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wots the best VPN site paid or free ive tried a few but all seem to have speed issues.

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Have a read of this:

http://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-se...dition-140315/

I signed up for the first one yesterday and it works a treat. I haven't done any speedtests yet to see what my top speed is yet but I did some downloading yesterday evening and got ~5MB/sec. Not bad for £2/month.

Edit, just done a quick test on the UK server I am connected to and it has come back as 56/12

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I am fortunate to own a server in OVH Roubaix's datacenter, with access to a very 'fat' internet backbone, so I just configured my own VPN. I know it's not a solution for everyone, but if you have access to this kind of thing, its a far better solution than a paid vpn.

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Avast antivirus keeps popping-up a message asking me if I want to set up a VPN.

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true, but there was a special offer on on the way I have got (I would have had it anyway) which comes at £26 for the year and equates to just over £2/month. If it was something I needed to use to all the time for serious stuff I might like at other solutions but atm it just to access a few sites for a few mins everyday.

I wouldn't trust Avast for one, especially if it is free.

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If you have a Ripe IP block it comes up with your address details when you whois it, so don't rely on it for privacy.

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I got a VPN from PIA after it got good write up in the TF VPN round up about security and also from my boss that been using PIA for a while now.

Have to say I been very pleased with it and the two closest nodes that allow portforwarding .nl and .fr I can usually max out my DL through the VPN so speeds are good.

Their price for a year is really good as well so I can warmly recommend them. They also allow a trial think its 7 days to allow you to test it out before you buy.

Air VPN also good and afaik they will allow you to trial it they are a wee bit more pricey too.

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OVH are a pretty crap carrier to choose for hosting VPNs mainly because they limit UDP traffic to 50Mbps with a hard drop rule

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Except you can enter any fake details you want when registering it.

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Can someone summarise the benefits of paying out for a VPN? If you are just using the internet for browsing, streaming YT, NetFlix, iPlayer, etc. is it cost effective given you may be slowed way down from your headline VM speed plus is it compex to setup given all the devices you may have in the household?

What are the pros and cons?

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Or you could get much faster speed than via VM by bypassing congested routes or overloaded servers in VM's network

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That would be nice. How do we do that?

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You need to actually have congested routes on VM's network to go around first. If the problems are local to you or there are none and you're getting the performance you pay for you won't go quicker using a VPN.

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Or broken Youtube CDN servers.

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Easy to setup, just install the software to your devices

Pros, unlock any blocked website, hide your IP, unlock content not available in your country by changing location.

Cons, possible slower speeds.

I use Hotspot Shield Elite, costs £2.99 a month and provides upto 5 devices to be protected on one account. Currently use this on my Mac and iPhone with no problems. It offers you to connect to the following countries UK, USA, Japan, Australia, Canada and Germany. So far I've found it great for the UK and USA sites. I am on 152mbps broadband with VM but you won't get that behind a VPN as previous comments state from others, you get around 60mbps thats fine for me at least other devices on the network won't slow down. No download data limits. Its available on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. They offer a free trial for elite too.

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Other cons: Sites that track users by IP will be annoyed, and some do not allow people from using shared (i.e. VPN) addresses.