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iVPN

Editor’s Rating
Overall Rating 80/100
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ivpn reviewPrice $20 / $15 / $40 / $70 / $125…..Single Purchase / Monthly / 3 Month / 6 Month / 1 Year (See Official Price Plan HERE)
Protocols PPTP, L2TP/IPSec, SSL/OpenVPN
Servers – USA, UK, Netherlands, France
Supported Systems

  •     Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7 (32 and 64 bit)
  •     Mac OSX
  •     Linux
  •     Apple iOS (iPhone and iPad)
  •     Android

Unique Features: Double Hop***, Free server switching
Ease of Installation: No technical knowledge needed
Performance: 9/10
Free Trial – No
Money Back Guarantee – Yes, 7 days
Problems/Issues: None

Overall Rating: 8/10

Review by: Charlie and Jessica

We recently had the opportunity to try out a vpn we had never heard of before, iVPN. We don't know how it slipped past us, and it just happened that one of the Google advertisements showed up on one of our pages and we decided to check it out.  Unfortunately iVPN doesn't offer free trials, but that's perfectly understandable. Most people looking for free trials are just trying to abuse the system – we know. Our we used to have a "Free Trial VPN" section on the Mr VPN site which kept up to date info on free trial vpn's.  We got over 100 sign up's every day and less than one percent ended up buying the vpn service, so we don't mind.

ivpn vpn serviceCharlie Says:
I'm running Windows XP SP3 on a Lenovo Notebook. Installation was super easy. My grandma could probably figure out how to do it. Not only were there extremely clear instructions to follow, but most of the set up kind of made it self obvious. Click next, click next, click finish type stuff.  Password, Username, and a link to the setup page were all included in one email making it easy to find for reference. During installation I was asked if I want to have "automatic login". I didn't because I forgot I had an assigned username and password. Wish I had, despite the security risk involved. It's kind of a pain to enter that crazy letter/number code each time (pasted from my email).

Running the VPN is painless as well, as with most vpn companies. iVPN has a cool feature called "Double Hop", which means that your information is encrypted and tunneled from your computer to a server in one country, the tunneled to another country before exiting to the site you intended it for. That means that the entrance server and the exit server are in different places for ultimate anonymity and security. Really cool. However, I did notice slower connection speeds while I used the double hop which made streaming video a bit buffer-ish.

ivpn reviewJessica Says:
I was also impressed by iVPN.  I used it on my iPhone and Mac. It's great that you can use one account for multiple devices (not at the same time however). That way, I was able to use it while I was on my Mac at the office and when I took my lunch break or was on my way home I could use it on my iPhone.

I like being able to switch servers for free. Personally, I spent some time in Britain and like to watch BBC iPlayer, but they don't stream to US IP addresses.  When I connect to the UK server I'm able to access the site. I imagine that Hulu fans outside of the US would be able access the Hulu site.  I wish they had a larger selection of countries though.

I think what made iVPN a winner for me was the simplicity of their site.  It the headache of choosing vpn protocols and price plans easy, even for an inexperienced user.  Everything is laid out in an easy to find, user-friendly manner, and they make no assumption that the user knows what a PPTP or L2TP vpn is used for, what the difference is, why someone would want to use a vpn, and a million other questions new users have.

Visit the iVPN official site HERE

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