Best (Fastest!) VPN to use from Winnipeg?
What is the best (read: fastest!) VPN service to use from Winnipeg which would consistently give over 50Mbps download speed?
I have been using Private Internet Access VPN, but have been very disappointed with its performance. Here is a summary of my experience with PIA tested using speedtest.net. I almost never get over 30Mbps download speed. The best I have seen (it was an anomaly, really) is 35Mbps for a very brief period. The usual download speed is around 15-25Mbps, which is abysmal IMHO. This is with PIA VPN client running locally on Windows 10 machine, which is an i7 based high performance PC with no internet traffic other than speedtest.net. The best speeds/lowest ping times is when connecting to any of three Canadian servers with Montreal being the best overall, but that too seldom passes 30Mbps downlaod. When connecting to various US based servers, the download speeds are much slower still--in the ~20Mbps neighbourhood. I conducted tests at various times around 24 hour clock but no significant variances to report. I also tried setting up VPN on my Netgear R8000 router using OpenVPN option. With only one client connecting through this router gave the similar, or even worse, download speeds.
My ISP is BellMTS, and the internet link's download speed is 50Mbps. Without VPN, I easily and consistently surpass this speed in speedtest.net. Otherwise, pretty usual internet traffic like video streaming (Netflix, YouTube, etc.), downloads, browsing, etc. Speed and US Netflix are the only two critical factors. Everything else, for example retention of logs etc, is secondary.
I have been using Private Internet Access VPN, but have been very disappointed with its performance. Here is a summary of my experience with PIA tested using speedtest.net. I almost never get over 30Mbps download speed. The best I have seen (it was an anomaly, really) is 35Mbps for a very brief period. The usual download speed is around 15-25Mbps, which is abysmal IMHO. This is with PIA VPN client running locally on Windows 10 machine, which is an i7 based high performance PC with no internet traffic other than speedtest.net. The best speeds/lowest ping times is when connecting to any of three Canadian servers with Montreal being the best overall, but that too seldom passes 30Mbps downlaod. When connecting to various US based servers, the download speeds are much slower still--in the ~20Mbps neighbourhood. I conducted tests at various times around 24 hour clock but no significant variances to report. I also tried setting up VPN on my Netgear R8000 router using OpenVPN option. With only one client connecting through this router gave the similar, or even worse, download speeds.
My ISP is BellMTS, and the internet link's download speed is 50Mbps. Without VPN, I easily and consistently surpass this speed in speedtest.net. Otherwise, pretty usual internet traffic like video streaming (Netflix, YouTube, etc.), downloads, browsing, etc. Speed and US Netflix are the only two critical factors. Everything else, for example retention of logs etc, is secondary.