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Nordvpn have gotten pretty good reviews and Ive bought the yearly plan. Here is the review on torrentfreak:

http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-revie…

  1. Do you keep ANY logs which would allow you to match an IP-address and a time stamp to a user of your service? If so, exactly what information do you hold and for how long?

  2. Under what jurisdiction(s) does your company operate?

  3. What tools are used to monitor and mitigate abuse of your service?

  4. Do you use any external email providers (e.g. Google Apps) or support tools ( e.g Live support, Zendesk) that hold information provided by users?

  5. In the event you receive a DMCA takedown notice or European equivalent, how are these handled?

  6. What steps are taken when a valid court order requires your company to identify an active user of your service? Has this ever happened?

  7. Does your company have a warrant canary or a similar solution to alert customers to gag orders?

  8. Is BitTorrent and other file-sharing traffic allowed on all servers? If not, why?

  9. Which payment systems do you use and how are these linked to individual user accounts?

  10. What is the most secure VPN connection and encryption algorithm you would recommend to your users? Do you provide tools such as “kill switches” if a connection drops and DNS leak protection?

  11. Do you use your own DNS servers? (if not, which servers do you use?)

  12. Do you have physical control over your VPN servers and network or are they outsourced and hosted by a third party (if so, which ones)? Where are your servers located?

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nordvpn1. Do we keep logs? What is that? Seriously, we have a strict no-logs policy over our customers. The only information we keep is customers’ e-mail addresses which are needed for our service registration (we keep the e-mail addresses until the customer closes the account).

  1. NordVPN is based out of Panama.

  2. No tools are used to monitor our customers in any case. We are only able to see the servers’ load, which helps us optimize our service and provide the best possible Internet speed to our users.

  3. We use the third-party live support tool, but it is not linked to the customers’ accounts.

  4. When we receive any type of legal notices, we cannot do anything more than to ignore them, simply because they have no legal bearing to us. Since we are based in Panama, all legal notices have to be dealt with according to Panamanian laws first. Luckily they are very friendly to Internet users.

6.If we receive a valid court order, firstly it would have to comply with the laws of Panama. In that case, the court settlement should happen in Panama first, however were this to happen, we would not be able to provide any information because we keep exactly nothing about our users.

  1. We do not have a warrant canary or any other alert system, because as it was mentioned above, we operate under the laws of Panama and we guarantee that any information about our customers will not be distributed to any third party.

  2. We do not restrict any BitTorrent or other file-sharing applications on most of our servers.

  3. We accept payments via Bitcoin, Credit Card, PayPal, Banklink, Webmoney (Paysera). Bitcoin is the best payment option to maintain your anonymity as it has only the paid amount linked to the client. Users who purchase services via PayPal are linked with the usual information the seller can see about the buyer.

  4. We have high anonymity solutions which we would like to recommend to everyone seeking real privacy. One of them is Double VPN. The traffic is routed through at least two hoops before it reaches the Internet. The connection is encrypted within two layers of cipher AES-256-CBC encryption. Another security solution – Tor over VPN. Firstly, the traffic is encrypted within NordVPN layer and later sent to the Tor network and exits to the Internet through one of the Tor exit relays. Both of these security solutions give a great encryption and anonymity combination. The benefit of using these solutions is that the chances of being tracked are eliminated. In addition, you are able to access .onion websites when connected to Tor over VPN. Furthermore, our regular servers have a strong encryption which is 2048bit SSL for OpenVPN protocol, AES-256bit for L2TP.

In addition to that, we have advanced security solutions, such as the “kill switch” and DNS leak protection which provide the maximum possible security level for our customers.

  1. NordVPN has its own DNS servers, also our customers can use any DNS server they like.

  2. Our servers are outsourced and hosted by a third parties. Currently our servers are in 26 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.

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  • Anyone have any idea what their speeds are like?

  • It says servers available in 25 countries, but does not list which particular 25 countries. Anyone know?

    • +1

      It's in the very last paragraph of the OP description.

      Our servers are outsourced and hosted by a third parties. Currently our servers are in 26 countries: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Isle of Man, Israel, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands, Panama, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.

  • So what i dont understand and I'm hoping some one can help explain, if the servers are housed in 25 countries and one of those countries is Australia, and I use the Australian server doesnt that server fall under Australia legal jurisdiction?

    thanks

    • +1

      Yep. Local servers, local laws. I suppose it depends on what sort of traffic you'll be using. For metadata they'll see you sending traffic to their server. Then they can see traffic (everyones) exiting that server. Zo you'd imagine you'd be safe from this tyoe if monitoring.

      But anything more serious which involves law enforcement, I would count on beimg immune.

    • You can select which country you would like to be in, for example if you select UK you can access BBC iPlayer ans Channel 4.

      There may also be advantages in using the Australian VPN and it will depend on the internet provider as to if you are torrenting and the DMCA policy is regarding piracy notices.

  • I would have purchased this for when my PIA term runs out if the NordVPN term started once you first logged on or something, but you can only connect with 2 devices at the same time which is a deal breaker for me. I'll stick with PIA for now as they had a similar deal recently with similar server coverage but allows 5 devices at once.

  • They have a free 3 day trial you can sign up for if you are unsure. Just ask them on the chat for it.

  • +5

    This doesn't look encouraging (from the Whirlpool forums).

  • NordVPN speeds are not great on test but I usually get as fast as my connection allows anyway, on torrent/DLs. Will I renew when time comes? Probably not, I got it in a rush and I'm sure there are better options - http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-vpn-service-provider-revie…

    It's worth reading this - http://torrentfreak.com/huge-security-flaw-leaks-vpn-users-r…

  • A quick update from NordVPN: We are happy to share we just added 4 new servers in Australia/ 1 in New Zealand and 2 in Japan. This will address any previous issues with the Australian VPN server connection as it was overcrowded. Now the loads will level in time and you will be able to enjoy a smooth and fast VPN connection.

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