ExpressVPN

IT’S EXPENSIVE, BUT IT’S FAST.

ONE OF THE world’s largest VPN providers, and also one of the most expensive, ExpressVPN justifies its cost with both unrivalled reach and (at least in our testing) unbeatable speeds. It has servers in 94 countries and, in our testing, essentially maxed out our 30Mbps connection when using the recommended server in Australia and the US.

The application is as simple as they get. There are almost no options apart from choosing your server, and the service does not have fancy features like kill switches and ad blockers. It does, thankfully, offer server recommendations based on current load, which makes the server lottery much easier to win.

You can connect up to three devices at once on a single account. It also offers 24/7 support — which we found both responsive and helpful — and the ability to pay anonymously through Bitcoin and Bitpay. You don’t even need to give ExpressVPN your name, just an email address.

ExpressVPN is also one of the services that still supports Netflix in the US, the UK and several other countries. You will have to chat to a customer service operator and ask which server to connect to, but we found it worked perfectly, capable of high-def Netflix US and Hulu.