Strong VPN vs Surfshark VPN

I started out using OpenVPN as well. However, the speed and latency was always very bad even though my VPS connection is fast.After spending too much time trying to figure it out, I decided to just spend just $55/year and use StrongVPN. Added bonus, I can use StrongVPN on my iPad/iPhone!

The same speed issues happen across a number of different SurfShark VPN servers that I’ve tried connecting to, although occasionally I’ll get lucky and get sustained downloads. Other times I’ll get nothing, i.e.

I was in Shanghai last month & in previous years bypassing the firewall was not too much of a hassle. When I arrived in Shanghai for the holidays this year my old VPN provider didn't work anymore, plus they added DNS poisoning and bandwidth throttling. I actually upgraded TO StrongVPN, which seems to be one of the affected VPN services now.My conclusion was that it has become effectively impossible to run a western IT-oriented business from Shanghai

Basically i’ve been downloading music and movies from soulseek as well as 1337x for the better part of a year now of course always using a vpn that is configured properly. The other day my dad asked my what I was doing while I was downloading some new albums, I explained to him and he disapproved of it even after I explained it extensively. After he explained it to my mom they both had a long and serious conversation with me about how this could land them in jail and how I was jeopardizing our entire family along with everything they’ve worked for. They told me I need to remove all the music and movies off of my computer and never do it again