Left Surfshark for NordVPN

Not renewing my subscription in 9 days. Ping has been cut in half w NordVPN, and unlike literally every speed test I’ve ever ran with Surfshark, Nord is giving me upload speeds >100mpbs. I’ve been in Peru for 2 months connecting to Miami servers due to proximity to USA and immediately noticed a big difference.

Dedicated IP with Surfshark started getting captchas today coupled with the fact that “smartDNS” has been down since I chose to start using it (per chat with support) for Netflix access- it literally never worked once. Tired of paying for things that don’t work and are slower than their competitors. This is my review of NordVPN vs Surfshark, your own results may vary.

I tried Nord for one month and I honestly didn’t like them. I really love Surfshark’s wireguard protocol and overall app for every OS. I mean they also offer the one of the best VPNs for the value

Nord and Surfshark are the same company.

Surfshark is running better than it ever has lately. Yes, there was a period of several months where it had stability issues and the app was utter rubbish. The servers have been upgraded and rotating IP works again.

Nord is the more stable version of Surfshark. Nord owns Surfshark. You get what you pay for. Made the switch myself and have zero regrets.

I can’t support a VPN company that has data breaches, tracks users activity and hands everything over to the feds. I switched off Nord after the data breaches

Surfshark is cheaper, I’ll stay with Surfshark

What shocked me is when I cancelled service over a month ago, I decided I needed it weeks later and came back- they gave me the same dedicated IP… something didn’t seem right about that. I asked for a new one and they didn’t have one for me. How many people shared that same DIP? Doesn’t seem very “dedicated”…

Wrong.

Nord and surf ( and atlas) are under the same mother company but operate entirely different server networks and different software and worker.

Not sure what you mean, but if you mean that literally then they should share resources. No reason I should be pulling 170ms-250ms ping on one VPN service while their “same company” competitor is giving me 50-60ms and twice the speeds on all servers.

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I just notice I don’t have problems entering Amazon and IMDB services, normally the speed was very slow to the point that I had to turn off the VPN.

Dindt have any major issues out of that.

That said, Im changing to NordVPN in May, once my sub with SS expires. I want to try it and see if it is better.

Yeah so far so good. Split tunneling sounds pretty cool I’m going to set that up on my MacBook hopefully tonight.

Yeah not sure. I don’t have issues with Surfshark.

Surfshark can sputter a bit at times on Amazon, true. But Amazon is generally hostile to VPNs. I merely select a different server and I’m good.

Ya, I’m not sure where all peoples problems are coming from. Mines been fine for the few months I’ve been using it.

Ah this one yeah… it was a third partys fault but yeah its quite bad how they reacted.

luckily Surf and a few other VPN didnt had any breaches / leaks yet.

Yeah no issues on my side for 2 + years.

That’s why I switched off. Not because the breach was bad but how they tried to hide it and just not notify anyone. From the date of the breach it took them 2 years to send me an email saying hey we got breached.

I get no one is safe and it’s really only a matter of time but it’s how the company handles it and communicates it out.