HideAway reinvents and improves the VPN by adding flexible rules, faster speeds and an ‘Always on’ capability, while at the same time giving users a secure connection, privacy and simultaneous access to your favorite sites around the world. Try HideAway for free today.
WHAT IS A VPN? A Virtual Private Network in its simplest sense makes it look like your computer is in a different location or country, without you actually being there. Using HideAway means you can do all these cool things:
• Encrypt your connection & hide your real IP address to ensure your security and privacy at home and in public
• Protect your data from snooping by your internet service provider.
• Access content around the world through an encrypted connection.
On Unlimited devices, plus many more features, with the flexibility, speed and simplicity you won’t find in standard VPN software.
BLAZING FAST SPEEDS
HideAway has been engineered from the ground up to be as fast as possible. In many cases your internet speed will get faster as HideAway has been optimized with many clever techniques to get the most speed out of your connection. Check out the speed tests on the right - HideAway absolutely blitzes other well known VPNs in speed comparisons.
In real world tests, HideAway is on average 3-7 times faster than OpenVPN and 2-5 times faster than Wireguard.HideAway adapts to the latest technology. Now days web browsers are using faster protocols like HTTP3 to get the most speed out of web browsing and HideAway automatically uses it where as other VPNs can't.
FAST SERVERS
We only use fast servers based on major internet backbones. But we can get away with using cheap cloud servers without seeing any reduction in speed and then pass the cost savings on to you. If other VPNs try and use inexpensive cloud servers, it really shows with a reduction in speed. In fact, HideAway is so efficient, when a HideAway server is running at full bandwidth capacity it only uses 10% of one cpu.
FAST ENCRYPTION
HideAway uses the same encryption that Google Services use on mobile, so it's been engineered for speed and security. It runs at extremely high speeds and ensures confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity. You can read more info in the FAQ's.
“It's no one's business what you do online, so keep it this way with HideAway.”
BE ANONYMOUS ONLINE
When we use the internet, most of what we do is unencrypted so it’s easy to spy on what we do online at work, home or in public. HideAway masks your IP address with our anonymous IP addresses and encrypts your internet traffic, so your ISP, Government and hackers will have no idea what you’re doing or what websites you're visiting. The added benefit is that websites and internet services can no longer track you.
NO LOGGING
We didn’t build any logging capability in to the software, so we can't even turn logging on. So we can’t be compelled to hand over any information as we have nothing since the logging capability doesn't exist!
NO DATA LIMITS
When you connect via our high speed servers, you can use as much data as you like - there are no limits, even with torrents. (You still need to pay your own ISP data charges though). Additionally, our servers won’t get bogged down because as an option HideAway logs you in for most bandwidth intensive services like video, then uses your own ISP’s connection to stream the bandwidth intensive content.
TORRENT FRIENDLY
Download torrents as much as you like. There's no limit and it's really fast!
BUILT IN KILL SWITCH
If you lose your internet connection, HideAway will cut the connection so that your real IP address and information is not leaked.
SECURE AGAINST DNS LEAKS
Automatically secured against IPv4 and IPv6 DNS leaks.
“It's no one's business what you do online, so keep it this way with HideAway.”
SECURE YOUR INTERNET TRAFFIC WITH ENCRYPTION
Your connection is secured with the same super strong AEAD encryption used by Google Services, therefore it’s very fast. Any internet activity you do through HideAway is encrypted and anonymous. When you access the internet over public wifi - for example, an internet cafe's, your content is secured through HideAway from eavesdroppers who might otherwise use hacking tools to get your information.
Turn Encryption On/Off For Some Websites and Applications (Coming soon)Normally encryption may add a bit of overhead and can reduce your internet speed by around 30%, but the encryption used by HideAway encrypts your internet traffic in nanoseconds and doesn't affect your internet speed.
“The encryption in HideAway is unique for every connection, up and down.“
IT’S CONNECTIONLESS!
This is awesome. It means HideAway is always on. Unlike a VPN where you have to start it up, wait 10 seconds for it to connect, then shut it down when you’re finished. HideAway is always working, and combined with the flexibility of custom filters to split up your internet traffic and direct it to different countries simultaneously, you never need to turn it off. Additionally, unlike a traditional VPN, HideAway automatically roams as you move between internet connections - WiFi/LTE/Ethernet and if you lose your connection, HideAway will resume when your internet does.
