- Hi, thanks for joining me.
Today we're running a set up tutorial for PureVPN
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.
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With that out of the way, let's jump online.
So opening up my browser I'm gonna type in purevpn.com
and that's going to being me, obviously,
to the PureVPN home page.
And there's a number of different ways
that you can get around this, but
I'm just gonna click on Get PureVPN right here.
It's gonna bring me to a page
where it shows the three different options.
I've got one month, six months and one year.
Which in some cases has now been turned into two years.
For the sake of this tutorial I'm just gonna
do a month but I highly recommend you
take advantage of the savings of either
a one year or a two year plan.
You get five devices per plan here and
when I select get VPN, I'm going to type in my information.
And one of the great things about PureVPN is
they have one of the greatest selections
of payment methods that I've seen on any VPN.
PayPal credit card, Bitpay, Alipay, even gift cards.
If anonymity is a priority for you,
PureVPN is an excellent option.
Now for me, I just want to do PayPal.
It's the easiest thing.
I'm not as concerned about anonymity here.
And so I will click to proceed to checkout
where I will be directed to PayPal.
And I'm already signed in so I can just
click on agree and pay.
And then it's gonna tell me I can return
to the page here and it's going to
bring me to the dashboard.
Actually I take that back,
it first sends me to a very poorly designed survey,
which I'm not even going to do, and then to my dashboard.
So here we are on the computer setup.
Here on the dashboard you have the option
on the right side to click download apps.
I'm gonna go ahead and show you in the email
that they sent me, if I scroll down just a bit,
you can look and there's a step too where
it says you can select the device.
Okay and we're gonna have to come back
to this email in the future but I'm gonna show you.
If I click on that it's gonna tell me which,
I can choose which device.
Windows, Mac or Linux.
And then my OS version, my operating system.
So for me, I'm operating on this 10.10 or above
and it's a very small file that downloads
in just a few seconds.
And once it downloads it's gonna open up
and I will take and just, because I'm on a Mac,
I'm gonna slide that over into the applications folder.
Now here's the thing, if I want to log into my account
I'm going to have to get my username
and password from that email that
they sent me a little while back.
So, if you look right here I've got my username.
I'm going to copy and paste that into the program
and my username.
And then go back and do the same thing for the password,
copy and paste.
Now unfortunately I ran into a problem
you're going to notice here.
Where for some reason that password did not
get accepted so I had to go back into my dashboard
and change my password.
This may be something they've fixed already,
but at the time that I did this it was not very easy.
I had to go in and I used,
basically the password was my token number.
I verified that and then I was able
to provide a new password.
Now the good thing about this is I got to,
you know, do my own password.
One that I wanted.
But the bad thing is there was no indication
that I would have to do this and
it was a little annoying trying to figure it out myself.
But once I did change the password,
put it into the software and click login,
everything was fine.
One of the first things you're gonna see
is that you can get a customized experience.
If you just want to stream or if you want
internet freedom or security and privacy
and you really don't want to deal with
all of the options that are available with VPN's,
different ways that you can change the connection.
Then this makes it really simple.
You just click, I want to stream or
I want security and privacy.
And next and it will set up all of the options
and all of the different servers that
are best for that type of activity.
If we look at the global map
we'll see all the different servers.
The numbers on the right show how many servers
in that country that they have.
So if we scroll down to the United States you can see.
They've got 15 servers in a lot of
different cities all across.
So if we want to connect to Los Angeles
I'll just click on that and after a few seconds
it will connect to the Los Angeles server
from where I'm at in Seattle right now.
Once I'm connected it's gonna show me my IP.
It's gonna show me the duration.
I can click disconnect and let's find, you know,
I can change the protocol right here
on the front of the software.
But let's say I want to find a different location
based on region.
Or I can set my favorite locations as well if I wanted to.
Those are the different options
that I have when it comes to servers.
I can also look at a map.
So let's say I wanted to go and
look at what's available in Europe.
I'll clcik on Europe and
let's say I want to connect to the UK.
So we've got the UK server.
I click on it and click connect.
And again, it's a very simple process
of a couple clicks and I'm connected from Seattle to the UK.
So if I want to look, let's go ahead and
look at some of the settings that they have here.
Oh before we do that we've got to
disconnect from the, the VPN first.
So let's go and look at the settings.
See what's available.
In the settings option you've got the basic settings
where you can see the protocols.
You've got two to choose from.
You can launch on system start up.
You can sync your favorites, your favorite servers
based on the, across all your devices.
And then you have advanced.
You can activate an internet kill switch
which will turn off your internet if your VPN
somehow gets disconnected and a number
of different other security features
which are great for advanced users.
But for most people that really don't want to get into that,
you have your modes from this screen right here
where you can connect again and say hey,
all I really want to do is just have security.
And that makes it really simple.
Here we are in the mobile setup for PureVPN.
I'm gonna go into my app store and search for,
obviously, PureVPN.
It's going to be the first option that
comes up when I search for it
and I will click on download.
It's not a very large file like most
of the VPN apps that I've downloaded.
Not very large, it takes just a few seconds to download.
And once it's finished I'll click on open.
Now PureVPN, I'm gonna go ahead and skip to login here.
I'm gonna login using the email, excuse me, not my email.
The, and that is another annoying thing,
I wish I could login with my email.
Instead I have to login using the username
that they provided to me in that email.
So right now I'm having to look over at my computer
and type at the same time on my phone.
It was a little bit annoying.
It would be even more annoying if I had to go back
and forth between my mail app on my phone
and this app as well.
But, you know, in the end it wasn't a big deal.
And then I'm gonna put in my password,
the one that I had selected after I went through
the process of changing my password.
So now that I'm logged into the app
it's going to give me a quick little run through
of the different places and parts of the app
that I need to know.
And again, you're gonna see all of these options.
For somebody that doesn't really want
to get into the advanced settings.
But for me I'm just going to click on the
bottom right to show the different servers that
are available.
And here I want to connect to a server in the United States.
And this is similar to a lot of the different apps
for VPN's as I'm going to have to install
a VPN configuration on my phone.
So I'm going to click install.
I have to put in my phone passcode and then install again.
Now the annoying thing here is,
they're again going to ask me for my username and password.
This is not normal for VPN's.
And again this maybe have already been fixed
by the time you're watching this.
Most VPN's, that type of information
gets downloaded with the server configuration.
I was really disappointed that I had to put in,
and you'd have to do this for every
single server that you download.
So hopefully that's something that
they're gonna change in the future.
But for now, I've installed for the United States
and I can connect using the app.
But I can also go back into my settings app
and click on connect.
So here you're going to see that I'm going
to be back in the PureVPN app.
And let's say I want to connect to the United States.
I'll click on that and actually in this case
I'm going to go like I said, back to
my settings app and click on connect.
And here I am connected to PureVPN.
So you would have to do that same process
for every single server that you would want to connect to.
Let's go ahead and go back to the PureVPN app.
I won't take too much longer here,
and let's look at the settings that they offer
in the PureVPN app.
So I'm going to click on the upper left.
If want to see my profile,
it'll show me my user name and I could see my password
if I wanted to.
In the settings I can connect to PPTP or L2TP.
I can sync favorites.
I can show cities as opposed to just countries.
It's not a lot of settings,
but it's enough just to make sense
of what you need while you're on your phone.
Overall a good app, not a great app experience,
but it worked for me.
I hope you found this setup tutorial to be useful.
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If you're still now convinced that PureVPN
is the right option for you,
you should checked out the other VPN setup tutorials
that I have 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.
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provide your own feedback on your experience
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Thanks for watching.