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Private Internet Access VPN Review

Private Internet Access VPN Review

A VPN is crucial these days. A trusted VPN provider is even more crucial. Private Internet Access is a safe, trusted, and cheap VPN. Their VPN starts at only $6.95 for one month, $35.95 for six months, and only $39.95 for a year! Private Internet Access is one of the fastest, cheapest, and most reliable VPN’s on the market in my eyes. Private Internet Access VPN offers a lot of unique features that a lot of other VPN providers can not. What is a VPN?

The trust

Private Internet Access is a very trusted and secure company. Hundreds of thousands of people have

done business with them. Hundreds of thousands of people have trusted them to not install snitchware. Hundreds of thousands of us trust them to encrypt and keep our us safe. How can we trust this? On their “Contact Us” page they go through a long list of claims.”Do you log? We do not maintain any logs of any kind, period.” “Where are you located? We are located in the US. Being in the US is optimal for VPN Privacy services since the US is one of the few countries that does not have a mandatory data retention policy. Countries in the EU are forced to log, even though some claim they do not.” Private Internet Access only buys servers that do not log. They buy servers, encrypt all your data, and don’t log any of it. That’s a lot better than what your internet provider does! For only $6.95 a month, you can have all this. They are also based in the U.S.A. so they do not have to log anything. They are not forced to, so why would they? We conducted an Interview with Private Internet Access you can view it here.

Features

Private Internet Access has a lot of great features. They do not cap your bandwidth or internet usage. You can use this VPN 100% unlimited. There is no cap, and they won’t stop you at any point. As stated earlier, they have a great price too (not really a feature just a plus)! Private Internet Access has a great VPN client/user interface. Their unique user interface makes it extremely easy to use. Here are some pictures of it

Private Internet Access Client, Freedom Hacker

Here is what it looks like when you want to connect to the VPN

Private Internet Access Locations, Freedom Hacker

The client is great. Most VPN providers only let you choose one location to use 24/7, or they make you log into their website to change locations. Their client allows you to change locations right from the desktop in a matter of seconds.  They have a very large list of locations. Multiple servers in the U.S.A., the UK, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, and Romania. Private Internet Access is growing at such a rapid rate, I am sure more locations with come soon. More great features are their “Leak Protection”, and “VPN Kill switch” methods. These features ensure none of your data will be leaked. The “Leak Protection” will stop any packets from accidentally escaping the VPN. This makes sure no internet packets can not use the VPN. It sets the VPN to be the only source of internet, so no other pieces of data can get in our out without the VPN, no questions. The “VPN Kill Switch” is by far my favorite feature. This makes sure you are always connected to the VPN. If your internet connection drops, the only way the internet can be used on your computer, is if it is connected to the VPN. Your computer won’t work till the VPN is connected, or re-connects itself. I tested it, and it works. It will firewall all internet. I turned my router off, and back on. The internet does not work till the VPN is on. Even when you disconnect, if the feature is still on, the internet won’t work. To get the internet to work with no VPN, you have to uncheck the feature, or do this. Lastly they allow you to use the VPN on FIVE devices. at one time! Most VPN providers only allow the account to be used on one device. Its 2013, we have multiple devices, and they understand that. You can use this on your phone, computer, router, media player, or any other electronic that allows a VPN. Private Internet Access has a lot of great features!

Speeds

A lot of VPN providers I have used in the past have virtually cut my speed in half, or have only chopped a little bit off. When using other VPN’s I usually got about 600KB/s, or one megabyte per second. But with private internet access, I get full speed. Very few VPN providers have done that for me. Full speed is a great addition. VPN’s are a great tool, but when your network is slow they aren’t. Myself, and others have always gotten full speed no matter what network, or devices we were on. (I have not tested this on gigabit, or fiber optic networks)

Overall Review

Private Internet Access is a great VPN. The client looks great, the speed is phenomenal, you can be anywhere within a few clicks, and you can go dark online in a matter of seconds. The VPN is trusted, keeps no logs, and doesn’t snitch on their users. They comply with everything they legally have to, but won’t give out any piece of data without a fight. They do have a zero tolerance policy, but their VPN is great. Private Internet Access is my number one VPN. Its my personal daily choice. I use it on my computer, phone, tablet, and allow family and friends to use it. I recommend it to anyone looking for cyber security. Everyone say they don’t even notice its on. Private Internet Access is a must have VPN. Check out their website/service here.

