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Have had this conversation with our accountants before and the answer is simple. Yes they do have to pay VAT. Sells in Guernsey may be zero rated but they are buying from you, and you are based in the U.K. Any company selling in the U.K has to charge VAT no matter where the item is going.For example, if a customer from luxembourg buys from you, they still have to pay 20% VAT even though the Rate in there country is 15%.It is one rule for all, no getting out of it, even if you do live in Guernsey.This information has been verified by HMRC on numerous occasions.
I live in the Nordic countries, which 'ideals' this company follows and I have to pay 24% VAT when purchasing. This means the money ain't most likely going to a bank account in the Nordics, but somewhere else. EDIT: Found it, NordVPN is based in Panama-Mattfolk 18:56, 24 July 2018 (UTC).
NordVPN is probably the most popular VPN on the market with a huge customer base around the world. While it is highly recommended on many sites, it can sometimes be difficult to find honest information about this VPN provider.In this new and updated NordVPN review, I put the service through extensive testing and let the test results stand on their own. Is NordVPN still too slow?. Is NordVPN secure (no leaks)?. Do all of the features work correctly?.
Is it actually worth the price?As you can see with all of the screenshots below, was extensively tested for this review to conclusively answer all questions. Now let’s examine the results. NordVPN overviewWhile NordVPN has previously been a top recommendation, it is currently in the #3 spot on the report, trailing behind (#1) and (#2).
For a fully-featured VPN, however, NordVPN is among the best values you’ll find when you use the. Nonetheless, it also comes with a few drawbacks. You get what you pay for – I’ve learned this the hard way. Started with free vpns and that was a bad idea after receiving a notice of DMCA while torrenting. Signed up to test nordvpn. Speeds are pretty good, not quite the fastest vpn I’ve used (I noticed about 20% loss of speed, which is probably because of encryption and the distance between me and server location), but it’s by far the most secure. For my ipad the ikev2 also works well.
Haven’t had to deal with support yet – everything works, so I’ll be staying with them for a while. Recently I signed up with NORDVPN for their 3 year plan which included their money back guarantee. Unfortunately, the “Nordvpn Windows Application” would NOT load (always timed out with no error message). I repeatedly tried to get email support help from NordVPN. Each time it took them over 12 hours to respond and their responses added up to the run around every time. In other words, I never got the chance to even try their service. After several polite warnings that I would cancel if not expeditiously assisted, today I cancelled their service and requested my money back.
I cannot do business with a company that has no concern for retaining paid customers or even starting out correctly. I will update this post if I do not receive a refund in accordance with their money back policy. I write this post so others might avoid the hassle that I have experienced (I mean a big waste of time hassle)!!! It’s a great thought. A cheap vpn with all the extravagant features. But I assume that cheap is not always the best way to go, similar to free vpns.
I’m not saying they log your information but as far as speed goes – it doesn’t even compare to the speeds that I’d get with. Sure, the price wasn’t comparable but I couldn’t get stuck for 3 years with slow speeds. Youtube took forever to load, videos were always buffering – it was terrible. I tried different locations and different options. I suppose all the options are good for some people but I found it tedious.
I just needed to connect to different locations (to watch location blocked videos) or just connect in general. Points go to customer service who was prompt in canceling my service and saying sorry that things didn’t work out.
Love the security when using my phone away from home. But when attempting to use it on my Android box that uses Kodi for movies, tv shows and live streaming my speeds drop to DSL levels. Was in chat with one of their csr’s and he recommended that I change my dns server so I did and my speeds when using NordVPN continued to stay very slow; meanwhile my local isp is a cable/broadband company and my speeds without NordVPN are normally around 80-85mbps on average my monthly plan that I pay for is 150mbps. I have used another service called EasyVpn which is free and it responded faster than NordVPN.
So with that being said I don’t understand why they are rated number 2 overall in vpn’s when their streaming speeds are basically non existent. My box needs to run at a minimum of 50mbps. I have been using Nordvpn for awhile now and have not seen an increase in speeds. I have a 300 Mbps download from my isp, but while using Nord I can only get at best 10 down. I have tried many different servers in North America and no difference.
I would also like to see the use of obfuscated servers with a router set-up. The reason for the obfuscated servers is that no bank will let you access online services through a vpn. Are there better vpn’s that is a persons opinion, I am mostly satisfied with this service, but as I said there are still improvements that can be made.
