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 | Website: www.cactusvpn.com Price: $4.58 / Month. (If purchased via 12-month plan) Protection: 4.5/5 Software / GUI: 4.5/5 Features: 4/5 Speed: 4.5/5 Ease of Use: 4/5 |
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Service: CactusVPN is a new and growing ‘offshore’ VPN service with servers in the US, UK and the Netherlands.
You can opt for servers in just a single country or a package of all three countries. IPs are shared and you get unlimited and unmetered bandwidth on all. Torrents and P2P allowed on the NL servers only.
There is a 24 hour free trial and 30 day money-back guarantee.
The Windows client software is neat and slick allowing easy selection of country, server and protocol. There is an auto-reconnect option and an application killer to close programs you don’t want to keep running if the VPN connection drops unexpectedly.
Software versions are also available for Linux, iOS and Android.
Privacy: CactusVPN hold 2 days connection logs for troubleshooting only. They are an offshore company based in Moldova. See their Policy/Terms/FAQ
Our Thoughts: Cactus VPN provides a small server network that has plenty of speed for watching streaming media, etc. With P2P allowed on the Netherlands servers and servers in the US and UK (for US and UK TV and movies) this is a decent VPN service. If all you want is fast P2P downloads go for the single P2P/ BitTorrent VPN (NL servers) option but you get the best value by taking the full 3 country package over a 12 month plan.
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CactusVPN Speed Test
Below you can see our testing results for CactusVPN. 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) | Location | Ping | Download | Upload |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 29 | 24.13 | 6.96 |
| OpenVPN | US | 90 | 15.50 | 6.52 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 176 | 11.79 | 6.57 |
| OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 166 | 9.19 | 2.91 |
| Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 620M | 1687K | 06:16 |
| OpenVPN | US | 620M | 1450K | 07:17 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 620M | 1562K | 06:46 |
| OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 934K | 11:19 |
| P2P Test (Deluge)* | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 695Mb | 1.70Mb | 06:49 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 695Mb | 1.61Mb | 07:10 |
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 |
| PPTP | US | 130 | 5.5 | 0.85 |
| PPTP | Netherlands | 53 | 10.07 | 0.81 |
| PPTP | United Kingdom | 47 | 10.17 | 0.77 |
| Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 1241k | 08:31 |
| PPTP | US | 620M | 880k | 12:01 |
| PPTP | Netherlands | 620M | 1152k | 09:10 |
| PPTP | United Kingdom | 620M | 1134k | 09:19 |
| P2P Test (uTorrent)* | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 695Mb | 1.1Mb | 10:22 |
| PPTP | Netherlands | 695Mb | 1.0Mb | 10:50 |
Tips: In the process of preparing for these tests, OpenVPN seemed to provide slightly faster connections than PPTP when initially checking Speedtest.net. We tested both though for variety.
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Very nice VPN, the client is easy to use and there are 3 servers to choose from (US, UK, NL). From the US, the servers in the US and UK worked well, the NL server did not while I was testing it. Also, my upload speeds seemed a bit throttled after a few minutes which I could not seem to resolve. The biggest problem beyond the upload speed was that the IP is blocked across the web by OctoNet HTTP filter. Which means websites block you from accessing them… which sorta defeats the purposes of using a VPN.
Worked well, but I’m going to keep looking.