PC Magazine July 2017
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you! PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
PC Magazine July 2017 issue, we feature PCMag's eighth annual Fastest Mobile Networks report. Testers drove within and between 30 cities, running speed tests and collecting more than 124,000 network-speed data points. Find out which carrier leads the pack—and where. The results may surprise you!
PC Magazine is America's #1 technology magazine, delivering authoritative, lab-based comparative reviews of technology products and services to more than 6.6 million professionals every issue. PC Magazine is the only publication with in-depth reviews and accurate, repeatable testing from PC Magazine Labs placed in the unique context of today's business technology landscape.
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You also get access to the service’s 1,200 servers across 80 global locations.<br />
That’s not as many as Editors’ Choice winner NordVPN, which boasts hundreds<br />
of servers, or the thousands of servers available with Private Internet Access,<br />
but it’s not bad. While companies often spin servers up and down as needed,<br />
these are important figures to keep in mind. The more servers a company offers,<br />
the less likely it is that you’ll have to share precious bandwidth with other users<br />
on the same server. The more server locations there are, the more likely it is<br />
you’ll find one nearby. A good rule of thumb is that the closer the server is to<br />
your actual location, the better speed and performance you’ll have. (And many<br />
server locations give you more options when spoofing your location.)<br />
If you’re traveling (or living) in a country with restrictive information policies,<br />
you can also use KeepSolid Wise, a feature that trades speed for a stealthier<br />
connection that disguises your VPN connection as normal HTTPS traffic. This<br />
feature is available on Android and is best used when connecting in countries<br />
that frown on the use of VPNs.<br />
As with the desktop version, the Android app uses the OpenVPN protocol. I<br />
appreciate it when services embrace this newer open-source protocol, which<br />
gets frequent updates as needed. Some companies offer one set of protocols<br />
with the desktop app and a different set with the mobile version, an approach I<br />
don’t favor.
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