And while the further away the server is, the bigger the speed hit will be, I would still say that unless you have an extremely high-speed base connection, you shouldn’t feel too much of a speed dip as you go about your business on the internet. I tested servers spanning locations in North America, Asia, and Europe. Across all times and locations tested, Windscribe scored an average of 55 Mbps. I’ve seen better, but I’ve also seen much, much worse. In conducting my speed tests over Windscribe’s network, I found that it performed quite well and provided decent speeds.
#WINDSCRIBE WINDOWS#
#WINDSCRIBE FREE#
The free subscription supports all of the same features as the paid plans – except for the limited number of servers. Windscribe also offers a free plan, which gives you ten servers to choose from and a maximum bandwidth of 10GB. It supports only secure VPN protocols and also provides an adblocker. The service supports split tunneling and port forwarding (which can be handy for torrenting and hosting servers). It takes a strong stance on user privacy and puts forth a robust no-logging policy. Windscribe provides a strong feature-set for both privacy and convenience. It’s based in Ontario, Canada, and it manages to focus on privacy, as a serious VPN provider should, while remaining intuitive, easy to use, and affordable.
Windscribe VPN is one of the smaller commercial VPN providers. You can read more on the criteria I used to test Windscribe and our broader VPN testing methodology here.
If time is at a premium for you right now, read my summary below for a quick overview.