Speed
One of the first things anyone looks for in an effective VPN is the quality of its internet connection. Whatever you plan on doing online — whether streaming, gaming, torrenting, or browsing information — it is important that you are able to do it without lag, buffering, or annoying delays.
A factor that often plays into VPN speed is the number of servers offered by a particular service, and the server reach. A VPN with servers in a large span of countries will give users around the world more of a selection of close-by servers. The rule of thumb for servers is that the closer they are to your actual location, the less distance your traffic has to travel, and the faster your speeds will be. On top of this, a larger server list often means less crowding on the available servers, and, therefore, better speeds.
If you want to access geo-blocked content, like the US Netflix library from the UK, you will need to access a server in the country that will support this connection — in this case, the US. So, even though you are connecting to an overseas server, your connection still has to be fast enough to give you seamless streaming because what good are all those US Netflix shows if you can’t watch them smoothly?
To test UltraVPN’s speeds, we performed our own speed tests.
Before connecting to the UltraVPN app, our base download speed in the UK was 20.31 Mbps. When I connected to a local UK server, my download speed decreased to 18.44 Mbps, which is still a perfectly adequate speed for streaming smoothly.
I then connected to a server in the US. This connection was further away, so, as expected, my speed decreased further. The UK to US download speed was 13.53 Mbps. With these speeds, users are still unlikely to have any trouble with the quality of their streaming service when using UltraVPN