Best paid for VPN?
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V8mate said:
Well, I engaged with one of their tech managers during my departure to give them detailed feedback to a (long!) list of 'customer experience' questions. He said that Amazon was a known issue for which they were working with Amazon for a long-term solution, so if I were you I'd be wondering whether you're actually in a vpn at all!
Does it depend what you're tying to do within Amazon? I've just tried via PureVPN and can access my account as normal, but I'm a prime member to check if video works.RizzoTheRat said:
V8mate said:
Well, I engaged with one of their tech managers during my departure to give them detailed feedback to a (long!) list of 'customer experience' questions. He said that Amazon was a known issue for which they were working with Amazon for a long-term solution, so if I were you I'd be wondering whether you're actually in a vpn at all!
Does it depend what you're tying to do within Amazon? I've just tried via PureVPN and can access my account as normal, but I'm a prime member to check if video works.I just signed up for NordVPN yesterday. $107 for 3 years. Setting it up for my torrenting and NAS torrenting was easy and all checked out to mask my real IP when torrenting. If I want to use VPN whilst on my laptop I can just connect any time. Speeds seem OK and works fine from what I can see so far.
manracer said:
I'm in France right now, actually showed the mother in law on Friday night how iPlayer works fine via Nord.
It doesn’t always work first time for me, but it does always work. I didn’t know there was a plugin but I will get that. The BBC seem significantly hotter on VPNs than any other streaming service I have tried.
Speeds can be hit and miss, but again you can play around with servers a bit to find something that works.
V8mate said:
RizzoTheRat said:
V8mate said:
Well, I engaged with one of their tech managers during my departure to give them detailed feedback to a (long!) list of 'customer experience' questions. He said that Amazon was a known issue for which they were working with Amazon for a long-term solution, so if I were you I'd be wondering whether you're actually in a vpn at all!
Does it depend what you're tying to do within Amazon? I've just tried via PureVPN and can access my account as normal, but I'm a prime member to check if video works.All I can say is that Amazon UK & US work for me, when I'm using Nord (proper not browser extension either) , I'm sorry if that doesn't fit with your worldview, but that doesn't make my statement less factual. Or accurate.
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Just confirmed Amazon Prime Video also works on on Both Nord proper AND the chrome extension.
Edited by techguyone on Sunday 11th November 15:40
Personally, I have nordvpn torrenting. It's pretty good service and not that expensive and had a wide variety of features. As far as I'm concerned Ipvanish is also good but I've never tried it on my own. You can check them both because they are pretty cheap.
Just a heads up on Dashlane PVN, with data.
Dashlane announced that it was now possible to select a preferred (pretend) location. So I thought I'd try it, and chose USA.
It worked seamlessly - so much so that Microsoft Live almost immediately asked me to verify that it was me that had logged in from the NY area.
However, things seemed a little slow so I ran a speed test; and quickly disconnected the VPN as I was paying a fair sum for a 200Mb/s fibre connection.
Date Time Ping Download Upload
16/04/2019 19:00 81ms 208.71Mb/s 20.97 Mb/s
16/04/2019 18:46 360ms 27.20 Mb/s 9.99 Mb/s
08/03/2019 18:39 213ms 206.77 Mb/s 20.88 Mb/s
Does anyone have similar data for other VPNs, for comparison?
Dashlane announced that it was now possible to select a preferred (pretend) location. So I thought I'd try it, and chose USA.
It worked seamlessly - so much so that Microsoft Live almost immediately asked me to verify that it was me that had logged in from the NY area.
However, things seemed a little slow so I ran a speed test; and quickly disconnected the VPN as I was paying a fair sum for a 200Mb/s fibre connection.
Date Time Ping Download Upload
16/04/2019 19:00 81ms 208.71Mb/s 20.97 Mb/s
16/04/2019 18:46 360ms 27.20 Mb/s 9.99 Mb/s
08/03/2019 18:39 213ms 206.77 Mb/s 20.88 Mb/s
Does anyone have similar data for other VPNs, for comparison?
DuraAce said:
George Smiley said:
Why do people use a vpn? Is it for dodgy porn?
Genuinel question?I use it to access geographically restricted content. Eg to watch BBC iplayer overseas.
driverrob said:
Just a heads up on Dashlane PVN, with data.
Dashlane announced that it was now possible to select a preferred (pretend) location. So I thought I'd try it, and chose USA.
It worked seamlessly - so much so that Microsoft Live almost immediately asked me to verify that it was me that had logged in from the NY area.
However, things seemed a little slow so I ran a speed test; and quickly disconnected the VPN as I was paying a fair sum for a 200Mb/s fibre connection.
Date Time Ping Download Upload
16/04/2019 19:00 81ms 208.71Mb/s 20.97 Mb/s
16/04/2019 18:46 360ms 27.20 Mb/s 9.99 Mb/s
08/03/2019 18:39 213ms 206.77 Mb/s 20.88 Mb/s
Does anyone have similar data for other VPNs, for comparison?
You'll always see drops in speeds and increases in latency when you 1. encrypt your packets and 2. route it half way around the world. It's basic physics. Unless you are trying to access American content which specifically requires an American IP location then it's completely pointless routing your traffic through servers there as it serves no purpose that a closer server can't already do, and faster.Dashlane announced that it was now possible to select a preferred (pretend) location. So I thought I'd try it, and chose USA.
It worked seamlessly - so much so that Microsoft Live almost immediately asked me to verify that it was me that had logged in from the NY area.
However, things seemed a little slow so I ran a speed test; and quickly disconnected the VPN as I was paying a fair sum for a 200Mb/s fibre connection.
Date Time Ping Download Upload
16/04/2019 19:00 81ms 208.71Mb/s 20.97 Mb/s
16/04/2019 18:46 360ms 27.20 Mb/s 9.99 Mb/s
08/03/2019 18:39 213ms 206.77 Mb/s 20.88 Mb/s
Does anyone have similar data for other VPNs, for comparison?
It's also well worth your time playing around with different VPN providers as the speeds and reliability vary considerably between them. I have to use a VPN to allow 3 concurrent connections to a service I use, 1 of those being on my main PC. Of the paid mainstream names that I've used I've had problems with all of them, specifically poor connectivity with annoying drop outs which require me to manually reconnect to my service but even more annoying are the feckin captchas on every website because the site has identified the IP as being potential spam. "Click all the squares with traffic signals in them" <clicks the squares> Nope, wrong! Try again! Oh do f
k off 
.I'm now using a free VPN I found way down the list in my browser extensions. I've tried most of them on there and found the vast majority of them to be garbage which is probably to be expected from a free service but a couple of them are excellent. The one I'm using has no log-in, no time limit and I can sit connected all day to their UK, Holland, Germany or France servers with no drop outs, latency issues and no noticeable difference in speed either. I thought it was actually broken because it was working too well but running IP checks and DNS leak tests it's rock solid. No captchas and I can even do my internet banking and buy stuff online when connected to the continental servers without the log-in failing and payments being blocked because of the IP location mismatch - something that always fails when using a mainstream VPN from my experiences.
ashleyman said:
Some comparisons from NordVPN. They also have an option to pick the server country.
No VPN
VPN through UK
VPN through USA
I usually just use a UK connection but even if I needed to use a USA server there's enough bandwidth to do most tasks.
My Nord results broadly mirrored yours.No VPN
VPN through UK
VPN through USA
I usually just use a UK connection but even if I needed to use a USA server there's enough bandwidth to do most tasks.
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