how's it going everybody welcome back and today i'm going to show you guys how you can basically
use a vpn now of course if you're new to vpns you might think that this is a little more complicated
uh than usual well when vpns first came out of course they were a little bit more complicated
but now that they've been commercialized it really is as easy as it gets when it comes to using avpn
so before we begin if you guys are interested in any of the vpns mentioned today be it expressvpn
nordvpn or surfshark you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below
as well as full-on reviews if you'd like to know the ins and outs including advantages and
disadvantages of each one of these vpns so the basic principle of using a vpn is very simple
of course with these vpns it is as simple as you know the connect here the connect button
the on and off button with expressvpn and the quick connect with nordvpn it's very simple now
if you're watching this video you probably want to know a little bit more about what a vpn does
including the basic functions and features that are included with it so let's start with
expressvpn and i want to explain the things here and anything that's not included or any features
that are not in expressvpn and are only in nord or surf shark also explain those very briefly
so let's start with express now first of all you have the locations list it's pretty
self-explanatory you've got over 3000 servers in 94 countries within expressvpn over 5200 servers
in uh 60 countries in nordvpn and over 3200 servers in 65 countries with surfshark each
with their own little user interface here if i for example if i um map if i just make it
a little bit bigger here or maximize it i can get the locations here or i could
collapse it back and just go to locations and just look up whatever i want to look up here with
expressvpn they've got things a little bit more organized in terms of listing you know depending
on the continent so it's very simple depending on which server you're looking to get you've
got a speed test feature which can come in handy saves you a little bit of time and in the options
you've got the basic the two basic features that you should see in every premium vpn which is the
kill switch here called the network lock and split tunneling network lock or the kill switch
will stop the internet traffic in order to prevent any leaks just in case your vpn disconnects
unexpectedly that can can that can come in um specifically useful in censorship-heavy countries
where isps or you want to avoid getting every anything leaked uh any of your activity leaked
while your vpn is off let's say because your isp might perhaps issue a warning or maybe some
you know like if you're in china facebook is banned um you know a bunch of other applications
are banned so maybe using one of these might be looked down upon if your isp finds out and
they might report you the to the authorities so the kill switch will make sure that your
data does not leak in case your vpn disconnects unexpectedly it's just sort of a fail safe so
yeah it can come in handy split tunneling is useful when let's say you want to use your vpn
but you know you want to choose which apps um do you use the vpn and which apps don't so you have
the option of let's say you know i want to use my torrenting client and i want the vpn to only
affect torrenting client and not anything else i can just say only allow selected apps to use the
vpn i can just select this app and however many apps i i want so or vice versa i could have for
example everything else use my vpn except for my browser for example or for uh for for my blizzard
if i'm gaming and i want everything else to be vpn protected except for my blizzard account or steam
client or you know you get the idea so all of these vpns have a kill switch and split tunneling
uh and you should be seeing this uh these two features in every premium vpn that is
worth its salt really and now with protocols you do have a handful of protocols most of the times
i mean you can just go with automatic but for the most part i would definitely recommend using the
highest performing protocols in this case that'll be the lightweight udp protocol with expressvpn
that'll be the nord links protocol with nordvpn right here super powerful protocol and that'll
be the wireguard protocol with surfshark now with regards to features here with nordvpn there isn't
much that is different except for the ui you've got less server more servers but less countries so
expressvpn by virtue of having more countries of course is able to unblock more streaming services
if that's if that's something you're interested in and you know just for reference expressvpn
is able to unblock up to 18 netflix libraries that'll be 10 with nord and 15 with surf shark
uh so yeah in case you're interested in that kind of information or if you're looking for
a vpn for streaming services to unblock them since too many streaming services are just uh
you know geo-restricted and you won't be able to access them unless you're in the appropriate
region so the only other thing here we have extra with nordvpn is the onion or vpn peer-to-peer
server some specialty servers here and if you go to the openvpn udp you'll get a couple of extra
servers with dedicated uh a couple extra specialty servers such as dedicated ip and double vpn
uh of course if you're interested in the uh functionality of these uh
little uh servers here just be sure to check out the review below for more information
i don't want to make this video too long but i would like to explain that uh exp nordvpn
does have a an app kill switch which will close selected apps when you disconnect from the vpn or
connection drops rather than closing the entire or disconnecting the entire connection or network so
that's one option you get with nordvpn and another thing you get is uh custom dns so if
you're interested in uh changing your dns well a very easy method of changing your dns you do
get that option with a surf shark i mean nordvpn and speaking of surfshark you do get static ip and
multi-hop which is the same as dedicated ip and double vpn and you know just to briefly you know a
dedicated ip will give you the same ip every single time you log in you know you've got these
servers with the same ip and you can always go back to them to always have the same ip if
that's something you're interested in double vpn will route your connection through two uh servers
rather than one so if that's something uh you're interested in uh for extra security um so with
surfshark the only other unique feature i think would be that it has the shadow socks
the shadow socks protocol right here which will help you bypass the censorship firewall
for example the great firewall china if you're not able to access some websites there shadowstocks
will help you uh bypass these restrictions so that you're able to access these websites it's the same
thing with no borders mode no borders mode will actually allow you to bypass the great firewall
of china if the regular servers aren't working uh besides that of course whitelister is the same as
split tunneling it's just called whitelister here and you do have the kill switch as i said uh and
once you have let's say a basic understanding of these uh functions hopefully i've explained them
well all you need to do is uh let's say look for um let's say i'm trying to unblock netflix right
and i want to block the american library just have to go to one of these uh you know pick
one of these uh servers and connect and i'm good to go that really is as simple as that
so again if you guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll find links to special deals and
discounts in the description down below as well as full-on reviews if you'd like to know the ins
and outs of these vpns in terms of privacy policy speed streaming and taunting capabilities as well
security features so be sure to check those out if you guys are interested besides that thank
you guys very much for watching and i'll see you guys in the next one have a wonderful day