Unfortunately there's no way to verify with 100% certainty if a VPN company's no-logs claims are accurate.Īlthough Mullvad says it doesn't log user IP addresses, when you connect with Wireguard, your IP address is temporarily stored in memory during the connection. If true, it means none of that can be traced back to your account number and nothing you do online when you use Mullvad can be traced back to you personally, since none of your personal information is connected to your account number. Your connection timestamps, IP addresses, DNS requests, bandwidth and traffic are never logged or stored by the company, according to its no-logging of user activity policy. Mullvad says it doesn't log any of your activity when you use the service.

When you create an account, Mullvad generates a unique, random 16-digit account number that you use to sign in. The VPN requires precisely zero personal information to sign up and use its service - not even an email address or username. Mullvad takes security and privacy seriously. Red flag: Doesn't issue annual transparency reports.DNS leak protection and kill switch: Enabled by default and can't be disabled.Encryption: AES 256-bit, Perfect Forward Secrecy.

Overall, Mullvad is one of the fastest VPNs I've ever tested, and can provide more than enough performance for just about any online activity like streaming, video calls or gaming. My average speeds to Singapore registered the slowest at 158.54 Mbps - still impressive considering the distance from my location. Speeds to Australia were impressive, where I averaged 269.4 Mbps, even though I was connecting to a server located on the other side of the globe. My average speeds dropped when connecting to the UK, where I averaged 310.58 Mbps, while my average speeds to the European servers in France and Germany came out to a slightly faster 314.23 Mbps.

I averaged 340.84 Mbps to Mullvad's New York servers. Surfshark, with its 17% speed loss, still ranks as CNET's fastest VPN. That 23% speed loss is far better than the 58% speed loss we recently calculated with IPVanish or the 52% speed loss with ExpressVPN. My total average speed without the VPN was 364.92 Mbps, and my total average speed connected through Mullvad servers was 278.72 Mbps.

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