Hey, hello and welcome to Tech house. My name is Nick and today we're going to be reviewing at Nord
VPN. In this review, we're going to be talking about Nord VPN as a whole to see if the features
are right for you. If instead, you're looking for a detailed analysis of what Nord VPN has to offer,
I have done a separate video on that topic, and I'm going to link it 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. Alright, so personally, I have
reviewed quite a lot of VPNs on this channel. Now there are many VPNs out there and they have their
pluses and minuses. But in this video, I'm going to show you what makes Nord VPN stand
out from the rest. And the thing that makes it so special is the amount of speciality servers they
managed to pack into their app without making it unnecessarily complicated. If you're someone
who just wants to download a VPN, change your location and start watching Netflix, then that is
just one click away. But also, if you're a tech savvy person who wants to get the best speeds,
extra security, double VPN, kill switches and other bells and whistles, then this thing has
all these extra features built in there as well. Let's start off with the interface. Personally,
I think that this is one of the better represented VPNs out there, even though it lacks this one big
Connect button, which no you should press in order to connect. I think the map layout is absolutely
great, because you can see how far away these servers are and estimate latency. For example,
I see that Croatia is closer to Italy. So I just click to connect. And there I go. And on the left
hand side you have the search and then the most recent connected servers, and then he can scroll
down to the country list all the way down. And if you highlight one of the countries, for example,
United States and press these three dots over here, it also allows you to choose a region or a
server. Bear in mind that United States is pretty much the only one that is allows you to choose a
region worldwide there are others only allow you to choose a server. And then going down to the
very bottom there's speciality servers which have this dedicated IP, double VPN, obfuscated servers,
onion over VPN and p2p peer to peer connections. Those are, as I mentioned before,
one of the best things I think about Nord VPN, I find that if you don't see these servers go
here to the top where it says preferences. And where it says VPN protocol, make sure that it's
open VPN, UDP. If you're using the faster Nord links protocol, as we're going to do now,
you're going to see that the speciality servers disappear, but you gain a lot more speed. And
speaking of set speed, let's do a speed test. So I'm going to disconnect from VPN and hit
go on a speed test to get a basis setting to see how fast my internet connection is. And
you can see that today I'm getting 938 megabits per second, that's almost a whole gigabit of
speed. Now I'm just going to press Quick Connect and Nord VPN is going to connect to the server
which it thinks is best for me. Now let's go ahead and rerun this speed test one more time.
And you can see that it's going really, really fast as a matter of fact, 895 megabits per second,
I haven't seen any other VPN match at this speed. My opinion, Nord VPN is the fastest
VPN out there. I have tested that time and time again, and with consistent results, it provides
a great, great speeds. So if you're looking for a VPN with the best download speeds, the Nord
VPN is absolutely here, go to VPN. However, bear in mind that sometimes speed can come at
security and wire guard, although being the newest and the best protocol there is out there to date
may not be as secure as the other protocols which are actually going to give you less speed. For
example, ExpressVPN actually refuses to use wire guard until the security issues are addressed. And
while I was talking around another speed in the background, this time I connected to the United
States. And as you can see, I've got 734 megabits per second. And that is still very impressive.
Bear in mind that to watch a full HD film, you only need five megabits per second. And if you
want to watch a 4k ultra high definition video, then 25 megabits is going to be more than enough.
So 734 megabits per second is super fast. And of course this depends on your connection,
I have a gigabit you might have a different speed, it could be faster, it could be slower
connections speed to vary based on person to person. So Nord VPN speed gets a five out of five
from me. And now let's talk about security. For this, we're going to go to the VPN protocols and
select Open VPN UDP once again. Here you're going to see the double VPN option. And if you expand it
and go to servers, you can see that you can have a double hop feature where it first goes to Canada,
then to the United States or France, France, then United Kingdom and so on. There's also the
onion over VPN option, but I found that it works intermittently and sometimes it doesn't show up,
but if it does, that's probably one of the most secure ways to browse the internet.
My biggest gripe with Nord VPN was the fact that They're still running on hard drive servers. But
here's an article from 2019 devout move all their hard drives service to diskless servers using only
ram based equipment, which doesn't hold on to your information for any longer than you're actually
using it. And I'm happy to say that as of today, in April 2021, Nord VPN kept their promises and
all their servers are now ram based. And what this means in their own words, if he sees one
of these servers, you're seeing an empty piece of hardware with no data configuration files on it.
So for security out, give it like a four and a half out of five due to the onion over VPN,
sometimes not working, but otherwise is very, very good. So let's quickly sum up and see if
Nord VPN is the right choice for you. Well, if you're looking for high speed downloads,
and superb security, which will allow you to browse even the dark web without being noticed,
then yes, absolutely. 100% I mean, no wonder it usually takes one of the top three spots in
most of the review websites. And when it comes to security, I can tell you that it is really,
really good. There are other VPNs out there who focus solely on security and usually come at a
higher price. But then yet again, you have to ask yourself, do you really need anything more than
already military grade encryption for browsing some websites or watching some movies?
And if the answer is no, well, that I think this is an amazing compromise between speed
and security. There is however, one downfall when it comes to Nord and that is the amount
of devices which can be connected to add some in tenuously. There shouldn't be
a problem if you're just the one person using the services. But if you have a lot of devices,
or a family that wants to use their service, then you're limited to only six simultaneous
connections. That means at any given time, you can have only six devices using Nord VPN. For me,
I only have my laptop, my iPhone and my iPad. So that's three devices. And three, I actually
never use. So if you're someone like me, then once again, Nord VPN is a great choice. And finally,
the pricing. It's actually very affordable because I'm always on the lookout for coupon codes,
discounts and promos. And I can tell you that there's always some kind of promotion running
that gives you discounts on the original price. As a matter of fact, if you look in the description
below, I'm going to be linking the most current available offer so that you don't have to pay the
full price to get yourself a blazing fast VPN. So for you sir, links are in the description.
Alright, this has been Nick and if this review has been helpful, consider giving it a thumbs up and
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