Ask HN: What is the best VPN provider?

#1

Post by rtfpessoa » Sun, Apr 02, 2017, 7:49 PM UTC

After the post by Bryan Krebs I started investigation what would be the VPN used by him.

The list suggested by him https://thatoneprivacysite.net/simple-vpn-comparison-chart/ has some interesting points. What do you think he is using? Also, what are you using and why?

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#2

Post by mtgx » Sun, Apr 02, 2017, 7:57 PM UTC

AirVPN is pretty good. Modern crypto and uses OpenNIC DNS servers. You can lock the connection so it doesn't do IPv6 leaks and such. Clients are open source.

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#3

Post by damnmachine » Sun, Apr 02, 2017, 8:00 PM UTC

I like IVPN. Based in Gibraltar, excellent bandwidth, plenty of servers, accepts Bitcoin, uses OpenVPN.

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#4

Post by rtfpessoa » Sun, Apr 02, 2017, 8:11 PM UTC

https://www.mullvad.net/ seems like a great option, anyone tried it?

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#5

Post by marvel_boy » Sun, Apr 02, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

damnmachine wrote: post #3

I like IVPN. Based in Gibraltar, excellent bandwidth, plenty of servers, accepts Bitcoin, uses OpenVPN.

Url is https://www.ivpn.net

Re: Ask HN: What is the best VPN provider?

#6

Post by ayylmaoo » Sun, Apr 02, 2017, 9:17 PM UTC

https://www.tunnelbear.com/ has been great for me

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#7

Post by rtfpessoa » Sun, Apr 02, 2017, 9:46 PM UTC

damnmachine wrote: post #3

I like IVPN. Based in Gibraltar, excellent bandwidth, plenty of servers, accepts Bitcoin, uses OpenVPN.

Seems pretty good in the charts.

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#8

Post by tricinel » Mon, Apr 03, 2017, 6:53 AM UTC

NordVPN (https://nordvpn.com/). Panama, doesn't store logs, plenty of servers around the world. Works with the majority of devices out there. Accepts bitcoin. Checks pretty much all the boxes.

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#9

Post by willieaames » Mon, Apr 03, 2017, 7:43 AM UTC

Yes, highly appreciated. But if you want to sort out VPN providers on the basis of those criterias, there aren't many left to choose from. I`v used many vpn providers in past mention in this review site: https://www.bestvpnprovider.com/

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#10

Post by hbogard » Mon, Apr 03, 2017, 7:53 AM UTC

I've used a bunch of small-scale providers because their servers aren't as hogged as the big guys out there (looking at you, IPVanish!) I found Hotspotshield and PureVPN mentioned on this list: https://www.bestvpnprovider.com to be somewhere between serivceable to trustworthy in this regard.