how's it going everybody welcome back and as part of this little series of short overviews
where i take a look into features and aspects of vpns today we're taking a look at the servers and
locations of expressvpn so before we begin if you guys are interested in expressvpn just know that
you'll find a review and special discounts in the description down below if you'd like more
information on that so now you know one of the main determining factors honestly is besides the
privacy policy and the no lock policy and just you know speed and all that stuff uh having a variety
of servers can also be very helpful so you know with comparison to nord and surfshark for example
we've got where is it here products oh what is a vpn so we've got 160 vpn locations in
94 countries that's 34 more countries of coverage or or express covering 34 more countries than nord
because north has 60 countries and surfshore for example has 30 uh 65 countries so that's
a big number that's about you know almost 30 34 countries that is 34 countries more than nord
and 29 countries i believe if my math isn't wrong here correct me if i'm wrong then surf shark
so by virtue of having more countries what you're getting with surf shark is actually you know
you're able to unblock more streaming services more netflix libraries with and as using netflix
as a reference you're able to unblock over 18 netflix libraries with expressvpn uh 10 with nord
and 15 with surf shirts so you can see surf shark is actually keeping up quite a bit despite having
less countries quite a bit less than expressvpn but then again these are the confirmed countries
or the confirmed unblockable netflix libraries as told by express nord and surf shark you may
as well actually kind of do your own testing and you perhaps you might be able to unblock even more
so you know of course another uh important thing is that these servers do support the most powerful
protocols so if we go down here and with regards to servers now that we're talking about servers
i have spoken to expressvpn and most of their servers are in fact physical servers which is
why their connections are uh very very consistent no matter where you connect so even if you're much
further away and you connect to a server that's across the continent or across the oceans you're
still going to get good connection because most of most of them are in fact physical servers
and what we're looking for also is for these servers to not just numbers i mean it's it's
great that we have 94 countries in 160 locations huge variety much more than you know over 95
percent of the vpns in the industry that's a big selling point in it of its own but all we need
you know we need these servers to also support the powerful protocols so what do we have here
we have lightweight udp and openvpn udp which are the two most used protocols in expressvpn so
you know usually what i recommend is using the lightweight udp protocol it's the best protocol
um for expressvpn knowing that also the openvpn protocol is probably the best openvpn udp protocol
in all of the vpns i tested it actually gives me sometimes it even gives me better speeds than
lightweight udp but because lightweight udp is very quick to connect i choose to pick it and for
the most part it seems like they've been really improving upon the lightweight udp protocol and
yeah it's just been very optimized so i just stick to lightweight udp and even if openvpn is a little
bit faster than uh you open lightweight udp it's not gonna be that much faster you know just barely
one or two percent faster yeah that's that's not enough for me to switch to the open vpn youtube
so as you can tell lightweight udp in openvpn udp support all the servers all the servers are
supported by these two uh protocols which are i mean if yeah they're they're all
it makes sense really so uh yeah this is this is good news of course all these servers are run on
ram disks rather than uh regular hard disks what that means pretty much is that um the
what there are no logs on the uh servers there there's really no physical drive or physical
hard drive to store any information on the servers and whatever information that is
stored or log whatever minimal information will be deleted with every machine reboot
uh because there's just it's a ram there's no actual physical drive to store any information
so that's also very good news so uh yeah and with regards to the format here with the vpn
locations you'll notice that they're all also kind of sorted by region or continent so uh yeah
very easy to navigate you're able to uh check your recommended locations which will give you the best
kind of whatever expressvpn thinks is the best for you and with the all locations here you can just
browse on your own and if you don't want to let's say test every server for yourself you can go
to speed test let's say i want to test all the european servers i can just run the test and you
know it'll give me roughly the speed here latency and the download speed keep in mind the download
speed may not be very accurate by the way because for example my speed is actually double this much
but it will give you the just the roughly the aggregate a correct aggregate so in this case the
best server here with the download speed is going to be the best download suite is italy in casenza
but if i'm looking for latency it's probably going to be france yeah friends parents paris too even
if you see the download speed being very low here it's actually not very accurate
i'm not exactly sure why i'm not sure how this speed test runs or what it actually measures
but if i actually go ahead and do the speed test themselves i'll reach the same conclusion
when it comes to download speeds like yeah i'm gonna get the best download speed with casenza
uh or oh a change looks like with switzerland at this point now that it's kind of completing
the test uh and the latency with pairs two so these are correct uh conclusions just
not very correct numbers in terms of download speed but the latency is actually pretty accurate
and yeah i've tested the latency before it is quite accurate so i think that'll be it for
this video we've um this is enough of a look into the uh servers and locations if you guys
are interested in learning more you'll find a review below and give you more of an in-depth
look into the privacy policy speed streaming and taunting capabilities as well as security features
so keep that in mind if you guys are interested as well as links to special deals and discounts
which should be very helpful for you guys if you decide to get expressvpn
thank you guys very much for watching and i'll see you guys in the next one have a wonderful day