ExpressVPN
It’s expensive, but you’ll be hard-pressed to match ExpressVPN for features, performance or streaming
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ExpressVPN is no stranger to winning PC Pro awards and takes away this year’s accolade thanks to blistering speeds, outstanding region-shifting performance and a convincing track record on security. It’s expensive but it’s also worth it, although we recommend to committing to a longer subscription to reduce your monthly outgoings.
Let’s talk speed first. The company recently launched new a version of its Lightway protocol, now developed in memory-safe Rust instead of C. This appears to have given its already fast transfer speeds a boost, as our test results saw it achieve a 499Mbits/sec average across its UK, Netherlands and US endpoints. That’s the highest three-country result in the tests, with individual scores of 473Mbits/sec from the UK, 492Mbits/sec from the Netherlands and a remarkable 533Mbits/sec from the US.