Quote Originally Posted by GoldfishMan View Post
Bro, not all VPNs are the same. The whole point of using a VPN in the context of bypassing country specific obstacles hinges on the VPN being hosted from a different country. That way it'll look like you're logging in from a country that is not Australia.
I bet the VPN that came with your Norton 360 is NOT hosted offshore. If it was, you wouldn't have been asked to sign up, etc.
In punting terms I think what GFM is trying to say:

If Norton360 VPN was a RnT, it'd be like that dodgy massage joint down a side street with a cheap flickering "open" neon light. You walk in, the waiting room has a couch that looks like it came from the Soviet Union and probably older than half the boilers working there. Mamasan's behind the counter having a full blown argument with a punter who claims his one-hour session somehow turned into 30 minutes.
You tell her you’ve got a booking. She squints at this filthy school exercise book full of hand-written scribbles, runs her finger down the page and goes "yes, yes....we have many girls, wait here, she free soon".
Thirty minutes later you’re still there, scrolling your phone, wondering if you should’ve just gone somewhere else.

Eventually the manasan yells out something in Chinese, and an old boiler comes out and waves you to a room out the back. You go in, the lights are dim, the a/c is rattling like a fucken lawn mower, the whole joint smells like mould mixed with cum.… technically the joint works but you’re not exactly feeling like you've paid for a premium experience.

That’s Norton 360 VPN.
It’ll get the job done.....eventually… but the whole time you're thinking there were probably better options if you’d shopped around first.

And just like RnTs, with VPNs YMMV.