Unknown Speaker 0:00 Hello, my name is Nick and welcome to Tech apples.
Today we're going to be talking about ExpressVPN. In this review, we're going to be talking about
ExpressVPN as a whole, to see if the features that it provides are right for you. If instead you're
looking for detailed analysis on every single feature that ExpressVPN has to offer, I've done
videos on that, and I'm going to link that in the description below. Also in the description,
you're going to find all the links to anything I mentioned in this video. So check that out. And
without further ado, let's get into the video. Unknown Speaker 0:28
Alright, so I have been using VPN since as long as I can remember. And on this channel, I've done
Full Feature reviews comparing these VPN side by side analyzing all the features and each feature
individually. And I can safely say that I consider ExpressVPN to be one of the best if not the best
VPN out there. And this opinion is shared not only with myself, but with many other professionals.
In fact, if you go to Google and type in best VPN, you will see that ExpressVPN comes out on top. And
naturally, this is all subject to change. But currently, as I'm making this video,
and 2021 it is. And just in case you're not sure what a VPN does, it can be summed up in
three main features. One, it can virtually change your geographic location to make it seem as if
you're browsing from a different country to due to the ability to change your location,
you can unlock websites, which otherwise may not be accessible to you. And three is to secure all
your internet activity by making a connection private, and anonymous. Nice. Alright, now that
that's out the way let's have a look at the app and then discuss some real use cases. Honestly,
I like it, the interface looks very simple. There's just this one big button to connect.
And if you want to connect to a different server, you press these three dots over here.
And you have a list of all the possible servers countries from which you can press the drop down
button over here and select a city rather than just a country in general, you also have the
ability to add favorites, select a smart location, which is just the server which is the fastest and
closest to you. And you also have a bunch of preferences, which we're not going to go into
detail here. But suffice to say that there's a lot of options if you need to get technical. all right
now let's have a look at some real world uses. Starting with my favorite Netflix and other
streaming services. Like you see, Netflix doesn't actually own the films that they're showing.
Instead, they rent it out from other companies like Universal Pictures, for example. And that
rent contract is usually for a set period of time and possibly limited to a geographical
location. That is why Netflix and other streaming services have a constantly changing catalog. And
it's also the reason why some shows might not be available in your location naturally, most shows
will be available in the United States version of Netflix as it is their primary user base.
So if you're living outside of the US and are looking for the best available catalog,
and a VPN is an absolute must, as it allows to trick Netflix and other services into thinking
that you're browsing from a different location. On the other hand, if you're a foreign national
and living in the United States, you might not see the shows that you're used to back at home
as Netflix might not want to fork out for a worldwide license have done day the Crocodile
Hunter and keep the show exclusive to Australia for example. So keeping that in mind, I'm going to
use Express VPN to try to find Crocodile Dundee. As you can see, it's not available in my current
location. So I'm going to go ahead and change it to United States. And after refreshing the search,
you can see that it gives me completely different results for the same search term. So let's try a
different server. Let's try the United Kingdom. And while I just like that we found Crocodile
Dundee using a VPN is available in the United Kingdom, but not in the States or anywhere else.
And in case you're wondering how much content am I actually missing out on you can go to
flicks watch, and then go to catalogs and scroll down you're gonna see a bunch of lists here.
And you can see exclusive to and then in the country. And here it shows you a list of all
the films, which are exclusive to that country and nowhere else. And you can see that a list is
quite long. So if unblocking access to movies was the only thing that you were interested in
thinking check out the links in the description below because I've been searching around and I
found out that you don't have to pay the full price of ExpressVPN as there's many deals,
discounts, coupons offers and whatever else. So check them out, I'm going to be updating them
always. And maybe there's currently a good offer running. Anyway, let's get back to the video.
At this point, it's important to note that all of your traffic is going to be running
through your VPN once you turn it on. So it is very important that you have a fast and
secure VPN. That being said, let's start off with some speed tests and then move on to security.
