IVPN for Windows review: Same high price, more features

IVPN in short:

• P2P allowed: Yes (however not on U.S. servers)
• Business location: Gibraltar
• Number of servers: 73
  
• Number of nation places: 29
  
• Cost: $100 per yr
• VPN protocol: OpenVPN
• Data encryption: 256-bit AES + 4096-bit RSA
• Data authentication: AES-256-GCM
• Handshake: TLS-auth

We haven’t checked out IVPN in practically two years, and the service has modified quite a bit in that point. The firm has more nation places, more servers, and more features together with an experimental model of the WireGuard VPN protocol for Windows—the primary of its variety, so far as we’re conscious.

While quite a bit has modified for IVPN, a number of the key factors about this service haven’t. It’s nonetheless formally primarily based in Gibraltar, the CEO and CTO stay the identical, and regardless of the rise in service the value can also be the identical—which nonetheless stays a bit on the high facet.

Note: This evaluate is a part of our finest VPNs roundup. Go there for particulars about competing merchandise and the way we examined them.

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Features and providers

The present IVPN app is a big enchancment over the earlier design. The tabbed interface on the high is gone. This is the place you’d swap between IVPN’s single-hop and multi-hop connections. Instead, the brand new IVPN features two easy buttons on the backside to modify between the 2 choices. The nation listing has the ping time for every location, with a inexperienced or crimson indicator telling you at a look what sort of speeds to count on.

IVPN now has an anti-tracker characteristic, which went dwell in June 2019. It lets you cease web sites from monitoring you, in addition to block adverts. IVPN handles all of this on the corporate’s DNS servers, which prevents third-party adverts from being referred to as whenever you land on a web site.

IVPN’s advert blocking additionally sports activities a “hardcore mode” the place you utterly reduce off Facebook and Google. This makes each of these providers inaccessible, however when you don’t need them monitoring you, then it’s in all probability a good suggestion to steer clear of their providers anyway.

The most attention-grabbing change, nevertheless, is the addition of WireGuard. The new VPN protocol, which is claimed to make use of “state-of-the-art cryptography,” is already in Mac and Linux builds of assorted VPNs similar to Mullvad for Linux, IVPN for Mac, and NordVPN for Linux. This, nevertheless, is the primary time we’ve seen WireGuard on Windows.

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That’s not a shock as WireGuard on Windows improvement is in its very early phases. IVPN is utilizing model 0.17 of WireGuard in its app, together with some particular modifications you’ll be able to examine on IVPN’s web site. Given that we’re not even at a 1.Zero launch but, I wouldn’t advocate WireGuard on IVPN for mission-critical duties, however if you wish to attempt it out it’s there.

I didn’t run any pace exams with the brand new protocol because it’s so early in its improvement. Playing round with it, nevertheless, I noticed some blended outcomes, with…