how's it going everybody welcome back and today i wanted to do an updated speed test of express
nord and surf shark and compare them all so that you guys can hopefully figure out which one could
be the best choice for you in terms of speed specifically now i'm not going to be talking
about the other features and benefits of these vpns because today we're going to be focusing on
just speed but if you are interested in learning more about these vpns with regards to their
privacy policy as well as speed uh and streaming taunting capabilities as well as security features
be sure to check the detailed in-depth reviews in the description down below and of course if you're
interested in just going to the links straight to the links to pricing discounts you'll also
find that in the description below so this is my base speed nothing impressive we're just going to
be focusing on the download speed since the upload speed tends to fluctuate based on um or depending
on the distance whereas download speed tends to be a little bit more stable and it is a kind
of a better way to measure or more reliable and consistent way to measure speed uh dips because if
you didn't know vpns slow down your connection due to encryption but a good vpn will minimize that
dip in speed okay so my base speed here is 5.74 megabits per second i am roughly in the near the
european region here so that you can get an idea of my location and when connected i connected to
try to connect at least to the same servers in all vpns just to see uh what our speed is going
to look like and so when i connected to the london server here 4.97 by the way i put the uh links
here just so you guys know which vpn we're looking at here so starting with expressvpn 4.97 megabits
per second which ends up being a 13.4 percent drop in speed and by the way typically speaking
any drop between 10 to 20 30 even sometimes 40 depending on the server you're connecting to
generally speaking though with these vpns you won't see any uh speed drops more than 30
25 30 percent typically these vpns are super quick and if you're like me you don't have the
best speed you don't want your connection to be uh taking a major hit so 4.97 megabits per second
is a 13.4 percent drop with the london server with expressvpn with nordvpn at 5.12 it is a little
faster at 10 with a 10 drop and with surf shark right here 5.04 uh with a 12 drop now moving on
to the second server that i tested which is the french server and with the french server we got
4.74 so with expressvpn which is a 17.42 drop with nordvpn at 5.11 with the paris uh server which is
a 10.97 drop and with surf shark at 5.12 roughly the same as nord 10.8 not much of a difference
there not worth mentioning at least uh and finally i tested one far away server which is the new york
server which gave me 4.90 with express vpn which ended up being a 14.6 percent drop
uh and with nordvpn 4.96 very close now you can see here expressvpn kind of uh keeping up with
nordvpn even though express does not have a wireguard protocol the wireguard protocol
is a modern protocol that tends to surpass most other protocols and because lightweight which
is express vpns according to them it's their own version of the wireguard protocol but it is not a
wireguard protocol it does function very well just not as quick as nord links or the true wire
protocol with uh surf shark so both surfshark and nord vpn have these true wireguard protocols
which is why they typically tend to be a little bit faster than express vpns lightweight protocol
even though expressvpn is still lightning fast so with the new york server here with
uh nordvpn at 4.96 again with uh expressvpn 4.90 which is 14.6 percent drop 4.96 which is a 13.58
percent drop with nordvpn and with surf shark 5.01 uh which is probably because i connected to the
surf shark server here in new york which gave me a little bit better 12.7 still super close i mean
i wouldn't say you know when comparing all these vpns at the end of the day they're all very quick
but this video is just to kind of give you an idea hey you know if you're looking for the quickest
overall the quickest is nordvpn followed by surf shark and then expressvpn though it depends
at times with expressvpn you'll notice that you might be getting faster speeds let's say when
connecting to far away servers but typically speaking nordvpn is always going to be or not
always you know quite often it ends up being the fastest vpn in the industry really not just
faster than expressvpn uh but you can tell that expressvpn and surfshark they're both
keeping up very well at the end of the day all these vpns serve lots of common purposes
but it's up to you whether or not you want to go with let's say express or nord over surf shark or
any one over the other so it's up to you at the end of the day i just wanted to kind of
quickly share with you guys these speed tests so again just to conclude if you're looking for the
fastest of you know out of all these even though the differences as you can tell is just a few
points really one two three four five percent uh max so yeah not much of a difference between
these vpns but if you're looking for the quickest that'll be nord seconded by surf shark and then
express vpn so again if you guys are interested in any of these vpns you'll find links to special
deals and discounts in the description down below as well as full reviews if you'd like to
learn more about these vpns keep in mind that all these vpns do have a 30 day money back guarantee
and a 24 7 live chat support to help you with your refund or anything really uh that you might have
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