TK, unlike 1.1.1.1, with KeepSolid SmartDNS you can access the most popular video streaming content. Watch American Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Now, and many more sites even if they are not available in your region. To top it off, our service also allows you to enjoy your favorite channels in 4k Ultra HD without any lags or delays. We do not provide IPv6 DNS serves.

SmartDNS Support, exactly how can your DNS services provide ACCESS to geo-restricted media WITHOUT a VPN? 1.1.1.1 provides local name resolution so if one is passing DNS requests through a VPN tunnel then 1.1.1.1 will provide geo-local to the VPN endpoint and not that of the logged in users geo-location. 1.1.1.1 does also provide IPv6 support. I presume your SmartVPN does support IPv6 like all current versions of windows does? If not how do you prevent IPv6 data leakage?

DNS servers alone cannot provide access to geo-restricted content on youtube or netflix or Amazon Prime since regadless of you getting the IP number of the service, which you get via any caching DNS the service see's the geo-location of the requesting IP number and blocks content based on the geo-location not being within the permitted regions. SmartDNS is not a VPN is it? Therefore it cannot bypass server side geo-restrictions can it! It can only bypass geo-restrictions imposed at the DNS level by court order or illegal content blocking. e.g. politically senstitive content and unapproved historical data blocking by Chinese government or child abuse image site interception by other organisations in western countries. While the former may be a legitimate use for out of area DNS services it will not prevent state enforced blocking without a VPN since it is entirely feasable to intercept DNS requests on a network level and redirect the DNS requests to a foriegn name server and redirect it to a censored local DNS server.

jugem, there are workarounds with manual configurations. You can find the instructions on our website - https://www.keepsolid.com/smartdns/

jugem, thank you for your feedback, we appreciate it. Our app compatible with Mac OS since version 10.15 or later.

We offer 24/7 support, you can reach out to them via support@keepsolid.com to get assistance anytime.

Berry, the whole point of SmartDNS is not anonymity. Thanks to KeepSolid SmartDNS, you can access the most popular video streaming content. Watch American Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Now, and many more sites even if they are not available in your region. To top it off, our service also allows you to enjoy your favorite channels in 4k Ultra HD without any lags or delays.

Berry, According to our Privacy Policy - "KeepSolid does not monitor, store, or log your online activity, including your browsing history, connection times, metadata, downloads, server usage, or data content during your session in the VPN Services. For a list of categories of personal data that KeepSolid collects, see Section 2 of this Privacy Policy.

KeepSolid also never stores or logs your IP address after the end of your session in the VPN Services – KeepSolid always removes your IP address after your session ends. See Section 7 of this Privacy Policy."



You can find more information here:

https://www.keepsolid.com/privacy-policy

SmartDNS Support, selective quoting... you reserve the right to share personal information of customers for several reasons only one is legally legitimate the others are completly unacceptable.

"We may share your personal data when appropriate or necessary to respond to legal process, including lawful:

subpoenas from government authorities and/or private entities;
court orders; and
interrogatories, depositions, and other discovery processes in the context of litigation and regulatory investigations.
We may share your personal data if we are, or propose to be, acquired by or merge with another entity or entities, or if we sell, or propose to sell, all or substantially all of our assets to another entity or entities, in which case we would share your personal data with such entity or entities."

mike, thanks for your feedback, you have a good understanding of how VPN and DNS work.

mike, correct me if I am wrong but it is my understanding that the modern internet redirects DNS requests to the big international DNS providers depending upon where your connection apears to originate from so you get USA physical DNS server if your DNS request apears to come from an USA endpoint and a UK physical DNS server if your DNS request apears to come from a UK endpoint so pings to say 1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1 or 8.8.8.8 / 8.4.4.8 always ping a lown number and never hop across the ocean. So using 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 as primary and secondary DNS server via a VPN will invaribly connect to the nearest local DNS server run by that DNS provider negating the need for this companies DNS servers.

mike, I stopped reading @ paid DNS server that acts as a proxy by changing your IP address.

Regardless of whatever this product does or does not do, this is not what DNS does.

Nasuno, quite right! I was astounded to see mike write that doing anything with a DNS server can do anything to change your IP address... I thought mike had significant knowledge of technology!

