how's it going everybody welcome back and can a vpn slow down your internet connection speed
well the short answer is yes and well the longer answer is that it it really depends there are a
few determining factors before we begin if you're interested by the way in any of the
vpns mentioned today you'll find links to special deals and discounts in the description down below
as well as a full review if you'd like to know the ins and outs of each one of these vpns
now if you're connecting to a server on the other side of the world then the data has a lot further
to travel with bottlenecks and server points these can slow down however you can still get
all the security of a vpn by connecting to your most local server which will keep you running fast
in fact some vpn providers offer smart connections where it will work out the best server based on
your location and give you the fastest uh speeds possible another impacting influence on speed is
security if you use the highest 256 aes encryption which was once the top military grade then you may
find it uh it adds a little bit of lag it might add a little bit of a little bit of lag to your
connection this is because of the time it takes to encrypt and decrypt all that data
uh in all its secure complexity so of course you know with these three vpns
what they're doing really is they're trying to actually minimize the uh all the the latency
the decrease in speed and such so what i've done here is i went ahead and quickly meet a speed
test right here and um i didn't want to waste you guys time and for the sake of time i already had
uh made all the tests here and you know for uh my speed my initial speed without using a vpn is at
this it's at 5.70 megabits per second for the download speed and 19.15 for upload speed now
generally speaking when you're using a vpn upload speed will take a major hit generally it's the
download speed that we're looking at so this is what we're going to kind of measure for the most
part a lot of the times upload speed will take a hit especially if you're connecting to further
servers so what i did now i'm generally my general location is in this um area right here and i'm
trying to connect actually to new york so quite a bit it's it's quite a bit the distance of course
if i connect to servers that are around the area here in europe i'm going to get nearly identical
speeds to my initial speed right here so my upload speed will be about you know 15 plus
and my download speed will always be above five no matter which vpn i use honestly because
all these vpns are super powerful and especially when it comes to nordvpn and surf shark they use
a true wire guard protocol which if you didn't know wireguard protocols are the pretty much
next level uh or or next generation of protocols which will probably uh over overtake uh openvpn
and be the best uh protocols uh to be used so yeah we have wireguard right here of course uh
if you didn't know expressvpn does not have a true wireguard protocol now they have something that is
um as close to a wire guard protocol as it gets uh it is very effective at what it does um fairly
secure well expressvpn is just generally super secure so if we're talking security uh definitely
expressvpn will be your best choice here but if we're talking speed and just pure speed uh
that nordvpn will take the crown for sure like hands down nordvpn is the fastest vpn you can find
um that is a surf shark will kind of be a runner-up a good runner up here so here it is
so this is my speed without any vpn usage and when i tested using expressvpn on the lightweight udp
protocol which is their proprietary again it's their proprietary protocol which is
uh you know supposed to kind of simulate a light a not a wire guard protocol but it's not exactly a
wire guard protocol because wire wire guard protocols as you will see in just a little
bit are actually quite a bit faster um so i got five megabits per second here with the download
speed of course the upload speed took took quite a bit of a hit here which is disappointing but we're
not really looking for upload speed here i mean if i'm using a vpn i'm not really going to use it for
upload generally it's just for download so if i'm trying to maybe stream or something that's that's
why i would usually use a vpn and um yeah so let's say i'm trying to unblock the netflix library i'm
going to look i'm going to be looking at the download speed here so uh from 5.70 to 5 that's
pretty good with nordvpn i got a 5.20 which is uh yeah that's that's pretty good well that's uh not
a big difference but it might make a difference with a connection like mine here where i don't
really want to suffer uh that big of a loss i don't want my speed to take a hit here because
you know my download speed is not that impressive while my upload speed is you know it's pretty
good but i don't wanna i don't wanna suffer any any loss here with uh with the download speaker
because it's already pretty low so anything below about four or four point fifty is going to
stop me from watching hd netflix and it'll be buffering and it's just it's a bad time so of
course uh you know it's pretty good here with um expressvpn but if you're going for
uh faster you know the fastest connection you're trying to get here the fastest uh download speed
then nord links will uh yeah it's definitely going to take the crown here in terms of speed
and then surf shark here offering a very good download and upload speed very impressively
uh now here's the thing i want to keep in mind by the way when it comes to
doing the speed tests because you got to always give and take because every time i refresh it's
going to pick a different server and will give me slightly different speeds so you know
give or take 0.10 0.2 download speeds here uh here and there so yeah it'll be it'll be different of
course it also depends on um where where i am and how far i am from the uh uh the server that
i'm connecting to it depends on the protocol that i'm using of course all these vpns use the
standard 256-bit encryption you don't exactly have the choice of switching to let's say 128
bit or something like that of course if you go with 128 bit it'll be less secure but faster
but you don't really have the option with these uh vpns because they're trying to keep you
as secure as possible with the 256 bit encryption and they do a pretty good job at that really so
there are lots of vpns out there that uh may not even give you as fast as speeds with their 128 bit
encryptions uh as much as expressvpn here nord and surfshark so definitely talk to your vpns here now
again if you're looking for the full review and full details about these vpns definitely check the
links in the description they'll give you more of an in-depth look into the privacy policy
speed streaming and taunting capabilities as well as security and features but
you know if you're looking for just a quick conclusion right here if you're looking for
let's say the best security the tip top of security the most sophisticated security system
then expressvpn will definitely take the crown here especially when it comes to
unblocking geo-restricted content and netflix libraries and all kinds of streaming services
expressvpn is super popular when it comes to um top security as well as unblocking geo
restrictions and streaming services and then you have nordvpn which will take the helm for
um when it comes to speed really it's it's the fastest vpn i've tried is their nord
links protocol is so powerful and so quick that uh yeah it's you know lately it has been consistently
uh quicker than all the other vpns including expressvpn and surf shark so definitely go for
speed especially if you're trying to unblock to not unblock to secure one more device
because expressvpn will let you secure five devices and nord will let you secure six devices
and we'll offer you a couple of extra features here and there including some specialty servers
a custom dns and an app kill switch and then you have surfshark which will get the job done at the
cheapest price possible which is really what it's known for but it's also going to let you to
secure an unlimited amount of devices which is pretty impressive so definitely something to look
out for 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 also keep in mind uh that you know
if you're looking to buy any of these there is a 30 day money back guarantee so if you end
up getting surf shark and you know you decide to get an order express instead or vice versa
you do have 30 days to get your refund so no no risk there but you know so that you can
probably avoid just avoid having to get a refund and stuff just check the reviews and you'll kind
of get a sense of what are the advantages and disadvantages of each one of these vpns you
know exactly what you're looking for and they'll they all accommodate to all kinds of budgets so
yeah you'll definitely find something that's fit for your needs anyways that'll be it for this
video thank you guys very much for watching i'll see you guys in the next one have a wonderful day