How does a VPN service work?

How does a VPN service work?



Today, a VPN service (virtual private network) is one of the most popular and effective online communication tools. This post explains how it works and why a growing number of users choose it.


 


Yes, there are more and more users wanting to hide and protect IP address. Nobody likes it when someone tracks his or her online activities. A VPN service can help you double! You can protect IP address and other personal data by hiding them from any curious eyes. And more, VPN service helps user view blocked and censored websites and media resources.

If you are using a VPN service or about to use one (sign up with BroVPN!), we’ll give you a little insight about how VPN works and why it is safe.


Start with how the Internet works

To get a clear picture of VPN working principle, you should understand the mechanism of connection between you and websites you visit.

Let’s suppose you need to visit the New York Times, and you have a laptop by your side. You sit down at a table at your favorite café, launch the browser, and it will pump information your ISP’s centralized server. The information will be streaming along Transatlantic fiber optic cables and down to the café’s WiFi routers.

There are a number of Internet service providers (ISPs), which maintain traffic, and routers along the way – devices, which direct the data.

Your traffic is available to these routers and providers, as they see your device’s IP address and can track whatever you do online (visit websites, send/receive messages, post content, etc.) There is nothing you can do about it, if you don’t use VPN service. Those who own these servers and routers, can collect this information and sell it to security services or governmental authorities. WiFi networks are scrutinized by hackers, so they can get your data easily and use it against you. If you visit websites that do not use TLS/SSL encryption, your data is more likely to be compromised.

Using a VPN service means that you do connect to websites directly. VPN services like BroVPN help you build a kind of protected tunnel between your device and the VPN server, which can be located in different countries. Prior to getting into the target website, your traffic passes through the tunnel toward your current VPN server. By the way, it protects your IP address, leaving it invisible to ISP. No part of the traffic, which passes through the encrypted tunnel, will be available for your ISP. Now will it be for hackers or the owner of the WiFi you are using. 


Does VPN service protect IP address and make it really invisible?

 Whatever website you are visiting, it sees only the last server of the chainwork of ones, through which your traffic passes. If you are connecting in a traditional fashion - through your ISP’s server, it is the last and the only one visible for the site. If you are connecting through a VPN service, it is the VPN server that is the last in the chainwork and the only one the site will see. It will not see the real IP address and therefore none of your private data will be exposed. That’s how VPN service protects IP address.

A VPN server can be located half the world away from you. In other words, if you are located in East Europe and connect to a server, located in the USA, the website will see you as if you were located in the USA. This technique allows you to view sites that cannot be viewed in your current area due to geographic discrimination or censorship. 


Why is BroVPN unique?

BroVPN is much the same as many other VPN services. However, the company has its own view on security, which is very different from those of most free VPN services. Particularly, BroVPN uses strong protocols like IKEv2, L2TP, OpenVPN, etc. They make encrypted tunnels impenetrable. Thanks to the constant rotation of encryption keys, there is hardly a possibility that someone with ill intentions could compromise the encryption. Even if he or she does manage to compromise a key somehow, your traffic will stay exposed for but a few minutes.

BroVPN resides in a country, where the privacy law protects private information and does not allow officials or security services to trace users’ activity. Therefore, BroVPN does not log any data or share it with third parties, although some information does become available to our servers. Our free VPN service is subsidized by paid premium version of BroVPN – you can switch it anytime. Apart from free plans, we offer paid ones that provide unique add-on security features and ensure compatibility with anonymity networks.

Supporting Internet freedom on a worldwide basis is BroVPN’s main and biggest mission, as is maintaining its security. We always try to keep pace with the time and use only advanced and high quality software to avoid vulnerabilities. Therefore, anyone signing up with us can feel safe and secure and free to visit their favorite resources any time.




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