Unknown Speaker 0:00 How's it going, everybody? Welcome back to
geek man. And today we're going to be live testing both Nord VPN and cyberghost. Now
all links to special deals or discounts that I could find will be linked in the description
down below. So let's get right into it. Now I'm going to be testing one server that's
nearby, such as the Italian server and one server that's much, much farther away, such
as the United States or Asia, we'll see what happens. Now, we're going to be using the
fastest protocols for both VPN, which is going to be the open VPN option for what they don't
have many options, really just open VPN and ikf. Two for cyberghost. And we're going to
be testing using Nord VPN, the Nord links, option, there's open VPN, TCP, UDP and Nord
links. Now Nord links is the quickest protocol. So yeah, we're trying to get the best out
of both the best performance out of these VPN. So that's what we're going to do. Now,
I already took the liberty of testing my speed without a VPN, and I got six ping 12 point,
31 megabits per second and 0.88 megabits of upload. That's, you know, not not not the
fastest. But that's my internet. So let's start with the Italian server for cyberghost.
Let's see how it does. Bring it over here, I'm going to be using ookla. That'll be speed
test dotnet, if you want to do your own test, and it's, if you didn't know, it's natural
for a VPN to really just slow down your speed, but a good VPN and your latency. A good VPN
up, okay, just give it a quick reload, but a good VPN will minimize that decrease in
speed as much as possible. And that's what we're here to test today in in these two VPNs.
And if you didn't know cyberghost has over 6000, probably one of the, you know, it's
it's it's a huge variety, normally VPNs have, like just over two or 3000 servers. But yeah,
cyberghost has a huge variety of servers. And so yeah, we're using open VPN, off to
a good start really, with the download speed here. I'm expecting you know, if if my original
speed here is 12 point, 31. In this specific speed test, I would like it to not go below
11 point 30. So that's pretty good. 11 point 31. At least, you know, one way one megabits
per second, decrease is not bad at all. So yeah, cyberghost seems to be doing very well
here. Okay, great. So we have 11 point, 43 megabits per second, I'm going to keep this
window on my other screen here. And we'll keep it for later. Now. Let's go ahead, disconnect
and disconnect cyberghost. And connect. Yes, thank you, and connect Nord VPN and see how
it does bring a brand new ookla page here. And here we go. Give it a quick refresh. And
go for it. So speaking of servers, cyberghost has, as I said, over 6000 servers, Nord VPN
has over 3000 servers. Now the huge variety for cyberghost is because they have a lot
of virtual servers. That's That's why you know, they have such a huge right, not all
of them are physical server. Okay, now we can already tell there's a difference here,
the ping is going to remain the same, there's not going to be much difference in ping because
that's up to that's that's kind of up to your own connection doesn't matter. We're here
to test speed, mainly. So. Yeah. Okay, so here's the difference. We've got 11 point
64 for Nord VPN, and 11 point 43 for cyberghost 0.8 in terms of upload speed for Nord VPN,
and zero point 74. So Nord VPN wins the first test. Now, let's go ahead and test a server
that is much much farther away. Such as, okay, let's go as far as the West Coast. Let's go
Let's go much, much farther away. Maybe Washington or Okay, let's go for Washington. And let's,
let's pick a server with the least bit of load possible. You can tell here the amount
of load. That's a pretty cool feature.
Unknown Speaker 4:54 I have a lot of users. Okay. 26% Now, and
this is 9000, almost 10,000 kilometers away, okay. And we can already tell the ping is
not doing too well. But that's only natural. So let's connect to the Washington server
and see how cyberghost does. Now I'm gonna bring up a new couple of new ookla pages here
and bring it over right here and see what happens. So another little fact about cyberghost
is that it allows you to secure up to seven devices per subscription. So, you know, that's
pretty cool. They're giving you a quite a good variety. I'm in quite a good number of
secured devices with just one subscription, whereas Nord VPN only allows up to six, but
I, it's not much of a discrepancy in my opinion. So yeah, we're going to be testing Oh, wow,
that's
Unknown Speaker 5:57 okay. That's that's not doing too well. Yeah,
that's not very good. If that's the speed. Okay, let's you know, let's give it let's
give it one more go.
Unknown Speaker 6:08 Let's give it one more go. Maybe Maybe it
screwed up the the speed test somehow. Very, very, very slow for cyberghost. Not looking
too good for cyberghost here, and so far Nord VPN is winning the race. So yeah, let's see.
