Hey, what's up, my name is Nick and welcome to Tech house. Today I'm going to be talking about
surf shark and installing it on your Mac, as well as older features, we're going to keep it
short under five minutes and as well as keep it as comprehensive as possible. Before we start, I just
want to say that everything I talked about in this video, I'm going to link down in the description
below, as well as any discount codes, coupons, promos, whatever have you. So that's all linked
below. And let's log in and download surf shark. So let's go to surf shark calm, and then a login.
And the first page that we were greeted with is the download page where we can download the surf
shark for Mac OS, you can either do it through the direct download, which is just going to download
the file to your computer, and then you can open it from there. Or you can download the app from
the App Store, which we're going to do here. So it's going to ask us to open the app store.
And since I already downloaded it's going to say open but yours might say download. Alright,
so that's what I greet us with here. And here, we must enter our email and password one more
time and hit a login. If you're running version 3.2 or higher, it might ask you if you want to
remove the dock icon or keep the dock and the dock icon is just over here, right there. Because now
the whole app is on the top over here. It used to be like this, that's what surf shark used to
look like on the top. And now it looks like this. Personally, I don't see any reason to
keep the dock icon. So I'm just gonna go ahead and remove it. And that is it. Now you have downloaded
surf shark and it's ready to use. Now the first time you connect is going to give this warning,
just go ahead and press allow and it's going to do the first attempt to connect. And there
you go. You should now be connected to the fast available server. In my case it was Lavinia You
can also check your IP address and toggle on or off your kill switch, I recommend leaving
the kill switch on as it acts as a safeguard where in the rare case that your VPN gets disconnected,
your Wi Fi is going to get disconnected so that if you are browsing a potentially harmful website,
no data will be leaked due to this incident. All right. And now let's have a look at the other
options that are available to us. Starting with the search. This is going to tell us a list of all
the different servers or the cities to which we can connect to you can of course click and connect
immediately. And over here there's two more icons, these icons look almost identical. But if you look
closely, it shows you a circle. And it shows you how many users are currently using. So there are
32% being used of the server. And if you look at different ones, for example, this one is 20%.
The other button I was talking about is the star button which allows you to add any survey like to
your favorites. If you scroll down the list, you're going to see static IP and unlike the
other servers, these servers will provide you with the IP which will always be the exact same one,
which is a very handy tool to have. If you're dealing with websites with high security.
For example, your bank account may record your user and your IP address together. And
if you're logged in from a different IP, it is going to disconnect you for security measures.
A static IP will prevent this from happening. Alright, let's have a look at some other options.
So below the search part we have locations and here we have fastest server and to nearest
country as quick options. The favorites contains the favorite that we've just added over here
and below that there are locations. One of the things to note there is this little V over here,
it just means that this is a virtual server and is not actually located in Argentina.
Going back up to the static IP, which we already discussed previously, and multi hop. If you really
want nobody to find you then multi hop is a great option because for example here,
the server will first connect to Canada and then to America or France and then Sweden or Germany
and then Singapore, catching a connection like that is borderline impossible. The downside
however, is that this may increase your ping and slow down your internet connection. By the way,
if you prefer a more minimal interface, then this button in the top left corner will do that
for you. It only shows the connect button and your recently used servers. Moving on down the feature
list we have VPN features and clean a web. This is essentially a pop up blocker which blocks ads on
the IP level, you're still going to need the pop up blocker but this might save you some data as it
doesn't allow those ads to actually come through to you. Whereas a popup blocker might download the
ad but remove it so that you can't see it. So it is a handy but a very optional feature. Finally,
let's go through the settings in the app info menu we can check if you're running the latest version.
And if you're planning to always use a VPN you can open at login. We also have the option to get
back our dock icon previously hid. Scrolling down to connectivity we have auto connect on
Wi Fi networks This is useful if you are using an Ethernet connection at home and when going
out and connecting to a public Wi Fi spot like Starbucks for example. It will automatically
turn on your VPN. killswitch is exactly as we discussed earlier, and then in the advanced you
have the protocol. Here we have a few options. It is currently connected to Ike v2, which is
indeed to the industry standard at the moment but it is cool being replaced by a wire guard as
the better faster, more advanced VPN protocol. So if you're suffering slow connection speeds, you
can go ahead and change it to wire guard. Please note, however, that it is not fully developed. And
for example ExpressVPN refuses to use it because it might provide less security. Open VPN is also
good option. There's the UDP, which is the faster version and TCP which is the more stable version.
And moving along to the Account tab, where we can see our account info including our username,
and we can log out, we can change the password, you can see our subscription and optionally,
subscribe to the newsletter. And in the Help tab, you'll see troubleshooting where you can
see guides on how to fix problems kinda like this video. Otherwise, if you have a serious problem,
you can send your diagnostics to surf shark and see if they can figure it out.
Well, that about just covers absolutely everything you need to know about surf shark on a Mac. If
you do not yet have surf shark, I would highly recommend it as I consider it to be one of the
best budget VPNs out there period, as they are one of the very few which provide unlimited
simultaneous connections for all your devices and at unbeatable value, and are the new kid on the
block, which means that they're going to continue to improve and add more features over time. So I
would recommend getting into the two year plan while they still offer it and reap the benefits
of them upgrading and you're receiving all those upgrades for free as they raise their prices in
the future. And that's just my prediction. However, the one drawback that I see is that
they're not always the fastest VPN out there. And if you want the fastest then I would go with Nord
VPN as they provide some of the best speeds I have seen so far. And if security is important to you,
and you just want the best VPN that there is out there, then I would consider choosing Express VPN.
As always all the links for the discounts, coupons and promos, you'll find it the description below.
So check that out. I hope you learned something. This has been Nick Cheers.