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Furthermore, users who run Kodi on their Amazon Fire TVs and Fire TV Sticks can hide the contents and destination of their internet traffic from snooping internet service providers. This makes it possible to watch geo-locked content on streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, BBC iPlayer, HBO, and many more.

#Mullvad stuck on connecting install

Unfortunately, much of that streaming media content is geo-locked, meaning you need to install a VPN on your Amazon Fire Stick to access your usual services while traveling abroad.īy encrypting all of your internet traffic and routing it through an intermediary server in a location of your choosing, a Virtual Private Network (VPN) can “spoof” your location to make it appear to the content provider as though you are located in another country or region. I have a spare slot on my account and don't mind letting you test it for a few hours, after which the key will just stop working.The Amazon Fire TV Stick, Firestick, and Fire Cube are a simple and cost-effective way to turn any TV with an HDMI port into an Internet-connected streaming device with access to tens of thousands of movies, TV shows, and other content. You pays your money, but generally if you avoid the companies with flashy websites with 20 trackers embedded and never-ending 'sales' you won't go too far wrong.Īs I offered the OP, if you want to play with Mullvad for a few hours drop me a Trust and I'll send you a WireGuard key and forwarded port. They use 10Gb servers, are very private/secure, and once they roll out WireGuard support they'll be about perfect I think. If streaming via VPN is important to you then ProtonVPN don't offer WireGuard yet (planned for this year), but they do work with all streaming services and I regularly saw high speeds from them over IPSEC. They fought their ground and won, as it was impossible to prove anything about TPB because OVPN truly were logless and secure. OVPN, for example, was in court recently because the Pirate Bay is (was) hosted behind it. All three have repeatedly proven they don't hold logs and won't sell out customers. They - like most services - won't work with iPlayer or Prime Video etc. Azire doesn't do forwarding, but does offer OpenVPN with a static public IP should you need it.

All provide WireGuard and will saturate gigabit, and the first two offer port forwarding with it.

Personally, if privacy and speed are top concerns then it's a toss up between Mullvad, OVPN and AzireVPN.

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The latter do at least work with most streaming services and, provided you know what their limitations are re: pricing, renewals, lack of manual WireGuard configs and other shady tricks, you can get good speeds and access iPlayer etc. PIA is owned by an advertising/malware company these days, and Nord has proven to be shady on more than one occasion and in multiple ways.

There are others who may be cheaper, but personally I avoid PIA and Nord for similar ethical concerns to Avalon. As I said earlier, and Avalon confirmed above, Mullvad and Proton are respected and respectable providers. Restricting your desktop to 100Mbps is never going to give you much, and ime even Express can provide 100Mbps it depends on what you want a VPN for. Don't worry too much about your speeds until you're testing wired on a gigabit NIC/switch/router. As shown in this thread, they're very capable of saturating gigabit all day long. You can even pay in cash (send cash in an envelope to Sweden, with your random account ID written on a slip of paper inside the envelope). They don't require personal details to sign up, you just get a random account number when you click 'Sign up'. They're zero log, one of the most long-standing and trusted providers out there, based in Sweden.

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A phone, even an iPhone 12 Pro Max or equivalent latest Android, is going to struggle with the encryption overhead for VPN, especially OpenVPN.ĭo you want a Mullvad key as I offered last night? I'll be happy to let you try them out for an hour or two. You're relying on tests over WiFi, when in fact you'd be just as accurate to lick your finger and hold it up in the wind while saying random numbers out loud. You're never going to see over 100Mbps until your network equipment supports gigabit (or above).