I’ve been using iVPN for the past few months and the connection is total dogshit. I find myself turning it off every now and again to get things to load and that defeats the purpose of having a VPN.

  • Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Got a cheap deal on SurfShark, so moved to them from ExpressVPN. Both worked great, got good reviews etc. Happy to be re-assess if anyone has information to the contrary, or tells me they’re affiliated with the clans or something, but so far so good.

    • 01011@monero.town
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      5 days ago

      Kape Technologies plc is a British-Israeli information security company owned by businessman Teddy Sagi. Kape owns the VPN service and cybersecurity companies CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego.

  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Have you considered that the issue is on your end?

    A few percent packet loss is hardly noticeable when you have 1 Gbps bandwidth, but once you bounce around to proxies all over the world, it becomes magnitudes worse.

    Do some international network testing. Ignore speed. Pay attention to packet loss, jitter, and buffer bloat

    If you have anything more than 1% packet loss, call your ISP tech to fix it. You may need to pay them for a business line to get priority on their network. Tell them you have a lot of IP phones.

  • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    You are asking in the privacy comm so the answer is mullvad.

    You are asking for someone to say nord though.

    If you need to pirate use air. Do not rely on them for privacy.

  • milbyte@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    proton has good connection that barely cuts out even on the free tier. moreso a problem when websites block you or get cloudflare challenge often, but that’s a problem with all commercial VPNs. i just switch the node then, usually works.

    port forwarding on the commercial plan is neat too for me, because i am behind CGNAT.

    We are on a privacy forum so i feel the need to say that VPNs are only good for privacy if your ISP is spying on you (or they’re forced to by law enforcement), not much else. IP is a very fragile fingerprinting metric, most people get dynamic IPs as the “default” option. You’re basically trusting a VPN company instead, they have access to the same info as your ISP would without one; Proton has been audited multiple times at least, so there’s more backing to that no log policy than [[insert ISP here]]

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Same feeling here

    On Linux and Android, for servers in north and south america, ivpn is by far the worst compared to mullvad and proton. After 2 months using it, I’m not trying it again for another year because I’m better off with either alternative.

    • bluespin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Proton and nord, sure. Did I miss news about mullvad? they’ve always had a solid track record on privacy as far as I know

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        5 days ago

        The privacy of mullvad doesn’t seem to actually have suffered or shown to be lacking in any way. The issue some people have with Mullvad is that one of the founders donated money to a right-wing political party.

      • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
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        5 days ago

        afaik some higher up at mullvad had ties to some ‘controversial’ political party. my memory is bad so please lookup yourself tho

        • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
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          5 days ago

          Oh, agreed. I would have to trust the VPN to actually not collect my data. That’s why I’m curious what VPNs people trust these days.

          Tor is great. I used to run a middle/guard relay in the past, thinking about doing so again. The problem is that reuglar people shouldn’t run exit relay at home. And there aren’t many companies that would allow exit relays on their servers/in their datacentre. I get why, but that leaves only a (relatively) small number of exit relays and it’s so much easier for bad actors to control a significant number of them. :(

  • southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Well, out of what I’ve used for any length of time, mullvad, nord, air, and proton were all reliable for me. Then again, ivpn was too. Ivpn was slow as hell compared to mullvad and nord for me though; as slow or slower than free tier proton. I’ve tried others, but never long term enough to feel comfortable saying anything beyond that you do get what you pay for with a VPN. The super cheap ones tend to be molasses, or have other service issues.

    Which, it’s weird as hell that ivpn was so slow compared to mullvad because a lot of their exit servers are the exact same. Most of the European exits, and as near as I could tell, all of the U.S. ones were in the same data centers. Iirc, mullvad rents hardware directly, whereas ivpn does it via software? Maybe? It was a struggle finding useful information with the way search engines have turned so shitty (even the better ones).

    I think I had the least problems with air and mullvad, overall. Air, my only real complaint was their clients suck. The service was flawless, but you either set things up on your own, or deal with horrible ui and ux on their clients (with the android one being worse). Mullvad, I have zero complaints about their service or clients. It’s the political shit I have issue with

    • yaroto98@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      A few months ago air updated their android client Eddie. It’s…better now. Not great, but better. It remembers profiles and you don’t have to click the connect button twice anymore, just once now. Oh and the speed is better now too. I used to only get ~5mbps, now I can hit ~100mbps. Should still be faster, but it’s better.

    • eremophila@lemmy.zip
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      6 days ago

      airs software is what has kept me away from them, a well known issue. Hopefully they do something about it soon. As far as I am aware air and ivpn are the only ethical ones left.