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Anonymous SIP – yet another reason to use ivacy.com as your VPN provider

November 11th, 2009 Posted in review, service, software

I have written comprehensively about the VPN provier ivacy.com before (see here and, more importantly, here for details and review). An initial concern related to stability of the service and speed, where I found iPREDATOR from the ThePirateBay guys both speedier and more stable.

Well recently I have to say I’ve found ivacy to have improved their stability dramatically and their speed less dramatically but still getting better and better (since I wrote my last review they have doubled their speed on my connection which is very noticable).

Anyway I just recently  noticed today they’ve added another feature (on top of their already comprehensive list of features) – Anonymous SIP – how great is that? I had to test it out and, surprise surprise, it works flawlessly. I decided to test on my iPhone 3G. I already have fring installed (if you’re using a computer X-Lite is recommended to make SIP calls) so it was matter of adding a SIP account and turning on the already configured VPN connection on the iPhone (well, in reverse order of what I just wrote).

The usefulness of the SIP features are, as stated by ivacy themselves (when you would need this if you’re not doing anything nefarious online I can’t imagine, but still…)

• If both parties are making calls inside Ivacy Cloud, it’s impossible for third party to eavesdrop the conversation.
• If only you are inside of Ivacy and you are calling outside, it’s impossible to reveal your true identity, such as the country of living, your ISP, et cetera.

On my feature wish list still for ivacy?

• Well more speed obviously (I’ll keep mentioning that until they max out my connection, which I will keep upgrading…)
• Another thing would be to increase the retention on their usenet server – they curently only have 160 days of retention, where competing good quality usenet servers carry 300+ days, but 160 days is still good enough to get all recent stuff, but classic/rare stuff might be harder to find (I haven’t had any problems though). I use NZBMatrix.com to find NZBs to download and use Alt.binz as my usenet proxy software. Works like a charm with 20 concurrent conncetions it often maxes out my connection (which I find weird as e.g. a torrent does not max it out?)
• Currently a Firefox extension exist that makes it very easy to secure the connection in Firefox, but since I’ve recently found myself using Google Chrome almost exclusively, I find myself missing the feature (especially as I use the instant-torrents.site feature extensively). Even more so with the Chrome 4 beta supporting bookmark sync limiting the need to have XMarks/Weave installed.

So yeah, ivacy is EASILY worth the measly $15/month for unlimited access they currently charge (monthly fee seems to change slightly based on the value of the dollar vs. the Euro, but recently has stabilized @ $15). What do you think?

So now is the time to sign up

You might also be interested in reading:

1. IPREDator vs. Ivacy.com VPN service – fits my needs perfectly
2. IPREDator VPN for anonymous filesharing and an introduction to the alternative
3. Wanna chat with me? (Google Voice is cool)
4. my iPhone continues its set path to become completely useless and non-functioning…in small steps…in an effort to annoy as much as possible