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vpnspeedtest··on Detailed VPN Comparison Chart
http://vpnspeedtest.org/ tests over 20 VPN services to find the maximum speed of each VPN from 8 locations around the world.

ThatOnePrivacyGuy should use their open source speed test tool instead as the tests are verifiable (unlike his tests from a single location which nobody can reproduce).

vpnspeedtest··on [dead]
Indeed.

There are a few VPN services claiming to be "The Worlds Fastest VPN" and paying people to repeat their claim. However the results speak for themselves. :)

vpnspeedtest··on [dead]
Yes we'll be adding more VPN providers. If anyone wants to donate a VPN account for their favorite provider we'll add them.

We figured that any provider who can reach 100 Mbps is fast enough so that's why we didn't create a table with the "fastest" VPNs at the top. Everyone's experience will be different depending on the interconnects between you and the VPN server.

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We test 20+ popular VPN services 24 times per day from 8 locations around the world (that's almost 500 tests per day!) - trying to hit the maximum bandwidth that the VPN server is capable of.

The speedtest location, VPN provider and the VPN server are all chosen randomly for fair results. All speedtests are performed using OpenVPN over UDP (with the providers default settings) from Vultr VPS servers geographically close to the VPN servers.

To find the maximum speed of a each VPN server we need to test from a location geographically near the VPN server. For example if you wanted to find the maximum speed of a VPN server in Amsterdam, then you would need to test from Amsterdam. This limits any network bottlenecks between the test server and the VPN server. The test servers have gigabit network connections with good peering to Internet exchange points - which is faster than any home internet connection.