PrivateVPN

PrivatVPNWebsite: www.privatevpn.com (formerly www.privatvpn.se)
Price: From 5.50 Euro / Month. (If purchased via 12-month plan) Accepts Bitcoins.
Our Rating: – 88.4%
Protection: 5/5
Software / GUI:
4.5/5
Features:
4/5
Speed:
4.5/5
Ease of Use:
4.5/5

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Service Overview and Reviews

Protocols: OpenVPN, L2TP, PPTP

Service: PrivateVPN provides Open VPN, L2TP and PPTP across a high performance network in 57 countries with no traffic restrictions.

You can Watch Hulu and USA TV and the BBC iPlayer and unblock all VOIP Applications include Skype.

Port forwarding is available on OpenVPN servers with dynamic and public IPs available.

You can connect up to 6 devices simultaneously and P2P is allowed (Swedish servers recommended).

Connection Guard software to select application to close on VPN disconnection.

Customer service is available 24/7.

You can get a free test for 24 hours by emailing their support from the website.

Privacy: PrivateVPN never produce logs of any data traffic. See their Policy/Terms/FAQ

Note: PrivateVPN log IP numbers on their server in the U.S. This is because the laws of the United States. No P2P on US or UK servers.

Our Thoughts: This established VPN is very impressive, speeds are excellent and privacy is placed at a premium. A fair sized network that covers all the main locations you’ll need. Great client software that includes an auto-reconnect and an option to close specific programs if the connection is ever dropped. Competitively priced for the longer term plans.

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PrivateVPN User Reviews

Summary

3.7
3.7 out of 5 stars (based on 26 reviews)
Excellent42%
Very good31%
Average0%
Poor4%
Terrible23%

Reviews

I sent this email

There is something very wrong with your software. After I get done using it, my computer has 66 thousand temp files, I can’t get on the Internet any more I have to restore my computer to get it to work again. What is going wrong? It won’t connect.

And received this from them

1. We answer emails within 24 hours, like other VPN providers and companies. But we ALWAYS trying to answer as soon as possible.

Paypal answer emails from customer within 24 hours if you’re VIP and 48 hours for normal customers. What expectations do you have, if you compare us with other normal companies?

2. Theres NOTHING in the source code for the client that writes files in temp. Temp are used by all programs and I have 30 000 files in my temp. Why do you even think it’s our client? Have you’ve investigated all files?

3. We need a complete log, which you find under: C:Program Files (x86)PrivatVPNlogsopenvpn

4. You seems to be technical enough to know about temp, how can you don’t know that you need to close a application to be able to remove in. You can’t have our client started and try to delete it. Doesn’t work and will never work with any program. Close privatvpn.exe in taskmgr and remove this folder: C:Program Files (x86)PrivatVPN

5. And by emailing Paypal, what do you expect them to do? Sorry but do you honestly thing they care about “I’ve emailed PrivateVPN 9 hours ago and still no answer” when they answer their customers within 24 to 48 hours?

6. Our VPN client are used by thousands of customers. If our client or service wouldn’t work, then we wouldn’t exist since 2009. Don’t you agree?

Normally when a customer email about a issue, they wait for an answer before pointing on us that our client doesn’t work.

My reply to them

Dramatize????? when my computer won’t log on. and my network ends up screwed.

I see you have no fix for the software problem your software caused. Your right Pay Pal don’t care and seem you don’t either.

I have all ready removed your software and all my problems are gone and temp file problem is gone also.

I am very unhappy with your service.

Lowell

The connection drops consistently on all servers. The VPN connection remains stable through UDP, but the routing through the VPN across the internet drops every 5 to 10 minutes.

kraken

I have a 60mb cable internet connection, with privatevpn my internet speed reaches the same 60mb. So Excelent speed.

With only 7 euros per month it has an excellent price for the service you get.

I have no opinion for their support, as i have not needed it.

rudie

Good VPN, using it for years now, main issue, it sudently got expensive, as fuck

-.-‘

lukas

Good service. I mainly use it for watching US, uk tv plus occasional torrents

Jarne Wouters


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PrivateVPN Speed Test Results

PrivateVPN Speed Test

Below you can see our testing results for PrivateVPN. For more details of how we conduct our speed tests go to VPN Speed Tests.

Test PC #1 – United States – OS (Ubuntu 11.10) – ISP (Cox)

SpeedTest.net (Chromium)LocationPingDownloadUpload
Not Using VPNUnited States2723.217.18
OpenVPNGermany1759.036.46
OpenVPNUS15211.536.81
OpenVPNNetherlands17210.106.45
OpenVPNUnited Kingdom1689.136.37
Download Test (Curl)LocationFile SizeAv. Speed/secTime/mins
Not Using VPNUnited States620M1330K07:57
OpenVPNGermany620M1061K09:58
OpenVPNUS620M1104K09:35
OpenVPNNetherlands620M864K12:14
OpenVPNUnited Kingdom620M976K10:50
P2P Test (Deluge)LocationFile SizeAv. Speed/secTime/mins
Not Using VPNUnited States695Mb1.59Mb07:17
OpenVPNGermany695Mb1.47Mb07:51
OpenVPNUS695Mb1.49Mb07:46
OpenVPNNetherlands695Mb1.56Mb07:24

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Test PC #2 – United Kingdom – OS (Win 7) – ISP (Sky)

SpeedTest.net (Firefox)LocationPingDownloadUpload
Not Using VPNUnited Kingdom3210.560.94
OpenVPNGermany539.950.89
OpenVPNUS2005.040.63
OpenVPNNetherlands419.970.89
OpenVPNUnited Kingdom369.990.88
Download Test (Curl)LocationFile SizeAv. Speed/secTime/mins
Not Using VPNUnited Kingdom620M1241k08:31
OpenVPNGermany620M899k11:46
OpenVPNUS620M714k14:49
OpenVPNNetherlands620M1184k08:56
OpenVPNUnited Kingdom620M1072k09:52
P2P Test (uTorrent)LocationFile SizeAv. Speed/secTime/mins
Not Using VPNUnited Kingdom695Mb1.1Mb10:22
OpenVPNGermany695Mb0.97Mb12:15
OpenVPNUS695Mb0.78Mb15:05
OpenVPNNetherlands695Mb0.90Mb13:05

Tips: OpenVPN seems to be faster than PPTP connections

Note: The handshake protocol (MSCHAP_V2) used by many PPTP connections has been cracked and therefore PPTP could now be considered unencrypted. For maximum security use OpenVPN or L2TP.

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