TorGuard
Website: www.torguard.net
Price: From $4.99 / Month. (If purchased via 12-month plan) Accepts Bitcoins.
Coupon / Promo: 50% Off* use promo code bvpn4u50
Our Rating: – 91.6%
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, PPTP and L2TP
Service: TorGuard offers a VPN service to anonymize your internet connection via 3000+ servers across 50+ countries including: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands, Norway, Iceland, India, Germany, Turkey, Russia, Romania, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore.
P2P/Torrents allowed on servers in Netherlands, Canada, Russia, Romania, Switzerland, Iceland, Norway.
The client software has recently been updated to Viscosity, a feature rich client where you can check the status of your connection, easily switch servers, auto start and reconnect and more.
- Windows and Mac – “Lite” OpenVPN client (portable version) and Pro Viscosity (most popular)
- Linux (one of the only fully working linux gui apps we’ve seen)
- Android – The TorGuard app is available on Google play and is compatible with almost every android 4.0 device. PPTP and L2TP are supported for older devices.
- iPhone and iPad – For non-jailbroken devices, PPTP and L2TP are supported. For OpenVPN your device must be jailbroken.
Includes easy Torrent Proxy setup software that adds the optimal proxy settings to torrent clients like Deluge, utorrent, Bittorrent and Vuze. The software is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Server status page shows real-time overview of servers where you can check if there’s any known issues and what protocols are available on each server.
TorGuard’s new Stealth VPN service enables you to bypass DPI firewalls and unlock access to/from countries like China, Iran and the UAE.
One particularly handy feature with Torguard is they also allow up to 5 simultaneous connections per VPN account.
TorGuard also offers bittorrent proxy and seedbox options.
Privacy: TorGuard does not keep logs of customer activity, store IP’s or time stamps. See their Policy/Terms/FAQ
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Our Thoughts: We tested the VPN service only and results in our speed tests were decent. If you want to anonymize your torrent downloads this definitely does the job.
The Viscosity software client is slick and very easy to use and we particularly liked the server status details pop-up.
Torguard has been rapidly improving and expanding all aspects of their services, so we expect it to keep getting better over time. We also experienced excellent support responsiveness, and they seem to be very helpful in quickly addressing any issues, concerns, feedback, or technical problems.
The 5 simultaneous connections feature is really a huge and unique plus for many people from a flexibility standpoint, especially given the ever increasing use of mobile devices.
See our Best VPN for Torrents
Disclaimer: Know the laws in your country and locality. BestVPNForYou.com do not suggest, condone, or practice the violation of national or international copyright law. That being said, we do support fundamental reforms of copyright laws as proposed by the Pirate Party political and activist organizations around the world.
TorGuard User Reviews
Summary
Reviews
After trying out almost all the servers, my top download speed for the past few days has been .22 Mbps. Upload speed slightly higher. Yep, that’s a dot in front of the 22. Point 22 Mbps. It takes 2 minutes for my email to display. Ridiculous. Very slow speeds
Although I find that the support staff answers my questions quickly(although nothing is resolved), this service is not for non-tech saavy people. I just wanted to hide my internet traffic, I don’t know half the acronyms being used and no clue what most people are talking about, their “Knowledge base” provides almost no information. I would gladly educate myself–but there is no place to do so. Nothing on the web about Torguard, no help for dummies like me, except for this knowledge base, which has no troubleshooting help.
I can no longer use my regular ISP on the PC. Although my wireless laptop does use the ISP (no Torguard on it), my PC won’t recognize that the connection exists and will only give me internet service through Torguard. I don’t want to use Torguard all the time–only when I am downloading. Anyone know what I’m talking about?
I thought I’d chime in since I’ve been reading a few negative comments here.
I just paid my second month’s bill with torguard and am pretty happy. I’m not sure what everyone else is talking about with speed issues, my connection is VERY fast on all the servers I’ve tested. By very fast I mean I pullled 20mbps+ on speedtest.net downloads.
They’re doing it right, I just hope it stays this way!!!!!
I am currently using it, the service has its ups and downs. At times some servers like Canada died for quite sometime while US server was hit by a snail pace.
Now US servers seems to recover, while the ips for Canada servers changed to 4 new ones and guess what couple of days later 2 of the new ones were dead/down.
I would say I liked torguard but they need to make sure to keep issues to minimum.
Also as a p2p capable provider I find it weird that the ports are not open been getting low id fro emule and unable to connect to Kad network.
Confirm previously Canada servers were down and US servers were snail pace.
Seems to be better they add more Canadian servers and fixed US servers. Then few days later another Canadian server went down.
Service at moment is good however with so much ups and downs I hope they have real time status info for members.
Few things that gripes me.
1. Network Status page is NOT linked up with any of their servers so you won’t know anything.
2. P2P support well I can confirm none of their servers seem to have port open? I kept getting low id with emule and cannot connect with KAD Network.
I gave these guys a try after btguard stopped working… I’ve been in the market for a new proxy provider and went ahead and signed up for both the VPN and proxy service to give it a test drive. Here are my pro’s and con’s after one week of using the service:
VPN Pro’s:
-the torguard OpenVPN windows client is dns leak proof (very useful)
-access about 20 IP’s for openvpn
-very fast speeds, speedtest.net says 35 DL on canada servers
VPN con’s:
– only 7 L2TP servers
– As others here have stated USA servers were a little slow, but not bad
Proxy Pro’s:
– they give you access to about 15 static proxy IP’s
– detailed setup help, and great support
Proxy Con’s:
– not as fast as when using VPN only
– had to use deluge instead of utorrent
The big selling point for me was their support staff… Great support and detailed knowledge base for using their service.
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TorGuard Speed Test Results
TorGuard Speed Test
Below you can see our testing results for TorGuard. For more details of how we conduct our speed tests go to VPN Speed Tests
Test PC #1 – United States – OS (Ubuntu 12.04) – ISP (Cox)
| SpeedTest.net (Iron) | Location | Ping | Download | Upload |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 24 | 27.85 | 8.31 |
| OpenVPN | Romania | 219 | 7.69 | 3.52 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 182 | 8.19 | 3.74 |
| Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 783M | 1514k | 08:49 |
| OpenVPN | Romania | 783M | 1035k | 12:54 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 783M | 1127k | 11.51 |
| P2P Test (Transmission) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United States | 698.3Mb | 1.77Mb | 06:35 |
| OpenVPN | Romania | 698.3Mb | 1.45Mb | 08:03 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 698.3Mb | 1.57Mb | 07:25 |
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 | Romania | 89 | 9.75 | 0.87 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 42 | 9.94 | 0.88 |
| Download Test (Curl) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 783M | 1240k | 10:46 |
| OpenVPN | Romania | 783M | 1193k | 11:11 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 783M | 1153k | 11:35 |
| P2P Test (uTorrent) | Location | File Size | Av. Speed/sec | Time/mins |
| Not Using VPN | United Kingdom | 701Mb | 1.1Mb | 10:42 |
| OpenVPN | Romania | 701Mb | 1.0Mb | 11:35 |
| OpenVPN | Netherlands | 701Mb | 0.85Mb | 14:06 |
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.