Thanks for the replies.. Giving PIA at try they have a 7 day money back option. This morning their west coast proxy was real slow, had to switch to another..otherwise the service seems fast and sort of transparent to use. I already have usenet, but was unaware of their VPN option, going to look into that also.
However, I did some testing using a simple "whats is my location" search on chrome after I signed up. Interesting I got various answers: (the proxy location) College Park MD. (expected that) then Piscataway NJ. ?? - the middle of Raritan Bay NJ.??, a few can not find responses - but one site 'mycurrentlocation.net' brought up a Google map with a red dot on my house along with longitude and latitude coordinates. I wondering where this info came from. I cleared cookies, cleared history, and searched hard drive for my address and longitude/lat with no results. How do they associate my browsing query with my address, somehow my computer is still sending out something this site cross references to me. Not really critical but if I'm paying for a private VPN service it's not 100% there yet.