And it is for both free and premium users”. In a query posted to an X-VPN representative during the course of this review, we were told that the company does not “restrict our users’ ability to browse the internet freely, however we would only encourage our users to use them (torrents) for legal purposes. The company also says that it “will not and cannot give away your personal data to authorities … unless we are ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction”. X-VPN also “doesn’t get involved in any form of censorship”, nor does it sell share user data with third parties for commercial gain. The company, however, says that it logs access attempts to its servers “for security and troubleshooting”. X-VPN also claims that it doesn’t store user logs related to browsing history, DNS queries or traffic data. According to X-VPN, some of the other privacy-related features include: ![]() First off, all connections are said to be encrypted via AES with a minimum key size of 256 bits. The company undertakes a whole host of safeguards to protect the privacy of its users. The free version of the mobile clients also come with advertising, something that the premium subscription gets rid of. The restrictions on premium servers, however, will remain irrespective of whether you’re using the desktop clients or the mobile clients. By the looks of things, you’ll only face the data cap on your PC and not on phones or tablets, because the company promises unlimited usage even for free users on mobile devices. To have access to all the premium high-speed servers and remove the data cap, you’ll need to subscribe to one of the paid tiers. While free users have access to less servers than their paying counterparts, they are also limited to just 500MB of data. In terms of availability, the X-VPN client is available on most major computing platforms, including Windows x86-64, macOS, Android and iOS, but it isn’t currently available on Linux and there’s no word on whether it will be in the foreseeable future. If you pay on an yearly basis instead, the cost-per-month comes down by 50%, so you’ll only need to pay $48 or $72 for 1-yr subscriptions, depending on the package chosen. Pricing starts at $7.99 per month for phones and tablets and $11.99 per month for all platforms, including desktops. While X-VPN’s free service is fairly comprehensive, the company also offers premium tiers that come with more bells and whistles. The latency, however, suffers with the VPN turned on, going from a very agreeable 7 ms without the VPN to an uncomfortable 370 ms when connected to the Santa Clara server, but some of that is to be expected because of obvious geographical reasons. As you can see from the image below, we were getting 8Mbps down and 32Mbps up without the VPN, but with the VPN turned on, the speeds reduced to about 7Mbps and 23Mbps respectively, irrespective of whether we were using the free or the paid server. If there’s a notable speed difference between the free and premium servers, it wasn’t immediately noticeable. While speeds on ethernet will almost certainly be higher, it’s difficult to say how the speeds will differ on faster Wi-Fi networks. On our clogged office Wi-Fi that barely gives us 10Mbps at the best of times (even though its actually a dedicated 150Mbps connection), speedcheck results seem to suggest that the free X-VPN server in Atlanta, GA, isn’t any slower than the presumably faster, premium one in Berkely, CA. Many of the locations, however, are reserved for paid subscribers, so if you’re a free user, you’re restricted to just 21 locations in 13 countries, including 9 in the U.S. While there are multiple locations available in the U.S., you are limited to just single locations if you’re looking to connect to any of the other countries on the list. X-VPN currently has its servers in over a dozen different countries including, the U.S., U.K., Hong Kong, Japan, India and the UAE. If you don’t want to settle for the default server location, you can also click on the “Fastest Server” button to manually opt for the location of your choice. It’s literally just a 1-click connection, and you don’t even need to be signed in to your account to use the service. ![]() As can be seen from the screenshots below, there’s a fairly self-explanatory On/Off toggle that gets you connected to what X-VPN believes is the fastest available server on your plan. ![]() The Graphic User Interface (GUI) on Windows is as minimal as it can possibly be, but it’s fairly intuitive even for the non-tech-savvy.
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