CUSTOM FILTERING (Coming soon)
Setup filters to be in different places at the same time, so for example you can be United States for one website and Japan for another at the same time. Additionally you can redirect any application on your computer to make it go through another country, or redirect traffic through a different port or IP address, block certain traffic and ports and ignore others, and use wildcards for more complex filtering. (Coming soon)
PROCESS LIST (Coming soon)
See at a glance what applications on your computer are accessing the internet and where they’re going to. You can use this to create rules to redirect websites or block unknown processes. (Coming soon)
SPEED TESTS (Coming soon)
Built in speed tests automatically help you select the fastest servers based on upload/download speeds and latency, or you can choose them yourself. (Coming soon)
“HideAway never needs to be shut down, it can always be left running.”
| FEATURES | REGULAR VPN | HIDEAWAY |
|---|---|---|
| Redirect internet to access videos and websites in other countries | YES | YES |
| Anonymous and secure internet surfing | YES* | YES |
| Create flexible rules to split and direct your internet traffic to different countries simultaneously | NO | Coming soon |
| Always on, instant connection | NO | YES |
| High speed encrypted connection | NO** | YES |
| No logging of your activity | VARIES | YES |
| Rules to re-direct, block or ignore your traffic | NO | Coming soon |
| Process list to view which rules are being used by differenct processes on your computer | NO | Coming soon |
| Unlimited bandwidth | VARIES | YES |
| High speed dedicated servers | VARIES | YES |
| Gets around your ISP’s traffic throttling to increase speed | VARIES | YES |
*although it appears the NSA finds it easy to access VPNs **VPNs are usually around 30% slower than your regular internet
What is a VPN/encrypted tunnel and why use a it?
VPN is a technology to pass network traffic via an encrypted tunnel. It provides secure access to the internet and guarantees anonymity and privacy.
Since it connects you via the secure tunnel to a server located elsewhere, this means you are able to access other websites. This also means it looks like all your internet traffic comes from the country you're connecting through.
How does HideAway work?
HideAway intercepts your internet traffic and diverts it to different countries according to the rules you have setup.
For example, if you live in Greenland and you want to watch Youtube, then when you go to youtube.com it will divert the youtube traffic to USA, likewise if you want to view Facebook in the UK, then that portion of the internet traffic will be diverted to the UK.
(Coming soon) HideAway can also be used to divert traffic from applications, like your internet browser or email program, or used to block or ignore traffic too.
It's like a flexible filter for your internet traffic, allowing you to divert internet via different countries, ports or IP address for websites and applications.
Which countries do you have servers in?
Feel free to suggest more locations to us.
USA Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Dallas
UK London
Australia Sydney, Perth
Czech Republic Prague
Switzerland Geneva
Netherlands Amsterdam
Canada Vancouver, Toronto
Singapore Singapore
New Zealand Auckland
France Paris
Finland Helsinki
Ireland Dublin
Japan Tokyo
Denmark Copenhagen
Belgium Brussels
Austria Vienna
HongKong HongKong
Italy Rome
Norway Sandefjord
Spain Madrid
Sweden Stockholm
Ukraine Kiev
India Mumbai
What makes HideAway different from a VPN?
Create rules for ultimate flexibility: (Coming soon) As well as being able to choose preset rules/channels for your favorite content, users can create custom rules to redirect, block or ignore traffic to different countries simultaneously. e.g. Direct all Google Chrome traffic to the UK, except youtube.com connects via the Netherlands, while Facebook.com and the Outlook email application connects via the USA.
Connectionless and hassle free: Because HideAway uses rules to redirect portions of a user’s internet traffic, it can always be left running. A regular VPN which needs to start up, take 10 seconds to connect, then the user needs to select a country to connect via, then disconnect after use. HideAway removes this annoyance because the user only sets up the rules they need. Even if you turn your computer off or switch between wifi and ethernet, HideAway will keep on working without interruption.
Faster Speeds: HideAway’s connection protocol is optimized for high speed, and combined with dedicated high speed servers you get low latency and faster upload and download speeds. Most users should see faster internet speeds when using HideAway, whereas most VPN’s reduce internet speeds by 30%.
Flexibility and better access: Because HideAway lets users setup rules to tunnel different websites and applications (coming soon) to different countries simultaneously, users doesn’t suffer the inconvenience of some other VPN’s such as having to connect to the service, then disconnect, or websites like Gmail becoming blocked because it thinks the user is in a different country, or printers, security cameras and backup hard drives no longer working because the computer is no longer local.
Faster and provably secure encryption: Most encryption slows internet connections down, but HideAway uses dedicated high speed servers with the faster and AEAD encryption so you won’t notice any reduction in speed.
What things can I do with HideAway?
• Connecting to different countries means you can access the video on demand, sports, movies, games and music in those countries.
• HideAway also lets you redirect software applications to different countries, and block unwanted websites and software too. (coming soon)
• (Coming soon) You can create your own custom rules to redirect your internet traffic elsewhere as you choose.
• Since you don't lose speed or increase latency with HideAway, it's perfect for games and streaming video.
• HideAway masks your IP address and encrypts your internet traffic so you can browse the internet in complete anonymity.
• HideAway will keep your wifi connection secure when you're connecting to public wifi spots while using non secure websites and email.
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Check out the Support Page, or send our friendly support team an email with your question.
