- Hi, thanks for joining me.
Today we're running a setup tutorial for VyprVPN.
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
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And with that out of the way let's go ahead and jump online.
All right we're starting here in my browser.
I'm gonna type in vyprvpn.com
and it's going to redirect me to goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn.
Golden Frog is the parent company of VyprVPN.
Click try it free.
VyprVPN offers a three day free trial.
And what that means is you're going to create an account,
you're gonna give them your billing information,
and you can cancel risk free
but if you don't do anything
they will automatically bill you
whether you give them your credit card
or you go through PayPal.
As long as you understand that, you're fine.
And I do so I'm gonna give them an email address,
create my password, and then as I scroll down
my billing options I can be billed annually,
which is a little bit cheaper, or I can be billed monthly.
For the sake of this review, I just wanna be billed monthly.
I already have a VyprVPN account.
I'm gonna pay through PayPal.
Give them my email address.
My order total should be zero dollars
since I get three days free
and I wanna agree to the Golden Frog Terms of Service.
Continue to billing.
Now Golden Frog is going to forward me out to PayPal.
And essentially what I'm doing
is I'm giving Golden Frog permission
to automatically bill me through PayPal
and for PayPal I'm giving them pre-approved payments
so that at the end of that three days
they will automatically take payment through PayPal.
And once that happens this is my finished page.
It is not an error.
This is completely blank.
If there's anybody from Golden Frog that's watching this,
I highly suggest you change this page.
(laughs) It's kind of ridiculous.
All right here we are on our computer setup for VyprVPN.
Since we've already set up an account
they've sent us an email and we need to click the link
to confirm our email address.
Once we do that I am on the VyprVPN homepage.
Click on control panel and enter in the email address
and the password that I used
to create an account in the beginning.
Once I log in you're going to see the dashboard
on the left side here.
You've got VyprVPN, you've got Cyphr,
you got your account and support.
Right now let's just focus in on the VyprVPN.
I've got the pro account that you can see up on the top.
And then the applications you can download
for Mac, Windows, iOS, Android and for a router.
In this case, since I'm on my desktop,
I just want to click to download to desktop.
They realize that I'm on a Mac
so I'm gonna download the software for Mac.
Now the software for VyprVPN is only
about 12 megabytes large.
It's not too big.
If you have a really fast connection
it'll download extremely fast.
And once that's finished you're gonna open it up,
it will verify, and since I'm on a Mac I need
to drag the VyprVPN software into my applications folder.
Now that I have the software and the applications,
I'm going to open up VyprVPN
and there's gonna be a couple small things
I'll have to tell my Mac that I trust this software,
install the helper tool.
And once I get through you only have to do this one time.
And now I'm gonna enter in my email address and my password
to log in to VyprVPN.
And this is the software.
It's very simple.
On the right-hand side I click here
and I can look at all the different server locations.
I can ping and then I can list the servers based
on the fastest ping speed, so the fastest server.
So in this case if I wanna just connect to Los Angeles,
I clicked on it, and it's going to make that connection,
configure that connection and I'm connected.
Now what's interesting about VyprVPN that you don't find
in a lot of different other softwares
is this visual representation.
The red here is when I'm not connected to the VPN.
The blue is when I am.
And you can see where the speeds go up and down.
Now let's look at our settings.
You've got different connection settings
from you know automatically connecting,
having a kill switch, connection per app.
Your protocols you've got OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP.
And then they have this Chameleon protocol
which is a proprietary protocol
for VyprVPN that they say is extremely secure.
We have VyprDNS.
We've got our general settings
that you don't really mess with that much
and then advanced settings,
which again, I highly recommend you don't mess with
unless you know what you're doing.
The only thing is maybe the logging.
You can set logging to zero
or you can set logging to 11 based on your needs.
And then of course I've got my account information here
on the right.
And those are my settings.
It's not a whole lot of settings
but it's exactly what you need.
You've got your kill switch in the connection,
you've got your connections per app,
and this is the software.
So here we are on our mobile setup.
I'm here on my iPhone.
I'm gonna open the App store and search for VyprVPN.
Now after it gives me probably an ad
for another VPN at the top,
I'm going to scroll down and find the actual VyprVPN app
and download that.
Once it finishes downloading I'm going to open that app.
And the first thing I'm gonna have to do
you're gonna notice I could sign up
through the app if I wanted to.
Since I've already done so on my computer I'm just going
to tell it that I wanna log in using the email address
and password that I've already created.
And once I do that and log in
you're gonna see the home screen for this app.
We're gonna start here down on the bottom right,
choose our servers.
Again I can ping to see which servers are the fastest,
and scroll down and see just all the different servers,
many different countries all across the world.
I can basically sort those by country and region.
I can filter them out based on where,
Asia, Africa, Europe, North America.
But really my favorite thing to do is just search
and say I wanna to go to San Francisco,
and click on the San Francisco and connect through that.
So on the upper right looking at the settings
you can connect to an un-trusted Wi-Fi automatically.
I think that's a great feature you don't find
in a lot of other VPN apps.
We can automatically reconnect.
Again, another feature I don't find
in a lot of different apps.
Now here's the thing about VyprVPN
is they're very transparent about their logging.
They do log to help with troubleshooting,
but you have the option to turn all of that off.
And this again, these are great things
about VyprVPN that you don't find
with a lot of different other VPNs.
Here's the downside with the app
is that they don't give you the option
to choose your connection protocol.
You don't have a kill switch.
Those advanced options that you found
on the desktop app are missing on the mobile app.
And for advanced users
that might be something you don't like.
Honestly I didn't really care that much.
For the average user that won't matter much.
But I did want to point it out.
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 their special promotions right now.
If you're still not convinced that VyprVPN
is the right option for you,
you should check 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 VPNs that you can watch on this channel.
Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up,
and provide your own feedback on your experience
with VyprVPN in this comment section below.
Thanks for watching.
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