how's it going everybody welcome back and today we're going to be talking about expressvpn this
is going to be my updated review of expressvpn uh and of course if you guys are interested in
expressvpn you'll find a link in the description down below that'll give you a little bit of an
extra discount if you guys are interested okay so i'm going to be talking about the privacy policy
speed streaming and torrenting capabilities as well as the security features of expressvpn
and how they could be useful to you all right now most vpns do claim a no locks policy and that they
don't log your info uh so yeah in a lot of cases you have to just take the provider's word for it
but in express vpn's case they do have plenty of evidence to back up their claims and they have
independent audits in fact to show as evidence there are multiple audits online available and
you can see the full detail for example of this audit and you can just read the audit for yourself
and all these audits really resulted in very good standing which is just great for well the users of
expressvpn expressvpn were quick to fix any of the uh network infrastructure flaws that were there
and all these flaws were low to medium level flaws which are not a big deal and nothing that has to
do obviously with uh logging information or leaking any of the users information
and activities and to prove that in 2017 the turkish government seized an expressvpn server
as part of an investigation and they were still unable to provide any information no information
no user data was extracted out of these servers and of course it was the turkish authority that
sees these servers so yeah you can bet that they had the resources to extract anything that was
in the server but thanks to the trusted server technology of expressvpn they were not able to
extract anything out of the vpn and just to show you just to kind of tell you what trusted server
is i think it's uh i think it's somewhere around here i'm just gonna look it up so express and
trusted server and trusted server is really the technology that replaces hard drives with rams
so as it says here what these do is that all data will be wiped with every reboot as vpn servers run
on ram only so there really isn't any hard drives to uh keep data in further minimizing data risk
the entire software stack is reinstalled in every server at startup as i just said and uh yeah this
is what makes the vpn or the expressvpn server infrastructure very uh you could say data leak
proof it's just simply there are no hard drives to store any data which really solidifies and
backs up their no lock claims so that'll be it for the privacy policy in my book it gets an a
plus okay so moving on to speed this is my speed without a vpn 5.26 megabits per second nothing
too impressive so i'm hoping that expressvpn doesn't cut down uh on my speed and what i use
in this case is the automatic protocol which will uh direct me towards the lightweight udp protocol
most of the times and i know a lot of you guys will use the automatic which is the recommended uh
protocol to use a lot of people most people will just keep it at automatic and that's exactly what
i did here so when you keep it on automatic um you're gonna get a five and what i was using here
is the automatic uh option for the protocols so this is where expressvpn will automatically pick
the so this is where expressvpn will automatically pick the protocol uh most appropriate for your
network and i know most of you guys will not really be bothered to change around any protocols
now what i'd recommend is using the lightweight edp protocol is the fastest one as far as my
experience goes but going with automatic is also a very good idea because you know sometimes although
lightweight udp will work 99 of the times uh yeah going with automatic is use really just the
safest option if you don't ever want to mess with the protocol options ever again and typically any
decrease between 10 and 30 is considered to be very good now keep in mind the higher your speed
the more you're going to lose so if you have a 100 megabits per second and you go down to let's
say 70 megabits per second you're losing 30 but you're still getting very quick uh speed so yeah
now with me at 5.26 megabits per second i'm hoping i don't lose up to 30 percent because i would be
now wait now in my case at 5.20 now in my case at 5.26 megabits per second i'm hoping i wouldn't
lose much speed because that would be a little bit too devastating for my already poor speeds
so when i connected to the french server i'm near the european region i got 4.53 megabits per second
which is a 13.8 percent drop very very decent speeds indeed not the fastest but it is on the
higher end of the uh vpn spectrum for lack of a better word when connecting to the much farther
server new york here i got an 11.59 percent uh drop in speed and 4.97 megabits per second which
ends up being a 5 decrease and this just goes to show that uh it really doesn't matter usually with
vpns and this just goes to show uh the quality of servers with expressvpn because typically the
farther the server the lower the speed but with x because typically the farther the server the lower
the speed but with expressvpn it's not exactly the case because most of their servers most of their 3
000 most of their over 3 000 servers in 94 countries are very high quality servers that
will provide you with the best speeds even if you are much farther away even if there are you know
even if there is an entire continent or ocean uh between you and the server
you're connecting to so when it comes to speed just absolutely wonderful here okay
uh now moving on to streaming and torrenting capabilities you can be sure that when it
comes to streaming uh you are able to stream anything you want okay from netflix up to 18
netflix libraries which is way above the industry standard most vpns will be able to unblock between
