HOLY MOLY VPN!?!?!

[Aadi]

I was watching Tek Syndicate and he was talking about Private Internet Access as being his VPN.... and how his internet connection went from 50 down to 100 down...I was quite skeptical at first but when I went to speedtest.net, I was absolutely dumbfounded. After signing up for private internet access, I was getting 100Mb/s down (I usually pay for 50 down)!!!!

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/3325136185.png

[AndyCapets]

WOOOOWWWWW

 

 

 

 

 

kinda nice though

[ERSCreeper]

Yeah it doesn't make much of a difference if your ISP limits the speed at which data is transferred over your line.

[gibbsy81]

Thats the vpns internet speed it will be bottlenecked when it hits your connection

[swifty7]

so does this mean that my $40/mth  57mb comcast will jump to 100mbs if I join?

 

also how good are they at keeping clients anonymous?

[Bonsai99]

so does this mean that my $40/mth  57mb comcast will jump to 100mbs if I join?

No it doesn't just magically increase your speed.

[Aadi]

The thing is that Most ISPs are restricting your access to many services to things like Netflix and Hulu...Streaming with this VPN I found that Netflix streaming was more smoother on the VPN than on my verizon connection

[swifty7]

No it doesn't just magically increase your speed.

great!  is good to know that magic is involved......who knew!!

[Aadi]

Just by doing a simple a tracert command on windows I noticed that the VPN provided a clear path to reddit and netflix whereas my ISP threw out an incredibly convoluted path

[swifty7]

are you with comcast?

[Aadi]

No I'm with Verizon... Even though they claim that they don't throttle Netflix, it's easy to see using network diagnostics that the VPN uses the least congested route and had better success connecting to the servers with no apparent latency each time

[Atlantisman]

VPNs don't actually make your internet faster. Encrypted traffic or not your ISP is still imposing a hard limit on any kind of traffic coming into your house.

[Aadi]

I know, but it feels nice to know that my access to other online services WILL NOT get throttled in any way shape or form

[SmirGel]

I use Private Internet Access too I've 10mb internet speed and with VPN I get 12mb lol ^^ Possible it can be faster if you've faster speeds?

[Aadi]

Yes, I am pretty sure. I don't think speedtest even shows the VPN speed, rather just your internet connection

[Grave]

And here I am, stuck with TWC. Charging $60/mo for 1 up, max 5 up for over $100.

Download speed means jack shit unless you're on fiber anyway. 100mbits/s TOPS = 12500KB = 12.5MB = download the average game in probably an hour in best-case scenarios, but you're probably paying well over $100 for that if it's even available to you. Upload speed is everything seeing as it's so rare to have a decent upload speed.

What amazes me more than that is people pay $70-80+ for roughly 300-400 hours of ad-filled cable television being streamed to you in 1 hour of real time, but you can watch more shows/movies in an hour/day/week on netflix, even hulu, for far less per month, let alone anually. I really want copper wire to just die, and every company involved with it as well.

[tom564]

It is more than likely that the VPN is compressing traffic on the fly and with things like speedtest and text based content this can make a big difference in speed appear. 

[Scheer]

Speedtest Server ====== VPN Server ------- Your Computer

                          100mbps               50mbps

                              ^                              ^

                   What you see.            What you get.