All three have repeatedly proven they don't hold logs and won't sell out customers. They - like most services - won't work with iPlayer or Prime Video etc. Azire doesn't do forwarding, but does offer OpenVPN with a static public IP should you need it. All provide WireGuard and will saturate gigabit, and the first two offer port forwarding with it. Personally, if privacy and speed are top concerns then it's a toss up between Mullvad, OVPN and AzireVPN. The latter do at least work with most streaming services and, provided you know what their limitations are re: pricing, renewals, lack of manual WireGuard configs and other shady tricks, you can get good speeds and access iPlayer etc. PIA is owned by an advertising/malware company these days, and Nord has proven to be shady on more than one occasion and in multiple ways. There are others who may be cheaper, but personally I avoid PIA and Nord for similar ethical concerns to Avalon. As I said earlier, and Avalon confirmed above, Mullvad and Proton are respected and respectable providers. Restricting your desktop to 100Mbps is never going to give you much, and ime even Express can provide 100Mbps it depends on what you want a VPN for. Don't worry too much about your speeds until you're testing wired on a gigabit NIC/switch/router. As shown in this thread, they're very capable of saturating gigabit all day long. You can even pay in cash (send cash in an envelope to Sweden, with your random account ID written on a slip of paper inside the envelope). They don't require personal details to sign up, you just get a random account number when you click 'Sign up'. They're zero log, one of the most long-standing and trusted providers out there, based in Sweden. A phone, even an iPhone 12 Pro Max or equivalent latest Android, is going to struggle with the encryption overhead for VPN, especially OpenVPN.ĭo you want a Mullvad key as I offered last night? I'll be happy to let you try them out for an hour or two. You're relying on tests over WiFi, when in fact you'd be just as accurate to lick your finger and hold it up in the wind while saying random numbers out loud. You're never going to see over 100Mbps until your network equipment supports gigabit (or above).

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