IronSocket begin our review with a little history of their privacy service. They started in the VPN space and proxy in 05 with the creation of the site HideMyNet.com. At HMN, the owners and staff began to build the VPN and proxy infrastructure to allow users to surf the Internet anonymously and delete arbitrary censorship everywhere. Gradually, they developed technical solutions and network to build and operate a good VPN service built on customer service. In 2013, they renamed their technologies and expanded their network to provide a reliable, customer-driven support, the privacy service and IronSocket was born.
Their goal is to create a VPN and Next Generation DNS provider that is easy to use and provides support strong customer at a good price. IronSocket is owned and operated by Pusa and Daga Limited. They are subject to the jurisdiction and laws governing Hong Kong.
Prices and Specials
So what do you get when you subscribe to the service's privacy IronSocket? If you subscribe to their standard service, you will have unlimited access to their entire network of VPN servers, can record up to three devices (IP addresses) to use their DNS proxy, and have access to HTTP and SOCKS5. Subscriptions come with three concurrent VPN connections and three IP addresses to use their other services like DNS proxy. but you can add more for an additional cost. Before your device can use their DNS proxy servers, you must first register its IP address with their website. Up to three IP addresses can be registered only once for standard pricing plans, but you can add more for an additional cost.
IronSocket price structure is similar to many others in the field of privacy. They offer three different packages to suit their VPN / Proxy service. These packages are discounted on the basis of length of service and include one month, six months and 1 year. Their prices start at $ 6.99 for one month of service. You can get six months of service for $ 35.95 or $ 5.99 per month service. Finally, if you subscribe for one year of service, the price is $ 49.95 or just $ 4.16 per month.
IronSocket provides few ways for you to pay for their VPN service. You can pay using PayPal if you want to keep all your payments in a central location. You can pay using traditional credit cards such as MasterCard, VISA, American Express and Discover. They also allow you to pay using the crypto-currency BitCoin so you can be more anonymous. Finally, for the greater anonymity, you can pay using different gift cards.
Risk Free Trial Period
Although they do not have a free trial, IronSocket offers all new users of the 7-days money back guarantee. This will allow you to test their VPN for yourself. If for any reason you are not completely satisfied with their service, they will refund your full payment. You must request a refund of your subscription fee within seven days of the subscription to their service (as confirmed by their payment records). No refunds will be issued after this seven day period. Those who buy by BitCoin or gift card are not eligible for this coverage.
IronSocket Network and Server Locations
IronSocket manages a small network of 65+ VPN servers in 51 locations around the world. They strategically placed these servers in 38 countries to maximize coverage and performance of their VPN.
| Countries | Locations | Servers | IP's | Protocols |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 51 | 65+ | unknown | OpenVPN, L2TP, PPTP |
IronSocket has servers in all major continents as follows:
- Asia
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Indonesia, Jakarta; Japan: Nagano, Tokyo (2);
- Philippines, Manila; Saudi Arabia; Singapore, Singapore; South Korea, Seoul,
- Taiwan, Taipei; Thailand, Bangkok
- Australia / Oceania
- Australia, Melbourne; New Zealand, Auckland
- Europe
- Austria, Vienna; Belgium, Oostkamp; Cyprus, Nicosia; Denmark, Copenhagen;
- France: Paris Roubaix; Germany: Berlin, Nuremberg; Iceland, Reykjavik;
- Ireland, Dublin; Italy, Milan; Luxembourg, Steinsel; Netherlands, Amsterdam (4);
- Norway, Oslo; Poland, Warsaw; Romania, Bucharest; Russia, Moscow,
- Spain, Madrid; Sweden, Stockholm; Switzerland, Zurich; Ukraine, Vinnytsia,
- UK: Gosport, London (4)
- North America
- Canada, Toronto ; Mexico, Mexico City; United States: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas (2)
- Kansas City, Los Angeles (3), Miami, New York City (3), Piscataway, Salt Lake City,
- San Jose, Seattle
- South America
- Argentina, Buenos Aires; Brazil, Sao Paulo
The IronSocket P2P service is friendly. It allows the legal file sharing on P2P networks. They reserve a number of servers strategically located for access to P2P. These servers are located in the legislatively friendly country for P2P as might be expected. They P2P servers in the following countries:
- Argentina, Brazil, Cyprus, Egypt, Indonesia, Iceland, Luxembourg, Netherlands (4), Romania, Russia, Taiwan, Thailand and Ukraine
they say they have booked faster servers for P2P and torrent software users. Those who wish can also use a Socks5 proxy for their P2P and torrent applications.
