The best VPNs for Aussies compared

HOW DO THE MAJOR VPN SERVICES CURRENTLY STACK UP AND WHICH ARE WORTH YOUR MONEY? [ NATHAN TAYLOR ]

HOW DO THE MAJOR VPN SERVICES CURRENTLY STACK UP AND WHICH ARE WORTH YOUR MONEY?

WHETHER YOU WANT to work around online censorship and geoblocks, or just want to maximise your security and privacy, a VPN service can get the job done. The right service can give you access to media you can’t get here, including the international libraries of Netflix, as well as protect your online activity from hackers and government snoops.

Below, we’ve looked at some of the top VPN services available today. We’ve tried to focus on the largest and those that support Netflix in some fashion, though there are a number that we felt were noteworthy enough to include even though they can’t access Netflix. We set up and tested them all, but we should make the very important note that we’re only talking about our personal experience with the VPN. Speeds, for example, will vary from server to server and time to time — so you may find that, in some cases, you get notably better or worse performance than we did.

TESTING VPNs

The easiest and most common way to test a VPN service is to head to speedtest.net and run the default test when you’re connected. Where we referenced speeds in the reviews, this is exactly what we’ve done — though, as noted in the introduction to this article, speeds can vary wildly from time to time and server to server.