What are some good paid vpns? This will be my first ever vpn service purchase so I want to make sure I get a good quality one

I was just going to post about this. It’s actually pretty good. Unlimited use too. I’m going to set it up later for myself but a mate has it running and says it’s very impressive given we will pay £6 here so like $12.

But they don’t support P2P :frowning: Sucks for some people, for me not so but maybe if you’re feeling devilish you’ll rely on P2P and it simply won’t work.

I vouch for Proxy.sh. Their service is great, reliable and the software is a piece of piss to use.
I get basically the same speeds that I would usually get without a VPN.

I also use CyberGhost. One downside is that Discord voice chat is blocked by it.

I pay for 100 Mbps up and down, and have zero thoroughput loss using their service.

I get close to 90% of my maximum internet speeds when using PIA’s VPN and just slightly worse latency. I wouldn’t play games over VPN if I can avoid it, but everything else works perfectly fine. The bandwidth loss is between their servers and other sites though. I get my 100% speeds up to their VPN servers.

As a side note, you can check your connection speed to their VPN servers by going to http://YOUR_VPN_IP:8888/speedtest once connected to a VPN server.
If you don’t have PIA yet, you can check you speeds to their VPN servers by going to http://SERVER_NAME:8888/speedtest using the server names from their list of servers.

My only complaint with PIA: their Windows connection utility is bloated.
It’s just a wrapper for some Ruby and NW.js scripts which, in turn, are just a wrapper for OpenVPN. The Ruby layer wastes around 500MB of memory, but if you’re tech savvy, you can use the OpenVPN layer directly. They even have a guide for it.

Do they keep logs though? IMO, that’s the first question which should be asked of any VPN.

If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the purpose of using PIA for people like you?

They don’t keep logs so there is nothing for enforcement to get, assuming there claim is true. One downside is they are based in a five eyes country. That said it depends what you want to use it for.

That sounds like something a shill would say…

It doesn’t make a difference where their servers are. They are a US based company, they answer to the US government.

Just because they refused to reconcile who you are during a customer support interaction doesn’t mean they don’t have a way of doing it. I don’t understand why you came to that conclusion just from that.

Not in the 5 eyes.

Not perfect as Italy is in the 14 eyes, but better.

Apart from 5 eyes, speeds. I have used both and gotten better % of dl speeds on AirVPN than PIA

Speedify right? I was thinking about getting the bundle just for that

P2P ? No idea what that is? Please educate.

PIA claims not to keep logs but their colo providers and companies they rent servers from absolutely do. You can read it right in the terms of service for their respective hosting companies.

The fact that they claim not to save logs is snake oil. With the logs their provider has it’s absolutely possible to match traffic that came from your VPN back to your originating network.

so what would you think is best?

Because they state they don’t keep records, that seemed to backup that statement.

So countries in 14 eyes still have to share your info if asked by an intelligence agency?

That’s my major issue with PIA. I don’t know if it is where I’m situated or what exactly but I pay for 100/100 and I’m lucky to get a fraction of that while I download anything using PIA. Also it wrecks my DNS and requires me to have to flush it constantly…

That’s the one, I’m going to grab it in a bit. Totally worth it.