The proxy DNS service supports IronSoclket Switching Region, has global DNS servers, and provides access to a huge list of over 0 streaming media channels. They provide multiple DNS servers to use with their DNS proxy service and recommend you select the server closest to your physical location for faster searches. DNS servers that you select will not affect your region switch settings. All DNS servers IP require authorization through their website to access the service. Switching the region for suppliers that their DNS proxy materials are also defined if you account page on the site. Countries that have DNS proxy servers include the following:
- Australia, Sydney; Brazil, Sao Paulo; Germany, Frankfurt; Ireland, Ireland; Japan, Tokyo; Singapore, Singapore; United States: Virginia, California
Privacy and Security
If you really want to keep your privacy and anonymity, then you will need a VPN that has a policy log regarding the use of their service. IronSocket, it is clear that this is very important for them too. Here and extract their privacy policies:
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We limit the information we collect to that necessary to provide our service, account management, and protect against fraud and abuse. In a word: ..
We are disconnecting or recording in any way the content you access while using our services
We use your information for purposes other than those for which you consented
We do not sell or trade personal information for commercial purposes.
We do not share personally identifiable information about your account, unless compelled by legal action in force under the laws of Hong Kong.
IronSocket makes it perfectly clear that they connect any use of their subscribers while on their network. They also claim that they take care of personal information they may have for you. They support multiple payment methods that will allow you to be even more limited when using their service as Bitcoin and gift cards. It is clear that they take your privacy seriously, but what about your safety while surfing the Internet?
They have a network that consists of servers in 38 different countries around the world. Their network supports three VPN protocols: OpenVPN, L2TP / IPSec and PPTP. We recommend and therefore the Ironsocket team for better security, you use OpenVPN to connect to their service if your device supports. Their OpenVPN uses strong encryption data encryption AES-256 bit message authentication with SHA256. Their L2TP is supported on a variety of devices and works with 256-bit AES encryption as well. Authentication between their server and your device uses DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, RSA 4096 bits. This is one of the best encrytption available in the VPN industry and will ensure that your data is always guaranteed when using the VPN IronSocket.
Hands-On Testing
Signing up is a three-step process:
- First, you must create an account
- Second, you need to customize your order ..
- Make sure you select the package that you want.
- You can have up to five additional simultaneous connections. Additional VPN connections are updated according to the number you buy.
- You get three + three VPN IP with the basic package you choose.
- A VPN supplement + IP is $ 1.50 more per month or $ 18.00 per year.
- Three additional VPN + three IP addresses additional $ 3.00 per month or $ 36.00 per year.
- five additional VPN + five IP addresses is $ 4.00 per month or $ 48.00 per year.
- Third, you have to choose your payment type and enter your payment information.
This is illustrated in the image below. The selection of packages and add-on can be selected by clicking on the respective icons on the right in the order summary.
First, the service did not IronSocket custom software clients. Connecting to their network is mainly due to the open source OpenVPN client Connect. Once OpenVPN Connect software has been installed on your device, you will need to manually install (.opvn) the appropriate files to be able to connect to the VPN server in their network. We will illustrate this for Windows in a moment.
You can connect to their VPN with OpenVPN on Windows, Mac OS X, iOS and Android platforms, as well as some routers. IronSocket was well written, step by step guides on their website setup to configure it all. They also support Linux but you will need to contact their excellent support staff to receive a link to a .pdf to configure (both Ubuntu and Debian). They also have guides for configuring each of these platforms with L2TP and PPTP.
Connecting with Windows VPN client
Let us now take a look at how we can configure Windows to use the VPN IronSocket. First, you'll need to download the client Windows OpenVPN Connect to your computer. You can find the link to this site in the configuration area IronSocket. Once you have downloaded the installation package on your machine you will need to open and install. This will add the icon (right) on your desktop. Clicking on this will open the Windows client on the system tray as follows. The x on the OpenVPN Connect tray icon indicates that we are not connected at the time.
Now that you have installed, open the Windows OpenVPN client on your computer, you must download the .ovpn file for the server (s) you want to connect to from the website IronSocket. If you look at the network page of their website, you will see an image similar to the one shown below. The first thing to notice in this picture is that we have selected the OpenVPN tab at the top so we'll see servers that support the OpenVPN protocol.
The table above shows four columns: Country, Location, authorized P2P, and configuration. In the image above, we have chosen to establish a connection to Australia, Melbourne. By clicking on the green button to get profile will show a selection box like the one shown below.
To understand the image above, you should know that IronSocket three different configurations to connect to the VPN server by using the OpenVPN protocol. Each has a different level of encryption that are as follows:
- Strong - is setup by default IronSocket that uses encryption AES 256-bit data encryption with SHA256 message authentication. This gives you more privacy and security and would recommend for most users
- Light -. Uses encryption Blowfish 128-bit data encryption CBC. This will give you greater data transfer speeds, while providing a moderate level of encryption. Use this option if you want faster performance, but still want to have all your encrypted Internet traffic
- No -. This configuration not use data encryption at all. This option provides maximum speed. Use this option if speed is your only concern. This configuration would be good for streaming media.
