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August 20266 articles

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Why Your VPN Makes Your Internet Slower

Three causes, and encryption is the smallest of them. Two are settings you can change in about a minute.

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Why Streaming Buffers When Your Speed Test Says You're Fine

Netflix asks for 15 Mbps to serve 4K. If you have 200 and it still stalls, the number you are measuring is not the one that matters.

A Wi-Fi router on a wooden desk with an Ethernet cable plugged into the back.
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Why Your Wi-Fi Is Slower Than the Speed You Pay For

The plan describes what reaches your router. Wi-Fi is the hop after that, and it is the part nobody sold you.

Server racks in a data centre, the environment a VPN concentrator actually lives in.
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A VPN Concentrator Is Not a Better VPN. Here's What It Is

Datacentre hardware for terminating hundreds of tunnels at once. If you are one person wanting into your own network, you want software.

Standard kill switch blocks traffic only when the tunnel drops by accident; advanced or lockdown mode blocks all internet unless the tunnel is up.
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Your VPN Kill Switch Probably Isn't the One You Think

Most providers ship two, the weaker one is usually the default, and it stops protecting you the moment you disconnect on purpose.