Don't worry too much about speedtest.net as the quality of the servers is highly variable ime. I can get a result around 3Mbps but then fire up an Ubuntu torrent and hit 18MB/sec without issue. AirVPN are probably the best VPN provider out there, I honestly don't know why PIA are so popular; closed-source client, no support for most GNU/Linux distros, no BSD support, no router support, no pfSense support and if they can't answer your question from a script they send you to the forums to ask other customers for help instead lol.
AirVPN will debug any issues (on ANY os) in real time with users, and their client is not only FOSS but runs on Windows, OS X, and all Linux distros. It comes as rpm, deb and portable so you can run it anywhere and development is rapid. It also gives the options of running openvpn over SSH, SSL or TOR. PIA meanwhile? Nope.
You will never speak to a script monkey at Air, you speak to someone who runs the VPN and knows how to write shell scripts on the fly to help resolve your issues. They brought out THREE new versions of their client in a single afternoon last week, in response to customer feedback on the forum. PIA meanwhile have been promising to 'work night and day' on a proper platform agnostic binary for over a year now and it's gotten to the point where they literally ignore any mention of it lol
Air shows how a VPN service should be run imho. Add in the geo-location DNS routing where you can connect to NL but watch US Hulu/Netflix or BBC iPlayer without jumping nodes, and it's a great package.
I have subscriptions to both PIA and AirVPN btw, as well as a couple of others I'm keeping to myself (sorry :p). So I'm not trying to swipe at the 'competition' in saying the above, it's just a fact.
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Originally Posted by jcm193
I must of tried 10 different vpn providers including PIA and all but 2 have horrendous speeds on servers outside of the UK i think this is a virgin media issue not that they will admit it
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If you haven't already, try with your SH in modem mode. There SH2 especially is either purposefully crippled or else buggy for OpenVPN connections, and you'll struggle to get more than 3MB/sec through it. Switch to modem only mode (I bridge through a custom built pfSense box) and boom - full speed. Thought it might be worth mentioning for you just in case it's part of your problem.
At 100+Mbps speeds though you are right, not many true non-logging VPN providers can or will keep up. AirVPN, PIA, VPN.ac and one or two others seem to be OK but after that it's a lottery.