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I recommend Mullvad: https://mullvad.net/en

They even take cash.

AirVPN has always been reliable for me. It's very cheap to try for a few days too.

I've been happy with Windscribe

I am very happy with the stability of Mullvad.

Have you considered that the issue is on your end?

A few percent packet loss is hardly noticeable when you have 1 Gbps bandwidth, but once you bounce around to proxies all over the world, it becomes magnitudes worse.

Do some international network testing. Ignore speed. Pay attention to packet loss, jitter, and buffer bloat

If you have anything more than 1% packet loss, call your ISP tech to fix it. You may need to pay them for a business line to get priority on their network. Tell them you have a lot of IP phones.

mullvad and ivpn have been solid for me.

I have found Proton to be extremely reliable and fast

You are asking in the privacy comm so the answer is mullvad.

You are asking for someone to say nord though.

If you need to pirate use air. Do not rely on them for privacy.

IVPN is a good VPN

• We are in a war even Professor Mohammad Marandi is having issues with VPNs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eou-MKbL5sc

• Power cycle the router I have it hooked up to a wireless non wifi connected switch to aid in turning on/off

• https://blog.corenexis.com/how-to-fix-internet-vpn-connetion-issue-in-linux

Got a cheap deal on SurfShark, so moved to them from ExpressVPN. Both worked great, got good reviews etc. Happy to be re-assess if anyone has information to the contrary, or tells me they're affiliated with the clans or something, but so far so good.

Well, out of what I've used for any length of time, mullvad, nord, air, and proton were all reliable for me. Then again, ivpn was too. Ivpn was slow as hell compared to mullvad and nord for me though; as slow or slower than free tier proton. I've tried others, but never long term enough to feel comfortable saying anything beyond that you do get what you pay for with a VPN. The super cheap ones tend to be molasses, or have other service issues.

Which, it's weird as hell that ivpn was so slow compared to mullvad because a lot of their exit servers are the exact same. Most of the European exits, and as near as I could tell, all of the U.S. ones were in the same data centers. Iirc, mullvad rents hardware directly, whereas ivpn does it via software? Maybe? It was a struggle finding useful information with the way search engines have turned so shitty (even the better ones).

I think I had the least problems with air and mullvad, overall. Air, my only real complaint was their clients suck. The service was flawless, but you either set things up on your own, or deal with horrible ui and ux on their clients (with the android one being worse). Mullvad, I have zero complaints about their service or clients. It's the political shit I have issue with

I have been happy with windscribe. They have a unique sense of humor too..

Same feeling here

On Linux and Android, for servers in north and south america, ivpn is by far the worst compared to mullvad and proton. After 2 months using it, I'm not trying it again for another year because I'm better off with either alternative.

proton has good connection that barely cuts out even on the free tier. moreso a problem when websites block you or get cloudflare challenge often, but that's a problem with all commercial VPNs. i just switch the node then, usually works.

port forwarding on the commercial plan is neat too for me, because i am behind CGNAT.

We are on a privacy forum so i feel the need to say that VPNs are only good for privacy if your ISP is spying on you (or they're forced to by law enforcement), not much else. IP is a very fragile fingerprinting metric, most people get dynamic IPs as the "default" option. You're basically trusting a VPN company instead, they have access to the same info as your ISP would without one; Proton has been audited multiple times at least, so there's more backing to that no log policy than [[insert ISP here]]

Use proton, Nord, mullvad if stability takes precedence over privacy