I travel to China (Beijing and Shanghai) often for work and I utilize VPN software on my laptop while I am there to maintain access to the various sites that the Chinese government blocks. Up until yesterday I had been using PureVPN but cancelled my account with them after growing weary of their poor customer service (long story...).
Today I decided to give ExpressVPN a try after reading a bunch of favorable reviews. It was easy to set up, then I decided to run some speed tests using my Windows 7 Pro 64bit i7 desktop on my home network.
First I used the program itself to determine which of their servers was fastest:
Next I ran several tests using speedtest.net and saw averages of about 60 Mbps up and 12Mbps down.
Then I logged onto ExpressVPN (the Dallas server) and ran several more tests using the same speedtest server as the first test and got averages of about 4Mbps up and ~4Mbps down.
I ran the tests above several times, the only change was logging on and off ExpressVPN. The results for each test were about the same.
I was expecting a drop in throughput, but not one quite that big. Do you think this is a reasonable drop in speed for this software VPN or do you think I could find something faster while still maintaining security?
Thanks for your help.
Today I decided to give ExpressVPN a try after reading a bunch of favorable reviews. It was easy to set up, then I decided to run some speed tests using my Windows 7 Pro 64bit i7 desktop on my home network.
First I used the program itself to determine which of their servers was fastest:
Next I ran several tests using speedtest.net and saw averages of about 60 Mbps up and 12Mbps down.
Then I logged onto ExpressVPN (the Dallas server) and ran several more tests using the same speedtest server as the first test and got averages of about 4Mbps up and ~4Mbps down.
I ran the tests above several times, the only change was logging on and off ExpressVPN. The results for each test were about the same.
I was expecting a drop in throughput, but not one quite that big. Do you think this is a reasonable drop in speed for this software VPN or do you think I could find something faster while still maintaining security?
Thanks for your help.