VPN for 2016? Thinking of changing from PIA

TheBigCheese

TheBigCheese

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Greetings everyone

So...home VPN users, which service would you recommend? I'm looking at something not really technical as these days I have neither the time nor inclination to do more than necessary (I'm in now way feeling lazy and thick these days :D)

I've been using PIA for a while now, it's been pretty good, easy to use on the tablet etc., so I can access Netflix US which has been fantastic. But I'm having a bit of trouble with it disconnecting and as my billing is about to be up for renewal I'm looking about.

AirVPN seems to be good alternative. A nice ethos to the company it seems, and they have a sale on at the moment and if you fancy being a little more nosey and technical they have graphs and the load is shown on each server which is a nice feature.

Only 3 simultanous connections allowed instead of 5 for PIA though, apart from that I can't really see a downside to them.

What do you think and use OCUK'ers?

Cheers.
 
I don't know if this will suit, but what about making your own?

I made myself a VPN with a raspberry PI and it works very well, has never failed or turned itself off and I can connect to all my computer setup etc from my phone/tablet etc.
 
I've been using ZenMate for two months now and it's been great. It integrates into Chrome as an addon, which lets you use a VPN for all websites, or set up rules to use different VPN origins for different websites (i.e. Google to use a UK VPN, Netflix to use a USA VPN, ...) automatically and they also have a Windows and iOS apps so you can use it on them (looks like they support droid also if that's your thing). This is the first VPN provider I've used so I can't compare it to any others, sorry.

It's been pretty great since I've been using it - but I did manage to pick it up a yearly subscription for £15 back in November (think it was their birthday or something)! I use it primarily for Netflix USA and other regional content restrictions.
 
I have been trying PureVPN for a while now, 0% dropouts and a seasonal offer of $2 per month.
 
I live in Asia and use Hotspot Shield, $20 per year for 5 devices and works very well. I have a choice of about 15 countries and allows me to access all we would otherwise miss.

I have friends who use HMA in Asia, but I have found HSS to meet my needs.

Martin
 
Wow all of you paid VPN subscriptions just to watch Netflix? :o

I used Hola Chrome extension for a year to watched movies and TV series on Netflix UK, USA, Canada, France, Germany and New Zealands. I switched to other Netflix regions to watched movies and TV series that was been expired, been watched Netflix all day on free unlimited Hola bandwidth had no connections or dropouts issues. :cool:
 
AthlonXP1800 said:
Wow all of you paid VPN subscriptions just to watch Netflix? :o

I used Hola Chrome extension for a year to watched movies and TV series on Netflix UK, USA, Canada, France, Germany and New Zealands. I switched to other Netflix regions to watched movies and TV series that was been expired, been watched Netflix all day on free unlimited Hola bandwidth had no connections or dropouts issues. :cool:
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Nope - not just for Netflix, but also online security - so much **** to avoid on the net, and so peace of mind.
 
I bought a month of AirVPN to test it out and the US servers are unusable, less than 1mb/s on my 100mb Virgin line.
 
Also interested in using a proper VPN, currently using unblock-us. However recently moved to virgin and well video content is well sucks. Yet speed tests, file downloads are all super fast. So it has to be traffic shapping.

So any Vpns, easy to change region. All windows devices.
 
I tried three VPN's

AirVPN, IPVanish VPN and Torguard

AirVPN was slow..

IPVanish, was based in the USA and was caught out logging people using torrents when they were supposed to be a no logging VPN. As such people were getting ISP warning letters and the like.

Torguard was the best and have been using it for well over a month, almost full speed to that of normal ISP usage, Anti DNS-leaking, over 200 exit servers in 18 countries and torrent specialised = 50% off life time sale with promo code : TGLifetime50 / TGLIFETIME50 ( VPN PRO )
 
I use ibVPN.

Got a good black Friday deal for their Ultimate package & SmartDNS.

Get better speeds with them than my previous provider - Torguard
 
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