Public Review
Review from Anon on Vpn Tunnel (Swedish)
[edited by admin: This one seems fake to me]
Hi everyone. After reading the reviews of VPNtunnel.se from all these users, i feel that i have to share my experience with this company.
I have been using VPNtunnel.se For the better part of 2 years. (while most users here max have done, what. 1 month?) And therefor would be able to give you a better picture for the long run of their services.
I will be breaking it up accordingly to the rating i gave it, and why. But first, What one seeks depends on, what one is using it for.
What i used VPN tunnel for, was primarily Download, Uploading, Avoiding censorship and or general spoof of IP. I run with a 50/50 mbit connection and get an est of 51/49 mbit from my provider. (they all cheat you :P)
Lets start
Price ( x x x x ) (4 stars)
I gave them 4 stars on the price, because, 49 SEKK isn’t really a lot of money. When you look at other services claiming to be providing with the same. VPN allows you to use the connection from multiple users, as long as it is from the same IP (where other services that i have encountered a limit 1 – 3) So in my case, having multiple computers, i get more for the money, than i do with other services. Because i have to buy more than one account for those. Four stars.
Reliability ( x x x x ) (4 stars)
I gave them 4 stars seen throughout the long run of having VPNtunnel.se. The only reason, i did not give them 5 stars, have been because of periods of maintenance they have had. VPNtunnel.se is a rapidgrowing firm, which in order to keep up with the growth, had to expand. A year to one and a half, they started expanding their swedish servers and all over the globe. This naturally gave some UPs and DOWNs. Never the less, VPNtunnel have surely provided and giving you a sense of reliability. Their own software have some lacks, as users here state, the “picture” which indicate whether you are online or not, is always working correctly, but that doesnt mean you wasnt connected. While monitoring the network with wireshark over several month. It was proven, that even though the client look like it dropped the connection, it would still send its data through the tunnel. Many of the reviews below seems misguided. But i guess stupidity rules the world now a day.
While the time being, i have been able to setup vpn on my servers and monitor the traffic for over a month. The servers did not once, send out a beacon that was from a different IP beside the VPNTunnel IPs.
Speed ( x x x x x ) 5 stars.
i give them 5 stars, because i have yet to encounter a time, where their speed could not match mine with a slight 1 – 2 mbit under (due to the encryption) This is natural when using a vpn, since all data is being encrypted. Though while gaming, i was able to experience some slight lag, when playing on servers that had geo location far enough from the actual vpn server. this issue could easly be solved by selecting one of the wide range servers, vpn tunnel have. And everything would be good again.
Support ( x x x ) 3 stars.
Now why do i give them 3 stars. In my almost 2 years time, i have only had to contact them once. And they did reply within 3 hours (i guess i was lucky huh) The reply i was given was as of so. Good enough, however, it indicated a lack of.. willingness to help out.
My overall happyness with VPN tunnel have been 4 stars throughout the 2 years. It is my oppinion, that most web servers have a higher downtime / bad support than vpntunnel.se have.
And as most services, some people have bad experience, i am sure, i could find people who thinks YOUR vpn service is really bad, due to bad experience.
I have also been using VPNtunnel with linux a lot, it is setup really easy from their side, you login, download certs and conf. move it to the openvpn folder, and boot up openvpn. Then you are on for weeks at the time.
It kinda makes me sad, seeing people, having 1 week usage of this service and judging them as a bad service in a whole. What do you know really pal?
Then again, maybe i was “lucky” not to have a single problem for 2 years, with servers running 24/7…. who knows. I can only recommend at-least trying their services for more than a week.
On a last note. While researching for the best VPN. I found that only 2 other VPN provides have the same reliability and matching speed / price, as VPNtunnel.se (anonine, mullvad)