

So if you usually get a speed of 100Mbps without a VPN, expect to see speeds closer to 90Mbps with a VPN on. I should also point out here that the effect on the actual speed of the home connection was minimal, also being within the 10% range. Regardless, connections to both far and close servers performed admirably. That being said, ExpressVPN does edge out NordVPN ever so slightly, not massively appreciable, but certainly noticeable.

Regardless, when taking all that into account, and doing some testing, NordVPN and ExpressVPN scored within 5%-10% of each other, which is actually pretty excellent all things considered. So distance from the server also plays a large part in the real-time performance that you’re going to see. Not only that, but if you’re in the US and connect to a server in Italy, and compared that to somebody in let’s say North Africa who is also connecting to Italy, the person from NA will likely have better performance with the Italy server. Now, this is a bit of a difficult one to test, because you could connect to the exact same server several times, and get different results due to the variations of different internet connections. Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, select routers and otherīrowser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge plus ads and malware blockerīrowser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Edge Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, Android TV and other Lightway, L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN, IKEv2, PPTP protocol / AES 256-bit encryption OpenVPN, IKEv2/IPsec, WireGuard protocol / AES 256-bit encryption
