Recommendations For Best / Easiest To Use VPN for Mac Users in 2015?

[Inframan]

Hey Guys, Im looking for an Easy to use VPN for OS X. I don't mind paying for something that works consistently and doesn't slow down my machine or browser. It's going to be used for work so i need something that is top notch and performs extremely well on a Mac.

Any Recommendations?

My Equipment:

• Time Warner Cable
• Arris TG1672 Modem (150MB Down / 20 MB Up)
• Time Capsule IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
• 2010 Mac Pro - 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon - 32 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC

 

[AGKyle]

Hey Guys, Im looking for an Easy to use VPN for OS X. I don't mind paying for something that works consistently and doesn't slow down my machine or browser. It's going to be used for work so i need something that is top notch and performs extremely well on a Mac.

Any Recommendations?

My Equipment:

• Time Warner Cable
• Arris TG1672 Modem (150MB Down / 20 MB Up)
• Time Capsule IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac
• 2010 Mac Pro - 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon - 32 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC

Our good friends over at Cloak have a great solution for Mac and iOS.

https://www.getcloak.com

I use it when traveling or from a coffee shop where I use public wifi.

 

[shaunp]

Look at team viewer. Its' very good and free. It seems to work through a few corporate firewalls too, so you can access your home kit while at work.

 

[BrianBaughn]

The preceding answers are for two different things.

Please give a more specific description of what you need to do.

 

[MacBH928]

I would say TunnelBear is the best. You can test them out for free. $60 per year, unlimited, and up to 3 devices simultaneously connected but torrents won't work

It does the job well and for a low price, the developers are responsive.

 

[solaris]

I would simply install Apple OS X Server. It costs just $19.99 and does VPN, and a lot more, like a breeze.
https://www.apple.com/osx/server/

 

[BrianBaughn]

"VPN Enabler" is free and creates a L2TP VPN server on your Mac.

In the other category the VPN service I'm using is iVPN.

 

[terrymaz]

HMA Hide my ass is the one I've been using for years and never had any problems.......(or letters in the mail, emails from isp etc LOL )

 

[Cromulent]

Just get a cheap OpenBSD VPS and run your own L2TP / IPSec VPN server on it. Problem solved. Won't cost you more than $5 a month if you go with Vultr.

Team Viewer is not a VPN server / client and is not what you want.

 

[JohnWick]

I would say TunnelBear is the best. You can test them out for free. $60 per year, unlimited, and up to 3 devices simultaneously connected but torrents won't work

It does the job well and for a low price, the developers are responsive.

Then what you suggest for torrent?

 

[fhall1]

Then what you suggest for torrent?

PrivateInternetAccess

 

[skinned66]

PrivateInternetAccess

I'll second your recommendation.

I got tired of setting up multiple connections on all of my machines, so I broke down and installed their VPN client - it works well on my Windows and Yosemite installations and fits the OP's "ease of use" criterion nicely. I'm satisfied with the performance I get, as well as the number and locations of the endpoints.

I pretty much only use hosts in US and UK though