I’ve been using NordVPN for over a year now and do not have any complaints. I’m an average user in the EU and I use a VPN because I eventually got fed up with European censorship of Youtube videos, social media, and various websites. EU governments also collect data with what normal people are up to online, just normal things like posting comments on social media, so I have ZERO trust and know that internet providers are cooperating to collect data.I use NordVPN on Windows for general internet browsing. Speeds are very good, I watch alot of videos on Youtube and never have any problems with speeds or picture quality. I like the Windows app, it is simple and has a good kill switch. The design is good and it just works.I also have NordVPN on my iPhone. Again, no problems, everything works for mobile browsing, videos, and more.I wanted to check out some different reviews before renewing my subscription, but you just can’t beat the price compared to other services that are good, will be renewing this week.greetings from Austria.
Using a VPN rather than an ISP incl. Wi-Fi hotspots to link to Google would mainly affect the IP address which Google logs when your device connects to Google’s servers. Connecting to Google via a search engine would add to Google’s profiling of the search engine., unless your device adds more information beyond where Google has to send replies for your service provider to pass these back to your device.There are services which reveal what data can be lifted from your device upon connecting eg Browserleaks, and there are browser extensions, even browsers, which claim to address one or more of these exfiltration techniques. Perhaps privacy conscious VPN services block some or all of this traffic, but I would expect that it would not be safe to rely on the service provider doing more than you could if you were lucky enough to track down the best information on the matter.Of course, a search engine which does not bombard its users with “relevant” advertising would not pose the problems which Google provides. Restore Privacy lists five alternatives Startpage + four others in the article, ‘Privacy Tools – How to Restore Your Online Privacy in 2019’!. When using the Startpage search engine, Google’s software selects its advertising on the basis of the location of the IP address of the server which makes the connection. Thus your Google searches are returned in the language you choose, but the adverts have been, often or mainly, in the language which is spoken by natives of the country where the server is located, unless your browser, device, or service provider, blocks all adverts.
I used NordVpn only during the 7 day trial. And i did not like it i hit cancel just on the fourth day. The speed varies alot. After hearing all this about Nordvpn being damn good well i got disappointed of it. On just the few hours of trying it i experienced drop connections or web pages not loading.
I researched on how to fix my problem and did all guides that i found and the problem still continued. But i can something real positive about this. The damn torrenting speed are fantastic.
If you want to torrent or something near it. This is your VPN people.
I have been a user of Nord VPN user for about a year now. However, here recently I am really disgruntled,as I have not been able to connect to any of there special servers with Linux.I tried contacting customer support to little avail. There support is mainly non – tech people dealing with morons that cant get the service to work on Windows. They mainly just copy and paste the self help section of the Nord VPN site. They told me that I would have to use the special servers over OpenVPN – which I have no problem with mind you. However, that still did not work and I could not connect to even a regular server without a HUGE DNS leak on every server compared to there native app for Linux which didnt.
After spending a good bit of time sending screen shots to support, they eventually basically told me they dont know what the problem is. They insinuated that there techs would fix the problem, but it has been about a month now and I still cant access special servers as I dont use Windows. I have been able to connect threw OpenVPN and there native app to special servers in the past with no problem.I still have about 9 months left on my subscription. I really still have no intention of dropping them, as I dont trust many other providers. They gave me a VERY good deal over the holidays, I only paid 48$ for a year. I had been paying month by month and they eventually e-mailed me with the special offer. I took advantage of it.
I really have no choice but to give them time to fix it. If it takes to long though, I will opt for another provider though. Why would you use Terminal instead of the app? It’s quite awesome.Anyway, they do have a guide on your mentioned DNS leaks –.
Just check whether the connection to normal server is without leaks after that.If it’s fine, let’s get into special servers. I’m assuming you’re talking about obfuscated ones.
While I’m using the app NordVPN has released without issues – I have been using Obfuscation with Linux Terminal for over a year before the app came out.I have used a guide (might be troublesome for regular users tho) provided by the support, I have pasted it to the notepad for you here:.Every single line goes into Terminal and then connection can be made to specially made config files (Obfuscated ones). My nordvpn in china experience.Im currently subscribed to two other vpn services one Astrill the other socketpro which is a shadowsocks configuration sold by some tech savvy expats living in china.sometimes astrill stops working as in there is no internet feed and its clear the vpn is the issue. NordVPN has been my #1 favourite VPN for over a year now. I almost never have any issues with it whatsoever, and the few issues I do have are addressed in a timely manner by their courteous and professional support staff. I use NordVPN every single time I use the internet, even from within my own home.
