
Hotspot Shield Free and Premium only seriously differed in our tests when connecting to the US West Coast, where we picked up speeds of 72Mbps using the free version - 23% slower compared to the Premium alternative. Hotspot Shield Free is just as fast as the Premium version, but it’s limited to four server locations in three countries. This protocol is designed to fix latency issues with other protocols, like OpenVPN. Hotspot Shield achieves these speeds through its exclusive connection protocol, Hydra VPN.

Hotspot Shield’s download speeds are exceptionally fast.
