You may notice different wording and terminology used in documentation and on the website. In this section our goal is to provide clarification. The most critical element of our subscription licensing system is the number of active VPN tunnels because that’s what enables various scenarios. For example, you can configure one user account on your OpenVPN Access Server and set it up so that with that same user name and password you can establish a VPN connection from multiple different devices at the same time. You can set up an account called "andrew", set a password for it, then use that same account on an iPad, a Windows computer, and two Macintosh computers — all at the same time. In that scenario, if all devices are connected at the same time, you're using 3 connections on the license. If your subscription is for 5, then that leaves 2 connections available.