Unknown Speaker 0:00 Hey, what's up, my name is Nick. And in
this short video, we're going to see how well surf shark does and speed tests, we're going to compare
the phone on the computer, and just talk about what speed tests are in general. So let's waste
no time and jump straight into it. The first test, or how we would structure this test is this way,
you would go to your speed testing and speed testing app and take a base test. So we're
just going to run a base test to see how fast my current implementation is. And then from there on,
we'll be able to see how fast surf shark relates to that speed. So as you can see, it's doing
really good. I got a ping of 12 milliseconds, and a download speed of 946. That's like a
whole gigabit. I mean, that's a fast measurement connection. And this is something very important,
which other reviewers don't do. They look at the speed that they get from whatever source they get,
they don't consider that Wi Fi speed actually limits the speed of your internet connection, and
therefore they don't get a proper testing anyway. So moving straight along to it. So now we got 946
megabits per second from my local speed, we're going to go and connect to the fastest server.
I like the fact that surf shark has this fastest server option. Some other apps don't provide that
even the top Express VPN I consider, which is like the absolute top of all express or VPNs. out there
doesn't have a fastest server option. You should have to collect the country. I don't know if it's
because they just presume to get some time to connect. I don't know why if they presume that,
that all of their servers are equally fast or or what. But yes, as this is something to note about
surf shark, it is a budget VPN, right? So it's much cheaper than the rest of the VMs out there.
But you saw how long it took me to connect in order to get started. But once you're connected,
you're fine. It's the connecting to the server that always takes a long time. Anyway, so yes, I'm
being correct. Now for the last 20 seconds. I'm going to give it a few more seconds to make sure
that the speed is normalized and you know, not get any errors. And yeah, but 30 seconds should do and
let's press go on the speed test. Right. So while that's running, it's important to note the ping,
okay, it was 26 millisecond ping in the previous one we had 12 I'm not mistaken.
And let's talk about Ping. So yeah, ping is the way that you receive,
perceive internet to be how fast your internet is. You send you click to website, say Google,
and you send that information. It travels to a server, a server says okay, he wants Google
and then it comes back to you with the actual page. That's the thing. So how fast you work on
the internet is big. And if you want to download a file or watch a movie, or anything of that sort,
that is that's the download speed. That's what we're looking at here. It's 407 megabits.
Yes, a substantial reduction to the 900 megabits, or almost a gigabit connection that I have here.
But it's not bad. Let me also explain why it's not bad. So the best way to get internet speeds
is like you need your router. Then your router is has two cables or one cable in this car.
It goes into your intranet. So now your router is outputting a Wi Fi signal to your house.
And then you connect your device, whichever device that you have your computer or whatever. In this
case, we're using this MacBook Air. That's the M one chip supercomputer. We connect
that here. And now the internet is coming from your internet service provider. And it's going
directly out into your MacBook or computer or whatever have you. This is the fastest way that
you can get internet obviously. Now you can use Wi Fi and this router is capped at 750 megabits,
that's how fast it can send a Wi Fi signal. That's already cutting down a whole lot. So it's like
about 200 megabits that is cutting down on the maximum Wi Fi speed I receive.
So I received my phone and technically I should get about 700 megabits here. But inside here,
my phone has a Wi Fi antenna built into it. Unknown Speaker 4:30
And this Wi Fi antenna is capped at about 300 megabits. Now the latest phones don't have this
cap latest phones have fully supports the 5g networks and all that jazz. But if you have
an older phone like for example, an iPhone seven, you can only maximum receive 300 megabits on your
phone. So that's also something to consider when testing out the Wi Fi speeds. So let's have a look
at our phone. There's a third one extra thing to consider. So this The speed test app and I'm
going to press go and see what connection or how fast of an internet connection I get on my phone,
I had 40 milliseconds. But now the speed is very different. I mean, I'm getting 30 megabits, I just
got 900 megabits over there. And now I'm getting 13 megabits over here. This is without a VPN.
The reason for this is because I'm not using this router, my actual router is in
another room. And the additional factor of the distance between the router and
your phone also further reduces the Wi Fi speed. So all of these little bottlenecks
kind of add up. And then you get speeds like 35 megabits. So let's go ahead and do this. Let's
make a another test with surfer. And let's connect to a fast server. And Quick Connect fastest time.
Yeah, as I've already said, as you can see that it does take a little bit of time for surf shark to
connect. And that's, that's the one thing that that really bugs me about it really everything
else is okay. I don't use VPN 24, seven, I connect to a VPN when I need to connect or when I need to
use the VPN services. Yeah, and it's always like, Okay, so let's connect. And then it's not instant,
you got to wait for that. If speed is the most important thing for you, then this also counts
as speed. It's not internet speed, per se. But it is definitely a factor that you must consider an
overall speed. All right, so we've been connected for a few seconds. Now. Let's go ahead and
connect to speed test. And I think it's warmed up by now. So let's go ahead and hit go,
we got about 35 megabits in our previous test. And would you look at that it's actually improving.
There we go. Look, I mean, you have to you have to take this with a grain of salt, you will always
have variations in speed tests. And as a matter of fact, if you hit speed test one after one after
one, you're always going to have a variation in speed. But this is due to the fact that when you
connect to a VPN, you connect to a server through that VPN. And sometimes it can find a faster
route to that server and provide a more stable connection for the downloads to come through.
This doesn't usually happen. But in some cases, like here, you can see that a VPN can improve
your speed. So to sum up this whole thing, if you already have the fastest setup from your router
with Ethernet cables to your computer, and you're looking to have the best possible speed on a
on your computer, then maybe surf shark is not the way to go or just be considering that you
have a speed loss. But if you're using it on your phone through a Wi Fi connection,
then yes, absolutely surf track might even actually improve your internet connection.
So yeah, as in terms of speeds, just want to say and put it out there that there are other VPNs
that provide you with a faster speed. In my test. Nord VPN has the
fastest speeds available and express VPN is a close second. But the reason why they have a
slower speed is because they actually provide you a bit more security on top of that, so their their
speed is reduced because of the added security. So if you're looking for the best and ultimate speed,
I would go with Nord. And by the way, in the description below, you're gonna find links to
all the latest servers, promos and anything else I could find on the latest offers. They
always keep on changing and I keep updating all my links so check it out. Maybe give yourself a
very good deal. So this has been surf shark the speed of surf shark and I hope this helps you.
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