Popular Switzerland-based VPN from the same group of companies as Usenet provider Giganews, VyprVPN has a decent-sized network with 700+ servers in 70+ locations in 60+ countries. These aren't just focused on Europe and North America as we often see: VyprVPN has 14 locations in Asia, 5 in the Middle East, 7 in Central and South America, 2 in Africa, and 5 in Oceania. Best of all, these servers are owned and managed by the company. This means there is no dependency on third party web hosts unlike most of the competition. Welcome features include unaware DNS service, custom Chameleon protocol to help bypass VPN blocking, P2P network support, and 24/7/365 customer support to keep the service running smoothly.
VyprVPN subscription options:- 36 month plan: € 1.66 per month (total cost € 59.76)
The broad platform support includes apps for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, Tomato-based routers, QNAP, Anonabox, Smart TVs, and Blackphone. If that's not enough, the website has 30 tutorials to help you set up the service on Chromebooks, Linux, Blackberry, Synology NAS, OpenELEC, Android TV, Apple TV, and via DD-WRT, AsusWRT, OpenWRT, and more. It's a long list, but there's still something missing: VyprVPN doesn't have browser extensions. Regardless of the hardware you use, VyprVPN supports connecting up to five devices simultaneously. This is still the industry standard, but many providers now offer more: Private Internet Access and IPVanish support up to 10 simultaneous connections, StrongVPN supports 12, while Windscribe and Surfshark have no limit at all. The website has the usual "no log" claims, but unlike most competitors, you don't have to accept them with confidence. In 2018, VyprVPN conducted an independent audit to verify that it wasn't recording or sharing anything about what you do online, including session logs, and you can read the report for yourself. Recent improvements mainly concern performance and protocols. Now you can make fast WireGuard connections on Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and Android TV. The company's Chameleon obfuscation protocol has been redesigned to do an even better job of bypassing VPN blocking, and the VyprVPN app for iOS now supports Chameleon and OpenVPN. There's good news on the unblocking front, too, as VyprVPN now claims to support 35 streaming catalogs, including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, BBC iPlayer, Hulu, HBO Go, and more. Does it offer all this? Keep reading.
VyprVPN offers over 700 servers in over 70 locations worldwide (Image credit: Golden Frog)
VyprVPN Prices and Packages
Pricing for VyprVPN starts at $12.95 billed monthly, above the industry average of $10 to $13. The yearly plan is cheap at just $3.75 per month (prepaid) and drops to just $2.50 per month on the two year plan. It's not just a special introductory offer, where the price doubles on renewal (like on Surfshark). No marketing gimmicks or nasty surprises ahead, just amazingly low standard prices. Sign up and although you will be asked for your payment details (card and PayPal are accepted), the company will not charge you for three days. Cancel from your web console before your time runs out and you won't be charged, so this is a short-term free trial. Three days free isn't much, but it's three more days than most providers offer, so we're not going to complain. If you decide to continue after the trial ends and experience major issues, you're also protected by a 30-day money-back guarantee. Some companies give you more, for example Hotspot Shield and CyberGhost allow 45 days, but 30 days should be enough to identify problems.
VyprVPN protects your privacy with 256-bit encryption and strong support for a variety of VPN protocols (Image Credit: Golden Frog)
Privacy
VyprVPN protects your privacy with well-chosen protocols and industrial-grade encryption. Supports AES-256-GCM and SHA384 HMAC by default for OpenVPN, with TLS-ECDHE-RSA-2048 to provide Perfect Forward Secrecy. (The latter is a clever technique that ensures that a different key is used for each connection, so that even if an attacker obtains a private key, they will only be able to access data in that particular session.) WireGuard is now compatible with all platforms, with OpenVPN and IKEv2. VyprVPN's custom Chameleon 2.0 protocol has been improved to do an even better job of bypassing aggressive VPN blocking (it's also a new option in the iOS app, which is nice to see). We're not trying to test access from China, but VyprVPN is much more upfront about problems with its service than most providers, and it posts details of any current issues on its Service Status page. If you're having trouble signing into the service, unblocking particular streaming sites, or anything else, the Service Status page usually has more information available. We can't say if it includes every issue the company has, but it seems to be regularly updated with lots of useful details, and the fact that it exists is a huge credit to VyprVPN. We want other providers to be as open about their service difficulties. Back to privacy: VyprVPN provides a zero-knowledge encrypted DNS service, a convenient way to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, DNS filtering, and other monitoring strategies. It works for us, though if you're less than happy with the idea, the apps also let you switch to any third-party service (just enter the IP addresses you need). Individual apps also have their own privacy protection technologies, including options to defend against DNS leaks and built-in kill switches to reduce the risk of data leaks if your VPN connection goes down. We will see them in more detail later.
