VPN Recommendations and Discussion

[buksida]

For what it’s worth!!
https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-vpn/

I think I've said this at least three times in this thread: these types of articles should be ignored. They're clickbait stuffed with affiliate links where the website gets a commission when someone clicks them or orders a product. Its just spam.

I think we've established by the responses that Nord is superior to Express now.

[Big Boy]

Yes, it was very unusual, but Express didn't even seem interested that I was not renewing my subscription.

I've had my first begging letter from Express this morning, pleading with me to come back. I'd have thought they should have been asking why I'd left in the first place (not that they could rectify my problems i.e. very average service, regular buffering/lock-outs and expensive). They have simply said there will be improvements in the next 12 months.

Sorry Express, those improvements should have happened over the last 12 months, and I'd have probably stayed.

[buksida]

Did you guys get any 'grace period' after the subscription expired but it still continued to work? Mine's run out, but it still works.

[Dannie Boy]

Did you guys get any 'grace period' after the subscription expired but it still continued to work? Mine's run out, but it still works.

Are you talking about Express or Nord?


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[buksida]

Express, haven't signed up for Nord yet.

[PeteC]

This morning I just got "3 months free" offer from Express to come back.

[Dannie Boy]

I don’t remember trying to use Express after I changed over to Nord so don’t know whether it cut off on the due date or not?

[Big Boy]

I haven't uninstalled Express yet, so I've just tried it:

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[Big Boy]

Doing the above test, initiated the following pop-up:

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[Dannie Boy]

Out of interest I tried to connect and unsurprisingly it wouldn’t, but then I cancelled back in January

[buksida]

Been using Nord for a few days now and happy to concur with the others that it is much better than Express. There is no lag or latency when connecting and it seems to have more servers available. It doesn't seem to throttle the speeds either (though 3BB is far from perfect to overseas servers). Haven't tried streaming iPlayer yet though, that will be the litmus test!

The clincher was the price, way less than half what Express was charging to existing subscribers. I ended up getting 30 months for $89 bucks ... a bargain.

[Ms Tigger]

I'm currently having a look at different VPNs and I see that Nord have 3 different levels, Ultimate, Plus and Basic. Is there any particular level that folk would recommend please?

[Big Boy]

I've got everything I need from the Basic package.

[Dannie Boy]

I’ll second that - £77 for a two years contract which is less than Express charge for a year and as far as I’ve experienced, a better service.


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[Ms Tigger]

Thank you, very much appreciated. I was thinking that that may be the case re the Basic as I would only be using it for the t'interweb to think that I was back in UK!