TiredSoul

Any of you long-haulers use ExpressVPN?
Would you recommend it?
Yes/no/maybe and if not you have any recommendations?

No Land 3

NordVPN on an Android device will get you Youtube, Google, and others in China. The iOS version will not. It has additional options that the iOS version lacks, probably due to Apples stranglehold on everything.
CyberSec, Obfuscate servers, and using TCP/IP.
I believe China blocks UDP traffic.

TiredSoul

Thanks, I’m looking for iPhone/IPad on the road and Windows PC at home.

Reactivity

ExpressVPN was the first VPN I used. I selected it because they supposedly have the most servers all over the world.

I dropped ExpressVPN at the end of the one-year subscription.

They may have a lot of servers, but in practice, the fastest one was almost never the closest. I'd be in Panama or Costa Rica or Mexico (all locations where they have servers), but the fastest one was in Dallas or Miami. So why was I paying for servers all over the world if I was only going to use the ones in the US?

I also had frequent connection problems, both on iOS and the desktop (Mac OS). It would fail to connect or drop the connection.

I'm currently using VyprVPN. It's less expensive. They have fewer servers, but are advertised as having the fastest servers because they maintain their own hardware. It generally works well on iOS, although there are times I have to reset the connection, but I'm never quite certain whether it's the VPN or crummy hotel wi-fi. I'm highly frustrated with the desktop (Mac OS) version. There are three separate parts to the application - the user interface part, the VPN service itself (which is not visible), and something they call the user agent (whose function I have yet to understand, and is also not visible). There are times, less frequent now, when the VPN service portion will run away, blocking traffic, preventing connection or disconnection, and requiring a force quit at the system level because it runs separately from the part of the application that you can see. I'm not sure I'll be renewing at the end of the subscription year.

Nord VPN is next on my list.

TiredSoul

Thank you for your reply.
How important or useful is the ‘tunneling’ function where you can select which apps do and do not use the VPN?
I understand ExpressVPN is one of the few or the only one having that feature.

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VyprVPN has it also. I don't think it's that important.

It's mostly a question of speed. You take a minor hit to speed using a VPN because of the encryption & decryption on both ends and because all traffic has to go through the extra relay point of the VPN server, which may not be that close to the optimal route. That said, we're talking about maybe several tens of milliseconds of latency, or a couple of megabits per second of upload/download speed. Unless you're doing something where speed and latency are important, that particular feature is of little real value in my estimation.

Avenger00

ExpressVPN and NordVPN are the biggest players on the market right now. They both provide quality services. The price is probably the main difference between them, NordVPN is a bit cheaper.
I bought NordVPN subscription and been using it for over a month now. This VPN is very easy to use even if you are not a tech geek I also tested the speed on speedtest. net, the results were good. What I like the most about this VPN is that I can pick a server myself. So, if you are still considering, check them out.

IQuitEagle

I use ExpressVPN and like it. The interface is easy to use, and it is one of the handful of VPN’s that can beat Amazon’s firewall, so it’s ideal if you like to stream Amazon Prime video from outside the US.

TiredSoul

I’m seriously looking at NordVPN now.
Any last comments?
Going once, going twice?

PotatoChip

I used Express for two years for my iPad. No complaints. I don't travel international anymore so stopped using it.