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

As I promised several weeks ago to a number of you, I have made our newest Swiss servers all L2TP compatible. This further increases security for every one as well as brings the Swiss servers over to a 1 gigabit network for the fastest speeds ever. Additionally, I have now discounted all Switzerland VPN Service 6 Month Contracts down to just $40.00 USD for a limited time to introduce the power of these networks. If you have ever wanted the Swiss version of Zattoo which includes not only English language channels, but channels from Spain, Germany, and Italy, now is the time to satisfy that desire.

All new ip ranges are now available for almost every single country we offer and 95% of all countries are now on the L2TP service. Also, there are a vast abundance of Italian VPN Services available also at the discounted price. For you gamers, IAPS can provide you with nearly any European country you need for things live Xbox Live. Don’t miss those game demos or downloads because your restricted by country. All it takes is a little IAPS magic to remove those restrictions placed upon you just because your located in a specific country.

You can check out all our latest offerings on the IAPS Monthly Specials Page or see our Complete VPN Countries List at your convenience.

IAPS is pleased to announce the addition of Finland and Lithuanian VPN service which will be available starting January 3, 2010. As we continue to build our services, we have come to offer the largest selection of countries of any vpn provider currently on the internet. IAPS wishes to thank all of our clients and resellers as its you that keep us building and expanding and to have the ability to offer the widest selection world-wide. We hope you all enjoy these new countries. Thank you.

Hi All,

Just a quick announcement that our U.S. based servers are about to go under a maintenance cycle to prepare them for a dynamically issued vpn service. I expect no more than a maximum of 30 – 60 minutes to perform the entire operation.

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 I’ve just posted preliminary instructions on how to use a VPN service with the Xbox 360 gaming console. It is my hopes that these instructions help guide you on your way to both internet gaming and catching some telly by using your gaming console to transfer the picture directly to your tv instead of your computer screen. This is not an all-exclusive instruction manual and I may have room in there for marginal error. But its written to the best of my knowledge and tested here in the IAPS Control Center. If you have any questions or comments about this guide, please let me know. Thank you.

Hi Folks,

I noticed a lack of bandwidth on the U.S. based NetNewz server over the past couple of days and started submitting multiple trouble tickets to the data center. Last evening they finally conducted an investigation and found out that they put the server on the wrong network segment. Finally, they physically moved the server to the correct segment of the network. They had to allocate a new ip range to the server as well. For those of you that are currently assigned to this server, please get in contact with us for the new ip address for your vpn service. Thank you.

Hi Folks,

I’ve finally gotten the time (barely) to implement L2TP vpn services on a select few servers. By this time tomorrow all servers will have this ability. This type of vpn is more secure than the normal PPTP vpn type and also will help those of you that for one reason or another were previously usable to connect to a PPTP vpn server. For those of you in Italy who were previously blocked by your isp (FastWebNet), this new type of vpn will enable you to finally connect. I’ve never forgotten about you folks in Italy and this solution was made just for you, but will benefit all IAPS clients regardless of geographical location.

If you are in immediate need of L2TP VPN services, please get a hold of me and I’ll get you taken care of. Thank you.

Folks, the new U.S. based dynamic VPN service is almost complete. I’m in testing stages right now and hope to rap it up in the next 24 hours before I release it to the general public. So please bear with me for the time. I know there is a great demand for it and I’m working on it as fast as possible.

I’m also in the process of developing new VPN instructions to come into compliance with the needs of the Mac Snow Leopard operating system. I’ll have those new instructions completed as well in the next 24 hours. Thank you all for your continued support of the IAPS Security Store. We all appreciate it tremendously.