Looking for the best way to access the restricted websites in your region? or looking for the best way to privately browse the web? The easiest and modest way is VPN. A VPN service can handle all your browsing and anonymity needs by hiding your actual location. And also If you’d like to protect yourself and have a more secure browsing experience from an untrusted public network one definitive solution is to use a VPN service.
It is also useful for entertainment lovers, it unlocks all region-restricted content and gives access to US and UK based location restricted websites. Another great use of IPVanish is VoIP calls, some companies charge long distance International calls. Using IPVanish you can save international calling bills.
IPVanish is a fairly popular name in this genre, and support almost all platforms. Ok, praising is done, here is our personal take on IPVanish VPN service.
What is IPVanish?
IPVanish is one of the top and best VPN provider available. It has servers across 60+ countries with US and UK having multiple servers to boost speed to the customers.
How it works?
When you use IPVanish, your internet network traffic is routed through the IPVanish servers to disguise your actual location. It enables streaming of restricted websites in your region. IPVanish supports 256-Bit AES encryption which is highly secure and ensures high security to your connection.
IPVanish provides a secure environment for everyday web use. Once you establish a VPN connection all of your online data (emails, instant messages, data transfers, online banking) pass through our encrypted tunnel.
Features & Usability
Using IPVanish pretty easy and simple. To get started head over to the IPVanish official website and choose your plan. Plans start from $10/month, for 3 months $26.99 and for one year the price is $77.99.
Now you need to download the program on your desktop computer. Luckily IPVanish supports various platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Ubuntu, Chromebook and routers. In this review we used Windows platform and testing conducted on Mac, iOS, and Android.
In Windows platform download the software package form website and install on your machine. After launching the program you will require IPVanish login credentials to establish a connection with the VPN server.
The user interface of the program pretty easy to understand. The main dashboard shows your actual location and your current IP address on a world map. To enter into anonymous mode simply head over to the Server Selection on the left side of the UI and select the location of your choice. Here the program shows its excellence, you can choose the server location of your choice by means of by use, location least ping and available server locations from a map.
By use section carries different options like fastest server, US Media or Gaming, UK Media or Gaming, and CA Media or Gaming. If you are opting VPN to access restricted content on specific regions “By use” option provides a simple way to access the content. Using IPVanish user can unlock and watch Netflix, Hulu, sports and news from anywhere in the world.
List section contains a number of server location, you can choose the location of your choice by means of filtering options like ping, Country, last connected and times connected.
Map section shows the map with a list of IPVanish servers located on the different parts of the world.
You can directly connect to a server by clicking on the location of your choice. Clicking on each location shows the list available servers, simply click on the power button to start VPN service.
Or the user can directly change his location by clicking on the drop-down menu located on the top of the UI.
IP Settings section shows the current IP address and if you want you can opt for periodic IP address change automatically by configuring settings. You can check your IP change instantly by clicking on Verify IP address button. It shows your IP address using popular services like What is my IP, trace my IP and its own IPVanish check my IP.
Testing
Testing was conducted on Windows, Android, iOS, Ubuntu and DD-WRT enabled router. We satisfied with the speed and performance offered by the service. We conducted a speed test using speedtest.net service, average ping takes nearly 158 ms which is acceptable speed for a VPN.
Verdict
Based on testing results, price and server locations IPVanish is one of the best VPN service available. We strongly recommend it to our audience.