Great, thanks! I’ll just wait and see before I make any switch.
Hey @Rasta, I was wondering the use case for having both a SPN and VPN. Isn’t SPN like a VPN but for each single one of the connections (like each tab and each program)?
You mentioned:
You can run it in parallel with a vpn that is split tunneling for apps that you want to come out in specific locations, and it has mostly worked fine for me.
I’m not sure to understand this. Don’t you control each node of the SPN? Like, if I don’t like my Privacy Guide coming out of say Germany, I would click the node and reconnect to where I choose? Or it’s not that simple?
Thanks
The way that SPN works is through onion routing. The Safing is essentially running their own onion network and allowing community nodes then using onion routing protocols to wrap your traffic and bounce it around. They are not connected to TOR though, thats a separate network they’re just using stuff from it.
You can select the geographic area of the exit node and roughly how many nodes the conncectiom goes through. Not each node in the path though.
The usecase for a VPN running parallel to it mostly comes down to P2P applications such as certain games or torrenting.
Thanks for that! Yeah I was confused on why running it in parallel with a VPN.
Could you elaborate on the games / torrenting part?
Thanks for explaining
Some games like Elden Ring use a P2P connection for their online multiplayer. Using the SPN and running a P2P connection like that is asking for latency issues, even with just one connection it can cause problems. VPNs tend to have some latency issues but that will depend on your connection, VPN, etc. I’ve PVPed with some people who were amazed that I was on a VPN because most of the time they encounter lag.
As to Torrenting, that also functions on P2P and while from what I’ve seen it seems to be possible, alot of people run into issues with it.
So SPN could be a replacement of VPN for most use case aside from anything related to P2P.