how's it going everybody welcome back and today i'm going to show you guys how you can use nordvpn
this is just a bit of a beginner's guide for nordvpn on both desktop and uh android or
iphone it's really the same thing whether you're on mac windows android or iphone it's all going
to be the same user interface so before i begin if you guys are interested in nordvpn or if you'd
like to get straight to the pricing and discounts be sure to check the description down below you'll
also find a full review if you'd like to learn more about nordvpn okay so the very basics really
i'll start with just showing you how you can connect to a server and then i'll just explain
the features that come with nordvpn okay so as you can tell here it's very intuitive you just have a
map design and you're free to just zoom in with the scroll that you have on your mouse or you
can just look up servers on the left hand uh side right here uh you can just look whatever you want
to uh look up here or scroll through i prefer i mean usually i just find myself just zooming into
the map and picking the server that i'm looking for um it's also kind of another way to brush
up on my geography a little bit so i i like this design okay so let's say you want to connect to
um you know the united states all you have to do is uh just select the location and click it quick
connect will connect you to the closest or what nordvpn thinks is the fastest server depending on
your location sometimes it's correct sometimes it isn't but i'd just rather pick a server on my own
so you just click it and you'll be connected in no time now it depends on which protocol you're
using you can actually uh connect faster or slower depending on the protocol you're using right now
i'm using nord links which is the fastest protocol and just go to auto connect here and if you just
go to uh the protocols right here you'll find three protocols open vpn udp tcp and nord links
now udp and tcp are generally for more security nordlings is the wireguard protocol which will
be the fastest protocol and i do prefer to choose it really since it operates way faster but if you
are interested in more security features as you can tell here let me just show you guys
uh on the left hand corner you have specialty servers onion overvpn and peer-to-peer now
onion overvpn will give you access to the dark web without having to use the tor browser peer-to-peer
is for peer-to-peer activities such as torrenting but me personally i have not found any particular
advantage uh over using regular servers when it comes to torrenting so uh but now what i
was trying to showcase is that if you switch to openvpn be it tcp or udp it really doesn't
matter let me just disconnect first because i don't want it to reconnect um if i go ahead and
switch to openvpn it'll actually give me two more specialty servers so dedicated ip and double vpn
double vpn will route your connection through two servers rather than one for extra security
barely affecting uh the speed really it's still a pretty high speed okay with dedicated ip you'll
always be getting the same ip address every time you return to one of these servers uh rather than
getting uh you know kind of scrambled ip addresses these will give you the same ip address if you're
interested in something like that you have over 5 100 servers in total so all these servers will
amount to 5 100 plus and you've got 60 countries now there are quite a few vpns like expressvpn
for example that has 94 countries but as you can tell even 60 countries is enough to kind of
cover almost the entire globe really so yeah not bad at all 60 countries is still quite rich quite
a bit okay so i'm going to switch to north links because it is definitely the best one uh and in
general by the way you have cybersec uh switches the ad blocker you have the kill switch which will
disable your internet when the vpn disconnects unexpectedly and the app kill switch which is
one of the exclusive features that nordvpn has will close selected apps when you disconnect
from the vpn or the connection drops unexpectedly rather than closing or disconnecting your entire
connection as it is with the conventional kill switch okay so split telling will allow to choose
which applications are routed through the vpn and which are not so you can for example pick
only your browser or something else to use the vpn rather than just having your entire connection use
the vpn you'll only have the selected applications used or you can select certain applications to
bypass the vpn while the rest of your network functions regularly through the vpn tunnel
in advance you will see custom dns which will allow you to kind of set your own dns very easily
it's an easy way to change your dns if you're interested and obfuscated servers will kind of
obfuscate your uh traffic even further to make it look like you're not using a vpn in the first
place if you're in a censorship heavy country but overall if you're in a censorship heavy country
nordvpn will provide you with a special version of nordvpn that functions in censorship heavy
countries and they'll give you that link through the live chat support or you can just look it
up yourself and get it so uh yeah very simple stuff as you can tell you know now that you know
or have a basic idea of how to use the vpn uh on a pc you'll actually be able to use it on
android and now that we're on android you can tell that it's roughly the same user interface
there's barely anything changing here uh the only thing that you're missing is a kill switch
and apparently according to uh nordvpn themselves the kill switch is only available on android 8.8
in the latest phones and i have a huawei p10 so i guess that's not so new and if you're on uh iphone
you do have a kill switch so no worries there but when it comes to android it's only version 8.8
uh 8.0 excuse me on the latest uh android phones you still do get cybersec which is an ad blocker
you get well half a split tunneling feature you're only able to disable or have you know selected
applications bypass the vpn tunnel rather than use it so it's kind of half a split telling feature
you have auto connect options obviously and you have a the same selection of protocols custom dns
and two features that you only get of course on your phone you're not going to find those on the
pc tap jacking protection which will alert you if a malicious app adds a screen overlay
to trick you into an unintended action and dark web monitor is another feature which will alert
you if your credentials get publicly exposed online uh so that's pretty much it besides that
the ui is very similar as you can tell and all you have to do is just select one of these pins and
you'll be able to connect it really is as simple as that so that'll be it for this video hopefully
you guys kind of learned how to use a nord vpn if you guys have any more questions please post
them in the comments down below i'll be happy to answer all of them keep in mind that you'll also
find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below as well as a full review
if you'd like to learn more about nordvpn with regards to the privacy policy speed streaming
and torrenting capabilities as well as security and features also nordvpn does offer a 30-day
money-back guarantee on all of its plans so no matter which plan you get you are able to get
yourself the refund if you're not satisfied for one reason or another and you can claim it through
the live chat support which is also available 24 7. uh so yeah great stuff overall like and
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