How to Turbo Charge Your VPN Speed?

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1 How to Turbo Charge Your VPN Speed? How to Give Your VPN Speed a Turbo Boost? Not being able to access content is a pain and a slow connection increases it. However, with the help of PureVPN you can get rid of these pains once and for all. The speed of your VPN connection depends on many factors, including the bandwidth, distance to and from the server, etc. and these factors are well-beyond the reach of any VPN provider. Why does the speed drop? A VPN connection is generally slow because of all the added security, protocols and encryption carried out on end-to-end basis. This is done for the security of your data. How can you improve speed? If you are experiencing speed slower than usual, then you can take some steps to improve the situation. Speed Depends Upon Your Internet Connection Before you take any step, we recommend you to check your internet speed without PureVPN, then check it with PureVPN connected. This will clearify whether your Internet connection speed is down or not. Follow the below mentioned steps to check your speed: 1. Disconnect VPN. 2. Visit 3. Select your location as the same as VPN server in the map. (For example: If you want to access a UK website, select UK from the Map to test speed from your location to UK without VPN.) 4. Test your internet connection speed. 5. Now connect to VPN. 6. Test your internet connection speed with same servers. If you are experiencing lower than expected speed, then there are several steps you can take to improve your speed. 1 / 12

2 Change Protocols Different Internet Service Providers support different protocols. If you are experiencing slow speed, switch between the protocols i.e. PPTP, L2TP and OpenVPN. Switching between the protocols also resolves the disconnection issue. Turn off Firewall 2 / 12

3 Some Routers and 3 rd party firewalls also cause speed and disconnection issues. Disable the Router / 3 rd party / Windows Firewall and check the connection stability and speed. Select the Nearest/Closest Server If you are located too far from a VPN server (Your desired location), you may not get maximum speed of that VPN server. We recommend that you use PureVPN Purpose selection tool. It will find the best server as per 3 / 12

4 your location, your purpose, your internet speed, etc. and help you get the maximum speed and connection stability. You can select the bast server by using our Speed Test Tool for manual configuration. P2P File Sharing. If you are getting speed issue with P2P File sharing then you must be connecting to server where it 4 / 12

5 is blocked. 5 / 12

6 P2P / File sharing is allowed on specific servers. Please connect to Turkish, Sweden, Romania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Germany, Russia server. 6 / 12

7 If you are using PureVPN Client on Windows then select File Sharing from purpose menu. It will 7 / 12

8 automatically connect you to the best server as per your location. 8 / 12

9 Details here Encryption 9 / 12

10 Speed is directly related to the Protocol you select. PPTP is less encrypted and offer higher speed whereas L2TP and SSTP are more secure and offer high level encryption up to 256-bit therefore 10 / 12

11 they offer slow speed. Whenever user increases encryption level it decreases the speed. However, OpenVPN may give you high encryption with good speed. Unable to Access Certain Websites Over VPN If you are unable to access certain websites while VPN is connected then you need to change DNS and MTU value of your system / devices. Please follow our guide here 11 / 12

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