begin our examination of SlickVPN with a look at the types of VPN connections they offer. They have a regular VPN connection through a secure tunnel to one of their gateway servers that can be used to protect your privacy and secure your transactions by encrypting all your Internet traffic. Your traffic is then mixed with other users on this gateway to randomize whenever possible and protect your privacy while surfing the Internet. Connecting via the VPN regular connection will provide the highest speeds and precise geo-location targeting. However, SlickVPN offers a different type of connection, HYDRA, for those who do not require precise geo-location, but the desire for a highly secure VPN connection. This type of connection, it is virtually impossible for anyone to monitor outbound traffic from your computer because of the random gateway uses it to access the Internet.
Prices and Specials
SlickVPN provides a fairly basic pricing structure for their regular VPN service that includes access HYDRA. They provide three methods of payment. Offers the following terms: one month, three months and one year. As with other VPN services, longer term plans translate into bigger discounts with the five-year plan with the greatest reduction.
As you can see above, SlickVPN VPN markets its regular service for a month to $ 10.00. You can get three months of regular VPN for only $ 6.67 per month. Finally, their better value can be had by signing up for a year of service for only $ 48.00 per year. This means you can get a year of service from only $ 4.00 per month which allows you to save over 60% on their regular monthly price.
They also offer a price of the basic package that includes 11 countries for their 46 only $ 8.33 per month. This package includes 25 cities in the following countries: Canada, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Lithuania, Romania, Singapore, Sweden, UK, USA, and the Netherlands. In addition, they have an option to buy VPN service blocks for 4/8/12/16/20 days for $ 0.75 / day.
SlickVPN accepts many payment options, including Bitcoin, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover and PayPal. You can pay in US dollars, pounds sterling or European euros. Pay using Bitcoin will help keep you anonymous. If you use PayPal, then pay through it will allow you to authorize payment for their VPN service from a central location.
Risk Free Trial Period
Although SlickVPN does not offer a free trial for any of their services, they have a 30 day money back guarantee. This will allow you ample time to review the service and see if it meets your expectations. If you are not 100% satisfied with their service, they will gladly pay your subscription fees in the first 30 days of service. A refund will be provided, upon customer request, within 30 days of payment for services.
SlickVPN services
regular VPN service SlickVPN includes access to servers in more than 142 cities in 46 countries with access to thousands of addresses dynamic IP. Those who subscribe to their regular VPN service will also be able to use their HYDRA connections to make them even more anonymous while using the Internet. There is no bandwidth limit on uploaded data. Their service will allow you to connect up to five devices simultaneously, from a maximum of two IP addresses. In addition, you can use it on your router that will give access to encrypted devices connected through it with a single connection.
What is HYDRA connection? SlickVPN offers a VPN connection that provides multi-hop across servers where you first connect one of their servers over a secure VPN tunnel. Once this connection is established, your traffic is then sent securely to another VPN tunnel to a random server in their network, before finally out to the public Internet. Since VPN second jump is random, it is virtually impossible to track your traffic by leaving their VPN servers. This gives you even more security and anonymity only offer VPN connection. Since this type of connection uses a random VPN server node, it should not be used if your goal is virtual geo-shoring. This concept is illustrated in the figure below.
SlickVPN followers have access to the most widely accepted VPN protocols such as PPTP, IPsec and Cisco OpenVPN. Their clients for Windows and Mac OS X by default OpenVPN using AES-256-CBC. This gives you the best security with little loss of speed when using their service. Although they do not have the customers for other devices they provide support for PPTP and L2TP / IPsec is integrated in most mobile devices and is supported by many routers. They have excellent step by step guides on their website to help you configure your iOS mobile devices, Android and Windows, as well as many types of routers.
SlickVPN Network and Server Locations
SlickVPN the network consists of servers in more than 142 cities in 46 countries worldwide. All their servers are high speed and they support port forwarding.
