Never tried Norton's (any really) VPN...at hotel...performance lost seems zilch!

[emertmakeshiteup]

nfm!

 

[Cosmos]

Been using Webroot for three years now. Experienced a few glitches in Year 1 but they worked them out. Highly recommend it along with their anti-virus.

 

[ClarkstonMark]

did you expect a performance loss?

 

[slykens]

You shouldn’t see much (maybe up to 5%) performance loss from a well engineered and short path VPN. There is overhead and delay introduced but it can be kept small and those things shouldn’t keep you from using VPN on public and/or unencrypted networks.

At the risk of stepping on fair’s toes, I can set you up with a shite VPN if you want one.

 

[emertmakeshiteup]

did you expect a performance loss?

I did, however, I was totally clueless about VPNs!

 

[Bedivir]

I also used to use VPN. Because of my work, I have to visit foreign sites, access to which is denied from our ipi. Still, recently I noticed that many sites have learned to detect VPNs, so it becomes ineffective. I used a proxy server as a workaround, and some forum users advised me to use proxy servers. I had no idea there was an intermediary between your computer and the website. I bought a proxy from soax.com, and for a good reason. It's much more efficient than using a VPN. In addition, it is unreal to know that you are using a proxy.

 

[psulongago]

True, true.

First mention was Norton, we use it probably because most advertised. Every time i open Norton, they try to sell me something new. Local techies are not too high on Norton.

 

[slykens]

First mention was Norton, we use it probably because most advertised. Every time i open Norton, they try to sell me something new. Local techies are not too high on Norton.

Norton was great in the Disk Doctor and Commander days. They quickly became a laughing stock to techies not long after that.

 

[dailybuck777]

Nord VPN worked well for me when I was in China about 3 or 4 years ago. Since the VPN acts like an extra hoop for communications to go to and from your computer, I would expect performance degradation. How much, I don't know.

 

[bostavan]

The biggest problem for me was finding the best VPN to use. I've tried a lot of them no one satisfied my work needs and, of course, Netflix. I started off with one that was super easy to set up, but it turned out that it didn't have enough features to do what I wanted. Then I tried another one that was really good at what it did, but it was expensive and not user-friendly. It took me months before I found this VPN from https://proxycrawl.com/scraping-api-avoid-captchas-blocks that met all of my needs.

 

[Cowbell Man]

The biggest problem for me was finding the best VPN to use. I've tried a lot of them no one satisfied my work needs and, of course, Netflix.

No problem for me using ExpressVPN and Netflix all over Europe. Or any other streaming service for that matter, including BTN.