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SwissVPN is a business unit of Monzoon Networks AG, a Swiss telecommunications company which has been in operation since over 5 years. SwissVPN is dedicated to offer you an encrypted VPN tunnel from your computer to a Swiss computer centre in Zurich and entering the Internet from there. This way your traffic will safely tunnel all wireless and wired networks using encrypted VPN and you’ll surf the Internet from Switzerland.
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22 Customer Reviews of “Swiss VPN”
Review by Andrei, September 30, 2012
Very nice and fast service. OpenVPN working from start with no problems at all. Great speed and a reliable service when traveling. Support working fine and fast (2-3 hours). For the price you pay you get more than some more popular VPN services (like Hide My Ass) offer and since this VPN is in Switzerland you are protected by their privacy laws.
Review by Dan, August 29, 2012
Having used SwissVPN quite heavily for a month I have to say I am very impressed with their service. I connect from Perth, Western Australia and I initially expected latency to be an issue due to the geographic distance. But having used it for over a month I can confirm that latency is negligible and I often forgot that I’m connected due to the smoothness of operation. I can’t rate support because I haven’t needed to use it.
In short SwissVPN deliver what they promise.
Review by sami, July 5, 2012
wanna subscript with this service but i wanna know which tv is not included….thanks
Review by John Mayer, May 20, 2012
+10
Reliable, inexpensive & allows me to do what I need to do safely – tending to my business in South Africa (I’m an expat from South Africa working for Chevron in Nigeria) without any interference from Nigerian Internet hijackers, crooks and scammers!
Review by Team Pelican, February 1, 2012
My experience with SwissVPN has been positive. I initially subscribed for one month to try it out, and then resubscribed an additional 3 months. So, I’ve been using their service for 3 months total so far and will continue to be a customer when I need to renew a month from now.
A few comments:
The price is reasonable IMHO. I subscribed for 3 months service (with firewall option) at 24 CHF for 3 months (exchange rate was $26.96 USD at time of purchase). This is a small price to pay for basic anonymity.
To connect to the service, I use OpenVPN software (was the only program compatible with my system). Having never used a VPN service before, I was pleased that SwissVPN’s FAQ pages had easy-to-follow instructions to set up OpenVPN.
I was happy to learn that the programs I use that require an internet connection (besides Firefox & IE browsers and eMail software) all functioned normally and traffic was routed through the VPN (I did verify with this with a few programs that have IP data viewable).
The service is reliable and I’ve had open connections to the service for days at a time without unwanted disconnections. If an IP change is needed, you can simply disconnect and then reconnect and be assigned a new IP number.
The bandwidth is sufficient for my needs. I haven’t used other VPNs, so I’m unable to compare benchmarks for bandwidth speeds & caps of other VPNs if used from my system & location. My own results from http://www.speedtest.net/ were averaging 1.02 Mbps download and 0.98 Mbps upload between my ISP & SwissVPN.
Note: I haven’t encountered any issues that would require live customer support, but I gave it 5 stars anyway.
One last note not directly related to SwissVPN… my bank flagged the payment made to an out-of-country company as part of their loss prevention policies. A quick phone call with my bank to verify that I did authorize the purchase resolved this. So depending on your individual bank’s loss prevention policies, you may be contacted to verbally authorize the transaction.
I would recommend this VPN service. Just please be aware that the IPs are only Swiss, so if you require an IP to view media & TV shows (the UK as an example), you would need to find a different VPN that has assignable IPs for the countries you require.
Review by Hightower, September 25, 2011
There is nothing really negative to say about this provider. The speed and reliability is very good relative to others. I didnt have problems but I did ask questions through support and the response time was outstanding both times. The only negative is you are stuck with a swiss IP. So no watching US or Canadian tv or live streams.
Review by Mike, March 4, 2011
Very good speed only small difference between non VPN connection,
reliable and excellent price. I tried a major provider before joining Swiss
but the speed was poor and it cost twice as much! Not sure about support
as haven’t needed it, but if you try for a month you won’t lose much even if
in the (unlikely )case you have a problem.
Review by teddu, January 30, 2011
SwissVpn works great for less than 5 € per month.
Good speed, good reliability…
Review by paranoid torrent downloader, December 20, 2010
I have only had swissvpn now for a couple of days, but so far so good. The speed is great and I’m starting to think I can really trust them. I have not had to use the customer support yet. The price is amazing, only like 5 bucks a month and no subscription required. So far, I reccommend them.
Review by MG, November 22, 2010
I was unlucky enough as to open account with VPNTunnel.se (lousy support and hopeless bandwidth usage) but fortunately I found SwissVPN; good price month by month (no need to go for a year account to get better price) and works without any loss of speed as the bandwidth is fully usable by me, not a sign of heavy background traffic as created by VPNTunnel.se service.
I haven’t needed to try SwissVPN support yet; so far connection and usage working fine.
I am Very happy with this service.
Review by notguilty, September 19, 2010
Ditto to the above reviews. Bandwidth from a USA location is fast enough for the purpose. 6 Swiss Francs seems a bargain.
Review by The Dude, August 16, 2010
Swiss VPN are a great provider. They came recommended to me from a friend who’s been with them for over a year. Having now signed up with them,there service does what it says,for a good price.
