This is a great new proxy to use especially if living in China where this site is regrettably blocked

www.paperb.us

how is it different from say vtunnel or btunnel?

Where I am I still had some problems, it was slow and also (dont know why) but when I was on this site whenever I wanted to move back a page I had to double click my browser and I also wasnt able to click on individual photo's and enlarge them. With this one it works fine (up to now)

Got a question - how does VPN work?

I am right now posting from China on a VPN - and I notice that some of my posts appears Ok - and some don't!!

And also, some of my earlier on posts just appeared a few minutes ago!!

What is it that I'm not doing correctly?

SEAJ

TBH I'm not a techie but as I say I'm posting from China too and was having similar problems, some of the buttons on posts wouldn't work, only able to upload one image at a time and sometimes it would post the same post twice. Anyway since using this all seems to be fine

Did you click the button twice because it stalled?  Probably because the data got "caught" somewhere on the net, and didn't go through completely, so when you refreshed the webpage the data went through with the secondary data.  Just give the browser time to process if it still is going wrong, I'd check my internet brower cache and purge it to clean out the old data.

It stalled I think, even when you submitted a post it would then bring up the thank you page which then redirects you to the thread but it never would. Anyway, all seems fine now and thanks for your advice

VPN basically sets up a secure connection to your 'home' Server, directly, and invisible to any blocking or monitoring - security-wise it's as if you were sitting in the office with a hard-wired connection to the LAN ... except that the connection is created over the internet instead.  

This means you have no direct access to any of the internet, and your traffic is invisible to anyone on the internet.

EXCEPT THAT if your 'home' server itself gives you access to the Internet, you have exactly the same access but to the internet you look as if you were in the office.  

A bit different from a proxy, since when you're on a proxy you can still surf the web directly from your PC via the local ISP.  

Think of a proxy as hiding in plain view by wearing a disguise.  Think of VPN as hiding by ducking under ground and going through a tunnel completely out of sight.  

... that's a layperson's intro ... maybe a techie can improve on it!