“Recently I underwent a revelatory experience when using the public VPN service I subscribe to,” Mac Kung Fu writes. “I’d only ever been able to get 1Mbit speeds, at best, and typically the speed yo-yoed between that and just a few kilobits. On a whim I tried a third-party VPN client and, wow, suddenly I was getting near-native DSL speeds – up to 50Mbits, or thereabouts, and staying around that range while downloading.”
“I had spent a long time thinking the VPN service simply wasn’t very good, when the real story was that their client wasn’t any good (I had updated and reinstalled it several times),” Mac Kung Fu writes. “I understand from speaking to others that this is sadly not uncommon.”
Mac Kung Fu writes, “If you’re in a similar position then here are some steps that might help.”
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