1) Login to your Windscribe account
2) Navigate to this page: https://windscribe.com/upgrade?cp...d=features
3) Click the green button for 'Have a promo code?' and then enter your code. It will add the years to your existing account.
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You have two basic types of VPNs. PPTP and "full" VPNs like Windscribe. PPTP VPNs tend to be faster because there's less going on and they don't offer as much privacy by way of encryption. "Full" VPNs offer much better encryption and thus privacy but that obviously requires more processing power which can result in slower speeds. That's on top of all the usual things that can cause performance issues with networks the size of the Internet.
You also have to accept that a VPN is going to generally slow things down a little. You use it because you don't want your ISP building an advertising profile of you from your browsing history and selling it to anyone willing to pay the asking price or things of that nature. That all said, Windscribe has been working to both increase their server footprint and upgrade some of the nodes to 10Gbps connections.
I've been using Windscribe since I snagged one of their lifetime deals several years ago. They don't even offer them anymore. For the most part, I am pretty happy with the performance of Windscribe. The past few days it's been kind of slow, but it's a blip over the span of several years. Probably just a lot of new customers and existing customers who got new computers, game consoles or something and they're temporarily saturating the network. They've also had issues with people reselling access to their accounts and, in at least one case, using like 7.5PB of data in a single month. They're starting to crack down on that, but it could also very well explain why you've been having poor access speeds.
If you take everything together, Windscribe probably ranks as one of the best VPN providers out there.
1) Login to your Windscribe account
2) Navigate to this page: https://windscribe.com/upgrade?cp...d=features
3) Click the green button for 'Have a promo code?' and then enter your code. It will add the years to your existing account.
Comprehensive VPN Comparison Chart:
https://www.techlore.te
Techlore's comparison guide on VPNs really highlights the strengths of Windscribe (and the weakness of other providers).
https://www.techlore.te
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Also, Nord does do logging if asked by a court, so one is hardly escaping the five eyes by using them.
• Logs Timestamps
• Logs Bandwidth
• Limited torrenting support
Yikes… that's a huge nah for me, dawg. If you value privacy in any facet, this is not the VPN for you.
1: Spy agencies spy on literally everyone, they don't limit themselves just to their own citizens/subjects.
2: For it to be meaningful they would have to be able to crack each unique encryption key, and unless there's some secret backdoor in AES, it would take a ridiculously long time to brute force. Otherwise, all they see is that you have an encrypted connection with the VPN server. They could probably use some kind of packet sniffer to measure the amount of data you're moving as well if they wanted, but what specifically that data was they would have a hard time telling.
3: All VPN companies log those things because they're necessary. You think the VPN companies just get bandwidth for free from backbone providers? They need to know how much users are consuming, on what servers, so they know where to allocate resources.
4: BONUS: If you're going to use a sock puppet account to try to prop up your baseless comments, don't use highly specific terminology like "5 Eyes" on both of them.
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1: Spy agencies spy on literally everyone, they don't limit themselves just to their own citizens/subjects.
2: For it to be meaningful they would have to be able to crack each unique encryption key, and unless there's some secret backdoor in AES, it would take a ridiculously long time to brute force. Otherwise, all they see is that you have an encrypted connection with the VPN server. They could probably use some kind of packet sniffer to measure the amount of data you're moving as well if they wanted, but what specifically that data was they would have a hard time telling.
3: All VPN companies log those things because they're necessary. You think the VPN companies just get bandwidth for free from backbone providers? They need to know how much users are consuming, on what servers, so they know where to allocate resources.
4: BONUS: If you're going to use a sock puppet account to try to prop up your baseless comments, don't use highly specific terminology like "5 Eyes" on both of them.
Regardless, have a good weekend!
Regardless, have a good weekend!
Bottom line is, no VPN is going to protect you if you have someone with the resources of a first world government coming after you. Look at how they took down the guy behind Silk Road. Wouldn't have mattered if he was using a VPN or not. You still seem very confused as to what a VPN is, what it does, what it doesn't do, and what it's for.
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Maybe Windscribe has issues too, but it honestly feels weird to basically make an argument that boils down to, "Don't trust the organization that's located in Canada and open sources their Android and other apps, because they're Canadian and subject to Canadian / Canadian ally spying. Instead, trust this Panamanian organization who doesn't release the source for most of their apps and has a history of failing to report breaches that put customer data at risk and potentially allow spying by literally anyone who happens to get a copy of the breached key."
Even if it was a limited number of servers, not telling customers is the absolute wrong way to handle a security incident.
Also, I find NordVPN's lack of source availability to be disappointing. Other providers are more transparent with respect to their apps. E.g., Windscribe releases code for a lot more of their apps compared to NordVPN. AFAIK, NordVPN has only released the source for their Linux app, whereas Windscribe's Android, Windows, Mac, Linux, and iOS apps are all open source. Some other providers have also been a bit more on the ball about supporting additional platforms compared to NordVPN. IIRC, Windscribe added Windows on ARM support about a year ahead of NordVPN.
Anyway, I just don't get the hype. It seems to me like anyone truly paranoid / worried wouldn't pick either NordVPN or Windscribe, so I don't see the point in arguing between the two.
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