Steganos VPN Prices and Features – Review 2015
Steganos is a German VPN provider that offer internet security and anonymity services. Steganos is an affordable VPN and uses good encryption protocols, such as: OpenVPN encryption. The company also offers other security services besides VPN.
“Steganos Online Shield VPN will significantly improve your digital life. We, the security experts at Steganos, have developed VPN software that enables you to use the internet as it should be.”, as stated on their website.
Steganos VPN Features
Steganos run their own SSL VPN service which should be a good thing when it comes to the user’s data privacy and protection. They also have their own VPN client which is compatible with most devices and operating systems. Let’s take a look at what the service has to offer.
Pricing and Payment Methods
Steganos offers 3 main pricing plans:
- 50 GB of traffic – $15.95 a month
- 50 GB of traffic – $99.95 a year
- Unlimited traffic – $399.99 a year
As for payment methods, the company accepts: PayPal, Visa, Mastercard, American Express.
Servers and Speed
The company has servers in Germany only. This may be a turn down, but it could be more convenient for internet users in Europe than those in Asia for instance because as long as you are close the server location, the connection will be better.
As for speed, test results were a little disappointing than we expected from a German VPN provider, here are the results from different locations:
Encryption Protocols and Logging Policy
This provider uses dynamic IPs in which your IP address changes every time you turn it on. The only negative thing about using dynamic IPs is that you will face troubles when you try to carry out financial operations using Paypal, for example. Your Paypal account could be put on hold since the company has a suspicious policy against changing IP addresses.
Steganos run on OpenVPN protocol, however, the company doesn’t support IPv6 or port forwarding.”Ports are automatically unblocked and SMTP mail is not permitted.”
As for logging, Steganos collects ” ‘standard’ information: Username, email address and IP is collected. If you want more information you have to write to Steganos as there is no written Privacy Policy as you would expect from a security and VPN provider. In effect, there is no way to verify what they log and cache and there is probably little privacy from using Steganos.”
Free Trial/Money Back/Coupons
Unfortunately, the company doesn’t provide free trial nor does it offer money back guarantee. In addition, Steganos doesn’t have current coupons or discounts.
VPN Client
The company has its own VPN client that is very light and easy to use. It’s only 13 MB so it is installed very quickly. You can choose to use a custom installation or an express one as you wish.
P2P and Torrenting Policy
It is not specified whether Steganos accepts peer-to-peer and file sharing.
Conclusion
Steganos VPN obviously lacks a lot of features that are needed by most users nowadays. However, it doesn’t mean that is it a total flop. The service provides moderate VPN features that are more convenient to those who are looking for a basic VPN service that provides average security and anonymity on the internet.
