Unknown Speaker 0:00 What's up everyone, Patrick here and in today's
video, I'll be showing you how to use Nord VPN on a Windows PC or desktop computer. Now Nord VPN
is one of the top available VPN services on the market today. And if you don't know what a VPN is,
it simply stands for virtual private network. And it allows you to remain anonymous. While you're
browsing online. This is great if you're trying to stream region locked videos or movies or if you're
trying to torrent and remain anonymous, whatever the reason, a VPN is the way to go and include a
link down in the description to Nord VPN. So you can go ahead and download it and follow
along with me today. And of course, include any discounts or deals that come along with that. So
jumping right into it, the first thing you'll do is head over to Nord vpn.com, and then download
the app for yourself after downloading and installing it, you can open it up from your
desktop and log in. Once you're logged in, you'll be greeted with a nearly identical screen to mine,
which is a map of the world along with all these little location icons. Now all of these icons
simply mean that Nord VPN has service available in those countries. And this is great, especially if
you're trying to connect to a region locked site or streaming platform, and you need to appear
like you're in another country. Now, clicking on any one of these will quick connect to the best
available connection within that country for you. And then clicking on the disconnect button at the
bottom will simply allow you to disconnect from that and you're no longer browsing privately.
If you want a full list of all of the available countries, you've got that on the left side over
here, hovering over any one of these, and then clicking on it will then allow you to obviously
Quick Connect. But if you want to jump in and take a look at the specific servers or regions
for yourself, you can click on these three dots or right click on any one of these. And if they have
multiple regions available, you'll see a region drop down list and a server drop down list. Now,
by default, all of these are set to the fastest, but you can go in and choose one that's better
for you. Now, you might want to pick one that's closer, but that doesn't necessarily mean that
it will be a quicker connection, it all comes down to the hardware and then your internet connection
just to the internet as a whole because you're first connecting to your local line. And then
that's routing you all the way to your region and server for your VPN and then that's taking you
to your destination. So it's natural that there will be a little bit of latency or delay in that.
But that's where Nord Lynx comes in handy. Now Nord Lynx is a proprietary protocol.
And VPN protocols are simply the way that your service is able to talk to the server itself,
the international standard is open VPN, and that's the open source version. And almost all if not
all, VPN services have this protocol available. However, Nord VPN and some other VPN services
have their own proprietary protocols, because they've invested an awful lot into their
hardware and infrastructure and want to make sure you're getting the best bang for your buck while
connecting to their hardware. Now, if you wanted to, you can go ahead and change these protocols as
you see fit by going to the gear icon at the top and clicking on that this will open up all of your
settings. And from here, you can see the general settings tab, which is simply your launch options.
All of these options are going to be self explanatory, and that's through all of these
different settings menu. But what we're interested in is the auto Connect, this will show you whether
or not you connect whenever you're on Wi Fi, if you want your device to always no matter
what be running with your VPN, whenever you're connected to the internet, then you would have
this on if you want a little more control, then obviously leave that off and turn it on with
quick connect or directly to a region a server of your choice as you see fit. Now just below that,
you can see the VPN protocols section and this drop down list will show you all of the available
VPN protocols that Nord VPN has to offer. And you'll see the two different ones for open VPN.
And then the recommended one, which is Nord links, and the one that I'm already on by default. Now,
obviously, you've got some more settings over here that you can jump into. And these are a little
more technical that once you have a little more of an understanding of the application, they'll make
more sense to you. But these are just general VPN settings such as a kill switch, whenever you're
disconnected by your VPN on accident, then it will automatically disconnect you from the internet, so
you're not browsing online unprotected. Of course, these are just personal preferences. Now in order
to head back to the menu, we'll just click that back button at the top left. And going back to the
list on the left side, you can scroll all the way up to see your most recent connections and just
below that specialty servers. Now the purpose of specialty servers are just that for special
use cases whenever you're trying to connect for a specific reason whether you're using an onion web
browsing client, or if you're trying to do peer to peer connections through a VPN service just
like that you should now understand how to use Nord VPN on your Windows, PC or desktop Computer
and if you haven't already, be sure to check out that link below in the description with any deals
or discounts along with it. Let me know down in the comments what your favorite feature about
Nord VPN is. And if you found this video helpful, please give it a like I always appreciate it and
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until next time, thanks for watching. Transcribed by https://otter.ai