VPN enables access to these sites or services from anywhere. With a VPN, information about your activities online are scrambled in an encrypted tunnel so that external parties, your ISP included, can’t read it.Īccess any site: Every now and then, websites or services you want to use may be inaccessible from your location. No monitoring: As we mentioned earlier, your internet service provider (ISP) can see your internet traffic and probably log your browsing history. A tunnel where no one can see what you’re doing or where you’re going. With a VPN, you have your own private tunnel/road. They might even be able to spy inside your car and learn more about you.
If you drive on a public road anyone can follow you and track where you go, how long you spend at your destination, and when you return. These highways are mostly public roads that many people use. Think about it this way: The internet is like a highway that connects different cities across different countries. The images above show how my location changed from Nigeria to Dominican Republic after turning on my VPN. After turning on my VPN, my device is in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.Before turning on my VPN, my device was in Lagos, Nigeria.With VPNs, our IP addresses change and online activities are hidden. When we surf the internet with our IP address, different websites will know specific information about us such as our location, device type, browser and operating system. Think of it as sending items between two or more physical addresses. On the internet, different computers send and receive information between Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. The rise in popularity of VPNs has brought up questions about how exactly they work. Virtual Private Networks (VPN) are all the rage right now in Nigeria since the government banned Twitter.
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