how's it going everybody welcome back and today we're going to be taking a look at the speed tests
here with the results between express vpn and nordvpn uh and we're going to get to see which
one is actually uh better of course both of these vpns are much faster than most other vpns so uh
keep that in mind of course before we get 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 with regards to their privacy policy speed streaming
and torrenting capabilities as well as security and features so keep that in mind if you guys
are interested you'll find everything you need in the description down below so now i tested three
servers or three locations um so i'm roughly uh here near the european region so i tested a nearby
server so the french server in both express and nordvpn i tested a the new york server and then
i tested a japanese server so we've got a place in the far east a place roughly in the west you know
not the far west it's not la i just went with the east coast new york and somewhere in the middle
and we're going to take a look at the results of course you know just keep in mind that speed tests
are not perfect factors like internet connection router location type of device and other variables
affect the results so keep that in mind of course while you're taking a look at these results and
just take them with a grain of salt this is just supposed to give you a rough aggregate
of what these vpns perform like so let's go ahead and take a look at this now of course my
speed is nothing impressive i don't want my vpn to make it any slower than it already is so i went
ahead and started with expressvpn and i'm going to show you guys by the way the percentage i'm
going to be focusing mainly on the download speed but if you're interested in just pausing the video
and taking a look at the upload speed feel free to do that uh and any usually any decrease between
you know 10 to 20 25 is usually considered very good with vpns because a lot of vpns will end up
going past the 25 uh kind of cap and they'll go up to 30 or 40 and even 50 to 60 percent decrease
and yeah that's not what we're looking for we're looking for some of the best percentages here and
we're gonna take a look if uh expressvpn and northvpn can actually uh perform that well and
i'll be using of course again the lightweight edp protocol and the north links protocol
and that's what i used in this test uh these are the best performing protocols so
my download speed without a vpn is at 5.70 megabits per second so uh with the
friend server starting with expressvpn i got a 4.97 megabits per second uh which is a 12.8
decrease in the download speed so we're still in between 10 and 20 and we're not even reaching
21 or 22 so very very good stuff uh so far i went ahead and tested the new york server and i got an
even better result here very impressive of course the upload speed is not as good as the french one
thanks to the distance but the download speed is just very impressive of course
expressvpn is known for maintaining very high speeds no matter where you're connecting from so
uh it's almost as if the distance between you and the server you're connecting to does not matter in
expressvpn which makes it a very big selling point with expressvpn because in a lot of vpns or a lot
of people that maybe let's say in far eastern uh locations here might want to unblock let's say the
netflix library of the us naturally you know it's a very far kind of uh distance it's a
lot of distance covering here so yeah expressvpn helps you kind of maintain speeds uh at such big
distances or or far distances so yeah this ends up being a 2.8 percent decrease which is something
you rarely see you barely even see a five percent decrease in most vpns so for expressvpn to drop
even down to a 2.8 decrease with an international server that's just very impressive uh of course
uh with the japanese server so of course i had to test a uh west and eastern server here and it
dropped down to a 4.43 megabits per second so that ends up being a 22.2 decrease in download speed
right here which is understandable uh considering the distance here with uh japan so now this is of
course uh the results the three results this week the three countries that i tested for
um expressvpn so again that'll be a 12 decrease at 4.97 megabits per second with the french server a
2.8 decrease at 5.54 megabits per second uh with a new york server and roughly a 22.3 or 22.2
percent decrease with the download speed here with the japanese servers so moving on to nord again i
tested these same servers uh with paris in paris i got a 4.60 megabits per second which ends up being
a 19.2 or 19.3 uh percent decrease with the download speed so uh yeah again not uh take
take these results with a grain of salt if i go ahead and refresh the speed i might get something
maybe a little bit better perhaps a little bit worse but you know this should roughly give you
a good idea of the performance of these vpns you know previously i thought nordvpn was faster and
it was actually performing faster than expressvpn but it seems like nowadays expressvpn picked up
the pace and uh yeah there it it's always kind of these two vpns are always in competition when it
comes to speed they're super quick and so you know at times you might see nord being a little bit
faster or express being a little bit faster but you know overall i do prefer expressvpn because
of its consistency in speeds over long distances or servers that are much farther away so with the
new york server i got a 4.51 megabits per second kind of result here with 20.8 percent decrease in
download speed and finally a 4.86 uh megabits per second here with a 14.7 uh percent decrease
with the download speed so uh overall the expressvpn results are better with the paris
and new york servers but with the japanese server it seems like nordvpn outperformed express by
let's say six seven eight percent here so not bad at all uh overall these both vpns are super quick
uh you could really just uh stream in 4k if your internet speed can handle in the first place
uh again they're both in be in between the 10 and 20 percent uh perhaps at times 25 percent
uh kind of uh decrease here so any decrease in speed between 10 15 20 25 is considered very good
and it seems like with expressvpn you'll be able to even go below 10 down to 5 and sometimes even
below 5 as you saw with the results here at 2.8 megabits per second with the new york server even
though it's an international server so again if you guys are interested in learning more about
these vpns you'll find links to full reviews in the description down below to give more of an
a look into the advantages and disadvantages of each one of these vpns uh if you're interested
in links to special deals and discounts you'll find these in the description as well if you're
interested in making use of such discounts while they last so that'll be it for this
video thank you very much for watching and i'll see you in the next one have a wonderful day