Our Malaysian ISP TM Net has done it again. I believe many Malaysians are experiencing problems in signing in to Windows Live Messenger with almost everything connected with Microsoft, including its main site is either not loading, or taking a very long time to load. In fact there are a lot more international websites that couldn’t load and I had to refresh a few times to get in. Even if you get to log in to MSN and try to send a message, it will tell you that your message cannot be sent to the recipient. Fortunately there are local proxies that we can use which allows us to access most of the sites that Streamyx is having trouble loading.
Since there is nothing much we can do about the hopeless case of TM Net, but we still need the Internet. I know I can’t survive without it and I had to look for methods which allows me to continue surfing the web and also log in to instant messengers. VPN is able to help us access those inaccessible or blocked websites and connect to instant messengers. Previously I’ve introduced HotspotShield and AlwaysVPN but AlwaysVPN has became a paid service. If you don’t like using HotspotShield because it forces advertisements at the top of your browser, here are 2 more free VPNs that you can try using.
Recently Duckieman has posted about UltraVPN in forum and saying that it is fast and there is no bandwidth limitation. I noticed that the download speed is capped at around 60KBps per thread but the limitation of the total download speed is 300KBps. Let’s say I download a file from a website and it is going around 60+KBps. But if I use a download manager to download the same file by splitting it into 5 download threads, I can get a maximum download speed of 300KBps.
To use UltraVPN, all you need to do is create a free account and then download the UltraVPN software. Currently UltraVPN service is free. The administrator of UltraVPN said that we don’t need to pay anything to use UltraVPN. If they are going to make people pay for the service someday, it would be 10€ per year which I think it’s very cheap! UltraVPN server is located in France, so you’ll be getting a France IP address.
Another free VPN service would be Alonweb.
From what I’ve tested, Alonweb is strictly for browsing purposes only and it has a lot of limitations. There is a 1000Mb bandwidth limit per month and SMTP port 25 is blocked to prevent spammers from using this service to send out emails. Other than that, torrent does not work and you can only download files that is smaller than 5MB. If you try to download any files bigger than 5MB, you will get the error “The request or reply is too large”. The IP address that you’d be getting is from Netherlands.
Let’s hope that these free VPN service does not end to be a paid service. If you’re looking for paid VPN service that allows you to download torrent without being throttled and access to any blocked websites, try BolehVPN.