around four to five and sometimes up to 10 streaming services or a netflix library excuse me
but in this case you're able to unblock up to 18 confirmed libraries and possibly even
more if you do your own testing because after all there is 94 countries that you can test
uh and yeah that goes to uh ex and that is and that extends to other streaming services of course
amazon hulu disney plus whatever it is that you're trying to unblock you'll be able
to unblock it with expressvpn it's very well known uh for unblocking streaming services and
it is very consistent and reliable at doing so and with regards to peer-to-peer activity
and torrenting it is allowed on all the servers no matter which server you're using
so no worries at all no bandwidth limitations none of that no throttling you're able to torrent at
will no matter which server you're using but there is no port forwarding so just keep that in mind
uh and of course because the nature of port forwarding poses more risk to your connection
expressvpn prefer to not uh make that available uh so yeah you won't be uh able to seed the torrents
after you're done with your download so just keep that in mind okay so that's pretty much it for
expressvpn and what it's all about with regards to the security features uh expressvpn does very
well here and you don't really have many security features to worry about all you have here is i'm
just gonna have to turn it off so that i can show you the kill switch uh the kill switch will allow
you to the kill switch will stop your internet traffic if the vpn disconnects unexpectedly
and this will make sure that you do not get any information leaked if your vpn disconnects for
whatever reason even though it is quite the rarity express even though it is quite the rarity with
express vpn uh split telling you a lot of choose which applications are routed to the vpn and which
are not so this can be very useful if for example you just want your taunting client to use the vpn
while the rest of your connection is untouched by the vpn tunnel or vice versa if you would like so
it's a very useful feature you have a handful of protocols you can stick with automatic for the
most part but you do have a good selection here and you won't be using uh and you won't be using
any of them except for lightweight udp or openvpn udp or you can just stick with automatic though in
advanced you have well also nothing to worry about the obfuscation option is not here because the
proprietary obfuscation is always on by default if you're not familiar with what obfuscation means it
means that your isp won't be able to tell they're using a vpn in the first place they won't be able
to censor you and obfuscation will also help you bypass censorship firewalls and if you are in
china for example where there is the uh advanced great firewall of china you will be able to bypass
it very easily by simply downloading the vpn no manual configuration required uh so yeah very easy
stuff and you have browser extensions if you'd like to download them and shortcuts that will show
up once you uh connect to the vpn so uh yeah it's a pretty useful shortcut so if you just want to
uh come up with some shortcuts here as soon as you turn on the vpn they will show up right here
so you can put some netflix shortcuts um amazon shortcuts whatever shortcuts you're looking for
and as you can tell turning on the vpn is as easy as just clicking this button so in terms of the
user interface it is as easy as it gets and it's the same on android your tv or your mac your ios
whatever device you're using it's going to be the same interface same options same everything you're
not going to be losing out on any uh features whether you're on mac or ios or windows or android
because most vpns will take away uh features if you're on different devices but with expressvpn
it's really just going to be the same thing for the most part so yeah that's pretty much it and
of course with regards to compatibility it is well compatible on most devices no matter which
device you're using you're going to be able to uh well get expressvpn and download it on most
devices and if you have a device that is not compatible with natively compatible at least uh
with expressvpn you will be able to use a feature called mediastreamer which will give you a dns uh
which you can just input into your console for example into your playstation uh and you'll be
able to use expressvpn through that dns which is provided to you by expressvpn it's very easy
or you can just secure your router and have your router app control the entire network and that's
how you can secure your console for example and you'll be able to secure up to five devices per
subscription uh but if you'd like to secure all of your devices just install expressvpn on your
router and you're good to go you can secure as many routers as you would like just make sure that
the router you're using uh is well compatible with expressvpn there are plenty of compatible routers
and they do have recommended routers right here these are the ones they recommend
for their service so that is pretty much it for uh the review i hope you guys enjoyed it the only
downside to expressvpn that i can think of is the pricing it's just a little bit more expensive
than typical uh vpns but if you are interested in getting a little discount on expressvpn be
sure to check the link in the description down below and keep in mind they do have a
30 day money back guarantee which you can claim through the 24 7 live chat support right here
if you have any problems with the or if you're not satisfied for whatever reason which is unlikely to
be the case really you can contact the live chat support as you can tell here you can ask them for
the refund it'll be processed within three to four days uh business days that is and uh yeah it's a
very easy process risk-free 30-day money-back guarantee so that'll be it for this video
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