What Is a VPN?

A VPN is a virtual private network. A virtual private network is a service that lets you access the web safely and privately by routing your connection through a server and hiding your online actions. Here’s how a VPN works. First you install the VPN software then you start the VPN software. The software encrypts your data, even before your Internet Service Provider or WiFi provider sees it. The data then goes through the VPN, and from the VPN server to your online destination — anything from your bank website to a video sharing website to a search engine. The online destination sees your data as coming from the VPN server and its location, and not from your computer and your location. Which means, if you connect to a VPN server in Canada and you are located in Canada not Nigeria.

Benefits of Using VPN Software?
There are numerous benefits of using a VPN software.. The benefits include

1. A VPN encrypts your activity on the web. Your bank details, login details, email messages and web connections are encrypted and cannot be read by your service provider.

2. A VPN hides your activity from anyone who might be interested in it

3. A VPN hides your location, enabling you to access geoblocked content.

4. A VPN helps you to be more anonymous on the web.

5. Public WiFi are unsafe connections. A VPN helps you keep the connection protected when using a public WiFi hotspot.

6. A VPN allows people located in Nigeria to access features of sites that do not accept Nigerians.

7. A VPN helps you to measure your data usage. If you want to measure how much of your data is consumed

while online, one of the best options is with a VPN. That way, your Internet service provider will not be able to cheat you.