While your real IP address will still be used to connect to said VPN, all other traffic will be tunnelled through your private network and as such this external traffic will only connect to your second, virtual IP address. Proxy servers are great little tools which act as a bridge in the flow of your internet traffic. These man-in-the-middle servers connect your information packets to their desired destination, while changing their appearance as they go through the Proxy. This is how I know that any IP, which starts with 140.247 will be assigned to Harvard University and how I know where you are based in, simply by looking at your IP address. Probably the best and most convenient way for changing you IP is to As you can see, the benefits of a Virtual Private Network are precisely the same as the benefits of changing your IP address.
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