Best VPN service?

edgedemon

edgedemon

edgedemon

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I currently on a months paid trial for AceVPN - their support desk is very good, but their speeds seem to be a bit random, sometimes I get 5MB, sometimes Im down to <0.5Mb
Now I know there are so many issues that can affect speeds, but I also realise that I know very little about the paid for VPN market.
I was curious to see what other people are using as their VPN provider and how well they rate them...

So Spec me a VPN service...

:D
 
Which will only get you as far as how much they throttle unknown/secure tunnelled traffic which is usually similiar to web speeds.

I use my own rented VPS and host my VPN tunnel from there.
 
Might have to look into that...

Who are you with, and why would that get treated differently opposed to the VPN I have

Im curious as this side of things is new to me..
 
I do it because I have greater control over the service, guaranteed bandwidth (I rent a VPS from rapidswitch with a few hundred gig a month useage and never seen less than 100MBit available to the server end - obviously my home connection isn't that fast) and don't have the same potential concerns about privacy etc. i.e. the host spying on the traffic the other side of their network.

Also I can grab a big file at silly speeds directly to the VPS and then download from there at my leisure - especially useful for popular files, etc. where the mirror(s) get saturated quickly.

Downside is you have to setup and maintain the VPN software yourself - and if you are into slightly less uh legal useage the VPS IP does point directly back to you (depending how readily the server provider gives out that info).
 
StrongVPN

Been with them for the last 2 years or so while I've been in Cyprus. Servers all over the place and you can switch 5 times a month. They have a special on thats been on for a while for $55 a year. Oh also they have options for PPTP and OpenVPN.
 
It is best to use Openvpn due to privacy probs with PPTP

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-06/18/huge-privacy-flaw-found-in-vpn-systems

Sweden is perhaps the best country to use as they do not or need to keep records. These two organizations provide cheap and reliable services - maxing out ones bandwidth - in my case the full 8000
The p2p downloading of Ubuntu should show any shortcomings in available bandwidth

The technology used is OpenVPN using 2048-bit RSA and 128-bit Blowfish ( no not Blowfelt - he's busy stroking pussies!) encryption.
Software for set up is downloadable and simple hassel free. Mullvad cut internet connection when their connection breaks. Access is available via USA, Germany, Sweden and Holland - you choose

http://mullvad.net/en/services.php

Darknet

http://www.darknetvpn.com/
 
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