VyprVPN does not keep any logs of its users (Image credit: Golden Frog)
Recording
Figuring out the true registration procedures of a VPN can take forever to dig through privacy policies, terms of service, support documents, and more, before trying to decide how much you can do. Trust everything the provider has said. VyprVPN immediately improves on this with a privacy policy that gets right to the point, explaining that there is no logging of source or destination IP addresses, connection start or end times, user traffic, or requests. dns. Better yet, you don't have to take VyprVPN's word for this, as in September 2018, the company hired Leviathan Security Group to audit the platform and produce a public report on its logging practices. The results are available to anyone on the VyprVPN website and read interesting. Experts will find a lot of details about how VyprVPN works and the extensive tests that the testers perform (connecting to servers, inspecting running processes, reviewing source code, etc.). Anyone can view the executive summary, which is why the audit initially found some limited issues (
debido a errores de configuración inadvertidos ''), pero estos se they quickly fixed '' and `` therefore can provide VyprVPN users with peace of mind that the company is not logging their VPN activity. While this is great news, and even more so than most VPN providers have ever done, we hope VyprVPN doesn't stop there. More than two years have passed since this audit; enough time for new problems to arise. TunnelBear has performed three annual security audits of their department, and we'd love to see other vendors repeat runs like this.
We use Ookla's SpeedTest (and more) to measure VyprVPN performance (Image credit: Ookla)
To understand how a VPN really works, we put each service we review through a series of intensive tests. We use test sites in the US and UK, each with a 1Gbps test connection. After connecting to our nearest VPN server, we checked speeds at least five times with various benchmarking sites and services: the SpeedTest.net website and command-line app, Netflix's Fast.com, TestMy.net, and further. The tests are repeated for at least two protocols (when possible), and the entire set of tests is repeated during the morning and afternoon sessions, before calculating the numbers and calculating the average speeds. OpenVPN performance has proven to be disappointing, with average speeds of just 32Mbps in the UK and 35-45Mbps in the US. However, that's not far from the results of our latest review, 30Mbps in the US. UK, 50-70 Mbps in the US, so that seems to be saying something useful. Don't give up on VyprVPN just yet, because the switching protocol has made a world of difference. The switch to IKEv2 in the US doubled speeds to 90-100 Mbps, and the switch to WireGuard saw another big jump to 150-170 Mbps. The UK has seen the most spectacular increase, however, reaching a high 270-420 Mbps throughput. Still a long way from the best we've seen, and for example Hide.me, NordVPN, StrongVPN, Surfshark, and TorGuard topped 600Mbps in recent tests. Even if you only see the minimum speed of 270 Mbps, that's more than enough for most devices, connections, and situations.
VyprVPN was able to unblock Netflix in all of our tests (Image credit: Netflix)
Netflix and streaming
VPNs are often sold for their ability to access geo-blocked sites, giving you access to content you wouldn't normally be able to watch – VPNs for Netflix have become particularly popular. To test VyprVPN's unblocking technologies, we logged into UK and US sites and then tried to access BBC iPlayer, US Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+. Whatever happens, we disconnected, reconnected, verified that we had a different IP address, and tried again, only to see if the result could vary depending on our IP. VyprVPN only has one UK location, which limits BBC iPlayer unblocking options, but allowed us to stream content on all three test connections without any issues. US Netflix may be harder to unblock, but someone forgets to tell VyprVPN, and the app again achieved a 100% success rate on our three test sites. The good...