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The results are in...Hotspot Shield was named the world’s fastest VPN. Find out why experts say Hotspot Shield may defy physics and increase your connection speed.

Speedtest names Hotspot Shield “World’s Fastest VPN”

In October 2019, the experts at Ookla’s Speedtest.net conducted an independent study, pitting the leading VPN providers against each other to find out which service is the fastest. In both short and long-distance connection testing, Hotspot Shield came out on top, proving that under all circumstances tested it remains by far the fastest VPN on the market.

What makes Hotspot Shield the fastest VPN?

Many of today’s VPN providers use antiquated technology first developed when Netflix only shipped DVDs and before Apple even invented the iPhone. Back then, VPN protocols such as OpenVPN were designed to put the security of business networks ahead of speed and performance. In today’s world — where we stream, download, share, and communicate online — that compromise no longer works. That’s why Hotspot Shield developed its own proprietary protocol named Hydra that delivers no compromises when it comes to industry-leading security and performance. Hydra is Hotspot Shield’s ‘secret sauce’. It delivers a truly enhanced VPN experience optimized for the modern world, providing speeds considerably faster than any other provider along with unparalleled protection against today’s online threats.

How Hydra works

A VPN protocol determines the set of rules used to negotiate the connection between the VPN app you’re using and the VPN server you’re connecting to. When that connection establishes, the data gets shuttled across the connection in packets. Inevitably, especially over long-distance connections, some of those packets will get lost. When that happens, your generic VPN protocol will typically slow your bandwidth and sometimes even try to restore those same packets. That all takes time, and it’s why most VPNs will make your internet considerably slower.

Hydra works differently. The Hydra protocol can differentiate between different types of packet losses, and ignore packet losses when it’s not due to legitimate congestion. This means that Hydra won’t overreact to packet losses and unnecessarily slow your bandwidth, delivering faster, more consistent connection speeds that, in some cases, can actually increase your download speed compared to when you’re not using a VPN.