Reviews of paid VPN services [English]

[tokiodrift1]

Here are some VPN-Services in the second part is the Review of these trackers.
This trustable-list is made by several users at the gulli-forum, but I translated it for you.
So, its the only english-version available on the web. ;-)

Here we go...

VPN-Services:
Ivacy
Linkideo
Perfect Privacy
Trackbuster
Surfonym
SwissVPN
Relakks
Ipredator
PRQ Tunnel
Anonine
HotSpotShield
Tor
JAP

Reviews:

Ivacy

Homepage: Ivacy VPN service, secure VPN, buy VPN, Bypass proxy
Logging: NO
Kind of Sevice: Flat, Volume
Costs: 10€/Month, 50c/GB
Payable : Paypal, UKash, ...
Anonym payable (without PPal): YES (UKash)
Destination of Company: Switzerland
Server Destination: Russia, England, USA
Connections: PPTP (alle), IPSEC (RUS), OpenVPN (RUS)
Traffic-Limitations: NO (bei Flat)
Port-Forwarding: YES, a lot of
Other Information: Nice Volume-Option for casual surfers



Linkideo


Homepage: Linkideo | Your own VPN solution
Logging: NO
Kind of Sevice: 1-Month-Flat with fixed Download-Rate (0,5Mbit/2MBit) and unlimited
Costs: 2€ / 5€ / 10€
Payable : Alertpay (-> CreditCard/Bank-Transfer), Phone
Anonym payable (without PPal): YES (Phone/Mobile, better anynomous sim-card like from travelsimshop.com)
Destination of Company: Jersey
Server Destination: NETH, UK, USA
Connections: PPTP
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information: -



Perfect-Privacy

Homepage: Perfect Privacy — Encrypts your Internet at Home and While Away on Business, SSH Tunnels, VPN, Anonymous High Security and Elite Squid, SOCKS 5 and CGI Proxies, Safe Offshore Servers on Different Continents
Logging: NO
Kind of Sevice: Flat (Month / Year / 2 Years)
Costs: 25€ / 150€ / 250€
Payable : Paypal, Paysafecard, Cash-Money-Transfer, usw
Anonym payable (without PPal): YES (Paysafecard, Cash-Money-Transfer)
Destination of Company: International
Server Destination: Australia, Malaysia, China, Iran, Israel, Russia, Romania, Germany, Switzerland, Luxemburg, Netherlands, England, France, Canada, USA, and others
Connections: PPTP, OpenVPN, SOCKS5
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information:



Trackbuster

Homepage: Trackbuster - Anonym im Internet - anonymes surfen
Logging: NO
Kind of Sevice: Flat
Costs: 5€/Month
Payable : Bank-Transfer, Paypal
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: England, Germany
Server Destination: Germany
Connections: OpenVPN
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information: Should be payable Anynomous in a few weeks/months


Surfonym

Homepage: SurfoNym - Anonymous and secure surfing :: ssh cisco encrypted tunnel private secure
Logging: NO
Kind of Sevice: Flat
Costs: 5€/Month
Payable : Paypal, Cash-Money-Transfer
Anonym payable (without PPal): YES (Cash-Money-Transfer)
Destination of Company: Austria
Server Destination: Austria
Connections: PPTP, OpenVPN
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information: -



SwissVPN

Homepage: SwissVPN - Surf the safer way!
Logging: YES
Kind of Sevice: Flat
Costs: 3,50€/Month
Payable : Paypal, CreditCard
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: Switzerland
Server Destination: Switzerland
Connections: PPTP, OpenVPN
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information: -



Relakks

Homepage: https://www.relakks.com/?cid=gb
Logging: YES, 3 Months, they even give your data to external Companys etc.
Kind of Sevice: Flat (3 Months / 1 Year)
Costs: 15€ / 45€
Payable : CreditCard
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: Sweden
Server Destination: Sweden
Connections: PPTP
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information: -



IPREDATOR

Homepage: https://www.ipredator.se/?lang=en
Logging: NO
Kind of Sevice: Flat (3 Months)
Costs: 15€
Payable : Paypal
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: Sweden
Server Destination: Sweden
Connections: PPTP
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information: Same working structure as Relakks



PRQ Tunnel

Homepage: PRQ - Colocation, Dedicated Servers, Web hosting, VPN Tunnels, Privacy services
Logging: HALF (static IP and they share your data)
Kind of Sevice: Flat (0,5mbit/s / 10mbit/s / 30mbit/s)
Costs: 8€/Month / 13€/Month / 21€/Month (+ additional 2-4€ tax)
Payable : Paypal, Bank-Transfer
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: Sweden
Server Destination: Sweden
Connections: OpenVPN
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information: Good for getting a static IP, not that good to get Anynomous.