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Read our Interview with Private Internet Access VPN here.

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  1. “Being in the US is optimal for VPN Privacy services since the US is one of the few countries that does not have a mandatory data retention policy.” WTF??? What a joke.

    It’s crazy to trust a US company with your privacy these days. Why did Lavabit shut down? Because the US has secret laws that FORCE the company to comply. Either sell out your customers or shut down your business. US citizens can’t even talk about the secret laws or they will go to jail.

    source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/democracy-now/exclusive-owner-of-snowde_b_3748774.html

    Levison is joined by his lawyer, Jesse Binnall. “Ladar is in a situation where he has to watch every word he says when he’s talking to the press, for fear of being imprisoned,” Binnall says. “The simple fact is that I’m here with him only because there are some very fine lines that he can’t cross for fear of being dragged away in handcuffs.”

    “There’s information that I can’t even share with my lawyer, let alone with the American public,” Levison says. “So, if we’re talking about secrecy, you know, it’s really been taken to the extreme, and I think it’s really being used by the current administration to cover up tactics that they may be ashamed of.”

    When asked why he shut Lavabit down, Levison says: “It was a very difficult decision, but I felt that, in the end, I had to pick between the lesser of two evils, and that shutting down the service, if it was no longer secure, was the better option.”

  2. I, like many others, have a Linksys Etherfast Cable/DSL router.

    With that router, can I install and use Private Access VPN Service safely?

    1. You will need to have access to the management panel. It can usually be accessed through 192.168.xx.x. If you can, check and see if they allow for a VPN to be routed through it.

      If not, I can recommend a VPN router from Flashrouters, which allows you to use any VPN. I personally use the Asus N66U from Flashrouters.

  3. I dunno how trustworthy PIA still is. A couple of weeks ago I noted that some connections to Switserland or Sweden where rerouted through the US or Panama. Why? I don’t know and tend to distrust a VPN provider that reroute connections. PIA is still an US based provider so are they still to be trusted?

    1. I have had this happen a couple of times on a number of VPN providers. I am not sure why, but sometimes other countries or their servers get routed through different locations. Could be the VPN’s fault or the datacenters.
      I would say it is PIA’s fault, but they have over 1,000 active servers, so it may be a small mistake. I always noticed the issue to be resolved by reconnecting. Could just be you were routed to a different cluster on accident than what you chose.

      I would still trust them. Feel free to post more here if it keeps happening. I will go ahead and contact them if more readers report this.

      1. My PIA rerouted from Romania the Switzerland the other day. And currently I’m supposed to be connected to Romania but it shows UK.

    1. Hello, can you please explain? This is our honest opinion on the service, and we decide to advertise their services in our sidebar instead of using 3rd party ad servers ridden with malware. We are currently in the midst of detaching from all ad networks.

  4. You say we get a discount by using your link, but you don,t say how much. Also, the price remains the same when applying.

  5. “Private Internet Access is a very trusted and secure company. ” Maybe at one time they were. I’ve been a long time PIA subscriber. I used to trust them but I can’t anymore. My confidence in them was already waning. Then they recently appointed Mark Karpeles as their CTO, the same Mark Karpeles of Mt. Gox fame who “lost” $480 million of their customers’ bitcoins, while at the same time $2.3 million mysteriously materialized in his personal bitcoin wallet. Karpeles is under arrest and awaiting trial in Japan for fraud and embezzlement. Even if he’s ultimately acquitted it’s hard to reconcile how PIA could appoint such a bungler (if not a con artist) to be in charge of their security when he presided over one of the biggest online security breaches in history. With that brilliant decision PIA has more than earned my distrust. Moved on to a trustworthy VPN.

    They were a good value with fast servers and okay support when I first signed up several years ago. But in the last two years they started going down hill, and in recent months in particular it’s been an utter fiasco.