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That is sometimes the case when trying to connect to the firefox extension with Ivacy. Sometimes it will ask for a username and password and you need to input those that are used for OpenVPN files.
Both are fine. Unlimited has this annoying device restriction where you have to remove a device first to add another if you already have 5, Ivacy just counts concurrent devices. Unlimited is really stable though
With the firefox extension? That never happened to me lol. I always use email and pw.
What happened a lot to me when I was using the extension is that I'd log in to it normally, connect to a server, but nothing would work. After a while, a popup from FF would appear asking for credentials.
Also, other times, no popup would appear unless I entered the extensions configuration on FF.
Just spitting this out there as some people might face this issue as well.
Same is happening to me post firefox update.
Oh, this actually happens on Chrome as well sometimes although very rarely. Just not the different username thing. E-Mail+pw always worked as a login for me. When the issue you described happens at chrome I usually sign off my windows user and sign on again, which fixes it. Or I re-install the extension. On chrome it does not happen often though and I got used to it. There's also the "servers are currently busy" issue which according to their live chat actually is supposed to mean "login credentials are incorrect" although I don't believe that. Anyway, it happens rarely enough to not loose my head over it. If it's really annoying some times, I just log on Windscribe, or VPN Unlimited, or Getflix or FastestVPN for that matter. Lifetime deals on all these haha
@Ympker - have you perhaps tried Ivacy's static IP's ($1.99 per month, but the con is you need to pay for 5 years up front - as that's what they view the lifetime accounts as).
I'm considering a UK static IP for streaming - but I'm worried about paying that upfront, and then it doesn't work / stops working after a while etc.
Sorry, I haven't used their service for static IPs. You can ask in chat for a trial perhaps.
Thanks - but they don't seem to do trials. Only 30 day money back clause.
It would be $1.99 x 60 months = $119.40 so not cheap! Not sure if I should bother or not. Mostly looking for reliable UK streaming.
Ivacy chrome Extension has a BBC iPlayer server iirc. What exactly are you looking to stream?
Do they specify that these are for streaming? If all you get is a UK datacenter IP, it’s going to be blocked.
These servers are specifically for streaming purposes:
See: https://i.gyazo.com/eea2c1e4e8815e2b3724886758fc8abe.mp4
Sure, I also have Ivacy and use it sometimes. I meant the static IP @jeromeza was referring to.
Ah, gotcha. I guess it's best to ask support that then.
Ivacy works great with BBC iPlayer and Netflix. Been using it for 3 years now. wow lol
Anyone notice you get logged out randomly when using Ivacy via browser extension?
How is this compared to VPNUnlimited?
Yes. It happens ever so often. Ivacy Clients&Apps are overall a bit buggy. Manual OVPN or PPTP works fairly stable, usually.
That's why I only use it to unblock and not for anything where I wouldn't want an IP leak.
Less stable. The perk imho is that it counts concurrent devices and not total devices (in VPNUnlimited you have to remove a device if you hit the 5 devices limit and you can only remove one device per week).
For unblocking I usually favor Ivacy for its' many possibilities (supports more channels than Keepsolid iirc), however Keepsolid VPN has been extremely stable and performant lately and while they only have some 400 servers it's really quality over quantity with them judging from speedtests stability and Flix performance. I have both. I like them both. Currently (with Wireguard addition), I highly favour Keepsolid. Depends on your use case though.
Couldn't agree more! I bought KeepSolid lifetime deal for 15$ several months ago from stacksocial. It's still going very well so far.
I'd recommend Ivacy over VPNUnlimited only if you absolutely need Netflix UK. For everything else, they are worse.
For instance, to use OpenVPN with them, I had to contact them to get a username that works (the one for the apps does not, for me) and sometime when I activate their extension on Firefox, I get a prompt to input username and password and I have to use those same credentials, if I don't, no website would load.
If I'm gonna be honest, I'm not using any of them as I have Windscribe PRO until December, but for $15 I think both are good and VPNUnlimited is better.
Also, like it was mentioned, if you are connecting several devices (like a VPS for torrenting) Ivacy would work better simply because they don't register your device (and lock that registration for one week).
Is someone using their Chrome Extension?
Always when enabling their extension I can not access any website until I disconnect their extension or disable it again.
Is someone using their Chrome Extension?
Always when enabling their extension I can not access any website until I disconnect their extension or disable it again.
It works for me. It's buggy sometimes though.
Someone here has tried Namecheap VPN? looks like they have right now 1USD/month deal
Stick with namecheap for domaind and web hosting and pick a Windscribe 12$/anually server location or get a Keepsolid
Where is that deal? i already have keepsolid
Did you try port forwarding?
I can not get it work and the support can not help me...they are trying but its just not working...
When you login to your Windscribe account I believe there is an option to build your own plan. It's priced at 1$/month/per location iirc (12$/year).
Isn't portforwarding a paid feature with Ivacy? Anyway, could also be your ISP causing problems like Vodafone over here..
Yes but it's included in the stack social offer. Why should it be a problem with isp? If you are using a tunnel like a VPN I shouldn't matter
I believe on the one I bought it didnt include port forwarding. No idea if they changed that. Unfortunately, about port forwarding with Ivacy I don't know, sorry.