Anonine

Homepage: https://www.anonine.com/en/start
Logging: NO, but they share your data
Kind of Sevice: Flat (1 Months / 3 Months / 12 Months)
Costs: 4€ / 11€ / 40€
Payable : Paypal
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: Sweden
Server Destination: Sweden
Connections: PPTP
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: YES
Other Information: Some outgoing connections getting blocked by this VPN-Service



HotSpotShield

Homepage: Get Behind the Shield! Hotspot Shield by AnchorFree
Logging: YES
Kind of Sevice: Flat
Costs: For Free
Payable : For Free
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: USA
Server Destination: USA
Connections: own Client
Traffic-Limitations: YES
Port-Forwarding: NO
Other Information: Only good if you're in hurry and you need a american IP (Example for Pandora oder Hulu)



TOR

Homepage: Tor: anonymity online
Logging: NO
Kind of Sevice: Flat
Costs: For Free
Payable : For Free
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: worldwide, each Server has another owner
Server Destination: a lot of worldwide()
Connections: Browserplugin, own Client
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: NO
Other Information: Slow, best Anynomity.



JAP

Homepage: JAP -- ANONYMITY & PRIVACY
Logging: NO
Kind of Sevice: Flat
Costs: For Free
Payable : For Free
Anonym payable (without PPal): NO
Destination of Company: Germany
Server Destination: a lot of worldwide()
Connections: own Client
Traffic-Limitations: NO
Port-Forwarding: NO
Other Information:




BTW, there are more Services without a Review yet.
I could add it to my list if someone can review it.

Currently without a Review:

Cinipac
Cyberghost<-- will add this later on...
FlashVPN
TorrentFreedom
TorrentPrivacy
Trilightzone VPN
StrongVPN
VPNUK
Xerobank

Greetz
tokiodrift1

[AsusGraphics]

Thanks for the huge list , tokiodrift1.

BTW, there are more Services without a Review yet.
I could add it to my list if someone can review it.

Currently without a Review:

Cinipac
Cyberghost <-- will add this later on...
FlashVPN
TorrentFreedom
TorrentPrivacy
Trilightzone VPN
StrongVPN
VPNUK
Xerobank

I have heard many times that Trilightzone VPN is scam and they give/sell your traffic details for third parties.

[tokiodrift1]

I dont know about Trilightzone VPN, but if you buy an ACC and make a Review, then I could add it to my list.
This list is not only based on simple data of their websites, it is based on real user-experience.

[AsusGraphics]

Well, rumours tell that trilightzone is connected somehow with Privacy.li - Anonymous Surfing, Offshore hosting, Secure Storage & Privacy Domains who does have a poor reputation.


I just want to warn others about trilightzone.

[tokiodrift1]

okay, this information could be helpful for the SB-I-Users.

However, I would still recommend that users who want to pay for a VPN-Service, should first of all check the reviewed VPN-Services.

All other users, which are looking for a free & fast service, could also check the second post of this thread.

[anon]

Indeed a great list, I have moved the posts to a separate thread so that it's easier to find.

[mumbalaya]

nice list I've heard good things about its hidden as well...

[Renk]

* Privacy.li and Trilightzone have indeed a very bad reputation.

* Cofunder of TorrentFreedom has been arrested recently, so I think it's not a great idea to use his services at this moment.