| Country | Cities | Protocols | Log Policy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 142 | OpenVPN TCP / UDP, Cisco IPsec, PPTP | No logs |
A list of countries and cities that have SlickVPN VPN gateways include the following:
- Africa
- South Africa (2): the Cape 1; Lanseria-1
- Asia
- Hong Kong (3): Hong Kong-3 India (5): Chennai / Madras-1; Pune-4, Indonesia (1): Jakarta-1
Japan (2): Tokyo-2, Macau (1): Macau- 1 Malaysia (2): Kuala Lumpur-2 Singapore (2): Singapore-2 Taiwan (2): Taichung-1; Taipei-1 Thailand (1): Bangkok-1
- Hong Kong (3): Hong Kong-3 India (5): Chennai / Madras-1; Pune-4, Indonesia (1): Jakarta-1
- Europe
- Austria (2): Graz-2 Belgium (2): Ostend-2 Bulgaria (1): Sofia-1 Czech Republic (5 ): Zlin-5
- Denmark (1): Copenhagen-1 France (5): Lillie-1; Paris-3; Strasbourg-1 Germany (7): Dusseldorf-2; Frankfurt-4; Nurnberg-1
- Hungary (2): Budapest-2 Iceland (2): Reykjavik-2 Ireland (2): Dublin-2 Israel (2): Tel Aviv Yafo-2
- Italy (2): Milan-2 Latvia (1 ): Riga-1 Liechtenstein (1): Vaduz-1 Luxembourg (3): Luxembourg-3
- Netherlands (5): Amsterdam-5, Norway (1) Torp-1 Poland (4): Gdansk-3; Warsaw-1
- Portugal (2): Lisbon-2 Republic of Kosovo (1): Prishtina-1 Romania (3 ): Bucharest-3
- Russian Federation (2): Moscow-2 Spain (2): Barcelona-1; Madrid-1 Sweden (6): Halmstad-3; Stockholm-3
- Switzerland (2): Zurich-2, Turkey (1): Istanbul-1 Ukraine (1): Kiev-1
- UK (15): Coventry 1; Eastleigh near Southampton-2; Isle of Man-1; London-7; Manchester-1; Rochester-2
- North America
- Canada (10): Montreal-5; Quebec-1; Richmond, BC-1; Toronto-3
- US (0): Atlanta, GA-6; Boston, MA-1; Buffalo, NY-2; Chicago, IL-8; Dallas, TX-9; Denver, CO-2; Fletcher, NC-4; Houston, TX-2; Kansas City, MO-8; Las Vegas NA-5;
Los Angeles, CA-6; Miami, FL-11; Morganton, NC-1; New York, NY-5; Newark, NJ-2; Orlando, FL-1; Palo Alto, CA-2; Phoenix, AZ-3; Roseburg, OR-3; Salt Lake City, UT-3; San Diego, CA-2;
San Jose, CA-2; Seattle, WA-7; St. Louis, MO-1; Tampa, FL-2; Washington, DC-4; Wilkes-Barre, PA-2
- Oceana
- Australia (5): Brisbane-1; Melbourne-1; Perth-2; Sydney-1
- New Zealand (1): Auckland-1
- South / Central America
- Brazil (1): Sao Paulo-1 Panama (1): Panama City-1
Like you can see SlickVPN may not be the biggest VPN network, but they have servers worldwide. In addition, they have several servers in many key countries of the world so they can maintain a consistent performance on their network.
Privacy and Security
SlickVPN a No Log Privacy Policy. They do not connect information on the use of their VPN users. They keep only the information necessary to operate their service. In their own words:
SlickVPN not request personally identifiable information to visit our website or use our free services. To subscribe to our services, account must be registered. We use this information to track all your web activities while connected to our service SlickVPN. We collect only the necessary and limited information for our customer information pack to provide and maintain the billing of our services.
However, the activities of users outside the site SlickVPN are not followed and we are following the user browsing activities that are connected to SlickVPN service.
their privacy policies, and the fact that you can use the most anonymous payment options like Bitcoin SlickVPN shows commitment to your privacy while using their service.
SlickVPN also provided for the security of your Internet traffic and browsing habits. They offer support for the following VPN protocols, including OpenVPN (TCP / UDP), PPTP, L2TP / IPsec. This can help you to secure and encrypt all your traffic online and protect all your online transactions from prying eyes. SlickVPN customers use OpenVPN protocol with AES CBC 256-bit encryption that will provide you some of the best available encryption protection.
OpenVPN is a more secure protocol. It is a very versatile protocol that now has support for most types of devices. L2TP / IPsec is an excellent choice for mobile devices like iOS, because most natively support and make is easy to configure, but it can be a bit slower than other protocols. PPTP is supported by widespread platform is easy to implement, fast and due to its low-level encryption. It is a popular choice for streaming media where security is not your biggest concern. SlickVPN a step by step guide to help install on many types of devices using all protocols they support. They even provide guides for the configuration of their service with many types of routers.