I mostly use their servers in North America and Europe. The speeds of their servers do vary from place to place, but in general the speed I get is nearly the same as what I get from my ISP, making NordVPN’s servers fast enough to be connected to even when I’m playing online games or streaming. They use only the most well-vetted and secure protocols (OpenVPN, IKEv2/IPsec, support for PPTP and L2TP/IPsec is being discontinued by NordVPN on the 1st of December, 2018) and show a strong commitment to protecting user privacy, demonstrated by their strict no-logs policy. Their privacy policy even states that “your activities using NordVPN Services are provided by automated technical process, are not monitored, recorded, logged, stored or passed to any third party.” The fact that they are based in Panama (which lies comfortably outside 5/9/14-eyes jurisdiction) is icing on the cake.Overall, I genuinely do not have any complaints to speak of with NordVPN, and I STRONGLY recommend it to anyone. It’s super inexpensive too, especially if you get their one or two year subscriptions. It’s quite rare for me that I have such an incredible experience with any VPN service, but NordVPN has thoroughly impressed me time and time again.
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I cant speak for there speed so much, as my base speed is like 8mbps. At that speed, I really cant even tell that I am using a VPN with this service. I get my full speed even when I use there Double VPN feature. I have been using the service for about a year.My main usage for the service is piracy. I also do some other things that are not entirely legal. I have never had my account suspended or got a knock on the door.
And I use it for these SAME purposes on a daily basis almost.At the end of the day, its all about what you are looking for. Nord is a VPN that has more of a focus on privacy and security than it does speed. I am one example that they dont keep logs.
I have Nord Vpn until April of 2019.I love nord vpn for everything except the fact that The us servers or maybe even all the servers in north america are very bad. Usually without vpn on I get 230mbps down and 23 mbps up but with nord on with the “fastest server” on i got dropped to 9-mbps down and 5-mbps up which is unnacceptable. I also notice I get over 100mbps with nord vpn on a U.K server which is way farther away! Does this mean that the servers in North america are very slow?
I used to have ipvanish but didn’t like them getting caught keeping logs. I’m coming close to my renewal and have been using NordVPN for the past year. I was considering going with a different VPN hence my interest in updated reviews.I can only speak from my experience, but NordVPN has been great for me on my Windows laptop. I had a few hiccups early on figuring out how to work the kill switch and getting everything setup correctly, but support was there to help me out and I have not had any issues since. It may have been due to my lack of technical ability, but for me, NordVPN is easy to use and I don’t notice any speed problems at all.
I’ve never tried VPNs on my “smart phone” and don’t plan on doing so yet, since I don’t use it for online browsing.I will be renewing with Nord now that they have lowered the price with the cyber discount thing. Have you seen that Nord actually received a speedtest.net badge for fastest VPN this year?
It’s just that Speedtest doesn’t provide a lot of information about the methods they used to test it. Therefore, it’s interesting to see the results of your speed tests too.
I personally noticed that Nord became faster quite recently and I was interested to know if it’s just me or if they really did something to improve the speed which wasn’t always great. I’m glad they’re sorting it out as I just renewed my subscription for another two years. I’m just about to ask a question. They state that they don’t log anything at all at their privacy policy.However, they prohibit certain use cases (eg.
Using for shady and illegal stuff). It’s reasonable. But HOW would they know, if they don’t store any logs?
They say they will block your account if someone report you, etc. I suspect they could also share your information to the police if they have to.I mean, I’m not going to use it for this kind of stuff, but doesn’t this rule mean they actually store logs and other information? How could they otherwise check this? The same is true for most of other VPNs.
I don’t understand people crying about the speed. Every review site does testing and none of the reviews mention speed drops as big as some people in the comments below. I use Nord for ages and I never had issues like this.
It’s normal for any vpn provider to reduce speed by about 30%, and that’s when you’re connecting to the most random server you can find. Normally, if I connect to a server which is relatively close to my location I barely notice any drop. Speed depends on various factors and you should try contacting CS, most likely problem exists on your end and they might be able to point out exactly what’s causing issues. Sometimes it just appears these comments are rigged and as a frequent tech sites visitor I’ve seen stuff like that about most of the providers, especially the ones on top of the recommended lists. You are 100% correct. PIA has an active smear campaign going on against NordVPN for which they are using shills (bots and people) to make negative reviews.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that PIA was doing far more than that as well (like subscribing to NordVPN and alerting streaming services about which of NordVPN’s servers are currently allowing people to get around geo-blocking, as those servers are made available to NordVPN’s user base.)I have used both PIA and NordVPN’s services and find them almost exactly the same as in the review above. And I am getting those results from the US, not the UK. Here’s the problem with NordVPN.
