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About two years ago I did my first investigation in mapping different VPN providers internet egress points. Now at the start of 2020, and with more VPN providers existing on the market, I was interested to know how the precious picture has been changed. The mapping has been done by selecting some of the existing VPN providers and connecting several times to the selected countries with their service or by evaluating the providers VPN config files and mapping their servers…

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Introduction The VPN market is crowded with a large number of different VPN providers. Some of them you might never have heard of before, while others invest heavily in advertisement on social media, TV and other media. Not to forget that VPN providers are using attractive affiliate programs, to get bloggers and YouTuber’s to recommend their service instead of others. Those affiliate programs have unfortunately destroyed the option for readers to find an trustworthy VPN review article on the internet….

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Introduction The VPN provider market is a jungle of operators competing for customers, using many marketing arguments. One of the most bizarre argument used is the so called 5 / 9 / 14 eyes issue. The argument here is about “no-logging” as a countermeasure to the “surveillance threat” inside those 5 / 9 / 14 eyes countries, ending with the argument that the location outside those “eyes” countries makes the place perfect for a VPN provider. In this article, I…

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Over the last years, there have been appearing more and more VPN review sites on the internet. Many of them are in the top search results when searching for “VPN Review” on Google. When browsing through them and their results I’m wondering why their top 5 results were often the same. Looking deeper into this, I saw that many of those VPN review sites are using affiliate links, connected to the “reviewed VPN providers”. How does it come that we…

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Introduction Since a couple of month I was wondering, how big Swedish VPN providers actually are? Who has the most users? Well this is difficult to say since this information is not published very often. To get some kind of estimation about how much money each VPN provider is doing in 2017, I was using the  available tax information for each of the companies behind for the VPN providers selected. The tax information for each company is publicly available in…

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Introduction This is a follow up on my previous article about “Are VPN providers more trustworthy than your local ISP?“. In this article I was mapping different VPN provider’s internet egress points.   Now, half a year later I thought it was time for an updated on this mapping, since I have seen a few changes while using different VPN providers myself.   The mapping candidates The countries I’m mapping against are the same as in my previous article. Sweden…

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Introduction I have replaced my Linksys WRT1900ACSv2 router with the new ASUS RT-AC86U (a.k. RT-AC2900). This router has the new Broadcom BCM4906 CPU inbuilt with dual core and 1,8 GHz.  I have previously done some VPN speedtest on my Linksys router with DD-WRT firmware on. Feel free to check them out. Now I felt it was time to do a new VPN speed test with a couple of different VPN providers on the new ASUS router. Test information & Specification…

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An interesting article has recently been published on the internet. Don’t use VPN services  In this article the writer is comparing VPN services as: VPN in this sense is just a glorified proxy This of course didn’t take long time until the VPN providers offering VPN services started to respond on this post. For example AirVPN has started answering with the following article: Rebuttal of article “Don’t use VPN services.” I don’t want to go in to detail who has…

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