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Proton VPN Query

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I say, that old freeby Proton VPN thingy is doing well today folks.
(Netherlands connection)

Happy Days! 🥳😊
 
Glad all working for you. I used to use it a long time ago but the speed used to drop terrible so I moved on.. A little bit of concern I used to have was as it was free how did they make money to survive. Sell your data maybe as nothing is free in this world. Its always a risk with something free.
 
Glad all working for you. I used to use it a long time ago but the speed used to drop terrible so I moved on.. A little bit of concern I used to have was as it was free how did they make money to survive. Sell your data maybe as nothing is free in this world. Its always a risk with something free.
HI jimmey, well I'm only using the free tier, but there are another 3 pay tiers with faster servers in many more countries than the free service offers, that's where their money comes from.

I'm delighted with my speed boost and it's been quite consistent since I signed up so no complaints here.

Never expected to double my speed for £0.00, wish I had tried it long before now.😊

Tempted to try a month with a UK server to see if it's any faster, I suspect it will be no better but won't know till I give it a try.

If I ever try it, I'll post my results compared to the free tier. 🙂

(You only have USA, China and the Netherlands available on the free tier)
 
Their servers are well oversold, VPN service is in a way pretty lightweight, you can serve hundreds of clients from a mediocre server.

Their pricing is very similar to that of shared hosting which has way higher resource overhead (due to having to process databases, PHP, Python etc) and if shared hosting can still make money on those margins, I imagine the VPN business is making an order of magnitude more.

A little bit of concern I used to have was as it was free how did they make money to survive. Sell your data maybe as nothing is free in this world. Its always a risk with something free.
 
I tried the basic pay service this morning with a lot more countries available including the UK.

Strangely enough the free Netherlands service is faster than the UK servers which I thought strange.

Will experiment with some of the other countries and see how I get on.

The things you do for £4, just for the sake of being nosey. :rolleyes:☺️
 
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What speeds did you get from the UK servers?
Hi Lucian, it was around the 40 meg mark while the Netherlands freebie servers are around the 60 megs, but this morning it was giving me 90 when quiet.
 
Hi Lucian, it was around the 40 meg mark while the Netherlands freebie servers are around the 60 megs, but this morning it was giving me 90 when quiet.
So that is similar to the test we did privately.
Very weird that their national peerings are worse than the Dutch ones.
 
So that is similar to the test we did privately.
Very weird that their national peerings are worse than the Dutch ones.
Yes indeedy Lucian, was the same speed as our cpe pro test.
That was the main reason I wanted to try a UK server, thought it would be faster than the nearest freebie Netherlands server but indeed it was not to be, bit strange.:unsure:
 
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We're doing great today on the UK servers Lucian. (y)
 
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Bet your Xbox downloads are flying through 😂
I wish CarlO1460, If I could just somehow get it on the console. :unsure:
(Without all the PC ethernet milarky):rolleyes:

I mustn't grumble though, it's not often you can double your 4G speeds for improved streaming for free.:cool:😊
 
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Just a quick question but using Virgin's Hub 5, do you have any idea on how to use this VPN with it at all?
 
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