A VPN made of homes,
not datacenters.
Every commercial VPN routes you through a handful of datacenter ranges — the ones streaming services and banks block on sight. ION routes you through real households, so your traffic looks like exactly what it is: a person at home.
- DEBerlin
- USAustin
- JPOsaka
- BRSão Paulo
- NGLagos
- SGSingapore
- GBLondon
- AUSydney
- INMumbai
- KRSeoul
- USNew York
- EXIT IP
- 88.78.142.31
- ISP
- Vodafone
- LATENCY
- 18 ms
[ WHY YOUR VPN KEEPS GETTING BLOCKED ]
Every VPN on the market shares the same few thousand IPs
A commercial VPN buys address space from a datacenter. Those ranges are published, catalogued and resold — so Netflix, your bank, and every checkout page on the internet can identify them in a single lookup. You are not anonymous. You are conspicuous.
Datacenter ASNs are a known list. Sites block them wholesale, no appeal.
Thousands of users behind one IP. One abuser gets everyone banned.
Endless "prove you're human" on searches you used to do in one click.
A no-logs policy is a marketing claim, not an architecture.
FROM A DATACENTER VPN — 45.83.220.11 · M247 LTD
- streaming.examplePROXY DETECTED
- bank.exampleLOGIN BLOCKED
- shop.exampleCAPTCHA WALL
FROM AN ION HOME EXIT — 99.48.112.20 · AT&T
- streaming.examplePLAYING · 4K
- bank.exampleSIGNED IN
- shop.exampleCHECKOUT OK
[ HOW IT WORKS ]
Four hops, and none of them is a server farm
Your device seals the traffic, the gateway picks an exit, a consenting household carries it, and the site sees an ordinary neighbour.
The ION app encrypts your traffic with a key that never touches our servers. Nothing readable ever leaves the machine you're holding.
Country, state, city or a named carrier. The gateway matches your request to an available home and forgets the pairing.
A node operator who opted in and set their own cap relays the ciphertext. They can't read it. Neither can we.
A residential IP on a consumer ISP with ordinary browsing behaviour. There is nothing to flag, because nothing is unusual.
[ WHAT YOU GET ]
Built for the internet as it actually behaves
Stream, bank and shop without being treated as a bot
Your exit is a genuine consumer connection on a genuine consumer ISP — AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, Comcast. There is no datacenter ASN to look up, no proxy header to sniff, no reputation list you appear on. Sites treat you the way they treat everyone else, because on paper you are everyone else.
Country, state, city — or one specific carrier
Most VPNs offer you a country and a shrug. ION lets you land on a named ISP in a named city: AT&T in Austin, Verizon in New York, Vodafone in London. Useful when a service is regional, when pricing is local, or when you simply want to look like you never left home.
- US
- Austin, TX
- AT&T
- 99.48.112.20
exit = "US/tx/austin/att"
rotate = "per-session"We can't hand over what was never written down
"No logs" is easy to say and hard to prove. So the architecture removes the question: exits rotate per session, the gateway never stores the pairing between you and an exit, and the node carrying your traffic only ever sees ciphertext with a destination attached.
$ ion-gateway logs --user 0x7f… --since 30d
# connection history
0 records
# exit assignments retained
0 records
# dns queries
0 records
# payment ↔ route correlation
not collected
$ ion-gateway export --format legal
nothing to export [ PERFORMANCE ]
Residential, and still quick
A home exit has the speed of a real home connection — enough for browsing, streaming and everyday use. ION picks the nearest healthy node so added latency stays around 31 ms.
median added latency
session success rate
streams without buffering
our own protocol
[ COMPARE ]
The difference isn't the app. It's the exits.
| Feature comparison | Typical datacenter VPN | Tor | ION VPN |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exit infrastructure | Leased datacenter ranges | Volunteer relays | 200M consenting homes |
| Looks like | A VPN, instantly | Tor, instantly | An ordinary household |
| Streaming & banking | Frequently blocked | Blocked | Works |
| Targeting granularity | Country, sometimes city | None | Country → state → city → ISP |
| Median added latency | 40–90 ms | 300 ms+ | 31 ms |
| Log policy | Promise in a document | Relay-dependent | Pairing never stored |
| Where the supply comes from | Bought wholesale | Donated | Opted in, paid per GB |
| Rest of the stack | Upsold separately | — | Mail, browser, vault included |
[ USE CASES ]
What people actually switch for
Pin an exit on your own city and your bank, your broadcaster and your government portal never notice you left. No locked accounts on day one of a trip.
Residential exits don't trip proxy detection, so regional libraries load in full quality instead of showing you an error code.
Everything is sealed on device before it touches the network, so a hostile hotspot sees ciphertext going to an address that tells it nothing.
Journalists, analysts and pricing teams see what a real user in that market sees — not the version served to a known VPN range.
Up to ten devices, plus a router profile so the TV, the console and the smart speaker route through it too.
The quiet win: search, shop and sign up without proving you're human on every third page.
[ PLATFORMS ]
Everywhere you already are
- macOS
- Windows
- iOS
- Android
- Linux
- Router
[ FAQ ]
Questions people actually ask
Yes, and for a specific reason: the node never sees your traffic. Everything is encrypted on your device before it leaves, so the household relaying it handles ciphertext with a destination attached and nothing more. They cannot read a page you loaded any more than your postal carrier can read a sealed letter.
Node operators opt in explicitly, set their own bandwidth cap, can refuse categories of traffic, and can stop at any moment. Every request through the network is paid for and rate-limited, and abusive destinations are blocked at the gateway — which makes bulk abuse expensive rather than free.
Consent and price. Most residential proxy pools are assembled from SDKs quietly bundled into free apps — the person carrying the traffic often has no idea. Every ION exit belongs to someone who installed the node software deliberately and is paid per gigabyte for it. And because the network was not bought wholesale, it doesn't need to be resold at $8–15 per GB.
It can — residential exits come and go. The next IP is always from the city and ISP you chose, which looks completely ordinary to a website. Sticky mode holds that city–ISP target for the session, even if the underlying node rotates. You can also take a fresh IP per request, change it on demand, or set a rotation TTL and let the system cycle automatically.
If a node goes offline mid-session, the system moves you automatically to another node with the same location settings. Websites see a normal residential rotation, and you don't get an error.
No. You can pay with a card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, AliPay or WeChat Pay — or with crypto if you prefer. ION settlement runs underneath so node operators get paid automatically per gigabyte — you never have to see that layer. Only the agent API surfaces payments directly, and that is deliberate.
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