BTGuard Review
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BTGuard
 | Website: www.btguard.com Protection: 4/5 Software / GUI: 3/5 Features: 3/5 Speed: 3.5/5 Ease of Use: 5/5 Price: $9.95 / Month |
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Service: BTGuard comes in two flavors (and prices):-
As a Bittorrent Proxy – BTGuard’s paid proxy service ($6.95 / Month), through which you pass your download traffic, hides the IP-addresses of its users from the public and any tracking will see the BTGuard IP address rather than your own and therefore your identity effectively stays hidden from view.
As a VPN Service – BTGuard’s VPN service ($9.95 / Month), operates much like any other VPN, securing your internet connection and rendering your web browsing and other net services anonymous. The server network is limited to Canada and Germany (EU) so pick the nearest server to your location, P2P downloads should then be fast, reliable and secure.
Privacy: BTGuard does not log customer IP addresses or customer usage. See their Policy/Terms/FAQ
Our Review: Note: We have only tested the VPN service and it’s a basic, no frills affair. Set-up is easy and BTGuard works via the standard OpenVPN GUI. However, we found connecting via PPTP increased the server speeds. We also found the Canada server overloaded at times and got more consistent results connecting via the EU server.
If P2P file sharing is your thing this does the job. However, if you are looking for more, you may find the limited server network restricting (no good for US or UK online TV networks for example).
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BTGuard Speed Test
Below you can see our testing results for BTGuard. For more details of how we conduct our speed tests go to VPN Speed Tests.
Test PC #1 – United States – OS (Mac OSX) – ISP (Cox)
| SpeedTest.net (Chromium) | Location | Ping | Download | Upload |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 24 | 22.53 | 7.2 |
| PPTP | EU | 166 | 4.14 | 2.99 |
| PPTP | Canada | 101 | 1.24 | 1.33 |
| Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 620M | 1841K | 05:44 |
| PPTP | EU | 620M | 520K | 20:19 |
| P2P Test (Transmission) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 729.1Mb | 1.58Mb | 07:41 |
| PPTP | EU | 729.1Mb | 0.73Mb | 16:20 |
| PPTP | Canada | 729.1Mb | 0.27Mb | 45:09 |
Test PC #2 – United Kingdom – OS (Win 7) – ISP (Sky)
| SpeedTest.net (Firefox) | Location | Ping | Download | Upload |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 32 | 10.56 | 0.94 |
| OpenVPN | EU | 41 | 9.94 | 0.84 |
| Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 1241k | 09:00 |
| OpenVPN | EU | 620M | 1174k | 12:01 |
| P2P Test (uTorrent) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 695Mb | 1.1Mb | 10:22 |
| OpenVPN | EU | 695Mb | 1.0Mb | 11:05 |
Tips: If you’re having trouble with connecting, but not actually seeing your IP address change, try checking the option in your VPN settings to “use the VPN for all traffic” (or similar wording). That isn’t specified in some of the instructions and we had this trouble in a couple instances with PPTP connections. Checking that solved the problem.
As of this writing (March 2012), the Canada server seems to be under heavy load and a bit slow.
PPTP via their EU server seems to have the best and most consistent speeds, especially from the US. We found that OpenVPN seems to sacrifice performance quite a bit when connecting from the US. In Europe though, OpenVPN still seems to provide great speeds when connecting to the EU server.
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This is a Great Service. Easy and quick to set up et also very reliable. I am using it every day… And I am fully happy with it.
Merci BT Guard.
So far so good.
Only tried it with uTorrent though. I used to like Vuze but it’s a memory hog and grinds my shitty laptop to a halt.
This is a great service for only $6.95 a month. Set up was pretty smooth except for a small issue on my end with network settings and I’ve not had a problem yet with downtimes or speed issues.
Gday from Aussie land. Tried this a couple of months back and although the speed was ok i had a couple of dropped connections mid download which hacked me off big time. Support weren’t much help either. Canned it gonna try a full vpn next month
Been with BT Guard for a while now, at least 6 months, can’t quite remember. Sometimes speed can be slow but i’ve had 450kbs at times. Being anonymous is what counts for me. I’ve had no notices while using the software so far and it does the job for me
Iv’e been using BTGaurd for a few months now and it works pretty well for me. Every now and again speeds are a bit slower but that’s to be expected with torrent downloads. Make sure you have it properly configured before using it.
I’ve recieved bad speeds ioccasionally but that is a torrent download that dosen’t have that plenty of seed items.
It did get bad write-ups in the past but they seem to have gotten their act together more. Customer support still isnt the best though but for the price and overall its good for me.