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The Lord of the VPNs
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Quote:Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection is the clear winner in tests of VPN performance, privacy, and transparency carried out by the independent IT-security research institute AV-TEST, and is recognized as the institute’s “Approved Virtual Private Network Solution”.
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For the third year in a row, Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection has participated in the public VPN package certification tests conducted by AV-TEST, the independent research institute for IT security based in Magdeburg, Germany, and once again for the third year in a row it has received the “Approved Virtual Private Network Solution” badge.

Curiously, there has been a constant fall in the number of participants whose solutions reached the end of the tests and were certified. Specifically: in 2020 there were six VPN packages, in 2021 – three, and finally, this year there were only two left: Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection and Norton Secure VPN (bringing to mind the “Highlander” movie tagline: “There can only be one”). The reason is that participants in a public certification test may choose not to have their results published if either they’re not satisfied with them or their products don’t meet the certification requirements.

This certification test evaluates many factors that affect usage of a VPN: usability, OS compatibility, server locations, upload and download speeds, security, transparency, etc. We were confident in both the stability and security level provided by our VPN solution, so were most interested in the additional performance comparisons with the other VPN products available on the market. Having that in mind, and before the public certification test was started, we asked AV-TEST to test an additional six VPN solutions fully in parallel with the public certification performance test and in full accordance with its methodology. As a result, an extended performance comparative report was published.

The participating VPNs were tested for both their download and upload performance, torrent download performance, YouTube streaming, and measured latency at three geographic locations – the U.S. West Coast, the Netherlands, and Japan. All tests were conducted for the “best” local connection as well as two geographic overseas connections. With the public certification test, there was only one difference: the results achieved by any of the tested products were not excluded.

The Magnificent Seven were: Avast SecureLine VPN, ExpressVPN, Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection, Mullvad VPN, NordVPN, Norton Secure VPN, and Private Internet Access.

AV-TEST performed this test in parallel for all products several times a day for a week, which allowed them to average the results of the performance test. So, let’s dive deep into the numbers and see how modern VPN solutions outperform good old dial-up access or ADSL.

The Speedtest, or There and Back Again

For most VPN use cases in everyday life, download speed is more important than upload speed, but for a full-fledged test, one needs to analyze both. The performance test used virtual machines configurations hosted in the Microsoft Azure cloud, and all products were run with their default, out-of-the-box configurations. And trust me, those VMs were pretty good and had a stable and very, very fast internet connection, with reference unencrypted download and upload speeds of up to 9Gbps. Yes, gigabits per second!

The first set of tests – download, upload and latency performances – were conducted using the “industry standard” Ookla LLC speedtest.net command-line application and compared to an unencrypted reference speed benchmark. They show how fast you can surf the web anonymously all around the globe, since all these tests were run for both local and overseas locations, as pictured below.

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The comparative test local and overseas connections map

Due to the nature of the technology, using a VPN connection almost always reduces performance, and in the graph below we do see a significant drop in speed compared to an unsecured connection. Such is the price of anonymity. But let’s be honest: compare these values with the bandwidth provided by your ISP, and you’ll realize that in most cases you’ll never notice a drop in speed since your connection is still slower.

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The comparative local and overseas results for the unencrypted download and upload performances, and the industry averages for all three tested locations (the more the better)

However, “average performance” is good for statistics and comparisons, but in everyday life you’re unlikely to prefer an “average car”. So let’s compare how fast all the test participants are, and we’ll see a noticeable difference in performance between the winners and the rest:

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The combined averages for download and upload performances for local and overseas connected VPN servers (the more the better) Kaspersky wins almost every race, with the exception of overseas upload average performance due to an unpatched server issue that had not been fixed at the time of testing.
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