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VPN with Automatic Streaming Unblocking, Advanced Port-Forwarding, Custom DNS Filtering and More - FREE during BETA @ Oeck

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Product RepLOeck on 10/07/2020 - 14:21 oeck.com (109 clicks)
Last edited 10/07/2020 - 17:54 by 1 other user

Hi everyone,

My name is Peter and I am one of the staff members running the Oeck. We spent the last two years building this VPN service outside of our day jobs. We are in our beta stage and would like to invite the community to come and test our service, have a play with it and see what you think. We do things a bit differently at Oeck when it comes to Unblocking, Filtering and Port-forwarding. We got tired of switching VPN regions every time we wanted to access certain streaming services, so we made it automatic. We added a whole bunch of cool features into a highly-secure service. We would love for users to check out our features!

Although we are nearing a release, there are a few things to note.

This is BETA. This will not work for all users as there are still some bugs in the apps. However, if you do run into problems, please post them in our community. This will help us track and fix bugs. By the end of BETA we will then have a good product to put out. You can find our community at https://www.oeck.com/community/

If you do run into issues, please let us know. The feedback regarding what is not working for certain users is just as important as the feedback regarding what is working for certain users.

Pages of interest:

Features
FAQ
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to post them here and I will do my best to get back to you.

Thank you in advance to all of the users who try out our service.

Please remember to report any bugs in the community rather than the support tickets!

Regards,
Peter @ Oeck.

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  • Alan6984 on 10/07/2020 - 15:39

    Hi Peter,

    I couldn't see anything about the 'Advanced Port-Forwarding' that you mention in your post title - apologies if I missed it.

    Please could you post a link to more information on that feature?

    Thanks,

    Alan.

    • Product RepOeck @ oeck.com on 10/07/2020 - 16:15

      Hi Alan,

      I assume you have registered an account? If so, please make your way to https://www.oeck.com/account/ports/ - As soon as you see the dashboard for it you will understand exactly how it works.

      If not, we also have an explanation in the manual - https://www.oeck.com/manual/learn/port-forwarding/

      Basically it removes the need to configure your devices to listen on ports we use. Rather, you do it from our end to make your life easier. Because we also give you a unique domain name for each port, regardless of which region or server you connect to, you will always be able to access your device.

      Regards,
      Peter @ Oeck.

      • Alan6984 on 10/07/2020 - 17:45

        Got it - thanks!

        Alan.

        • Product RepOeck @ oeck.com on 10/07/2020 - 17:53

          Hi Alan,

          You're welcome :) Let me know how it goes :)

          Regards,
          Peter @ Oeck.

  • denverthedinosaur on 13/07/2020 - 21:34
    +1

    Hey Peter,

    This looks super interesting - I read your privacy policy, it looks very thorough.

    I'm curious though, you mention that "…In order for our network to run efficiently and to give customers the best possible experience, we must monitor our hardware and bandwidth usage. We use this information to purchase more resources if we find the server resources exceed 80% of their capacity. "

    So, let's say someone is using a ton of bandwidth, are you able to associate/trace that data data to a single account?\

    Also, I'm sorry if I missed it, where abouts are you based?

    Thanks! Looking forward to trying it out.

    • Product RepOeck @ oeck.com on 13/07/2020 - 22:14
      +1

      Hi denverthedinosaur,

      Thanks for testing this out!

      First thing - the monitoring. We are monitoring everything at our switch and not the servers. We can not see who is using what. We can see, if we chose to, bandwidth per server ( not per user ), but it is pointless. The way our regions work make things easier to just monitor the usage of the region as a whole. We have 1Gbps available in all regions ( except Amsterdam - there is 20Gbps available there ). If we get to 800Mbps average, we just buy more bandwidth / hardware as needed. You can read about our network at https://www.oeck.com/faq/technical/

      So no, we can't associate usage with a customer. Nor do we want to.

      Second - We are from Melbourne, Australia but the company is incorporated in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has great privacy laws. However, we believe China is probably going to change these in the future so we are currently setting up the company elsewhere. Although we will have a fair bit of time before any new HK laws come in, we would prefer to be prepared and simply move.

      We also don't have any hardware or anything else in Hong Kong - just the registration of business.

      Regards,
      Peter @ Oeck.

      • denverthedinosaur on 13/07/2020 - 22:36
        +1

        Thanks for the quick and clear responses, really refreshing to see that when it comes to VPN companies. :D Any idea which country you will be moving to?