* A non listed interesting vpn is s6n.org:
costs: 5€/month, via paypal
Servers are in Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, USA.
Vpn are PPTP or OpenVPN, running on port 443 (UDP or TCP could be chosen)
Spain is a relaxed destination for P2P, as at this moment spanish law allow UL and DL of copyrighted data under the condition it's not for commercial purpose.
http://s6n.org/arethusa/features.html

[tokiodrift1]

Just choose a VPN-Service from my above trusted Reviews-List, which fits good to your overall surfing behaviour.

You dont have to use unknown / unreviewed services like trilightzone etc.

[Renk]

Just choose a VPN-Service from my above trusted Reviews-List, which fits good to your overall surfing behaviour.

You dont have to use unknown / unreviewed services like trilightzone etc.

Your list is very interesting, but on a methodological point of view, what are the criteria allowing to say that such or such vpn provider is trustworthy?

I have 2 others (almost opposite) questions:


1) About Anonine. You say "no log" but "they share your data". I was not aware of that (data sharing) concerning Anonine. Where did you get that?

2) About Ipredator & Relakks. Ipredator doesn't keep log, but Relakks does, and Ipredator uses the Relakks infrastructure. So, logs are kept, not by Ipredator's operators, but by Relakks ?

More generally, if avpn provider says "we keep no log", does it really matter, as the Vpn provider's ISP certainly does ?

[anon]

More generally, if avpn provider say "we keep no log", does it really matter, as the Vpn provider's ISP certainly does ?

I would think ISPs won't log traffic from commercial users, due to the massive amount of disk space that may require.

[tokiodrift1]

...
I have 2 others (almost opposite) questions:


1) About Anonine. You say "no log" but "they share your data". I was not aware of that (data sharing) concerning Anonine. Where did you get that?

2) About Ipredator & Relakks. Ipredator doesn't keep log, but Relakks does, and Ipredator uses the Relakks infrastructure. So, logs are keeping, not by Ipredator's operators, but by Relakks ?
...

I specify them for you...

1)
Anonine: They Share this data: Payment Data (The way you paid, your paying details), but they only share if you commit an infringement (break the law) which could bring you for minimum 2 years into pris*n.

2)
Ipredator: Logging:No--> Check This

Relakks: Logging: Yes, 3 months. They share all your applying data.
That means all the data which you gave them by joining Relakks, but only if you commit an infringement (break the law) which could bring you into pris*n (time in pris*n not specified).
Furthermore they will share your IP if you break the law in a very hard way with getting at least 2-years in Pris*n.
Pris*n-Info--> Check This

They're both using the same technical-structure, but they have not the same logging-system (ipredator: not logging).


IN THE ABOVE REVIEWS, IF I SAY 'THEY SHARE YOUR DATA', THAT MEANS TO BE CAREFUL WITH THE VPN-Service. These tagged VPNs share your Applying-Data and/or IPs and/or Payment-Details.

I hope I could answer your questions.

[Renk]

I would think ISPs won't log traffic from commercial users, due to the massive amount of disk space that may require.

Maybe, but I'm not completely sure: If an ISP is already keeping logs of tens of millions of home users, keeping logs of thousands or even hundreds of thousands connections of vpn providers will not add a big amount of charge.


An other question is: What kinds of logs are kept ? Not the entire datastream for sure, but what exactly ? All informations such that "Ip xxxx connected to ip yyyy through port p at 10h12mn53s until 10h42mn53s" ??

[anon]

Maybe, but I'm not completely sure: If an ISP is already keeping logs of tens of millions of home users, keeping logs of thousands or even hundreds of thousands connections of vpn providers will not add a big amount of charge.

If unsure, assume the worst possible scenario and act accordingly. This works for real life as well.

An other question is: What kinds of logs are kept ? Not the entire datastream for sure, but what exactly ? All informations such that "Ip xxxx connected to ip yyyy through port p at 10h12mn53s until 10h42mn53s" ??

Well, I've never worked for an ISP, but if they don't log the actual data it should look more or less like that, maybe a bit of extra info added in.

[tanzi]

You say that anonine share data. If they do not keep any logs, then how can they share ip address. And do you mean to say that Surfonym, Trackbuster, Perfect-Privacy, Ivacy, IPREDATOR do not share any data if requested or ordered by authorities?

Btw, which of the above will give the best performance with emule.