Trust.zone

Trust.Zone, being relatively new to the VPN market, has made an impression by establishing a fine network of servers in a short period of time. The company was founded as recent as 2014 but already operates a fleet of 128 VPN-servers in eighty countries. Popular countries for VPN are all included. But Trust.Zone adds some unique locations to the mix that other VPN providers often lack, in countries like Russia, China, Indonesia and South Africa. South America is poorly served with a single (!) server in Brazil, but in Europe you can always find a server close to your target.

Speeds are good, although they never quite reach the levels of top tier VPN services. One possible explanation (we’re not sure) could be the fact Trust.Zone doesn’t own every server in their fleet. And uses cloud services to expand their reach. On a plus side the network allows Bittorent on every available server and has a free service for users who are fine with a data limit of 1GB per month. Which is an excellent deal for people who are looking for a trial run.

Geoblocking
Watching American Netflix from the comfort of your European home, or BBC iPlayer from your American couch may soon be a thing of the past, considering the efforts of most streaming giants to suppress the use of VPN. With Trust.Zone everything’s coming up roses for the moment. Their dedicated US Netflix server are fast, and reliable enough to give you access to any content you want and circumvent geoblocks in the proces. With other areas this is a bit harder. German Netflix doesn’t have its own server, for instance, being less popular than its American counterpart.

App
Trust.Zone’s Windows app looks a bit outdated, but functions as advertised. It allows you to swiftly select servers, and features an automated start mode. It also has a kill switch for when your secure connection fails. The app has the option to select your preferred ports on VPN-servers, and improve protection from DNS-leaks. If that isn’t enough for you, and you need more functions, we advise you to look at OpenVPN or SoftEther, which have an even wider range of specific setups.

One of the peculiarities of Trust.Zone is their app is Windows only. Connections on other platforms (iOS, Android) will have to be run through an OpenVPN setup. Small beer for regular VPN-users, but starters can feel intimidated by the many available options. Tutorials and support sites are widely available, but still. Android users have one extra option: to use Trust.Zone via the built-in VPN support of L2TP/IPsec.

iOS and MacOS users probably like to use OpenVPN or other VPN-applications that allow for connecting to VPN manually.