Hands-On Testing
We complete our review of SlickVPN with some hands on their client software testing to see how easy it is to set up and use, as well as, test his overall performance. I would start by saying that SlickVPN performed well in our speed test. SlickVPN a custom clients for Windows and Mac. They provide step by step guides for configuring their service with other types of devices such as iOS, Android and other mobile devices. They also have guides for the use of their service with Linux and many routers.
Log from Windows
SlickVPN has a custom client for Windows that lets you connect to a server in their network using OpenVPN protocol. To connect to a server using the SlickVPN client, you must first create a group containing the servers you want to access using the customer's locations menu as shown below. The client automatically creates groups for core countries and ten closest cities to your current position. In this menu, you can also create, edit and delete your own groups. Auto Group will also automatically create the following groups:
- individual group for each location (country) in the SlickVPN network
- A group for ten closest servers in your current position
- A group that contains the core countries, and
- A group for HYDRA connections.
We recommend that everyone uses the Auto Group button to create individual groups location when they first install the client. Right click a country or a server in locations you can easily add one or a group of servers to groups that you create.
By clicking on the map tab displays a 2-D map of all server locations in SlickVPN network. Hovering the mouse over one of the country flags on the map displays information on the servers at this point, as shown below.
Once you have created a group as we have done to Atlanta and test above, you can select the group and connect to a server as described in the illustration below to the dashboard.
figure above shows a connection to the test group that has a gateway to Atlanta Server as one of its members. Other members of the test group that we created for this examination are presented below.
As you can see above, the test group we created contained servers both in the US and other European countries. The preferences you set using to determine which server the client SlickVPN connects to a selected group. In our case, we chose the closest balance that connected to the nearest gateway we in the selected group. We will discuss later. Now that we've seen how easy it is to connect to a server in the network SlickVPN. Let us take a look at some of the other features of the SlickVPN interface.
The client has a built in speed test tab so you can check the ping, download speed and download speed of all servers in its network. This will allow those who want more control over servers they connect to see the speed and choose the best performing servers to the location you want to access. The figure below shows that this speed test looks for some of the servers located in the United Kingdom. Note: Right-clicking on a server during the test will allow you to add to the group of your choice. We chose to add the Rochester location to our group in the UK in the first image below in the speed test. The second image is a story of our speed test ended for these servers in the UK. Similar tests and comparisons can be executed for all servers in the network SlickVPN.
The final tab menu is Preferences. This menu allows you to control the server is connected first among the groups you create and activate other client features. Their are two tabs of interest in the preferences menu. The first is represented below is the general tab
In the General Preferences tab, you can do the following :.
- Check the connection
- Launch at startup - This will launch the client when the computer starts
- connect at startup -. This automatically connects to the client when the computer starts. Requires that the username and password are stored in the instrument panel
- Start minimized - .. This will minimize the customer on the board after the beginning of
- logging behavior
- enable logging -. This will enable to log into the dashboard that can be used to diagnose connection problems
- enable IP History - This will allow the IP history in the dashboard so you can follow server locations that you are connected to. These can be exported or deleted
- Check the IP address assigned by the customer - .. This will open a browser window to check the location of your IP address assigned by the customer
the second interest tab under the preferences menu is the networking tab is illustrated below.
the Network Preferences tab allows you to determine how the connections will be made SlickVPN network and allow you to control the specific characteristics of customers as the circuit breaker. The Networking tab has three sections :.
- Common
- Route traffic through the VPN - Set the default gateway
- This option enables / disables sending traffic through the VPN
- default is enabled (protected)
- IP and protection against DNS leak - (This acts as a kill Internet switch.) Activate the leakage protection
- This disables all routes on your computer and adds a route through the VPN.
- This will keep your internet work if you lose the connection to the VPN server.
- Protocol - can allow you to change the UDP to TCP
- UDP is faster than TCP
- TCP is useful in some if, when you want to emulate HTTPS traffic
- Port - can be changed 8888-8080 or 443
- Switch ports can help if you are experiencing connection issues
- This can be used in conjunction with the protocol. simulate HTTPS traffic by selecting the TCP protocol and port 443.
- Route traffic through the VPN - Set the default gateway
- Balancing - This controls the server that the client connects to a selected group.
- load balancing -. Connects to the server with the lowest load in the
- nearest balance -. Connects to the server that is closest to you in the
- Random balance - Connects to a random server in the
- IP Settings used to Settings- automatically, regularly change the IP address ..
