So I manually connected to a different server in France showing light user traffic and lower ping rates. Speeds to the UK and France were inconsistent and the speed drop was drastic, even though I was supposedly connecting to the best available servers in those countries. However, I found the results to be disappointing. The feature is there so you can easily and automatically connect to the most optimally performing server available to you at the time you connect. You can also change each menu independently. Three successive drop-down menus default to the option labeled Best Available for country, city and server. IPVanish puts its Quick Connect option front and center as you launch its desktop app. But I probably would have gotten better speeds had I connected manually. Read more: How to Speed Up Your VPN Connection Quick Connect feature: Not so quickĭuring testing, I used IPVanish's Quick Connect feature, which claims to connect you to the best servers in IPVanish's network, based on current performance. IPVanish isn't the fastest VPN, but it's still fast and in the same ballpark as other big names like ExpressVPN - which saw 51.8% speed loss in most recent tests - and NordVPN at 53%.īottom line: IPVanish can give you more than enough speed for regular internet browsing, HD streaming and video calls. Singapore registered the slowest at 35.61Mbps, which was a disappointment considering the speeds to Australia were so impressive. The considerable loss here was due mostly to the French servers performing poorly. My average speeds to IPVanish's Australian servers came out to an impressive 183.72Mbps - handily surpassing speeds to the UK, despite being about 6,000 miles farther from my location.Īverage speeds to France and Germany came in at 165.49Mbps, which were also disappointing. Speeds to the UK servers were erratic and inconsistent, fluctuating between 215.43Mbps and 57.3Mbps. Slower speeds to VPN servers located across the ocean are to be expected, but this steep of a drop in speeds while connected to the UK was disappointing customers expect better performance from servers in high-demand locations like the UK. With the VPN, my speeds dropped to an average of 152.34Mbps through IPVanish servers located in New York, the UK, France, Germany, Australia and Singapore.Īverage speeds through New York came out to 258.17Mbps, while speeds through the UK averaged 119.55Mbps. My overall speed without the VPN averaged 363.64 megabits per second. This time around, the average speed loss was 58%, compared with the previous 65%. Overall, IPVanish's average speed performance improved somewhat compared with the previous round of tests conducted by CNET's Rae Hodge in her 2021 IPVanish review. I completed the latest round of IPVanish speed tests in March from my location in Ohio using the OpenVPN protocol.
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