TigerVPN Prices and Features – Review 2015
Based in Slovakia, TigerVPN has been in business since 2011 and has grown quite popular in just a few years. Through 40+ servers in 35 different countries, TigerVPN provides its subscribers with unrestricted access to all websites and services in any country without compromising their location or personal data as stated on their website:
“We know every single chip in our servers, because we put them there. Once they were configured we sent our staff around the world to put them in our Datacenter Cages. Connected to our IP Upstream without shared access adds another layer of security and privacy.”
TigerVPN Features
TigerVPN is an interesting VPN choice thanks to its strategically located nodes and cheap prices. Even though P2P and file sharing isn’t allowed, TigerVPN has many other attractive features that allows users to surf the web anonymously and securely as well as stream their favourite content live and in HD.
Let’s discover each of these areas in this comprehensive tigerVPN review.
Pricing and Payment Options
TigerVPN offers 3 packages: Karma Pack (1 year), No-Brainer (6 months) and the Test Drive (1 day).
The Karma Pack costs €70 a year (€5.83 per month). This plan is not only economical, but it also allows users to add extra connections and redeem their subscription without paying additional fees.
The No-Brainer, on the other hand, is recommended for new subscribers and those who travel a lot. It costs €7 per month and enables you to stream live videos in HD and follow up with sports events.
As for payment methods, TigerVPN accepts: Visa, Master Card, Maestro and Paypal.
Speed
On their website, TigerVPN states:
“We have built tigerVPN from scratch to provide the best service possible. We do not rely on any third-party and have written the software ourselves. We own and manage the servers, the colocation and the upstream connectivity.”
The service was put to test and it was found that it does indeed deliver decent internet speeds in tough locations, like: Dubai.
Speed test results were more impressive when the service was tested in a major internet market like London using with L2TP 256 SSL encryption.
As you can see, download speed ranges from 11.88 MB/s to 26.13MB/s, depending on how close you are to the servers. Therefore, we can say that TigerVPN delivers satisfactory internet speeds even in challenging locations, such as: Dubai and other gulf countries.
Servers
The Slovakian company has a predator’s eye for hot internet markets in respect to the user’s growing need for privacy and anonymity online. A common fact is that the more the servers, the stronger the anonymity and internet privacy. TigerVPN has over 40 servers in 35 countries with 1000 Mbps capacity, covering almost all popular destinations including: USA, Germany, Romania, Australia, and the recently added Hong Kong, Turkey and Netherlands.
In addition, TigerVPN “has deployed an effective server health detection system and has a rerouting service in place for heavy traffic servers. This means that TigerVPN servers will have stable performance even on high loads at peak times. The server health management system of tigerVPN allows it to offer you unlimited bandwidth – free of caps.”
Encryption and Logging Policy
Security is one of the main reasons why internet users purchase a VPN service; that’s why good VPN providers are rated according to their level of encryption and the protocols they use. TigerVPN supports PPTP, L2TP/IPSec and OpenVPN SSL data tunneling protocols. This should satisfy the needs of most VPN users. Unfortunately, TigerVPN isn’t compatible with Windows built SSTP or IKEv2 protocols, but we do hope that they improve this issue soon. On the other hand, the company offers 256-bit data encryption to its privacy-minded users.
As for logging, TigerVPN does not keep logs. In fact, the company has a very strict rule against data retention. This means that they don’t save their users’ online activities, browsing data, downloads or connections. “However, like all providers tigerVPN does monitor bandwidth usage of its VPN users and the times you’ve logged in and out of the VPN. And they do have the users’ original, true identification or IP only to save their face from any miscreants and credit card fraudsters.”
Compatibility
TigerVPN supports most operating systems and devices, including: PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android, Boxee Box, WiFi Routers.
It is important to note that TigerVPN doesn’t have a VPN client. “Therefore, you need to manually configure the VPN settings on your Windows, Android, Blackberry or iOS. This could be painstaking for the technophobes among us; but, there are instructional guides and videos on TigerVPN’s site to make the task simpler. In addition, iOS users can also download configuration files if they wish to do so.”
Customer Support
24/7 live support is available from TigerVPN. Users can submit trouble tickets, send emails to the support department or communicate with the company’s support representatives live.
Conclusion
TigerVPN is a very good, above average provider that is safe and reliable to recommend. They have their own hardware and write their own codes, which makes it secure and trustworthy to be used without worrying about being traced or monitored by third parties. We would love them, however, to offer a VPN client soon and provide compatibility for SSTP.