So the way I'm going to be conducting the speed test is I'm going to open up my speed testing
program, take a base speed test and then connected to a VPN and run the same speed test again to see
if there's any differences. So let's begin. So my base speed test is 939 megabits per second,
which is almost a gigabit. So let us try this modification which should give us the best speed
available. And as you can see, we got up to 601 megabits per second. Sure it is a reduction from
the original speed but bear in mind that now this traffic is secure. Let's try a different location
the United States for example. Unknown Speaker 5:00
So I'm currently in Italy in United States is quite far away. So naturally, the connection is
going to be a bit slower, but not by much 433 megabits is still quite respectable
considering that the global speed average is under 100 megabits. Not everybody has such a fast
connection as I do. And so if your connection is under 400 megabits, you're likely never to
notice the difference. Very mind that you only need 25 megabits to watch your 4k movie. And to
stream your full HD movie, you only need about five megabits per second. So that's speed Donal.
But what about privacy? In my opinion, ExpressVPN is the most secure VPN out there. And that is its
main advantage. all your information that is sent to express VPN is going to be encrypted,
military grade encrypted, and every VPN out there offers that protection. But that is not what
is the most important thing. Express VPN uses ram servers, and those servers hold on to your
information while you're browsing the web. And as soon as you click off a website, that information
disappears, unlike other VPN services, which use hard drives, which retain your data, and which is
in fact recoverable until somebody else overwrites that data. ExpressVPN also keeps absolutely no
logs of your browsing, and was independently audited to confirm the fact they really keep
no information from you whatsoever. So if security is important to you, ExpressVPN has a big,
big thumbs up from me. And now going back to everyday use scenario, I want to talk about the
thing that I use a VPN for personally the most, it is simple every day to day browsing. For example,
if I type in news and have a look at that, I get my Italian news. As I said,
I'm currently in Italy. But if I change my location, to let's say, America, New York, yay.
and type the same News. I'm using Google Chrome's incognito so that I don't get any cookies.
You can see the news immediately changed, I get Fox News, I get abc news and so on. Likewise,
if I change to the Italian server, and then go to YouTube and hit something like explore,
I guess, gestures from the Italian YouTube and the Italian culture and the language,
which I don't understand. So using a VPN quickly changes me back to the language that I'm used to.
And now I get the trending notifications from the country, which I actually wanted. All right,
so let's sum up some thoughts. Is Express VPN worth it? In my opinion? I would say yes,
absolutely. But also depending on what you want, if you want ease of use simplicity, support and
high speeds, then yes, ExpressVPN is definitely gonna cover you on all of those aspects.
And more. Now, there are other VPNs that have more options. But unless you are a tech person,
you're probably not going to use them. And yes, there are VPNs that are faster, but usually at the
cost of security. And as we found out today that unless you are advanced user, you're probably not
going to use more than 25 megabits of speed in any ways. I think ExpressVPN is ideally tuned for the
average user or a business company which requires reliability, security and support when needed.
If you are more of a tech oriented person, you can check out my other videos where I go into details
of features of VPN and compare them side by side. There is however, one drawback of ExpressVPN
which is that it allows you only five simultaneous connections. So it is geared more towards a single
user or a small family rather than a group of people or a large family where if you're
planning to use ExpressVPN only inside of your home then you can get a modem with Express VPN
installed on it, which is going to cover all of your devices but then your modems range.
And now the final thing that we need to talk about is the price about ExpressVPN
is considered to be priced higher than other VPNs. However, I do look for the best deals,
coupon codes vouchers, I scour the internet and search for the BEST OFFERS available
and if I find anything that is worth your while I'll definitely link it in the description below.
So check it out. I am not able to tell you what there is today because they continue changing
but I really hope that at the time that you're watching this there's going to be an amazing
offer running so you can get yourself a great VPN for a great price. Anyways, this has been Nick,
I hoped you enjoyed this video. If you liked it, give it a like if you loved it, give it a sub,
and I'll see you in the next video. Cheers Transcribed by https://otter.ai