Learn how to connect your Mac to a VPN network

On many occasions, educational centers, universities and some companies decide to use VPN networks. They are a type of virtual network that will allow users extend a local LAN that is secure to an outside network and therefore with less security so that the team works as if it were inside the institution without being it.

In short, a way to, for example, connect to the server in your workplace and be able to work as if you were really there. In this article we will explain what steps you must follow to be able to successfully configure a VPN network.

Let's start set up a network VPN on our Mac. Although you are not going to use this information now, we advise you to follow the tutorial because at some point you may find yourself in the situation of configuring one. If you don't have a VPN yet and are looking for one for your Mac, at this link you can download Surfshark VPN for Mac.

The steps you must follow are the following:

• Access the System Preferences panel that we can find in Lauchpad. Once inside, we select the Network category.

• In the window that appears, you will be able to configure multiple parameters regarding the network connections that your Mac is capable of supporting.

• To add a new VPN connection we go to the left column and in the lower part we click on the +. We are shown a small window in which, in the drop-down, we are going to select VPN.

• When select VPN, the system will ask you what type of VPN network you want to create. At this point, you will need to know what type of network your workplace has.

The next step is to configure the VPN network that you have created. To do this, you will have to fill in the data that your work center has provided you, such as the server address, the account and the authentication mechanism that the server has. When you finish entering the data, you only have to click on Connect.