Wait, so if what you’re doing isn’t “hellish wrong”, then what do you have to fear? Don’t use Relakks then.

By using it, you admit compliance with the view that what you are doing is wrong and can get you into trouble.

Can’t have your cake and eat it too man.

IBAN: SE7712000000012210110645
SWIFT: DABASESX

Don’t forget to put in your alias or UserID.
(It will take a couple of days before we get the paper form the bank that you paid, so please be patience.)

You can also pay directly to us 5€ (50SEK) one month 50€ (450SEK) one year. Send money to

Martin Norneus
Relakks
Winstrupsgatan 1
222 22 Lund
Sweden

(don’t forget to write your UserID or alias so I can load you r account manually. This will take a few days for me to receive the payment).

Firstly, you can try it for free. Go to the site now and just sign up for a free one month trial. It’s not difficult to do. After you’ve used the trial then decide from experience if it is worth it to you or not.

I have just finished a free trial and am now looking to subscribe (but can’t because just now they are ‘reviewing payment *methods*’ [my emphasis] notice on the website. Nevertheless, because I didn’t fully appreciate the value of subscribing and supplying a ‘disposable email address’ at the time of my free trial, before trying to subscribe and make a month payment, I opened a new user account. In doing that I got issued with another free trail – have it running now. Have been back to Relakks site several times to pay but still can’t do so. My point is you can try it for free and see what you think.

On the issue of how ‘secure and anonymous’ is Relakks I think it reasonable to ask what do you mean and/or want from ‘secure and anonymous’? My own feeling is that I’m not doing hellish much wrong. Yup, I do P2P, it’s the way the wind is blowing and a *great many* people participate and don’t see it as fundamentally wrong. But just how much security and anonymity do you need for that? My own guess is not a great deal (at least so far).

I feel a lot more comfortable about doing P2P via Relakks than without it and I get that comfort at a fairly reasonable price.

Relakks has warts, yes, a few but nothing is perfect and it’s a damn site better than just P2P-ing directly from your own ISP.

Give it a chance, it’s a good move in the right direction. In time I’m sure some of the warts will be ironed out but suspect that some are pretty well inevitable.

Only complaint is now I am trying to renew my account, and it appears their billing system is being looked over (for the good or bad).

Relakks is good! Dont hate because your too retarded to figure out some simple login instructions.

If you’re thinking of doing the same, DON’T!!

Relakks refuses to provide any support and you’re likely to need it.

I have signed up for a Relakks account twice. Both times I ended up needing support as the result of a billing problem.

The 2nd time I signed up for a 1 year account at a cost of $84 ($50 EUROS).

After paying (using Paypal), I was unable to login with the credentials they provided. I then noticed that when I logged into their webpage, it said that my account was “inactive” and my payment had “expired” even though there was a record that I had just paid $84 to set up the account.

I have emailed Relakks more than 3 times over the period of 2 weeks, each time waiting about 4 days for them to answer. No response.

The Relakks attitude about customer support is very apparent from their website: https://www.relakks.com/faq/qna/#6

They say they will NOT answer any emails that do not follow the exact guide defined on their website. If these people had any technical skills, they could create a support form on their website that could collect the information they want in the exact format they require, but no, they want you to put it into an email.

They also don’t support OpenVPN, the standard and trusted open source VPN solution, and instead require that you use PPTP which isn’t as secure.

Either way, it’s a moot point for users like me who paid but never were able to login due to non-existant support from Relakks.

Oh, if you sign up for a 1 year account and fail to use it for a month, they shut off your account.

Also, they have trouble with any login/passwords that are not alphanumeric, but LET YOU choose login/passwords that are NOT alphanumeric. How smart is that?

As a result, lots of users having problems with that issue as well.

Relakks sucks.

I saw a great interview with the owner and founder of Relakks, Jonas Birgersson. He is interviewed by Thomas Crampton and many interesting questions are answered.

Here is a link to the short interview: http://light.vpod.tv/?s=0.0.201364