I’ve been using iVPN for the past few months and the connection is total dogshit. I find myself turning it off every now and again to get things to load and that defeats the purpose of having a VPN.

    • sinza@piefed.socialEnglish
      6·
      14 days ago

      I can second AirVPN. I’ve never had an issue with it, at least one that wasn’t ultimately user error.

      • Deconceptualist@leminal.space
        4·
        14 days ago

        Have they improved their Linux support? It’s the first one I tried years ago and I had to go make individual openvpn configs for each server which was such a pain (unless I wanted to just use the same few all the time).

        There was probably a better way to do it but that was just solved for me when I switched to another provider.

  • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
    9·
    14 days ago

    You are asking in the privacy comm so the answer is mullvad.

    You are asking for someone to say nord though.

    If you need to pirate use air. Do not rely on them for privacy.

  • milbyte@lemmy.ml
    4·
    14 days ago

    proton has good connection that barely cuts out even on the free tier. moreso a problem when websites block you or get cloudflare challenge often, but that’s a problem with all commercial VPNs. i just switch the node then, usually works.

    port forwarding on the commercial plan is neat too for me, because i am behind CGNAT.

    We are on a privacy forum so i feel the need to say that VPNs are only good for privacy if your ISP is spying on you (or they’re forced to by law enforcement), not much else. IP is a very fragile fingerprinting metric, most people get dynamic IPs as the “default” option. You’re basically trusting a VPN company instead, they have access to the same info as your ISP would without one; Proton has been audited multiple times at least, so there’s more backing to that no log policy than [[insert ISP here]]

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    14 days ago

    Same feeling here

    On Linux and Android, for servers in north and south america, ivpn is by far the worst compared to mullvad and proton. After 2 months using it, I’m not trying it again for another year because I’m better off with either alternative.

  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
    3·
    14 days ago

    Have you considered that the issue is on your end?

    A few percent packet loss is hardly noticeable when you have 1 Gbps bandwidth, but once you bounce around to proxies all over the world, it becomes magnitudes worse.

    Do some international network testing. Ignore speed. Pay attention to packet loss, jitter, and buffer bloat

    If you have anything more than 1% packet loss, call your ISP tech to fix it. You may need to pay them for a business line to get priority on their network. Tell them you have a lot of IP phones.

  • Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml
    1·
    14 days ago

    Got a cheap deal on SurfShark, so moved to them from ExpressVPN. Both worked great, got good reviews etc. Happy to be re-assess if anyone has information to the contrary, or tells me they’re affiliated with the clans or something, but so far so good.