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
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TorGuard User Reviews
Summary
Reviews
Just signed up for TorGuard, so far I’m really impressed. Setup with their OpenVPN client was really simple, I prefer this over GUI any day…
They’ve got 4 servers in Canada, I’m getting 30mpbs DL rates on these which is faster than any other provider I’ve used. The US servers are a little slow, but not bad. Hopefully they’ll add a few more soon. All together I’ve got access to about 20 IPs, the netherlands and romania servers are also very fast.
Once thing I CAN say is the support is awesome. I’m somewhat of a noob with this and keith walked me through answering all my questions. Torguard has been a good experience for me so far.
At the moment both Canada ips are dead. Both US ips are slower than snail trying to cross the road. Only reasonable speed is UK ip.
Their server status info page isn’t even working.
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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.