Fooling the internet

[DonJuane]

"Depende" as they say here in jolly Mexico ;-)

The hidemyass service has good ratings. I also have used StrongVPN successfully. There are many others. I have set up people before working for corporations in the US to where they appeared to be working from the US while working here in Mexico, and this even works when they had a corporate VPN running over one of these US VPN services that you are speaking of.

There is a growing issue however and that is that corporations you work for as well as companies with online video services such as Netflix are starting to "know" what IP addresses the VPN providers are using and are starting to block them accordingly. Back 2 years ago when I last set this up for someone, for example, StrongVPN provided reverse IP address lookups that showed names of ISPs instead of domain names such as "hide my ass" which more or less proves to the provider you are connecting to, that you are coming in over a VPN, opposed to those services such as StrongVPN which offer services which show a domain name of an ISP do not (necessarily) show you were using a VPN. This can be an issue when you are talking Netflix or when your corporate VPN might be sending a report to your management on where you IP appears to be from (better coming in from "ISP xyz" rather than "hide my ass").