The Fastest VPN Services of 2022

How We Chose the Fastest VPN Services

When we evaluate VPN solutions to determine the fastest, we take several factors into account other than fast speeds. As an end-user, you shouldn't need to buy an expensive solution thinking, "Well, it must be good if it's costly."

There should be a balance between price and features that offer a solid all-around product as the outcome. We consider the four following attributes as major deciding factors when picking out the fastest VPN solution.

Bandwidth Consumption Limit

Overall speed is excellent but, if you don't have high bandwidth usage, fast speeds will burn through your bandwidth and contribute to overall poor performance. When you load websites or watch videos, it is essential to have a large bandwidth to allow all that data to be sent over in a large group. This allows for faster loading times; with a lower bandwidth amount, it is like filling up a pool with water through a straw. It doesn't matter how fast the water is going through the straw as it still takes a while to fill up.

Infrastructure Capacity

Having an extensive infrastructure of servers around the globe is critical to several different functions on a fast VPN. As an end-user, you want to be able to switch to another country's server quickly if, for some reason, you are experiencing slowness. Also, options for different countries play into various features like tunneling, streaming, and privacy controls within each platform. We always consider the number of supported countries when evaluating VPN solutions.

Supported Features/Systems

If you purchase a VPN service, you want it to work on your device. More times than not, we have seen users get used to a VPN and would like to stick with that service but expand it out to all of its devices after some time. We want to highly regard VPNs that support a vast majority of the popular features and operating systems in the market to ensure overall user satisfaction. Users shouldn't have to choose between different VPNs because one supports features like streaming or proxying, which the user wants to use, but then find out it doesn't help all of their device operating systems.

Speed Output

Last is overall speed output. There is nothing worse when using a VPN service to stream a movie or download files, and your general internet speed is nullified once you turn on the VPN. We reviewed the advertised speed and tested these speeds from different countries around the globe to ensure that once the VPN is enabled, these speeds do not vary from what is advertised. Speed sells when it comes to VPNs, and it is not hard to test.