VPN Reviews - Read the reviews before you buy!

Here you can a find detailed list and reviews of as many VPN providers as i can find. I am not referring to site-to-site vpn for commercial uses, but VPN accounts for anonymous and secure internet connection from PCs. These are useful in countries that block or censor internet access like UAE or for anonymity and security.

I am currently compiling a list of as many as i can find and will write an article reveiwing each one and detailing the specs and quality for the service and support and giving them a rating out of 5. So far i only have experience with Bananavpn.com and Vpnaccounts.com, they have slightly different services, one specialize in Pay-monthly plans and uses PPTP (a type of protocol for VPN, which is fast and easy to setup) the other has Pre-paid accounts for shorter usage and can offer PPTP & IPSEC (another type of VPN, a little more complicated) and they have servers based in Germany for those in the USA who like to gamble. I just found out that BananaVPN now offer IPSEC on request too. If you are in Sweden and would like to a local provider then there is Relakks.com. In Switzerland there is Swissvpn.net. Unfortunately the free vpn provider secureix.com has gone out of business and is up for sale.

Prices vary from $5/month to $25/month and some providers have bandwidth restrictions others give you full unrestricted access. In most cases expect the speed to be 10-15% slower than your your current connection speed. This is because of the encryption and compression needed for VPN connections but in some cases the speed is actually faster especially if you are a Comcast user and are downloading with P2P software. SSL VPNs are the slowest but most secure and PPTP the fastest and easiest to use and usually no software is needed to setup a connection on your PC.

Who needs a VPN account?

Anyone in the following countries can hugely benifit form using a VPN account: United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Belize, Mexico, China, India and Thailand. Anywhere that uses a aproxy sever to censor your internet. Also anyone in the USA can use a VPN to prevent spying or attacks when using an unsecured WiFi connection. I have tested the speed from the Middle East using a US VPN provider and can confirm that surfing American sites is much FASTER with a VPN account (something to do with eiffcient routing and bypassing ISP throttling).

If you can't wait for the full reviews then just go to Banana VPN and buy an account with them for only $14.99/m (special offer) , it works great from here in Dubai and the speeds are very good. Skype will work and you will have access to all blocked sites like Youtube, Flickr, Facebook, casino, sex, poker sites etc.

Why is VPN better than a web proxy?

For one thing, proxies are only web based. Which mean they are for viewing websites only and do not offer full internet access for using emails, icq, msn, games etc. With VPN all your internet traffic goes over a secure connection. Secondly, most anonymous web proxies steal or store your login details to any site that you visit. This is because any website you visit (for example Hotmail or PayPal) is passed through the proxy service and most of these sites are run by fraudsters who capture all your data and empty your accounts. Use a trusted VPN provider and you will not regret it!