIORITIZING traffic coming from Europe to access Asia's while the play dirty of blocking the OPPOSITE direction traffic heavily throttling traffic from Asia side going out to Europe the other WAY around. Thus you see pinging from Europe to Asia everything looks fine but from Asia side you trace back to Europe the latency becomes very high with packet losses.

2) Our local ISPs are INTENTIONALLY throttling consumers bandwidth/popular routing paths even when there's no known breakdown issue involved. This what we call "DOMESTIC TERRORISM". They do it to upsell their own premium services/business plans which promises solution to business users which desperately need the good routing paths back to their world HQs based in other continents. We've seen how cable cuts were mostly acts of vandalism in our country just to create extra jobs/opportunities for some people to gain from it. I've seen enough of these sort of dirty backstabbing games played in Malaysia.It's toxic!

3) So happen many are actually reading this forum and when they read that others recommend a certain server route to use, EVERYONE jumps on the same ship SINKING it! Which I doubt is this reason because M247 was all fine last year back in 2020 as well as 2019. It is one of the TOP EGRESS points and VPN server hosting provider in the world even before CDN77 took over them. Got moles from our local ISPs reading this forum wants to discourage Malaysians from using VPNs intentionally DDoS popular networks which are frequently mentioned?

NordVPN, SurfShark, Windscribe, PIA, and AirVPN, most of their servers are on M247 and CDN77 networks with over 10G capacity ports.It's almost IMPOSSIBLE for them to get congested.

GSL Networks have peering with TM, TIME and Maxis. It's an Australian company so many use it to achieve optimized route back to Australian servers even for gaming.

This post has been edited by Candy12: Feb 24 2021, 04:45 PM

Not just with M247 which is a member of Equinix SG.

Other members which have exchange agreements with Equinix SG are also deprioritizing Maxis/TM routes with high latency.

Another example is Telia Carrier Singapore which has a PoP via Equinix SG.
snge-b1.telia.net

I'm getting over 100ms too via Maxis.

It's impossible like what the other forumer, Asellus said last time for Maxis to have congestion with Equinix SG.

Maxis has the most available port capacity to Equinix SG among all the ISPs in Malaysia considering its size as an eyeball type ISP:

Maxis and TM both has 200Gbps port @ Equinix SG
TIME has only 100Gbps
Global Transit(TIME's carrier company) only has 20Gbps

Yet these European major carriers are denying access and de-prioritizing packets causing major spike in latency across the day.

That's why I'm wondering where did it went wrong? Could it be either the 3 reasons mentioned in my previous post?

How do I know even TM who has peering with M247 also getting pings above 130ms??
I thought initially they don't want to layan Maxis because of not being one of their peering partner.

Seems they're de-prioritizing packets from Asia origin ISPs, only to serve packets coming from Europe side entering Asia like I mentioned point 1 above.

Which means they aim to help their European customers to gain access into Asia but not traffic from Asia going outwards to Europe.

You say their latency to EU/US is top notch these last few days were terrible! I just connected to M247 just now. Pings to Europe like Init 7 as high as over 400ms! Speedtest back to Malaysia to Allo server 2-3Mbps only!

Very obvious their server is de-prioritizing incoming traffic from Asia side.

How is your latency to TELIA Carrier Singapore node?

Pinging from Maxis to Telia via Equinix SG directly latency is also over 100ms+!

Maxis don't even need to re-route via HK and back to SG also need over 100ms which is even worser.

What is wrong? Peering with Equinix SG is not everything, members who are not your peer list(in this case referring to Maxis) will also deprioritize your packets.

It's like having a key to a house(Equinix) but family members of the house are not obligated to allow you into their individual rooms because you've no peering arrangements with them directly?

This post has been edited by Candy12: Feb 24 2021, 05:41 PM

Upon rechecking yeah I think you're right.

It's now rerouted from MY -> SG -> JP -> San Jose, CA - > SG just to reach Telia's server hosted within Equinix SG.

Maxis's routing must have went crazy!

Just to add, I'm pretty much done with M247.

If you look at most VPN providers out there they always have a set of at least 2 servers in their list for Singapore and many other major Asian destinations.

2 or more because of different needs. One is optimize for incoming traffic from other region such as Europe trying to access content in Asia and the other is the outgoing route for Asian side to other regions such as Europe/US.

I believe M247 is to serve customers which are from Europe trying to access Asian servers and contents not the other way around.

For those in Asia wanting to use Singapore as transit to connect to Europe/US there's always an alternative server which is non M247. Maybe CDN77, GSL Networks, Digital Ocean or SG.gs?

For me Maxis has peering with GSL Networks, and DO. It seems to connect well with CDN77 too via NTT America.
So yeah M247 is not favorable to Maxis but there're lots of alternatives out there.

The latency issue has recovered for now only to be replaced by another problem. High random disconnections.
It's not coincidental for a large network like M247 which claims to be one of the world's largest hosting infrastructure service provider with presence in almost every region to be taken down for months until now yet to be recovered.

I've been tipped by an industry insider about this issue and the real reason behind it.
Like you said the problem started in early February and it's not entirely due to content access restrictions but an ongoing clampdown of information due to military coup in one of the ASEAN member country.

As you know M247 is a major Western based egress provider into Europe. Its headquartered in Manchester, UK and is used by many journalists, reporters and undercover individuals are equipped with VPN accounts using their server to correspond back to their European bases/press HQ offices.

To recall, do you remember any events which coincided with the breakdown of M247-SG/HK/JP in the month of Feb 2021? It's not just them solely. Many ISPs are still disrupted with ping spike issues, bad routing paths into other regions and occasional random disconnections.

It could happen to any popular VPS infra ISP network out there so thread this with caution. Try contacting your VPN provider to see if they have any workaround solution to this. I'm convinced now that some of our ISPs are secretly throttling our VPN connections from behind after trying out the solution suggested by the industry insider.

Forget about those large commercial VPN providers who are just trying to make a profit out of mainstream subscribers out there which is kept being promoted through paid reviews and ads. They'll just brush you off with standard script replies, one customer lost doesn't make a dent to their revenues especially the "Western" ones.

To avoid getting noticed, many underdogs have already kept their next generation servers from bring published openly on their public sites. They'll only offer access to these servers only by invitation or trusted customers complaining repeatedly about getting throttled if they're from some blacklisted country. Malaysia is somehow already in that list.Maybe you should ask politely for alternative routes with your VPN provider if they have any trial solutions?

At first I thought they were just brushing off my complaints with standard excuses but after taking up their suggestion it turned out to be true.

Connecting with PPTP/L2TP, my speeds with Maxis despite with SG servers close by my speed somehow was only capped to 4Mbps with extremely high ping rates. Using their new stealth customized solution, immediately like applied lubricant full speed even to servers as far away as Iceland and South Africa. Everything just pushes through without any slowdowns felt.

I believe there's a silent war going on within our ISPs and datacentres now.

I've moved away from M247 to another provider since. No more issues until now so far.
There are so many other SG based ISPs that are far more dependable.

CDN77, Stackpath (Highwinds) and 8 to Infinity SG (Telin International Group)

IPVanish and Golden Frog VyperVPN uses Stackpath servers.