I have been a customer for 6 months. They hide their chat capability. It is nowhere to be found on their website under Contact Us or anywhere else. Only once I am angry and posting publicly do they start to offer to talk about it. Too little, too late.I had a message from another NordVPN employee telling me Nord KNOWINGLY had a system-wide problem reaching Hulu.But NordVPN made no attempt to pop up a message to users attempting to connect to Hulu or posting a message on their website or sending out an e-mail or posting on the company blog. Deafening.It was perfectly OK with their management to allow me to think I was the one with the problem on my computer when the whole time it was their company. But they kept what they knew a closely guarded secret.
Because they knew such an admission in public was deadly to their reputation and sales.Not to mention that NordVPN cannot connect with Amazon at all. For at least 5 months that I have tried. Not just Amazon Prime streaming, but any part of Amazon. NordVPN admitted as much to me in an e-mail reply. Can’t even get to a log-in screen. Their response: “We’re working on it”.There are companies that work hard to compile the IP address of every VPN server in the world that they can locate. And then they sell the data to websites that want to put hard blocks on any incoming VPN connection.I switched to.
It is much faster. Some of Nord’s servers run at a glacial 8 Mbps download on an ISP that clocks at 35 Mbps without the VPN in the way.All the different protocols are built into one ExpressVPN application. Nord has many different apps for the different protocols. ExpressVPN makes it super easy to find a specific city’s servers.
Express allows me to connect to Amazon in 2 seconds. One of Nord’s recent releases now makes it fast and easy to connect by the city.I was watching Hulu for 4 hours yesterday on ExpressVPN after being without it for three days on Nord.
But the server suddenly quit and I could not reconnect to that specific server. I was chatting with Express support in less than a minute and had a solution in less than 5 minutes (basically change to one of a few specific servers that get past all blocking attempts).
Express puts the links to their chat all over their website. One click and I was connected to Matthew in less than a minuteApparently, ExpressVPN makes it a priority to stay one step ahead of all VPN blocking attempts, probably by frequently changing the IP address.Both NordVPN and ExpressVPN do a good job of managing to avoid IP leaks and shutting down WebRTC. I used NordVPN for 6 months and it was marginally OK. It connected to Hulu until last week, but with lots of buffering and freezes. I did see some gradual improvement at Nord, like getting rid of the mileage between me and their servers and making it really easy to connect to a city. And making the app more visually appealing.But ultimately, you get what you pay for. Is not bad, just not as good as ExpressVPN.
ExpressVPN costs almost three times as much per month as NordVPN. But the difference is less than the cost of a cup of Starbucks.
Which makes it worth it to me to switch to ExpressVPN for all the reasons mentioned above: speed, connectivity, software, and customer support.is just better than Nord on all counts. If you cannot afford the extra $3.00 a month to get ExpressVPN, Nord is OK. But you will have problems reaching sites that aggressively block VPN’s.To their credit, after I posted my experiences with Nord on their blog, they waived their policy and refunded some of my money.I wish Nord would raise their rates slightly (something less than a dollar a month) and spend the money on a crash program to hire more engineers and support people so they can match ExpressVPN feature for feature at a slightly lower cost.And Nord needs to start posting their current server speeds and culling the slow servers. ExpressVPN has a built-in speed test so you can see the latency and speed of every server. I bought NordVPN a couple of days ago, and have found it generally works pretty well.There are a few things which I’ve found so far which aren’t so good:Firstly, their ‘auto-select server’ doesn’t necessarily select the fastest server. I found my speeds double when I disconnect from the ‘default’ server and connect to a different server.
On doing so, speeds can be surprisingly close to non-VPN speeds, which is a massive improvement over NordVPN speeds a year or two ago.Secondly, and probably unrelated to NordVPN itself, if you are excited about the KILL SWITCH function, Huawei users should beware that the feature doesn’t appear to be available on Huawei devices. My Huawei Mate 10 Pro doesn’t support it, and NordVPN’s live chat support-person explained to me that as far as they’re aware, Huawei devices don’t support the feature.Lastly, when viewing the server list, none of the servers show speeds beside them, so this together with the poor ‘default’ speeds, means finding a decent server can be somewhat of an annoyance. I find this review accurate and similar to the experience I had with them. I’ve tried a few other providers before but when I went to customer support, it always seemed like I was getting an automated response rather than getting a response from a real person. However, when I contacted Nord about the Netflix issue I had at the time (it seems that Netflix blocks VPN servers all the time), they were professional and quick to solve the problem.
