I know chromeOS supports OpenVPN. But im not sure how i should go about this?
Trying to use VPNbook.com on my chromebook
I have the .ovpn files. How do i set this up? Any help would be greatly appreciated
Despite it being supported and all my best efforts I couldn’t get OpenVPN working on my C720. I switched to L2TP which was as simple as adding the credentials in and it worked straight away.
12vpn has an extension which I use but of course it’s for their service and not for your own personal or work VPN. VPNs are starting to be big business so the ChromeOS team needs to get their act together on it.
I travel to and from China from the US and of course I use a VPN there in China because everything is censored and blocked. I started using a VPN here in the US though because peering is so bad. AT&T must be using a 1 megabit shared line between YouTube and my town. If a server is more than 50 miles away it also sucks on AT&T. VPN fixes all that because I basically create my own peering routes rather than use those of my ISP. I have 50 megabits yay! What they don’t tell you is that you only have like 1 or 2 megabits to any one server at a time.
The US broadband market is a joke. We need to allow people to start up smaller ISPs and compete with the idiots such as AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. The internet is censored in China but it is actually better than the US in other aspects. At my apartment in China I have like 10 ISP options.
I think you can use .ovpn with SSH and create a tunnel, but I’m not positive if that will work. Worth a try though! I used it previously with a different VPN and it worked, but it was all CLI based.
Which l2tp vpn do you use? Is it free?
I use the DotVPN extension but it does not work on chromeOS apps or other extensions, such as chrome remote desktop, etc.
It works for now i guess, until i find something better.
Ssh does not use the same protocols as openvpn. You need an openvpn client and can use croutons to install one.
I use a paid for VPN which offers it.