How to use a VPN on a PC with OpenVPN

How to use a VPN on a PC with OpenVPN -Of course you often hear about openvpn. And, many people have started using it.
But do you know how to use it? In this article. we will discuss the steps to be able to use openVPN.

OpenVPN  widely considered to be a very convenient VPN protocol, and by that alibi, most premium VPNs use OpenVPN as standard.

However, special apps from providers like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, and Cyberghost will connect you to their network of servers conveniently via OpenVPN automatically, there are some reasons why you might want to set up your OpenVPN connection yourself.

Benefits of Using OpenVPN

There are many benefits of using OpenVPN. Here are the benefits of OpenVPN:

• All connections that exist are encrypted so they want to be more comfortable.
• Increase user personality.
• Open part of the web that is blocked by the internet provider / router.
• Increase PC security when using public wifi.
• Bypass the positive internet because the DNS we use is no longer ordinary DNS.

In fact, there are many more benefits of OpenVPN. But in general the things I mentioned are the main benefits of OpenVPN. Although it has many properties, there are some disadvantages of OpenVPN. OpenVPN usually wants to make our connection a little slower.

The method of using a VPN on a Computer / Laptop with OpenVPN is actually not much different from using a VPN on Android. Previously, Dafunda Tekno had also discussed overwriting the method of using a VPN on a Computer (Windows).

You definitely want to need a VPN to access the web blocked by the government at this time. So with this guidance, you can easily open any web that has been blocked.

How to use a VPN on a PC with OpenVPN

Methods of using OpenVPN on a computer

• Download the application used to connect OpenVPN.
• Install the application on your PC.
• After that, download your OpenVPN server config.
• The file that you downloaded is still in the form of archive / rar format. tar. gz, therefore we are obliged to extract it first. The trick is to open the winrar / winzip / 7zip method
• then click File
• Open Archive
• OpenVPN file selection. tar. gz. Then extract the openvpn file. tar. the gz.
• After you extract the file, you will get the config with the extension. ovpn. This config can be used to connect OpenVPN.

Currently we are obliged to import files *. ovpn file to the application used to connect OpenVPN. The trick is:

Open the secure point VPN application was previously installed.

Double-click the padlock icon on the taskbar.

click the Gear Icon.

End, click Import.

Click the icon … at the top (Source File).

File selection. Openvpn had been extract.

Press Import.