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I've recently purchased IPVanish subscription due to the concern of NSA snooping.

My home network is set up like following

Computers => Router => ISP Modem (Spectrum)

Now I am worried that ISP would monitor my traffic since all my internet goes through ISPs modem first.

Suppose that I am browsing a website after connecting to a VPN and post a message on ISPs website. Can't Spectrum figure out that it was "I" who posted the message by comparing VPN IP and my outbound packets going through ISPs modem?

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  • Please kindly let me know, if this question belongs elsewhere and where to post it. thanks!
    – dance2die
    Commented Apr 22, 2017 at 13:21
  • Do you know how a VPN works? You tunnel all traffic to the vpn, so the only traffic the ISP can see, is encrypted traffic to a single address your vpn
    – Ramhound
    Commented Apr 22, 2017 at 13:46
  • @Ramhound The part I don't get is that, to connect to a VPN, shouldn't that connection first go through ISP so that ISP can figure out which VPN I am connecting to? Maybe I should read about VPN more...
    – dance2die
    Commented Apr 22, 2017 at 14:36
  • Yes: Your ISP knows your connected to a vpn but traffic to and from the vpn is encrypted
    – Ramhound
    Commented Apr 22, 2017 at 14:41
  • @Ramhound So in my example in the question, if I posted on their forum via VPN, theoretically, ISP can figure out who it was since ISP track the IP of the VPN I connected to?
    – dance2die
    Commented Apr 22, 2017 at 14:55

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