I personaly do not see why anyone needs to pay for SmartDNS since they do not use a logged in system but simply use an alternate DNS server and anyone can use it by following their instructions for android for example. https://www.keepsolid.com/smartdns/manuals/smartdns-setup-for-android

And their EU DNS server provides identical results to 1.1.1.1 for www.netflix.com so cannot see the point of their slower server when in countries like UK

Juztin, that's an accurate description of the difference between a smartDNS and a VPN, cheers for that.

Juztin, thank you for your explanation, also you can find more information regarding what's the difference between a Smart DNS proxy and a VPN in our blog on our official website: https://www.keepsolid.com/blog/meet-keepsolid-smartdns-app/

Juztin, SmartDNS ONLY assits access to geo-restricted content where they are geo-blocked by local DNS providers AND you are using a VPN like their product. SmartDNS on it's own provides NO method to circumvent geo-restricted content on its own. It *should* be part of their VPN product by default and is pointless without a VPN product and pretty redundant with a VPN product as there are good non-logging free international DNS providers that are better use than a little 3rd party companies ones.

Juztin, SmartDNS is a proxy? What type? http/https? Socks4/Socks5? IF SmartDNS is a Socks* proxy then the name of the product is deceptive and should be called something like SmartSOCKS or SmartProxy and not SmartDNS since DNS servers are nothing to do with your public IP number as seen by the server serving the geo-restricted content therefore cannot bypass server side geo-location restrictions on content delivery.

Peter Blaise, you can find more information about SmartDNS and how to use it on different devices (including Windows 7) on our website - https://www.keepsolid.com/smartdns/

Moreover, we offer 24/7 support, you can reach out to them via support@keepsolid.com to get assistance anytime.

Robert Fallona, this is a SmartDNS service not a VPN service. Please, find more info about SmartDNS and it's use cases on our website - https://www.keepsolid.com/smartdns/

Mike, According to our Privacy Policy - "KeepSolid does not monitor, store, or log your online activity, including your browsing history, connection times, metadata, downloads, server usage, or data content during your session in the VPN Services. For a list of categories of personal data that KeepSolid collects, see Section 2 of this Privacy Policy.

KeepSolid also never stores or logs your IP address after the end of your session in the VPN Services – KeepSolid always removes your IP address after your session ends. See Section 7 of this Privacy Policy."



You can find more information here:

https://www.keepsolid.com/privacy-policy

SmartDNS Support, in other words, the daily log you are referring to can be stolen, sent out by a rogue employee or accessed by a hacker or NSA. The privacy can not be guaranteed, I think that is what was implied.

SmartDNS Support, Oh you go read your privacy policy yourself!

"We may share your personal data when appropriate or necessary to respond to legal process, including lawful:

subpoenas from government authorities and/or private entities;
court orders; and
interrogatories, depositions, and other discovery processes in the context of litigation and regulatory investigations.
We may share your personal data if we are, or propose to be, acquired by or merge with another entity or entities, or if we sell, or propose to sell, all or substantially all of our assets to another entity or entities, in which case we would share your personal data with such entity or entities."

Ashok, we hope you'll have a great time using our service. Feel free to contact us 24/7 support service via supprot@keepsolid.com if you need any assistance. Cheers!

userOfThatGiveaway, VPN works very well.

userOfThatGiveaway, sorry to hear you've had a hard time using our service. Please, provide more info to our 24/7 support service via suppor@keepsolid.com and we will go from there to help.

Hotti , I couldn't agree more. It's by far the best VPN I've used so far and I am seriously tempted by the price of the lifetime subscription! User you needed to go back to your email to confirm. That's how I cured the " change server or contact support " error.

userOfThatGiveaway, Have tried Proton and for what it does, it is too dang expensive. If you use their "free service" you are limited in bandwidth and amount, so I gave them up.
I have Windscribe as well as tested others. Installed the KeepSolid VPN promo here from last week and tested it hard, ie ran it through a gauntlet of tests. No DNS leaks at any time, good speeds even pinging to France. Normally around 63mb/s to France only dropped to 51 Mb/s. Only downside is lack of torrent allowable connections as some sites act like a torrent.
Will give this a go and again, run it through tests.