The odd-musings of Jared, the Director of Network Security for IAPS Security Services.

Ok guys, I wanted to let you know that over the last 2 months or so I’ve literally received hundreds of requests to devise a way to get an Xbox 360 to run through a vpn service. I’m pleased to announce that my efforts have been successful and I have tested the IAPS networks in Ireland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States and all jurisdictions were easily able to play online at Xbox Live.

With the major part out of the way, I’m now working on how to stream media services from the Xbox 360 to your TV directly. I know a few British services have just launched Xbox 360 compatible streaming services and I hope to have a solid guide for this as well in the next few coming days.

Here is the step by step guide straight from the IAPS site detailing how you can setup your Xbox 360 to use a vpn:

How To Use A VPN With Xbox 360.

I have screen shots available that prove my method works, and that it works well. It is my hopes that I have fulfilled another well sought-after entertainment facility for you folks. If you have any questions or comments, or would like to see the screen shots, please let me know. Thank you.

Folks,

Just another simple reminder that the British server transitions start this Friday and Saturday. Do not forget! Once the transition period is over, you will have to contact us to obtain the new ip addresses for each server in the United Kingdom that you are assigned to. As always, you will need to send in the first 4 lines of your original account opening email that we sent you at the time you opened your account. If you are unable to locate that email, we will present you with security questions that only you will know. This procedure is put in place to protect the integrity and safety of our networks as well as to only allow authorized individuals on our networks. Once your account has been verified, we will then issue the new ip address for your assigned server to the email address we have on file. We will not release any account information to an alternative email address at any time. Your personal safety, as well as our networks are always a security concern and we will not jeopardize either at any time. Its very important you know what your account information is as it will be requested and verified before we release any new information to you. Your account must still be in good standing and valid as well.

To reiterate, when the British networks come back online we will have come off of a 3-4 gigabit network and are being hooked up to a 16 gigabit network. This improves network connectivity, available bandwidth, and bandwidth delivery speed more than 3 times over. Whereas there may have been problem areas before, we believe these issue should be resolved after the transition period is complete. I will verify connectivity with all you folks and all of my remote support technicians will be on duty throughout the weekend to ensure that we get all of you folks back online in the shortest time possible.

For those of you that purchased dedicated ip addresses to go along with your accounts, these ip addresses will be changed over to the new network ranges. As always, there will be a primary and a secondary range available. I will personally get together with those of you that have personal ip addresses added on to your accounts and will privately issue your new ranges.

Hi Folks,

As part of a limited time offer, the IAPS Security Store is temporarily bringing back our trial program. This will include a full 24 hour trial of the network of your choice. Choices include the following:

United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Switzerland
Luxembourg
France
Spain
Belgium

Services include both Secure Shell & Virtual Private Networks. All trial account requests must be submitted through the appropriate contact page.

Hi Folks. IAPS is pleased to announce another new addition to our server family. Please welcome Firehawk as our now newest edition to our United Kingdom lineup. This is a business class server and is meant to do some mean streaming. Its built with the best hardware money can buy and its waiting for its chance to see some action.

If your still on the old system requiring dual accounts and you’ve been thinking about upgrading but wasn’t sure if its right for you, please get in contact with us and we’ll tell you all about the new features this server has in store for you!