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Kate Veale
Cybersecurity Researcher
CyberGhost calls itself a "truly complete VPN solution". I put the service to the test and examined CyberGhost and the rumors surrounding it.
I'm based in Australia, so my local internet is both slower and subject to more censorship than countries like the US.
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Jerome
CyberGhost VPN
This program does what its suppose to do and then some, its awesome. Since using this program I haven't received anymore emails from my cable company. The best thing is its affordable and easy to use.
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Disconnects Often. Killswitch Fails, which defeats the entire purpose...
I bought (renewed) an 18 month subscription to CG recently. I had been using it for a year prior and had some issues, but on renewal, I was required to install an update (v7 for Windows, I think)
Disconnects several times each day, and regular crashes. In many cases when the app crashed, the killswitch was not activated, leaving my online activity exposed.
I actually wrote a script to attempt to compensate for this that would ping test 8.8.8.8 for connectivity and reboot the PC if not connected. This was an OK workaround. it caught disconnects normally 4-6 times daily and rebooted, thereby restoring the connection. This process failed though, when the killswitch failed to activate, exposing my connection. This happened 5 times during the 2 months I used it. I received DMCA alerts from my ISP each time, and was told that my service will be cancelled if it happened again.
I immediately switched to NordVPN. Connection speed is exponentially faster, and the connection has not disconnected once in over a week since I installed.
I think that the most direct cause for the speed increase (and probably less frequent disconnects) with NordVPN is that CyberGhost has no (or limited, I wasn't able to find any) servers in USA that allow P2P. I wasn't aware of this when I signed up for their service, and was always required to connect to a VPN server in a different country with a huge performance hit. With NordVPN, I get many blazing fast, reliable server options that support P2P in a city nearby.
I hope this is helpful to some. I wish I had seen this review before I signed up for CyberGhost's service.
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Guy Fawkes
Anonymous Cybersecurity Experts
StrongVPN provides PPTP, L2TP, OpenVPN, and IPSec Protocols to users, and they are based in the United States. However, they have over four hundred servers in twenty-one different countries. They own their DNS servers, so you don’t have to worry about your data being transmitted through a third party’s server.
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Disconnects Often. Killswitch Fails, which defeats the entire purpose...
I bought (renewed) an 18 month subscription to CG recently. I had been using it for a year prior and had some issues, but on renewal, I was required to install an update (v7 for Windows, I think)
Disconnects several times each day, and regular crashes. In many cases when the app crashed, the killswitch was not activated, leaving my online activity exposed.
I actually wrote a script to attempt to compensate for this that would ping test 8.8.8.8 for connectivity and reboot the PC if not connected. This was an OK workaround. it caught disconnects normally 4-6 times daily and rebooted, thereby restoring the connection. This process failed though, when the killswitch failed to activate, exposing my connection. This happened 5 times during the 2 months I used it. I received DMCA alerts from my ISP each time, and was told that my service will be cancelled if it happened again.
I immediately switched to NordVPN. Connection speed is exponentially faster, and the connection has not disconnected once in over a week since I installed.
I think that the most direct cause for the speed increase (and probably less frequent disconnects) with NordVPN is that CyberGhost has no (or limited, I wasn't able to find any) servers in USA that allow P2P. I wasn't aware of this when I signed up for their service, and was always required to connect to a VPN server in a different country with a huge performance hit. With NordVPN, I get many blazing fast, reliable server options that support P2P in a city nearby.
I hope this is helpful to some. I wish I had seen this review before I signed up for CyberGhost's service.
Review by our expert
Kate Veale
Cybersecurity Researcher
CyberGhost calls itself a "truly complete VPN solution". I put the service to the test and examined CyberGhost and the rumors surrounding it.
I'm based in Australia, so my local internet is both slower and subject to more censorship than countries like the US.
Read all
Guy Fawkes
Anonymous Cybersecurity Experts
StrongVPN provides PPTP, L2TP, OpenVPN, and IPSec Protocols to users, and they are based in the United States. However, they have over four hundred servers in twenty-one different countries. They own their DNS servers, so you don’t have to worry about your data being transmitted through a third party’s server.
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Jerome
CyberGhost VPN
This program does what its suppose to do and then some, its awesome. Since using this program I haven't received anymore emails from my cable company. The best thing is its affordable and easy to use.
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Disconnects Often. Killswitch Fails, which defeats the entire purpose...
I bought (renewed) an 18 month subscription to CG recently. I had been using it for a year prior and had some issues, but on renewal, I was required to install an update (v7 for Windows, I think)
Disconnects several times each day, and regular crashes. In many cases when the app crashed, the killswitch was not activated, leaving my online activity exposed.
I actually wrote a script to attempt to compensate for this that would ping test 8.8.8.8 for connectivity and reboot the PC if not connected. This was an OK workaround. it caught disconnects normally 4-6 times daily and rebooted, thereby restoring the connection. This process failed though, when the killswitch failed to activate, exposing my connection. This happened 5 times during the 2 months I used it. I received DMCA alerts from my ISP each time, and was told that my service will be cancelled if it happened again.
I immediately switched to NordVPN. Connection speed is exponentially faster, and the connection has not disconnected once in over a week since I installed.
I think that the most direct cause for the speed increase (and probably less frequent disconnects) with NordVPN is that CyberGhost has no (or limited, I wasn't able to find any) servers in USA that allow P2P. I wasn't aware of this when I signed up for their service, and was always required to connect to a VPN server in a different country with a huge performance hit. With NordVPN, I get many blazing fast, reliable server options that support P2P in a city nearby.
I hope this is helpful to some. I wish I had seen this review before I signed up for CyberGhost's service.
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Mary Melcherts
No help whatsoever
David did not respond to my last email and was unable to point me in another direction for help.
Jerome