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You can pay as much or as little for a VPN as you want, but you should expect to get what you pay for. While readily available and popular, free VPN services are not suitable for daily use. Their bandwidth tends to be severely limited, their performance isn’t good enough for high-definition streaming and online gaming, and their security may or may not be adequate for your needs.

Unless your budget is greatly limited, you will be much better off using a paid VPN service. Many VPN service providers offer fantastic deals to those who pay for multiple months or years of service upfront, with monthly prices often not exceeding the price of a single cup of coffee. Since most VPN services give you a 30-day or longer money-back guarantee, you don’t even risk anything by paying upfront.

To turn on a VPN on Mac, you need to go to Network preferences and enter the necessary configuration settings, including the IP address of the VPN server you want to connect to and authentication settings (your username, password, and certificate). This is how to do it:

• • Open System Preferences and select Network.

• • Click the Add button, select Interface, and choose VPN.

• • Choose what kind of VPN connection you want to set up.

• • Enter the server address and the account name for the VPN connection and provide your username, password, and optionally also a certificate.

• • Click OK, then click Connect.

If you have a VPN settings file, you can skip all the steps above and automatically import the settings.