That’s not terrible and fairly standard for VPNs. Hotspot Shield still requires an email address and password to sign up. The CEO is Sujay Jaswa and the COO is Tony Huie. Regardless, Hotspot Shield is still fast enough to remain our pick for fastest VPN speed, with other well-known VPN services such as ExpressVPN and Mullvad coming in way behind.Īs usual, remember that speed tests can vary quite a lot, and your mileage may vary depending on your ISP’s speeds, router, PC, and other equipment.Īs with former Hotspot Shield owner AnchorFree, Pango’s headquarters are in Redwood City, California. That’s much faster than the 64 percent we saw last time, but there was one day with an unusually high result that may have skewed the results. In our tests, the VPN retained more than 72 percent of the base download speed, averaged over three days of testing. Just like last time around, Hotspot Shield is fast. Hotspot Shield allows up to five simultaneous connections per account. There’s also a two-year plan at $167.76 and a month-to-month plant at $13. Last time we looked it was $72 per year, which was already high, but now it’s pushing close to $100 per year, at $95.88.

Hotspot Shield is a lot more expensive than it was.

Finally, there’s a new peak-speed tile showing exactly that.

The data tile shows how much data is going up and down, and now displays that on a graph. The server information tile, for example, shows your IP address, the load of the server (as a percentage), and the current latency. The app displays small informational tiles that show your VPN location, the VPN IP address you’re using, and the amount of bandwidth you’ve used going up and down, plus the name of the local network you’re currently on. Once you’ve got the VPN up and running the display is very similar to what we saw before, just in a more compressed format. That’s great news for travelers or people who often watch Netflix on public Wi-Fi hotspots.

As with last time, I could get Hotspot Shield to work with Netflix (allowing me to view overseas Netflix catalogs), and Hotspot Shield says support for U.S. There’s also a “web domain bypass,” which lets you visit some websites outside of the VPN connection. This feature stops all web traffic if the VPN connection crashes until you reconnect to the VPN. There’s now an internet kill switch, which we didn’t see last time around.

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