- Not recommended for most users
Streaming Media with the customer SlickVPN
when using the Client for Windows SlickVPN, we noticed a few useful guidelines that will make your streaming experience more enjoyable. If you follow these simple guidelines, you will be able to easily geotag all over the world using the SlickVPN client.
- First use Auto Group button on the menu location to create groups for each location (country).
- Make sure that the balance setting in the preferences menu is set to the nearest balance.
- Unless you are experiencing connection problems, the default preferences for other settings should be fine for all your streaming needs.
Once you have completed these simple steps, streaming media connection to the location of your choice will be as simple as selecting the group in this country and connect to it. The client will automatically connect to the server in this country that is closest to your current location that will be generally the one with the best value ping and speed.
Connect with the client Mac
Like the Windows custom software, the customer SlickVPN for Mac can be downloaded from their website. They make one easy click to download and install their Mac client. It has almost the same features as their Windows client. The Mac software offers the same ease of use to Mac users as Windows client does for its users. In addition to their custom VPN client, SlickVPN also well illustrated guides to manually configure Mac OS X PPTP and OpenVPN.
Connect iPhone or iPad
SlickVPN not an iOS app, but they support all devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch). iOS natively supports L2TP / IPsec VPN. SlickVPN are guides for configuring devices using iOS / IPSec and OpenVPN L2TP with their service. Here is a generic guide to illustrate how to configure L2TP / IPsec for SlickVPN
L2TP / IPsec simplified manual developed for iOS :.
- Click " Settings [["
- Scroll down and select. "["
- Type " Configuration ", then click" General VPN Add VPN "
- Select L2TP
- Enter a description as the connection SlickVPN
- in the " server " field type the address of a server SlickVPN server. for example, in the above test group above "gw1.atl3.slickvpn.com" without quotes, for the United States: Atlanta, GA server You can find the server addresses in the area location map on their website
- Enter your. username and password to note :. VPN What is different from your connection site and was provided by the staff SlickVPN in your registration email inviting.
- in the secret field, enter " gogoVPN " without the quotes.
- Make sure that " Send all traffic " is enabled.
- Type " Save ".
- Toggle VPN " ON " to test your connection
Log an Android device
SlickVPN not an application for Android devices, but the set up process is very easy. SlickVPN are guides for configuring devices with Android PPTP and OpenVPN on their website
These are simplified instructions for L2TP / IPsec connections :.
- Open the menu and select Settings
- Select wireless network or wireless controls , depending on your version of Android
- Select VPN
- Select Add VPN
- Select Add L2TP / IPSec PSK VPN
- Select VPN name and enter a descriptive name
- Select Set VPN server and enter a server host name . For example, in the test group above "gw1.atl3.slickvpn.com" without quotes, for the United States: Atlanta, GA server. You can find the server addresses in the location map area on their website.
- Press Set IPSec pre-shared key and enter "gogoVPN " without the quotes.
- Clear Enable L2TP secret
- Open the menu and select Save
Once the VPN is added, it should appear in the VPN list. You can select to connect.
SlickVPN Speed Test
SlickVPN did well in our speed test. The speed of the server in Atlanta was excellent. You should be happy with the speed of their network for most applications based on our tests. This test was run using the client SlickVPN Windows using OpenVPN protocol (UDP) using AES CBC 256-bit encryption to encrypt your default Internet traffic.
As you can see there was a difference of 12.9% between speed connection directly to our ISP and the connection to a server in Atlanta . As expected their is some loss of connection speed, but it is well worth for the extra security provided by encryption. With speeds of nearly 50 Mbps, you should have no problems surfing the Internet, downloading files or streaming media Netfilx, BBC iPlayer, and other media providers
SlickVPN Review :. Conclusion
SlickVPN was in space for privacy for a while and has built a good reputation for the service they offer. Their network has servers in more than 142 cities in 46 countries worldwide. Their no newspaper policy and their support for payment using Bitcoin shows that they take their members' privacy seriously.
SlickVPN supports OpenVPN (TCP / UDP), L2TP / IPsec, PPTP and makes their service compatible with most mobile devices and even some routers. They have a custom client software for Windows and Mac OS X. The guides have step by step installation for Linux, iOS, Android, and some routers
What I liked most about the service :.
- custom software for Windows and Mac
- New HYDRA multi-hop VPN for ultra secure connections
- reduced prices for long-term plans for all services
- Non- political log
- more anonymous ways to pay as Bitcoin
ideas to improve service:
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