Nowadays, browsing the Internet has become a daily activity. Whether we are connected to social media services or just searching for random information, we are online every day. Because of that, we are exposed to all sorts of online threats. One way to protect your identity and your personal information is to use a virtual private network. This is where TunnelBear comes in handy.
TunnelBear is a program that helps users to protect their identity and add extra security to data transfers that occur between their PCs and the remote server.
This way, users can browse the web without being worried that their data might get stolen by third parties.
In order to use TunnelBear, you have to download the program, install it and then create an account. Once you've done these, you just have to log in to your account and select a country from the drop-down list menu. This way, the program creates a fake IP address from the selected country, thus offering you, as a user, a private and safe connection.
With TunnelBear, with only one click, you can connect to over 20 countries all around the world, thus overcoming any geographical restrictions. The connection speed stays decent, though it mainly depends on your ISP. In case the connection fails, there's a Diagnose mode that helps users to fix any encountered issues.
To sum up, TunnelBear is a useful software that protects your identity when browsing the Internet. It has a simple but modern interface, very intuitive. The only downside is that the free version allows for 500MB traffic per month only.
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TunnelBear service has added additional countries/locations, now supports USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Japan. Web page shows Australia is available for paid services only.
Free service, Little TunnelBear, has limited total data/month (0.5GB) (There is a promo to twitter about TunnelBear & receive extra 1GB data for a month, for each month you tweet & are verified).
Paid service (Giant or Grizzly) does not have the monthly data limit, and 1 paid account can be used on one laptop and two mobile devices.
Mobile devices supported are with mobile platforms Android Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) (4... & up), and Apple iOS 5 & up. So your device has to be able to support these minimum versions of those mobile platforms to use mobile TunnelBear apps.
(I am not sure why they specify laptop device, & makes it sound like they exclude a desktop computer. For me, I would want any PC or MAC computer to be allowed, with the supported versions of Windows or Mac OSX.)
The service seems good.
The free service data limit is likely not adequate for PC or Mac, and may be adequate to not enough for a mobile device. The free service seems great for at least trying & testing. If you like then the paid service is likely best, unless your monthly data usage fits within the total data limit.
I have other good secure VPN services & apps I prefer, that have free & paid options, and the paid versions are cheaper than TunnelBear. However, Tunnelbear currently has more countries/locations to choose.
Most of the good free VPN services I have tried & use are ad supported, or often eventually become so. They have unlimited total data, but may have less speed than paid version (free speed is still good, paid is faster). TunnelBear free service is not ad supported, but has the total monthly data limit. For me the data allowance is more important, as I am likely to exceed TunnelBear's free limit every month.