VPN service? how much does it typically cost?

[pcslookout]

I use vpn.ac. They are one of the best. Speeds are good too.

The support staff is pretty kick ass to. Here's a convo I had when bitcoin fluxed and I owed them .03 cents.

Hi

Below the details we got from Bitpay:

Paid Amount: 0.053742 BTC
Invoice Amount: 0.053828 BTC

The price on the invoice was adjusted by Bitpay on our request from 15.60 USD to 15.57 USD to reflect the actual amount paid. There was probably some fee to cause the difference.

> Do I owe any more on the balance for my account?

yes, 3 cents. If we were a bank, we'd probably even apply interest on those 3 cents. But hey, we are not a bank so we obviously don't care. It's all good

Have a great weekend!

Regards

I tried them and couldn't get my MEGA (https://mega.nz/) speed to be better so got a refund.

 

[John Connor]

How in the world do you think your speed will increase with a VPN?

 

[Auric]

Bypass targeted throttling?

 

[John Connor]

That wouldn't be it. The connection is encrypted with a choice of several methods.

 

[pcslookout]

How in the world do you think your speed will increase with a VPN?

It did with Astrill VPN. I don't why or how.

From 100 to 300KB/sec to 6 to 7 MB/sec

 

[destrekor]

That wouldn't be it. The connection is encrypted with a choice of several methods.

Connections can be encrypted, sure, but headers indicating source and destination must be readily readable to be routed properly. That is how a service provider can still throttle. Or it could also simply be that with his standard connections, the routing was inefficient or the port itself was heavily taxed at that time, or throttled at certain peak times; whereas with the VPN service, they aren't usually throttled, but a certain VPN may be too highly taxed at that point in time, or have a bad route to the servers. Changing VPN end points or a different service could very well impact the bandwidth.

 

[RossMAN]

PIA 2 years for $60 is back.