I’ve been using iVPN for the past few months and the connection is total dogshit. I find myself turning it off every now and again to get things to load and that defeats the purpose of having a VPN.

  • Yeahigotskills2@lemmy.ml
    1·
    10 hours ago

    Got a cheap deal on SurfShark, so moved to them from ExpressVPN. Both worked great, got good reviews etc. Happy to be re-assess if anyone has information to the contrary, or tells me they’re affiliated with the clans or something, but so far so good.

  • moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.comEnglish
    1·
    10 hours ago

    Have you considered that the issue is on your end?

    A few percent packet loss is hardly noticeable when you have 1 Gbps bandwidth, but once you bounce around to proxies all over the world, it becomes magnitudes worse.

    Do some international network testing. Ignore speed. Pay attention to packet loss, jitter, and buffer bloat

    If you have anything more than 1% packet loss, call your ISP tech to fix it. You may need to pay them for a business line to get priority on their network. Tell them you have a lot of IP phones.

      • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
        31·
        11 hours ago

        Do your research. Air doesn’t offer its services to Italians (the country it also happens to be incorporated in) in order to avoid enforcement of the nations anti soccer piracy laws.

        This indicates that the company either cannot stand up to that enforcement action or that its host nation is so corrupt that being able to endure enforcement without giving up customer data would be no shield to the customer.

        Air is one of the few VPNs that offers port forwarding, a feature commonly used in piracy.

        I am a happy user of air for piracy purposes. I believe them to not be able to withstand investigation.

        Air is fine for my purposes. Be careful what purposes you use it for.

    • sinza@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      I can second AirVPN. I’ve never had an issue with it, at least one that wasn’t ultimately user error.

      • Deconceptualist@leminal.space
        0·
        22 hours ago

        Have they improved their Linux support? It’s the first one I tried years ago and I had to go make individual openvpn configs for each server which was such a pain (unless I wanted to just use the same few all the time).

        There was probably a better way to do it but that was just solved for me when I switched to another provider.

      • Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca
        3·
        12 hours ago

        My current employer has a “we’ll teach AI to all the support functions to better automate backend processes” and then they made it part of the KPIs of the senior leadership of those functions, which is miles better than “use AI or else”.

        I understand why using AI has benefits in certain tasks, but I don’t see why there has to be the threat of people losing their job - unless it maybe was a KPI for some time for process enhancement and now things are coming to a head? I dunno.

      • Scott 🇨🇦🏴‍☠️ @lemmy.ca
        3·
        13 hours ago

        I read the leaked email sent to Proton staff. It reads like ‘use ai or else’. The thing I don’t like about this is the more a human uses AI for coding, the more deskilled they get. Eventually, the AI will add something that the human doesn’t have the knowledge to recognize as an error.

      • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        19 hours ago

        Article is locked behind paywall (reader mode doesnt bypass for me), so I couldn’t get much info from the link…but checking “how they use AI” is not necessarily bad, it could also be to verify if it is used in responsible ways.

  • TrollAccount69@lemmy.ml
    0·
    22 hours ago

    You are asking in the privacy comm so the answer is mullvad.

    You are asking for someone to say nord though.

    If you need to pirate use air. Do not rely on them for privacy.

    • bluespin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      23 hours ago

      Proton and nord, sure. Did I miss news about mullvad? they’ve always had a solid track record on privacy as far as I know

        • bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org
          2·
          16 hours ago

          Oh, agreed. I would have to trust the VPN to actually not collect my data. That’s why I’m curious what VPNs people trust these days.

          Tor is great. I used to run a middle/guard relay in the past, thinking about doing so again. The problem is that reuglar people shouldn’t run exit relay at home. And there aren’t many companies that would allow exit relays on their servers/in their datacentre. I get why, but that leaves only a (relatively) small number of exit relays and it’s so much easier for bad actors to control a significant number of them. :(

  • southsamurai (he/him/pronoun agnostic)@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Well, out of what I’ve used for any length of time, mullvad, nord, air, and proton were all reliable for me. Then again, ivpn was too. Ivpn was slow as hell compared to mullvad and nord for me though; as slow or slower than free tier proton. I’ve tried others, but never long term enough to feel comfortable saying anything beyond that you do get what you pay for with a VPN. The super cheap ones tend to be molasses, or have other service issues.

    Which, it’s weird as hell that ivpn was so slow compared to mullvad because a lot of their exit servers are the exact same. Most of the European exits, and as near as I could tell, all of the U.S. ones were in the same data centers. Iirc, mullvad rents hardware directly, whereas ivpn does it via software? Maybe? It was a struggle finding useful information with the way search engines have turned so shitty (even the better ones).

    I think I had the least problems with air and mullvad, overall. Air, my only real complaint was their clients suck. The service was flawless, but you either set things up on your own, or deal with horrible ui and ux on their clients (with the android one being worse). Mullvad, I have zero complaints about their service or clients. It’s the political shit I have issue with

    • yaroto98@lemmy.world
      1·
      23 hours ago

      A few months ago air updated their android client Eddie. It’s…better now. Not great, but better. It remembers profiles and you don’t have to click the connect button twice anymore, just once now. Oh and the speed is better now too. I used to only get ~5mbps, now I can hit ~100mbps. Should still be faster, but it’s better.