VPN Gate Academic Experiment Project is an online service as an academic research at the Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan. The purpose of this research is to expand the knowledge of “Global Distributed Public VPN Relay Servers” .
Or in short a big VPN that helps you stay behind a wall in order to protect yourself.
It is interesting to see the demographics of VPN Gate and their data usage at VPN Gate User Countries Realtime Ranking:
- Japand in second place
- USA in 8th place, with 1/5 of the Japanese users, but more than their data usage
Could it be that the USA users like the anonymity of large downloads, and that the Japanese users just want to try to buy stuff from within the USA?
Configuration instructions for:
- Connect to VPN Gate by Using L2TP/IPsec VPN Protocol using a Mac.
- Connect to VPN Gate by Using OpenVPN Protocol using a Mac.
–jeroen