What are /r/p2p's favorite Products & Services?

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Since the theme of the article is the "best trials", any difficulty getting a refund from the provider disqualifies it (in my book). Personally, I can't stand getting the run-around, when I'm trying to get my money back.

PIA is one of my top recommended providers, but they do not offer an money-back guarantee explicitly.

PureVPN's major weakness is their customer relations and support.

Personally, I think Cyberghost's free service is great way to test their service -- without outlaying any money.

It's a VPN service. You tunnel your internet traffic through their servers. If any anti-p2p service tries to harvest IP addresses in order to sue, they'll only get the IP of that server, not your IP. As long as that service is in a country where they can't be forced to give up your private info, you're safe. BTGuard is legit and safe (unless recent Canadian laws have changed that?) and pretty speedy so it should not slow down your download speeds.

Credit where credit's due :)

As for the providers, there are only really three large Tier 1 providers left: Giganews, Highwinds and Astraweb. I struggle to find a difference in speed on my current connection, and that's from both their US and EU servers; I max out on all at 1.8MB/s with as little as two connections at most times.

Giganews resell to PowerUsenet and SuperNews. Highwinds is Newshosting and UsenetServer and they resell to Easynews and used to resell to Newsdemon. I think this may have changed recently as my connections to Newsdemon seem to be routed to Astrawebs tier; should follow that up really!

There are other small providers but obviously their retention does not compare to the likes of Giganews (546 days), Newshosting (519 days) or Astraweb (537 days). Some resellers are limited in the retention they can offer you (but sometimes you get it anyway).

I should probably do an article on this as it's quite interesting heh.

Wow, this article pains me greatly.

This should probably be in [/r/vpnreviews](/r/vpnreviews) instead of [/r/p2p](/r/p2p), but that said, it misses some huge points.

Disqualifying a P2P provider outright due to not offering an easy refund process isn't very fair. Sure, it's a "Con" bullet-point, but you don't even have those.

This is just a list, with no real substance. You list HMA, but PIA is nowhere on the list. My favorite happens to still be PureVPN, and even Overplay depending on what I'm trying to accomplish.

CyberGhost, for example, would be horrible as a VPN provider if it disconnects after 3 hours. "Oh, I'll just browse this site" <3h disconnect> "Oh snap, I now have given away my IP address." Just dumb.

These service are either scams or they track you & resell your information. Use a reputable service like Private Internet Access-- see my article

I use HideMyAss Pro VPN. 18,500 ips in 32 countries and its $78 a year (they have monthly pricing too). A small price to pay for anonymity and piece of mind when using bittorrent. It can max out my connection and the software runs openvpn...check it out