Cloak secures your Internet traffic without the hassle

molex, on 22 March 2012 - 07:19 AM, said:

JoshuaRuybal, on 22 March 2012 - 07:10 AM, said:

I understand why this would be appealing, but I'm happy with WiTopia. It's a little bit of setup, but afterward I never have to deal with a limit.

At ~$5.70 it's cheaper than Cloak as well.

If you're using a VPN regularly you're probably right.

But for someone like me Cloak is perfect. I rarely need a VPN, so paying a yearly fee for something I might use twice a year isn't sensible. Also WiTopia setup is a real hassle to set up and figure out, and then the one or two times a year I need to use it it never works right... I forgot the password, I forgot to order another year of service, etc. etc. So I end up spending an hour figuring out WiTopia again so I can do 15 minutes of work on a public hotspot? Not worth it.

I get what you are saying about not needing something like WiTopia if one only needs VPN occasionally. However as someone who just signed up for WiTopia two weeks ago, I am puzzled by your saying WiTopia is a real hassle to set up. I am running Lion and the setup was automatic and has worked fine. There is an option to do it manually, but did not seem necessary (and I would not have known how!). So I wonder if WiTopia has just recently made the setup for Macs automatic. I have been very pleased so far with WiTopia.

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