        • Alan6984 on 13/07/2020 - 23:03

          I know that was perhaps jocular in nature, but maybe only partly?

          For me at least, being based in China (as it is as of a couple of weeks ago), would make me unlikely to use the service and, for what it's worth, I would feel the same if it was in the US too.

          Alan.

          • denverthedinosaur on 14/07/2020 - 09:59
            +1

            @Alan6984: Not really "jocular" at all. Guy spent time giving me a well laid out response.

            The response doesn't cover whether or not there will be independent auditing by a 3rd party to verify their claims, right now we're just to "trust" what he says. But I suspect gathering user usage data and selling it like other VPN's, isn't at the top of their priority list and their planned business model looks different.

            Also, a lot of companies like these (including a bunch of shady file sharing services), were based out of Hong Kong, people liked being based there because up until the recent cucking by China, Hong Kong had it's own set of rules and were PIONEERS in the field of data privacy legislation.

            Unlike over in NZ/AU where we are part of the 5-Eyes and 14-Eyes agreement, since you're worried about the United States, screw using a VPN that's based here.

            I'm hoping wherever they move to, it won't be a country that's part of some international known state mandated spying agreement or a country that's going to easily cave to political pressure from an outside party in order to snatch data but those options are limited.

            Forgot to ask if you guys will add wireguard support? @Oeck

            • Product RepOeck @ oeck.com on 14/07/2020 - 12:00
              +1

              @denverthedinosaur: Hi denverthedinosaur,

              The third-party audit is not on our priority list at the moment. We are a start up - we don't have all that much money. We did want a third-party audit, but when we looked into the costing, it was north of $30,000 - we can't afford that.

              The audit is also just an expensive sticker you can put on the website at the end of the day. There is literally nothing stopping a VPN company from turning on logging and modifying their systems after the audit has been completed. Personally I see the audit as advertising - nothing more. Having said that, when we can afford it we will most likely have one done. But it is still just an expensive sticker in my opinion.

              Wireguard support is coming. We have spent the last two years building this thing outside of our day-jobs. We are focusing on getting this system perfect before moving on to Wireguard. I can not give you an ETA unfortunately, as we have other things to work on regarding the business and any infrastructure we have. I can tell you that it is something on the priority list though - as soon as we can we will.

              Regards,
              Peter @ Oeck.

              • denverthedinosaur on 14/07/2020 - 18:43
                +2

                @Oeck: Completely understand this point, it's frustrating because ideally security audits would be conducted frequently AND randomly with a high level of transparency but the solutions out there are too expensive for any startups from a financial standpoint. .

                I'm excited to hear about the WireGuard support being in the pipeline.

          • Product RepOeck @ oeck.com on 14/07/2020 - 11:53
            +2

            @Alan6984: Hi Alan,

            I completely understand where you are coming from and to some extent I agree. Having said that though, there are many factors at play.

            It would have been a lot easier and cheaper for us to just set up in Australia. But due to stupid laws here we would have had to log user activity. So that was a no-go. We ended up spending loads of cash in order to set up shop in Hong Kong.

            Now, at the time of this post, Hong Kong still has fantastic laws regarding things like data-retention ( they don't do it ). Hong Kong was a perfect place for a VPN company. Now, should China force Hong Kong businesses to log their users data ( which we believe they will ), it will not be over-night. Businesses will have time to get the infrastructure set up, their networks modified, etc. Realistically should they pass this law, it will be another 6 - 12 months for companies to comply.

            Since we believe they will pass this law, we are already making plans to move - since we will have to at some point anyway.

            We also don't have any hardware in Hong Kong.

            Regards,
            Peter @ Oeck.

            • Alan6984 on 14/07/2020 - 12:02

              @Oeck: Excellent - Sounds like you are very much on to it.

              Thank you for the detailed response - I very much appreciate it.

              Alan.

              • Product RepOeck @ oeck.com on 14/07/2020 - 12:05

                @Alan6984: Hi Alan,

                You're welcome, no problem at all :)

                Regards,
                Peter @ Oeck.

        • Product RepOeck @ oeck.com on 14/07/2020 - 11:48
          +2

          Hi denverthedinosaur,

          You're very welcome :)

          We are looking into Singapore at the moment as it suits our needs perfectly. They are not part of the 5 or 14 eyes and they have very good laws regarding what companies can keep about their customers. Since there is no data-retention over there, it makes it a suitable candidate.

          Regards,
          Peter @ Oeck.

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