Okay, I went up a little bit. No, okay. Yeah, they had no okay. Now that's Yeah, that's,
that's that seems to be the how it how it's performing for a much further away much farther
away server. Excuse me. Yeah, two megabits per second. That's not looking very good.
I wonder, I wonder why cyberghost is performing very poorly. I mean, I picked I specifically
picked a server with very little users. So um, you know what, let's, let's, let's give
cyberghost one more chance. Okay. And let's just go with a random event. Let's turn it
off. Okay, that's that's not that's not. This is this is over 80% decrease in speed. That's
not great. So let's just connect, let's let cyberghost pick a United States server for
us. Okay. I'm not necessarily trying to go all over to the west coast. All the way to
the west coast. So yeah, let's, let's try to give it a chance here. A chance for redemption.
One final chance for redemption for several ghosts. Okay. And we are connected. Okay,
so here we are. With the speaker. Okay. Yeah. So if you left? Well, I specifically just
went on a random server for for the United States. Well, not a random server. I went
I went ahead as far as possible, on the west coast on Washington in Washington. And what
cyberghost did here, which makes sense. It picked the closest server, which is going
to be right around New York here in New York, in the in the East Coast. Excuse me. Now,
yeah, that's, that's still I mean, that's almost a 50%, almost a 50. That's about I
would say a 40 45%. decrease in speed. Yeah, that's, that's, that's alright. That's alright,
that's not too bad. But now we're going to compare with Nord VPN. So let's turn this
off. And we're going to keep this page right here on my other screen, bring a brand new
ookla page and connect to Okay. Now I'm specifically going to try to here we go United States region.
I'm specifically going to pick the left the West Coast, okay. Seattle, Los Angeles. Okay,
so it gave us really bad results here for Washington. So I'm gonna stay I'm gonna try
to pick a place that's as close to Washington as possible. So let's go Seattle. Fastest
server? Yeah, I just picked the fastest server. But it'll confine us to Seattle. So let's
see how that does. Okay. So if you're concerned about privacy. Nord VPN has this really cool
feature called double VPN. And that's a you know, if you're looking to kind of make your
data even harder to detect, you can tunnel it through to VPN now. Worse ping time, that's
the worst worst ping that's only natural. But clearly, that the discrepancy is huge
in terms of speed, look at the speed here. Okay. So I think we have a clear winner guys.
That'll be Nord VPN. So let's go over the all the speed tests real quick. Yeah, that
This is right here. This is cyberghost, New York server test. And right here, we've got
Seattle's test. Yeah, that's a clear winner. Now, oddly enough, it gave me a better upload.
But again, this is the East Coast. And this is the West Coast. So generally, I would say
this is a much better contender here for, for in terms of speed. Now, you know, since
we did test both east coast and West Coast for cyberghost, let's go ahead and try a server
on the East Coast, such as the New York server and connect and see what happens. And open
a new speed test. window here and wait for it to connect. If you didn't know, there's
such a thing as a kill switch. So if, if you disconnect the Nord, if you disconnect the
VPN connection, it will disconnect your internet to prevent any leaks from happening that.
Yeah, that's a that's a pretty good.
Unknown Speaker 11:08 That's a pretty good option to have, which
both cyberghost and Nord VPN, they both have it of course. So let's give it a go and see
what happens in terms of speed. We're gonna bring up the New York tests for cyberghost
here and see what happens. Okay, so similar ping, similar ping very similar. 131 here
140. In terms of speed, okay. Yeah, much better, doing much better. So, obviously, the physical.
I'm located right here in Lebanon. Okay. Right, excuse me, right here in Lebanon right around
here. And the, the physical distance obviously, is much closer to the east coast than West
Coast. So naturally, it's going to do much better. So yeah, yeah, it looks like we're
doing much better in terms of speed overall. But, oddly enough, it cyberghost did give
me a slightly better upload speed. Even. Yeah, pretty a pretty good upload speed. But overall,
the consistency and speed is nothing to compare. The winner is clearly Nord VPN in terms of
overall performance. 11 point 87. That's super, super close. I mean, I didn't even get that
kind of speed on the Italian server. So yeah, that's pretty impressive that it managed to
keep up such speeds from 11 on to the east coast here in New York. So yeah, that's pretty
cool. Anyway, that will be it for this speed test. I hope you guys enjoyed it or learn
something. All the special deals again, will be linked down in the description down below.
I will try my best to find the best offers I could find for you guys so that you can
hopefully save more money. Hope you guys enjoyed it, and I'll see you in the next one.
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