- Hi, thanks for joining me.
Today, we're running a setup tutorial for StrongVPN.
I will be purchasing, installing and using this VPN
both on my computer and my mobile device
to give you a better idea
if this is the right option for you.
My name's Josh, this is VPN Video Reviews.
Before we begin, I would like to note
that the links in this video and in the description below
are affiliate links.
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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 now that we've got that out of the way,
let's go ahead and jump online.
So here we are.
I'm using my browser, gonna type in strongvpn.com,
get to their home page.
Very simple, very clean, I'm gonna click Join Now.
They've got two plans, a month and a one year plan.
You get 50% off doing the one year
so I highly recommend that
but for the sake of this tutorial,
I'm just gonna do one month.
You can pay with all the credit cards, with PayPal,
with Bitcoin but you're gonna see here
because I'm already logged in to PayPal,
it's super easy and fast.
All I have to do is click Agree and Continue
and just like that I'm brought back to the StrongVPN website
with my login and password.
So I'm gonna click to download the program.
It's only six megabytes so it's not gonna take that long
in a zip file.
As I open it up, I'm gonna be asked,
do you want to open this?
Of course, I wanna open this.
Do you want to move this to the Applications folder?
Yes, I want to move this to the Applications folder.
And here we are with the program.
I'm gonna enter my email address.
Quickly go back to the website
to remember what my password is
because it's not something that I came up with
and as I type in my password and get it all set up,
I think that I've spent less than five minutes
getting all this set up.
It was incredibly fast.
So here we are with the StrongVPN program.
I'm gonna click to show you
the different servers that they have.
So if I wanna switch a server,
I'm just gonna find it on this list here,
click on Switch and just like that,
I've got it switched over and I can click Connect.
Now, if you see on the bottom here,
it shows me that I'm on the Hong Kong
using the PPTP protocol and I click Connect.
It connected and now I've got the green icon
in the upper right.
So if I wanted to change that protocol for some reason,
I can go into the Preferences here
and I've only got this one account
but if I go into the Advanced,
you can see the different protocols that they have available
as well as a description of whether it's speedy,
is it secure, when is the best time
to be using these different protocols?
So that's really helpful.
So I'm gonna disconnect here and move along.
If you need some other setup guides,
I highly recommend the StrongVPN website
that has other setup guides
depending on what device you're using,
what OS you're using whether it's a Mac,
a Windows, iOS or Android.
They've got a number of great tutorials, not videos,
but still visual tutorials that'll walk you through
how to get all of this set up on the different devices.
So here we are, I'm gonna use my iPhone.
Go into the App Store and search for StrongVPN.
Obviously, it's gonna be the first option that comes up
and so I'm gonna go ahead and click Download here.
It's not a particularly large app
but it will take a few seconds to download.
Once I get to the end here, I'm gonna click on Open
and it's gonna bring me through
a quick welcome screen for StrongVPN.
Now, as much as I really liked how fast it was
to get StrongVPN set up on my computer,
it's a little bit more cumbersome here on the phone
and let me explain why that is.
What you're gonna notice is I'm gonna sign in with StrongVPN
again using my email and password
that I was given previously
and what's gonna happen is I'm gonna have to set up
a lot of different VPN profiles.
This is what Apple makes really hard
in terms of setting up a VPN.
So what's gonna happen is it's gonna tell me
it's gonna find the available servers and get me set up
and it's gonna say that I'm unconnectable
and essentially what it's asking me is to find the,
to get a VPN profile set up.
So when I click on that,
it's gonna ask me if I want to install this.
I'm gonna click Yes.
It'll ask for my password and I'll put that in
and then Install.
So I've installed the certificate for StrongVPN.
In this case, I think I did the San Francisco one
and so as I go back into StrongVPN,
I've got it set up and it says I'm connectable.
Now, what if I wanna switch to a different server.
So let's say I wanna do San Francisco but a different,
the PPTP and L2TP, right?
So I wanna get those.
It's gonna sync my account data
and then it's gonna have me go through
the whole entire process again
and this will be the case for every single VPN profile
that you want to open or server that you wanna switch to.
So I have to go through, enter my passcode,
install the certificate.
It is a little bit annoying but once you do it once,
you don't have to do it again.
It's not something that I'm really a big fan of.
So what does that mean?
In this case, I'm gonna go ahead
and get out of the StrongVPN app, go over to my Settings app
and then scroll down to the VPN
and you're gonna see that StrongVPN comes up.
I've got the PPTP and the L2TP protocols.
I can click on Connect and it's connected just like that.
I hope you found this setup tutorial to be useful.
Again, you can click on the link you see here
to make sure you're not missing out
on any of the special promotions right now.
If you're still not convinced that StrongVPN
is the right option for you,
you should check out the other VPN setup tutorials
that I have.
Likewise, there are a number of great
frequently asked questions that I answer about VPNs
that you can watch on this channel.
Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up
and provide your own feedback on StrongVPN
in the comment section below.
Thanks for watching.
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