Review by Jon, July 9, 2010
I have used this service for the Last few months and my connection has been up for dAys with out dropping once good speeds too
Review by Rob, May 8, 2010
Just joined Swiss Vpn and I’m really happy with the service, it wouldn’t work with my router but I used the Open VPN program as reccomended by Swiss VPN and it works a treat. Just superb.
Review by sathack, April 1, 2010
Very dissapointed that SwissVPN does not work with Zattoo.
Going to try another VPN for this purpose.
Review by trott, March 8, 2010
I would suggest you to think twice before you send your money to these guys.
I’ve subscribed for them in less than two hours from the time of writing this comment.
I was using another VPN provider and put my French email while signing up for the service (I love my email address ending in .fr).
I am living in Bulgaria and my VISA is registered in Bulgaria.
My first payment was rejected because I had insufficient money to pay for two months of VPN service. Well, I paid for one month.
In less than an hour I got disconnected and my user login information has been rejected. I mailed back SwissVPN customer support and they told me that my money had been refund because of « discrepancy between the information you have entered and your registered card details ».
I mailed them back with a copy of my VISA Electron and my EU ID card. In a few minutes I had another reply that it was a mistake and they flagged my payment because of « French mailaddress, purchase in Luxembourg, usage in Bulgaria, first purchase attempt denied, second with lower amount passed ».
Be aware while sending your money to these guys, as they will probably not trust you and flag your account if you subscribe using email address hosted in France, while being connected from VPN server based in Luxembourg.
Review by Björn, February 22, 2010
There is no problem to connect to SwizzVPN but since I live in sweden the speed is very sluggish, I have 100/10Mbit (actuall speed when downloading is 70/10) when connected via VPN my speed is 6/3Mbit…
Review by benniwest, January 17, 2010
Used Swiss VPN for about 6 months now, never had ANY problems and maxes out my connection….need I say more?
Review by Lars, January 15, 2010
Instant service, no contract, minimal set up. The bandwidth is also reliable. Great no frills concept.
Review by Bushido, December 22, 2009
Given the arcane data privacy laws in the UK and the US, and the way we are being closed in on by the enforcement of Orwellian intrusion to our private affairs, I have looked long and hard for a secure VPN solution. I’m not Bernie Madoff or Roman Polanski, but nor do I want the Inland Revenue or IRS insisting I divulge everything I possess, so that they can tax my family when I’m dust.
I tried “StrongVPN” and Happy, then Banana. Not only did they “throttle” connections, and have poor customer service, but as “HappyCustomer” says above, they have “privacy” credos subject the intrusive laws of where they are based, i.e. US and UK. They even say they’ll shut people down for trying to watch British TV from the US or vice-versa, as it is technically “downloading illegal content”! The thing that concerned me most was e.g. StrongVPN’s statement that they will comply with any requests from government agencies; this means no warrant required, just a request by phone from someone.
Having read the “Happycustomer” I tried SwissVPN. Their website is indeed void of the usual hyperbole and high impact marketing images – they simply say they will do the job for you, and that your data is protected.
I have tried it for several months now, from many locations, via many ISP’s and for many data sizes, so felt qualified enough to comment on it. SwissVPN works perfectly, and is as easy to set up as it is to set one’s alarm clock. They even let you test out a connection with them, (go to their faq page and it gives details). 100% reliable, 100% integrity, 100% recommended, great prices too.
Review by Happy Customer, September 8, 2009
I spent lots of time when choosing the right VPN provider and came across SwissVPN by accident really. The site is well laid out and doesnt have the usual sales pitch lines that are seen with the competition like unblock your connection from Kuwait or Belize etc and just sticks to the facts without makeing it sound like it should be used for that purpose.
SwissVPN may not be well known like Relakks et el but it does have a proven 5 year history and is part of a Swiss telecommunications provider called Monzoon Networks who are all above board, again unlike various VPN providers around at the moment who are just hireing out various space to sell to customers and not a proven company like these.
Also as the IPs are based in Switszerland you are protected by Switszerlands very strict prvacy laws which are more srict than the EUs such as Germany and the UK .. the UK is not a wise choice to use for a VPN as the gouvernment like to keep long logs of all access to the networks.
Switszerland only obides partially to the EU data retention laws and is more laid back than most and the nation is known for its strong privacy in the banking sector aswell.
Now the best thing is that they offer OpenVPN which is SSL and the most secure VPN you can use. Run a standard PPTP connection through that via the OpenVPN software with the server details from SwissVPN and you will be very well protected indeed and it costs just $5 for one month with $2 extra for the firewall incl.
For me SwissVPN offers everything at a great price and why pay more? this is a PROPER company, not some backstreet buisness makeing a quick killing from the sudden trend in VPNs and you know your data running through them is SAFE and will be taken care of with regards to Swiss data retention and data protection laws … can the same be said for all the competition who run traffic through the UK, USA, Germany etc? no as the UK and USA have very STRICT laws on data retention and your data is not safe like it could be.
SwissVPN offers a full refund option aswell and you can test the service for free albeit its limited to one page but enough to know if it works.
I would suggest you try it and read the part on setting up the OpenVPN method.
Support is also very good with fast pro response. Speed is quick and very reliable.
Give them a try .. they may not try and sell the service with fancy words about getting unblocked but what they do offer is HONEST service.
Review by john, July 3, 2009
reliable and instant access after payment