
But if you're looking to connect to specific locations, say to bypass geo-blocking, the restricted choice of servers may pose a problem. If you simply want to connect to any server to encrypt your traffic data, this won't be a problem. This is the case for Windscribe, but your options are restricted using the free version. Some VPN apps also provide multiple server locations per country. VPN apps usually offer a range of servers to connect to, which are often distributed around the globe. This is considerably higher, but may still restrict your online activity. If you provide and confirm your email address, you can increase your monthly data limit to 10 GB. If you were to spend just two hours streaming video content daily, you'd be consuming about 30 GB of data monthly, 15 times that of the Windscribe free limit. Note that this is also monthly, not daily, so you'll likely be extremely restricted on what you can do while connected via the free plan.

We also don’t show specific megabytes-per-second speed since those speeds can vary greatly, but how much dip to expect as a percentage can be more generalized.Given that many of us spend hours a day online, reaching Windscribe's free 2 GB data cap wouldn't take very long at all. The idea is to show how generally good a VPN is across all locations, and not just Europe or the United States. Then we represent the drop from the base speed as a percentage. When the testing is done we take the average of the base speed, and the overall global average of the VPN speeds. Each country is tested three times per day taking the average. Each day we test the VPN speeds in five different countries plus the base speed without a VPN connection.

How we test VPNsĪll VPNs tested on Windows go through a three-day process. Other streaming services, however, may not be as picky as Netflix is when it comes to detecting VPN connections. server, but for the most part Netflix streaming requires specialty servers provided as part of a premium package. Sometimes it might work on a regular U.S. If you’re hoping to use Netflix overseas with a free VPN you may be out of luck. connection, for example, most free services will offer that. That last point is going to be fairly restricted when going free, because that’s standard practice for free VPNs. Next, you can consider what’s important to you such as ease of use with an interface you understand, speeds, and country choices.
