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PCMag is your complete guide to computers, peripherals and upgrades. We test and review tech products and services, report technology news and trends, and provide shopping advice with price comparisons.
PCMag is your complete guide to computers, peripherals and upgrades. We test and review tech products and services, report technology news and trends, and provide shopping advice with price comparisons.
PCMag is your complete guide to computers, peripherals and upgrades. We test and review tech products and services, report technology news and trends, and provide shopping advice with price comparisons.
PCMag is your complete guide to computers, peripherals and upgrades. We test and review tech products and services, report technology news and trends, and provide shopping advice with price comparisons.
In our latest runs, we found NordVPN reduced download speed test results by only 9.6%—the sixth-best score we've seen—and upload speed test results by 26.27%. Our latency results went up by 11.84% during the same run. These results are overall quite good, but do represent a drop fro...
To make sure our IP address wasn’t leaking, we navigated to DNSLeakTest.com and ran an extended test while connected to a server in Hong Kong. The server was not leaking our information. We remained connected to the Hong Kong-based server and tested the speed and reliability of the VPN...
In our latest runs, we found NordVPN reduced download speed test results by only 9.6%—the sixth-best score we've seen—and upload speed test results by 26.27%. Our latency results went up by 11.84% during the same run. These results are overall quite good, but do represent a drop fro...
Proton earned fifth place in our download tests, with a speed reduction of 2.8%. While this number is fine, it really shined in our upload speed testing with a reduction of just 0.22%, the best result we've seen. Finally, our testing showed Proton increased latency by 170.31%. ...
Speed and Performance When you use a VPN, you will almost certainly lose some speed in the process. To get a sense of the impact each VPN makes on internet performance, we compare speed test results from Ookla with and without the VPN active, and find a percent change. See the aptly na...