VyprVPN Review

VyprVPN is a personal VPN service offering PPTP, L2TP/IPSEC and SSL VPN (OpenVPN), VyprVPN currently has servers located in Los Angeles, Washington DC, London, Germany, France, Hong Kong & Amsterdam.

VyprVPN has been developed by the US based company Goldenfrog. If you haven’t heard about GoldenFrog they are the sister company to well known and highly respected Giganews.

While VypnVPN is a relative newcomer to the world of VPN, nonetheless they arrive on the scene with lots of technical horsepower and they quickly developing an solid reputation.

VyprVPN is valid choice because they offer a a high quality VPN solution. Read the technical review for more details or ..

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VPN Speed Test

In doing some speedtests for VyprVPN, first a baseline speed is established for our ISP which in this case is in Valdivia, Chile above here on the left notice the connection speed shows about 8 Mb/sec. Connecting to Vyprvpn on the west coast you can see that things slowdown a bit but the connection speeds is still about 3 Mb/s and upload speeds have not been affected.

This is really the extreme example we have connected from the south of Chile to the northern part of North America to test and VyprVPN works well. Video can be streamed without interruption and surfing the net goes as normal.

VPN Pricing Plans

VyprVPN has two different pricing plans for the two different versions. All pricing is monthly. VyprVPN Pro - $19/month and includes PPTP, OpenVPN SSL, L2TP/IPsec, 128-bit encryption and 256-bit encryption. VyprVPN – $14.99/month and includes PPTP and 128-bit encrpytion.

You can save by using our discount link above or below.

VyprVPN also has a 7 day free trial.

VPN Setup / How To Use VPN

Setup for VyprVPN was manual however as of Decemeber 2011 they have released a new configuration app. The VyprVPN instruction pages have lots of helpful information about how this process works. Take a look at our video below where we install VyprVPN but here are the basic steps for VPN installation on Windows 7.

Open Network and Sharing Center in the Control Panel
Setup a New connection or Network
Choose Connect to Workplace
Choose Use my Internet Connection (VPN)
Choose a Server Location
Use your Giganews or VyprVPN Username/ Password

In addition to the helpful userpages VyprVPN has an app which can streamline the VPN setup and connection process.

VPN Server Locations

Vyprvpn has service locations in the following general geographic areas: USA, China and Europe. Specifically include Los Angeles, Washington DC, Hong Kong, France, Germany, UK and Amsterdam.

The specific server hostnames are as follows

us1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Los Angeles, CA
us2.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Washington, DC
eu1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Amsterdam
hk1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Hong Kong
uk1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for London
fr1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Paris
de1.vpn.goldenfrog.com for Frankfurt

VPN Protocols Supported

VyprVPN supports PPTP, L2TP/IPSec and recently announced support for OpenVPN for an additional $5/month. In addition to supporting these top three VPN protocols, VyprVPN added an optional NAT firewall service or a packet filter which mimics the behavior of a wireless router to help protect against outside threats.

VPN Errors

All VPN services will show errors at times especially when initiating connections, VyprVPN is no different and typically if you are going to have errors you will see in the case of Windows – the generic windows 800 error.

What I have seen from time to time has been the can’t connect errors or timed out connections every now and then.

First thing you have to identify is where is this error occuring – is it your own network or the VPN you are trying to connect to ?

Simply, goto to a command prompt window and type telnet us1.vpn.giganews.com 1723 – if you are not able to connect then check your network as it could be your own network: your firewall, your router, etc.

Also you can always visit the giganews.vyprn usenet newsgroup or just contact support (VyprVPN has very quick customer support)

VPN Conclusion

All in all VyprVPN is a recommended VPN Provider and while they are expensive compared to the market they have a good product nonetheless. Take advantage of our discount special offer link and save $5 for a total of $15/month which includes OpenVPN.

Check out our video below to see VyprVPN in action before your signup.