Tests are carried out on a Windows 10 desktop virtual machine hosted on a server with a 10Gbits/sec symmetric fibre link. We connect to endpoints in the UK, Netherlands and USA. These download content from reference servers located in London, Amsterdam and New York.
We do this via HTTP using curl at the Windows command line. All paid-for VPN services, which are unlimited, download around 600MB of data, to allow us to observe variations in download speeds over time. We also used this test for the free VPN services, as all of them provide sufficiently large bandwidth allowances to permit it.
At the time of testing, our virtual machine’s reference connection speeds were a little slower than usual at 98Mbits/sec to our UK target, 122Mbits/sec to the Netherlands and 51Mbits/sec to the…
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