VPN Service Provider Comparison

ConnectInPrivate.com StrongVPN.com Anonymizer.com GoTrusted.com

Strength of Security
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Offshore Servers
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Yes Yes No No

Jurisdiction of Servers
Canada Yes Yes No No
China No Yes No No
Germany No Yes No No
Netherlands No Yes No No
Norway No Yes No No
Panama Yes No No No
Russia No Yes No No
Switzerland No Yes No No
UK No Yes Yes No
USA No Yes Yes Yes
Latency Test Results*
the lower the better
17ms 107ms 733ms 220ms

Download Test Results**
the higher the better
6.64MB
Very Fast
1.19MB
Very Slow
2.38MB
Slow
4.22MB
Good

Mobile Protection Yes Yes No Yes

Encrypted Offshore Email Yes No No No

PC Cleaner
clean your tracks locally
Yes No No No

Affiliated with US Gov't
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No No Yes No


Supported Operating Systems***
Windows 7 Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Vista Yes No Yes Yes
Windows XP Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows 2000 Yes No Yes Yes
MAC Yes Yes Yes Yes
Windows Mobile Yes Yes No Yes
iPhone Yes Yes Yes Yes
Linux No Yes No No


* The latency test results were based on speedtest.net results performed every 60 minutes during the week of October 20, 2009.
** The download test results were based on speedtest.net results performed every 60 minutes during the week of October 20, 2009.
*** Connect In Private is currently testing support for MAC OS X Snow Leopard, and Linux VPN clients

Technology Comparison:

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ConnectInPrivate.com provides their VPN customers with system redundant L2TP/IPSec implementation providing encryption of the VPN tunnel that puts our customers more at ease with protecting their sensitive private data.

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StrongVPN.com utilizes PPTP (point to point tunneling protocol) for their customer VPN connections; which provides an unencrypted VPN tunnel between the client and the VPN server/system. Along with the using PPTP as the VPN protocol of choice, StrongVPN appears to have their customers connect to dedicated VPN server systems (ie. no server redundancy with the hostname that is given to the customer for setting up their VPN).

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Anonymizer.com's security technology is based on initiating an SSH tunnel into the Anonymizer datacenter(s) and using proxy services.

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GoTrusted.com utilizes PPTP (point to point tunneling protocol) for their customer VPN connections; which provides an unencrypted VPN tunnel between the client and the VPN server/system.