Public Review
Review from majpooper on HideMyAss!
I am a little surprised at the poor reviews.
First – the price for a one year subscription of $6.50/month is pretty reasonable.
Two – I have had HMA for over a year and have zero reliability issues,
I use it on both my home PC especially when doing online banking and on my laptop when I travel especially when using a wi-fi connection to the internet.
Three – I have 60Mbps broadband service with TWC a speed test without the VPN typically results in ~55Mbps. Right now as I am typing this I am on the HMA VPN and the speed test I just did showed my download speed to be 48Mbps although I have seen it as high as 53Mbps.
I have HMA VPN on a Linux Mint OS where I use the hma-openvpn.sh shell script. It is pretty easy to install and use. The nice thing about the script is that it has a couple of switches that allow you to find the fastest servers available – very useful. If you do not use these and just randomly pick a server then yeah the speed can be very very slow.
One other observation – I put HMA on a Windows Virtual Machine and noticed that although the GUI is slick the speed guide is not as quick and easy as the linux script IMHO but it does work.