All levels of encryption using 4096 bit RSA for secure authentication TSL / SSL. In our case, we've chosen to download (.ovpn) configuration to connect to Australia using the strongest encryption. This will open a window to save the configuration file on your machine. Once the configuration file is saved to your conputer, open the customer in the store and select Import -> local file as shown below. This will open a window where you can select the file to import.
After selecting your choice (.ovpn) the file you will see a message similar to the tray area to the one shown below. Now that the connection has been registered, you will be able to connect to your VPN server IronSocket selected.
By clicking on the client and selecting the name of the server you want to connect and then will start the connection process (below).
This will bring up a login window for you to enter your credentials to connect to the network IronSocket as indicated below.
After entering your username and password login process will continue. The icon OpenVPN Connect will be a blue arrow indicating that it authenticates to your chosen server. After a short time, you will see a message similar to the tray area to the next. Hovering the mouse over the icon will show you the current status of the client.
When you receive a message like the one shown above, you are connected to the network and IronSocket all your Internet traffic will now be encrypted and routed through the selected VPN server. To connect to another server, you must first disconnect and then select another server location. You must manually import each configuration file that you want to connect to the first time you use it.
Connect with the client Mac VPN
IronSocket supports connecting to Mac computers
- OpenVPN Connect
- OpenVPN w / Tunnelblick (OSX 10.5 +)
- OpenVPN w / Tunnelblick (OSX 10.4)
Log in IronSocket VPN service is a similar manual configuration to that of Windows will -Dessus with the same functionality. The guides their site configuration area to guide you through the process. They also have guides to configure Mac devices with L2TP and PPTP.
Connect from your iPhone or iPad
IronSocket connection with your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch is the OpenVPN Connect application OpenVPN Technologies. You can download the app from the Apple iTunes App Store. You need at least iOS 6.1 or later. The app works on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Once you have installed the application, you will need to import .ovpn files as you did in the case of Windows. You can also connect with L2TP and PPTP.
connect from an Android device
IronSocket does not offer an app for Android devices, but the set up process is very simple. You can configure your Android phone or tablet to connect to server locations by using OpenVPN, PPTP or L2TP. It does not take long to set
Here are instructions for L2TP connections :.
1) Open the menu and select Settings
2) Select wireless network or wireless controls , depending on your version of Android
3) Select VPN settings
4) Select Add VPN
5) Select Add L2TP / IPSec PSK VPN
6) Select VPN name and enter a descriptive name
7) Select Set VPN server and enter the server name (server addresses listed on the page network their website)
8) Tap Set IPSec key and enter " ironsocket" pre-shared
9) Uncheck Enable L2TP secret
10) Open the menu and select Save
once the VPN is added, it should appear in the VPN list. You can select to connect.
IronSocket Speed Test
The IronSocket performance was disappointing as you can see with the speed test indicated below. As you can see our speed was slower on the VPN that was direct to my ISP. You can expect some impact on performance using all VPN-based overhead to encrypt your connection.
As you can see from the images above, the encrypted connection IronSocket lowered my basic ISP download speed from 54.70 Mb / s to 35 28 Mb / s. This represents a decrease of approximately 36%, which is more than we would have liked to see. Some connections have shown more drops (up to 50%). Although some loss is expected, we feel like it is too much of a loss. In their defense, these tests were performed using their strongest encryption. In our case, we were able to absorb such a loss because we have an ISP speed fast base. We recommend that you test the service yourself to see if the connection speed loss is acceptable to you.
Conclusion
IronSocket is a reliable VPN service. They are not all custom software client on their own but they have excellent manual configuration guides to help members connect from a wide range of devices. Their primary connection is the open source OpenVPN Connect OpenVPN Technologies software. They make it easy to choose a server with the encryption strength you want and import the (.ovpn) file to connect to your device using the OpenVPN protocol. They also have guides for use L2TP and PPTP with a variety of devices.
Their service includes unlimited access VPN, proxy DNS for over 0 streaming providers and access to HTTP proxy and Sock5. They offer a subset of network servers say they are optimized for Torrent and P2P file sharing
What I liked most about the service :.
- They make it easy to choose your encryption strength when selecting servers to connect.
- No conditions on their 7 day warranty.
- term discounts on annual reviews of signs.
- additional connections with increasing discounts for more add-ons
ideas to improve service :.
- client software customized offer for Windows and Mac OS X
- offer mobile applications for iOS and Android
- Improve overall network speed
IronSocket had no custom software of their own. How automated they (.ovpn) selecting a server was helpful and simplified the import process. However, this process must be repeated for each server and encryption strength you want to use, which could be tedious. It is simple to use. You can choose to use TCP or UDP from the OpenVPN connection software.
Whatever the chosen period (monthly, 6 months or annual) IronSocket offer a refund seven days warranty. Give their service a try and see what you think. If you like, you can subscribe for only $ 4.16 per month.
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