PrivateVPN
Website: www.privatevpn.com (formerly www.privatvpn.se)
Price: From 5.50 Euro / Month. (If purchased via 12-month plan) Accepts Bitcoins.
Our Rating: – 88.4%
Protection: 5/5
Software / GUI: 4.5/5
Features: 4/5
Speed: 4.5/5
Ease of Use: 4.5/5
Service Overview and Reviews
Protocols: OpenVPN, L2TP, PPTP
Service: PrivateVPN provides Open VPN, L2TP and PPTP across a high performance network in 57 countries with no traffic restrictions.
You can Watch Hulu and USA TV and the BBC iPlayer and unblock all VOIP Applications include Skype.
Port forwarding is available on OpenVPN servers with dynamic and public IPs available.
You can connect up to 6 devices simultaneously and P2P is allowed (Swedish servers recommended).
Connection Guard software to select application to close on VPN disconnection.
Customer service is available 24/7.
You can get a free test for 24 hours by emailing their support from the website.
Privacy: PrivateVPN never produce logs of any data traffic. See their Policy/Terms/FAQ
Note: PrivateVPN log IP numbers on their server in the U.S. This is because the laws of the United States. No P2P on US or UK servers.
Our Thoughts: This established VPN is very impressive, speeds are excellent and privacy is placed at a premium. A fair sized network that covers all the main locations you’ll need. Great client software that includes an auto-reconnect and an option to close specific programs if the connection is ever dropped. Competitively priced for the longer term plans.
PrivateVPN User Reviews
Summary
Reviews
Everything worked as expected, speed more than enough for daily Internet activities.
Very low speed. Many bandwitch test is different countrys and workstations.
Download. 1,5mb/s upload 5mb/s
Frustrating.
a few months ago Download 30mb/s upload 5mb/s
This is a great VPN provider. Period.
Their support is active through email and not through live chat on their webpage, but they respond instantly. Well, they could be a bit friendlier but hell what do i need their friendliness, i need them to solve problems or answer effectively and they do. I am indeed very happy with their service, because its reliable and the download and upload speed sometimes even exceeds the speed of my own ISP.
Top VPN. Simple easy software client. Very reliable and absolutely no logging
This VPN’s only downside is it only supports 128-Bit encryption rather than the 256-Bit other VPNs support. PrivatVPN is fast,sleek non-logging and very good for the money.
Strongly recommend PrivatVPN.
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PrivateVPN Speed Test Results
PrivateVPN Speed Test
Below you can see our testing results for PrivateVPN. 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 | 27 | 23.21 | 7.18 |
| OpenVPN | Germany | 175 | 9.03 | 6.46 |
| OpenVPN | US | 152 | 11.53 | 6.81 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 172 | 10.10 | 6.45 |
| OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 168 | 9.13 | 6.37 |
| Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 620M | 1330K | 07:57 |
| OpenVPN | Germany | 620M | 1061K | 09:58 |
| OpenVPN | US | 620M | 1104K | 09:35 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 620M | 864K | 12:14 |
| OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 976K | 10:50 |
| P2P Test (Deluge) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 695Mb | 1.59Mb | 07:17 |
| OpenVPN | Germany | 695Mb | 1.47Mb | 07:51 |
| OpenVPN | US | 695Mb | 1.49Mb | 07:46 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 695Mb | 1.56Mb | 07:24 |
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 | Germany | 53 | 9.95 | 0.89 |
| OpenVPN | US | 200 | 5.04 | 0.63 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 41 | 9.97 | 0.89 |
| OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 36 | 9.99 | 0.88 |
| Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 1241k | 08:31 |
| OpenVPN | Germany | 620M | 899k | 11:46 |
| OpenVPN | US | 620M | 714k | 14:49 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 620M | 1184k | 08:56 |
| OpenVPN | United Kingdom | 620M | 1072k | 09:52 |
| P2P Test (uTorrent) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 695Mb | 1.1Mb | 10:22 |
| OpenVPN | Germany | 695Mb | 0.97Mb | 12:15 |
| OpenVPN | US | 695Mb | 0.78Mb | 15:05 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 695Mb | 0.90Mb | 13:05 |
Tips: OpenVPN seems to be faster than PPTP connections
Note: The handshake protocol (MSCHAP_V2) used by many PPTP connections has been cracked and therefore PPTP could now be considered unencrypted. For maximum security use OpenVPN or L2TP.