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It does take a bit of time to find a server that works with netflix but once connected, the speed is fine. I’ve tried quite a few different providers in the past and there definitely were some good ones. I’ve changed services merely by looking for a better price or some certain features and right now I have a subscription with Nordvpn. I find it quite reliable and the service is consistent. Regarding speed – it’s very easy to switch through some servers to find the quickest one depending on your location, but I didn’t notice major slowness on any of the servers so far. I’d prefer to be able to select a server by city rather than by number though. There seems to be many issues with Nord VPN.
I feel that it cannot be trusted. Since putting this program onto my computer, having purchased it for the second time, I have had to reinstall my OS more than once because of glitches and security issues. Obviously Nord VPN is being targeted and they do not seem to be keeping on top of it, that or their IT department is not troubleshooting properly. For me it’s been a total waste of money.
Something that should be trusted cannot be. I’m about to erase and reinstall my OS and I will go and find another company. For me this has been a very frustrating experience. A waste of time and money. It may work for some but here, it has been nothing but trouble. I am on a Mac. Update: I have now bought another VPN and Nord VPN can retain the money for the remaining time that I was supposed to be with them.
Trust in software that the average consumer knows nothing about is essential. I hope it works for others better than it has for me. A year ago I bought a Nordvpn subscription and now since it’s about to end I was doing some research on VPNs trying to find a reasonable deal.
As far as I can remember Nord had just around 2000 servers at the same time last year(correct me if I’m wrong), and now it’s over 4000 and a few more features have been added. Of course over a year had some minor problems connecting to Netflix which was solved when I reached out to their customer support, but still, the price seems to be by far the best proposition taking into consideration how secure and reliable their product is – at least better than some of the others. Thanks for all your excellent reviews Sven, good stuff.There is currently still a problem accessing Amazon while connected to NordVPN. I initially thought this was just a problem with my connection or with Amazon. Then I read multiple other posts about this problem. The recommended solution from Nord is to switch to the Canadian servers, but that is what I do by default (and I’m in Canada), and there are still tons of page loading errors and problems. Nord is aware of this on their US servers but the Canadian issue is a new thing.
Amazon is blocking Nord in an attempt to fight fraud as people have been apparently connecting to different Amazon domains form different Nord IP’s to spoof locations for better pricing on purchases. The Amazon problem didn’t exist for me with other VPN’s I’ve used.My first week with Nord has been hit and miss. It’s inconsistent. What works for one hour doesn’t seem to work the next. I’ve tried both their native client and setting it up on OpenVPN client 2.45. I’ve spent a fair bit of time troubleshooting.Having used VPN’s for about 7 or 8 years there are pros and cons to each I’ve tried that are particular to setup and geographic location.
So Nord is iffy at best in my situation, while others report great success with it.One thing I’d say about Nord by introducing so many servers Nord has solved the server load problem, but it sets up potential site verification problems as a site ID’s a user accessing from so many different locations as they are switching to find better speed, lower latency, avoiding site site blocks on shared IP’s etc. It’s a constant balancing act.
For me I’d even take a small speed hit for something that’s more reliable that doesn’t require constant server switching.I’m considering going the refund route with Nord and trying ExpressVPN next. I am admittedly new to all of this online security stuff, but I downloaded ExpressVPN and NordVPN on my laptop and cellphone to try each out.
I live in Dallas, TX., so having servers in my area for speed is important to me. You, and most other reviewers elsewhere online praise ExpressVPN for having faster servers than NordVPN and other VPN providers, but my experience has been significantly different.As a baseline, without VPN, my home router speeds on my laptop and cellphones were typically around 120 mbps (laptop) and in the mid 50s mbps (smartphone), and Express REALLY struggled vs Nord.
Express typically averaged in the 70s on my laptop and in the 30s on my phone, whereas Nord averaged 113 mbps on my laptop and in the low 50s on my phone. I did, on average, five tests with each device and VPN provider.I really preferred Express’ simple interface on my laptop and smartphone apps, so I wanted Express to win, but Nord absolutely demolished Express in terms of speed. On Nord’s apps, there appear to be almost 70 servers in Dallas, whereas with Express there are just 2, from what I saw on the apps. Perhaps this contributes to the large discrepancy in speed.Granted, I’m a total newb at all of this, but for my money, NordVPN kills Express in the Dallas/Ft. Internet download manager ativador. I am very happy with the nordvpn service, it has great speeds and doesn’t leak any personal data.Sometimes there are problems with accessing US/UK netflix, but they fix it within a couple of hours or max. After all, it is a continuous battle between netflix and the vpn providers.Also multiple devices can be connected at the same time.I also always find their online support to be very competent and friendly.I am not a vpn expert, but from my point of view (average internet/vpn user =streaming, downloading,unblock georestricted content), it’s perfect, I really don’t have any complaints.