IPVanish doesn’t offer a business address nor does the company provide the names of its CEO or anyone else in an executive position on its website. As for the VPN itself, IPVanish says it “ does not collect or log any traffic or use of its virtual private network service.” On its site, IPVanish collects IP addresses and pages viewed for analytics purposes. If Bitcoin doesn’t appeal, there are also the more standard options of a credit card or PayPal. Then for payment you can use the semi-anonymous method of Bitcoin, there are no options for cash. The company requires an email address to sign up for an account, and you can easily use an email not connected to your actual identity. IPVanish is not necessarily set up for anonymity, but as with other VPNs, anonymity is still achievable. It was still fast enough to stream high-resolution video and for gaming over most country connections-the Germany connection was particularly good-but it was not a great result compared to other services we’ve tested. Comparing speeds across five different VPN locations, IPVanish scored an average of just 22.55 percent of the base speed using five different country connections. Nevertheless, I’ve tested numerous VPNs using this exact same setup, and I’ve rarely seen numbers this low. At this point, I must also remind you that this is a single experience on a limited number of machines, and your experience may vary. Performance IPVanishĭespite claims to having a superior network, I can say that IPVanish has some of the slowest speeds I’ve tested. IPVanish allows up to five simultaneous device connections on one account. The map feels a little crowded in the default size of the IPVanish window, but you can expand the entire app to get a more expansive map to scroll around. You can scroll to any location in the world on the map, click the green circle, and you’ll be connected to a VPN server in that location. Ian Paul/IDGĬlick on Map and you get one of the more popular options for VPN interfaces. Instead, I was clicking on the country locations to see if the servers would reveal themselves, but all that did was initiate a connection. I didn’t think to click on the circle, for example, to get a list of servers until a company representative told me about it. There’s a lot of information contained in this Server List tab, and while that’s great for power users, the interface could be better. Click that circle and the specific servers are revealed complete with ping response times from your physical location and the server load. To the far right of each country on the list, a circled number denotes the servers available in each location. The list section also provides the ability to drill down into each country and pick specific servers. There’s also a search box if you want to find items a little faster. You can sort this list by country, response time, load, and favorite locations. List is just a simple list of every country and the city that houses IPVanish’s connections.

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