Basically I have my VPN on at all times .Whiskyman wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 10:11 amI'm not a teccie but what is the advantage of split-tunnelling.? You say it is an option so, at the risk of teaching you to suck eggs, can't you change the option when Mrs N wants to watch ? Probably a stupid question but, fuck it, I've asked it now.Newmarket wrote: ↑Sat Feb 13, 2021 9:54 am Changing the subject a bit , does anybody else have problems streaming Amazon prime video through their VPN ?
I have the split tunnelling option applied to the app but sometimes I get a geo-location block type error message when the wife tries to watch it ...I'm assuming it might be something that allows you to watch two different streams simultaneously on different tv's. But I'm probably wrong there as well.
I don't bother with a VPN these days tbh . Used to use IP vanish but no idea if that was split tunnelled or not.
Not only because I don’t want my BB throttled by Sky BT or whoever else’s footy coverage I’m stealing , not just because I don’t want my BB provider to know that I’m an IPTV subscriber, they’ll fuck my BB speed up as I’m not purchasing their cable/satellite service.
More importantly my VPN encrypts every single bit of my internet data , (for example , your written home address that you might fill an online application form with will literally change from “10 high street” to “%*{\1}!g=k”.)
Literally nobody can see ANY of your online activity at all which of course protects all your personal data and prevents identity theft .
My VPN (as yours was capable of) is applied to every device we own that has access to the big bad web including mobile phones and is the reason our friend Numbers is able to keep reinventing himself in different guises as his VPN hides his IP address and we can’t tell it’s him until he starts spouting his stuff .
Some streaming services , in particular Prime Video and Netflix put blocks on IP addys that use VPN’s and split tunnelling is a setting that allows you to apply your VPN to continue protecting your activity yet allows access to these 2 apps through a “tunnel”.
Basically it creates a list of your applications and you untick the box next to those apps and you’re good to go leaving the rest of your online activity hidden.
Sometimes Amazon go to untold lengths , dunno how they do it , to block this tunnel so that I have to disable the vpn to watch Prime Video ( which , if it was down to me , we wouldn’t even have as , as you know , I can get all that stuff for free elsewhere anywhere).
Did I describe all that ok mate as I really can’t understand why anybody would not use a vpn ?
For the pennies it costs it’s a no brainer it really is.
