Thread: ebook territorial work around??????
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Old 09-17-2010, 08:26 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
Thanks for that very useful information, Geert. But I'm afraid I don't understand what VPN means - a google search brought up lots of sites about Virtual Private Networks, but that doesn't seem to fit.

Regards, Alex
A VPN is indeed a Virtual Private Network. The VPN builds a secure tunnel from your PC to the VPN server in the US. When the VPN is active all your internet traffic goes trough the VPN tunnel to the VPN server in the US, and from that server to the website.
The website (for example B&N) sees the end of the tunnel (the VPN server in the US) as your IP-address. so according to the IP-address check of the website you are someone in the US.

A VPN like alwaysVPN is completely pre-configured. You just have to download and install the software, you do not need any network knowledge. To connect you just type in your VPN username and password, and the software creates the VPN connection for you.
After the VPN is started you can use the internet just like you are used to. But all your internet traffic will first go to the US VPN server and from there to the website.
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