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Ask HN: What is the best VPN provider?
After the post by Bryan Krebs I started investigation what would be the VPN used by him.
The list suggested by him https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/ has some interesting points. What do you think he is using? Also, what are you using and why?
- mtgx 10y agoAirVPN is pretty good. Modern crypto and uses OpenNIC DNS servers. You can lock the connection so it doesn't do IPv6 leaks and such. Clients are open source.
- damnmachine 10y agoI like IVPN. Based in Gibraltar, excellent bandwidth, plenty of servers, accepts Bitcoin, uses OpenVPN.
- marvel_boy 10y agoUrl is https://www.ivpn.net https://www.ivpn.net
- rtfpessoa 10y agoSeems pretty good in the charts.
- rtfpessoa 10y agohttps://www.mullvad.net/ https://www.mullvad.net/ seems like a great option, anyone tried it?
- Johnny_Brahms 10y agoUsing it since a couple of years. They never seem to be the bottleneck, but it is hard to test since I am too cheap to get anything else than the lowest bandwidth (30/30). I get 2.2MB/s down and a bit less up, which is about the same as I get without VPN. The app is nice (at least on Linux), but for environments where it doesn't work they provide openvpn files.
- ayylmaoo 10y agohttps://www.tunnelbear.com/ https://www.tunnelbear.com/ has been great for me
- tricinel 10y agoNordVPN (https://nordvpn.com/ https://nordvpn.com/). Panama, doesn't store logs, plenty of servers around the world. Works with the majority of devices out there. Accepts bitcoin. Checks pretty much all the boxes. Also recommended on https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/ https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/.
- ajeet_dhaliwal 10y agoThis is the only one I've tried (and I'm currently subscribed) but one thing I've been disappointed by is the speed. I know this is something to be aware of when using any VPN so I am not sure how bad NordVPN is in comparison to others, it may actually not be worse than others, I haven't had to time to compare.
- tricinel 9y agoI actually tried TrustZone as well and it was worse, at least for Germany. With NordVPN, I'm seeing speeds at about 60-70% of the original - which is a lot less granted, but it works fine for my day to day stuff like browsing or netflix.
- willieaames 10y agoYes, highly appreciated. But if you want to sort out VPN providers on the basis of those criterias, there aren't many left to choose from. I`v used many vpn providers in past mention in this review site: https://www.bestvpnprovider.com/ https://www.bestvpnprovider.com/
- hbogard 10y agoI've used a bunch of small-scale providers because their servers aren't as hogged as the big guys out there (looking at you, IPVanish!) I found Hotspotshield and PureVPN mentioned on this list: https://www.bestvpnprovider.com https://www.bestvpnprovider.com to be somewhere between serivceable to trustworthy in this regard.
- rwieruch 10y agohttps://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ works for me
- irremediable 10y agoI've had good experiences with Azire.
- ionised 10y agoI use Mullvad personally
- rtfpessoa 10y agoHow long have you used it? What are the average/max speeds you get? Have you used any other before? How do they compare?
- joshmn 10y agoPrivateInternetAccess. Lives up to the hype. Inexpensive; I picked up two years for $40. On my 250Mbps/15Mbps pipe I usually can pull down 200Mbps and push 10Mbps up.
- remlov 10y agoI am partial to blackvpn.com. Cheap and they don't store logs. I did a couple armchair speed tests through a couple of their locations vs my baseline internet connection: NO VPN enabled http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6168457639 PING 17 ms DOWNLOAD 195.94 Mbps UPLOAD 23.60 Mbps BlackVPN through Canada http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6168460690 PING 53 ms DOWNLOAD 151.71 Mbps UPLOAD 16.48 Mbps BlackVPN through Brazil http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6168447144 PING 160 ms DOWNLOAD 186.43 Mbps UPLOAD 10.21 Mbps BlackVPN through Switzerland http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6168451606 PING 263 ms DOWNLOAD 19.93 Mbps UPLOAD 5.60 Mbps
- bradknowles 10y agoWith respect, I would advise using other speed testing sites. Speedtest.net is well-known to be optimized by most ISPs, and so doesn't really give you accurate results. Fast.com is provided by Netflix, and you use their actual CDN to download a part of a freely available movie, and so you get a really good estimate of what kinds of download speeds you can see from them. The other one I like is from dslreports.com -- it uses only HTML5 instead of flash, and they adaptively test your bandwidth from multiple simultaneous server sites, with adaptive multi-streaming. You can't make a reasonable conclusion if you don't have reasonable data to work from, and with Speedtest.net you can't trust any of their results.
- alltakendamned 9y agoFreedome (https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_global/freedome https://www.f-secure.com/en/web/home_global/freedome) is my go to