I bought a lifetime subscription of Hotspot Shield a few years ago. No matter what VPN server I switch too the speed is slow in the kibibyte range. When I disable the VPN my speeds increase dramatically to the megabyte range. I tried different torrent clients, Utorrent, BitTorrent, and qBittorrent and the results are the same. If I download a torrent that is not actually considered piracy my speed is fine, it’s only the piracy torrents that are slow. Heck, I even have access to a private torrent website that mainly deals with 4K HDR content and my speeds is completely fine. But public torrent sites is what seems to be slow with Hotspot Shield. Can someone recommend a good cheap VPN that doesn’t have a monthly subscription and instead offers a 1-time payment?
Can someone recommend a good cheap VPN that doesn’t have a monthly subscription and instead offers a 1-time payment?
That does not exist. VPNs are ongoing services, they have their own monthly/yearly bills to pay, hence the need to bill you monthly/yearly.