- Hi,
thanks for joining me.
Today we're running a setup tutorial
for NordVPN.
I will be purchasing,
installing,
and using this VPN service on both my computer
and mobile device
to give you a better idea
if this is the right option for you.
My name's Josh.
This is VPNVideoReviews.
Before we begin,
I would like to note
that the links in this video
and in the description below,
are affiliate links.
However,
I constantly update these links
with the latest sales and promotions
so you should click here to make sure
you're not missing out on
any of the best deals that
they have running right now for NordVPN.
If you'd like to jump ahead
to a specific section in this video,
you can do so using the time markers you see here.
And with that out of the way,
lets jump online.
So here I am on my browser,
I'm going to type in NordVPN.com,
where I'll be brought directly to their homepage.
And click the get VPN now button.
You're going to see they offer three different options,
I've got the simple one month,
standard six month,
and of course the best offer
which is a one year plan,
because they give you 50% off.
For the sake of this tutorial,
I'll just do one month here
and create my secure account
using an email address
and a password that I get to choose,
which is kinda cool.
They offer a lot of different payment options
credit card, Paypal, Bitcoin
and then this other actually includes
over a 150 other options
so there are really a lot of options to pay
for NordVPN.
I'm going to use paypal.
That's easiest for me.
I'm going to login
and they will ask me to confirm
that this is what I want to purchase,
and I'll click agree and continue,
or agree and pay.
And just like that,
it's only been a could of minutes
and I have successfully registered for NordVPN.
When I click login,
it automatically logs me in.
I love that.
And when I find the download area,
I'm going to choose which device and OS that I'm using.
And there are a lot to choose from.
They've got everything from Windows,
to Mac,
to Android,
to Linux,
to iOS,
to all of those.
And it will download the program,
it's only about 14 megabytes
for the device and OS that you're using.
Once that download's finished,
I'm going to open that up
and then put it for me,
since I'm working on a Mac,
and I have to put it into my applications folder,
and then when I go into my different applications,
I'll find NordVPN there
and open the application.
So here we are with the NordVPN application.
I'm going to have to login to access the service,
but it really is a well designed,
very simple to use,
very intuitive program
that I'm looking forward to showing you here.
Once I login,
it gives me a lot of my different information,
I'll walk through what smart-play
and autoconnect is in just a moment,
but for right now,
lets just go ahead and look at the map here.
The map's going to show me
the different servers that are available for me.
So if I want to go to,
lets say,
the United Kingdom,
I'm just going to click on it
and it is going to connect automatically.
But here's what's great,
in this search bar I can even say
I want to watch Netflix,
and NordVPN's program will tell me exactly where
the best server is going to be for that.
Which for me obviously,
is going to be in the US.
So we'll connect to that,
but lets say I want to watch Hulu,
or BBC.
It's going to tell me
that I want to connect to United Kingdom
and so it automatically starts connecting
to the United Kingdom.
Which I think that's really neat.
I can open up my BBC player
and play videos without having any problems.
Now,
if you want to get a better view of what's happening,
you can get
just more details here.
In the upper right you'll find the load on the server,
the speed of the server,
and how far that server is from my current location.
Which right now is 4,800 miles.
It's really interesting all the information
that they provide for each of the servers.
You can see how much load there is,
how fast it is,
and then choose the server based on
what's going to make it best for you.
The kill switch.
NordVPN does something a little bit different
with its' kill switch.
Instead of turning off your internet,
you can choose applications
you want it to automatically close
if your VPN were to somehow disconnect.
Of course you can change your system of measurement,
the protocol,
and even enable custom DNS,
even though this is really just for advanced users.
So back to the servers,
you can see here
smart-play is actually going to make streaming faster
so it's an option
if you're going to be watching Netflix or Hulu.
Autoconnect you can choose a server
that once you open the program,
it will autoconnect to that server.
It's the one,
lets say you're going to use most often.
I recommend one that's really close to you
or one that has a low server load.
So in this case I chose one in Germany right?
You can turn your notifications on and off.
And you can even turn the program on
when you boot up your computer.
Those are all options you have with the program.
Again,
very easy to use.
It's got a lot of great features
but it's not overwhelming to where you can't understand it.
So here we are with my iPhone,
I'm going to go ahead
and go into my app store
and search for NordVPN.
It's going to be obviously
the first one that comes up as an app.
And so I will click get
and install.
And it's a pretty small program.
So it's not going to take that long
for the program to install.
What's interesting about the NordVPN app is that
really it has one function.
And once it serves that function,
I'm going to go in and delete this app.
Which is really interesting.
I don't do that for a lot of the other apps.
But I'm going to sign in here
and you're going to see what happens.
I'm going to put in my password
and my email.
And then it shows me all of the different servers
that I'm going to be putting into my phone,
alright?
Now here's the difference.
Setting up a profile,
a VPN profile on an iPhone can be really cumbersome,
you're going to see me do it in just a moment.
A lot of VPN services
make you individually put in these profiles.
But here you're going to see,
I'm going to click on install
and it's going to bring me
into my settings app automatically
and ask me if I want to,
if I trust this VPN
and if I want to install.
So I'll have to put in my password
and click install
twice.
And it's going to install this profile for NordVPN.
Once it finishes installing,
it'll bring me back here,
I'm going to go back to the NordVPN app,
but you're going to see it's pretty much
done doing everything.
But here's what's interesting,
if we go into my settings,
open up the VPN,
you're going to see that
all of the servers have been installed.
Now this is good and bad,
good because with a lot of other VPN's
you have to install every single one
of those servers individually.
And it just takes time.
But the bad side is,
NordVPN just dumped a whole bunch of servers
into your VPN profile configurations.
And some people may or may not like that.
But it's simple to connect.
And then once I'm done doing that,
I'm just gonna delete the NordVPN app
because it serves me no other purpose.
But I did enjoy that it was that simple.
And now I'm connected to the VPN.
I hope you found this setup tutorial to be useful.
Again,
you can click on the link here
to make sure you're not missing out
on any of the special promotions right now,
but if you're still not convinced that NordVPN
is the right option for you,
you should check out
the other VPN setup tutorials I have
that are linked to
in the description below.
Likewise there are a number of great
frequently asked questions
that I answer about VPN's
that you can watch on this channel.
And don't forget to give this video a thumbs up.
Provide your own feedback
on your experience with NordVPN,
in the comments section below.
Thanks for watching.
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