Looking for VPN with lots of servers across US and allows me to choose servers geographically, specifically by city or state in the US. any recommendation appreciated, thanks
Mullvad VPN is the most privacy focused VPN out there and has lots of different VPN servers within the US and lots of other countries. You can geographically select the one you like. Also Mullvad comes with a free test use period. Check it out https://mullvad.net
We’re obviously biased, but at VyprVPN we have servers in the following US Cities: Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington DC. You can see a full list here.
Seconded. I recently switched to Mullvad, after going through some lesser options, and it’s great. Aside from being one of the most secure choices, you get lots of US-based server options. Very fast as well.
I’m not a huge fan of Mullvad after using them for the past few months.
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Connection is not stable.
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Also when you connect to a server, there’s a chance it doesn’t actually connect to that IP address and gives you another one.
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Speeds are pretty slow (compared to PIA/Express/etc)
I guess Mullvad is more privacy-friendly, but it does come at a cost.
Agreed, coming from nordvpn, I never looked back after switching to mullvad. it just simple and works great!
Top tip: If you use OpenVPN config files then the only difference between the downloaded configs for different regions is the list of IP addresses in the .conf file so you can just list all the IP addresses you may ever need in one mullvad.conf and it will randomise what country you connect to. And you can just comment out whatever you want to not connect to. Super easy switching between regions.
You also can have up to 5 devices online simultaneously, with ProtonVPN only 2…
Re #2: I believe that the VPN connection from your device reaches the server at the IP address specified in your configuration, but then the outward facing server, which you can see when you get your public IP from a website, is a different one. This is intentional and i suspect it allows for easier management of the servers by focussing them on one task (cant say for sure).
What privacy advantages does ProtonVPN have that Mullvad does not?
Yep, at present we do keep connection logs. But we’ve always been transparent about that (as opposed to say, several companies who have promised to be no-log and then proven otherwise in court…) We recently outlined it again here if you’re curious.
You can use bridges with Mullvad to enable multihop connections.
Why’d you refer to Secure Core servers then?
You’ve contradicted your own statement but you don’t seem like a consistent person.