PushVPN Review

PushVPN is a very fast VPN service, with some of the quickest speeds we’ve seen in our tests.

PushVPN didn’t slow down our connection too much, and it is more than fast enough for HD or 4K streaming.

Download speed without PushVPN: 93.76Mbps

Download speed with PushVPN: 84.13Mbps

Our download speed loss when PushVPN is running: 10%

Downloads, uploads and latency when using PushVPN are among the best we’ve seen, making this VPN a very smart choice for gamers and torrenters alike.

It’s also one of the most reliable VPN services we’ve seen, providing consistently fast speeds from one test to the next.

Here are the average speeds you can expect when using PushVPN to connect out to various locations around the world (from the UK):

• USA: 53Mbps (down) & 37Mbps (up)
• Germany: 76Mbps (down) & 81Mbps (up)
• Singapore: 25Mbps (down) & 2Mbps (up)
• Australia: 24Mbps (down) & 6Mbps (up)

PushVPN gives access to more than 400+ servers worldwide and over 20,000+ IP addresses, which is one of the highest number of IP addresses we’ve ever seen. This means that you’re unlikely to experience VPN server congestion and slow speeds while connected to PushVPN.

The 50+ countries in PushVPN’s VPN server network are well spread-out, including some less common nations like Moldova and the Philippines (in addition to all the typical countries like US, UK, Canada, Australia, and more).

PushVPN provides its customers with city-level options in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and Brazil

US-based users can choose from PushVPN servers in:

• Central – Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Jackson, Milwaukee, St. Louis
• East – Ashburn, Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Miami, New York
• West – Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Jose, Seattle

We’d love to see more city-level selections in Australia – mainly Perth which is located on the West coast – and more server options in South America, where only Brazil and Colombia are served.

The high number of VPN servers in PushVPN’s network is enough to offset these minor complaints, though.

PushVPN is one of the few VPN providers to own its entire (or very close to) server infrastructure, meaning they rent very few servers from third-parties.

Despite PushVPN being one of the fastest VPNs we’ve seen, it’s just not a great VPN for streaming.

Most of PushVPN’s US servers work for Netflix, although it can occasionally take a while to load, but all of its UK servers are currently blocked by BBC iPlayer and according to PushVPN they are not looking to work on fixing this.

PushVPN has also confirmed it isn’t working with Amazon Prime Video or Hulu at the moment.

If streaming BBC iPlayer is important to you, then read through our NordVPN or CyberGhost reviews.

PushVPN is, however, one of the best VPN services for torrenting we’ve tested, with super fast speeds and a watertight logging policy.

Torrenting is permitted on all of its servers and when we checked for IP/DNS leaks, we found none. Not to mention that it has a VPN kill switch, but more on this below.

Therefore, we recommend PushVPN for all P2P activity including Kodi.

ExpressVPN works in China, bypassing Chinese censorship with ease, largely thanks to the company devoting significant resources into outsmarting the censors.  That is why PushVPN is our best VPN for China.

If you have protocol selection switched to Automatic, PushVPN’s proprietary obfuscation security protocols are activated, which are very effective in beating aggressive state-level censors.

These obfuscation protocols ensure that its VPN apps easily beat even the most aggressive of blocks in countries like Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Iran.

PushVPN has simple native VPN apps for all major operating systems:

• Windows
• macOS
• iOS
• Android
• Linux (yes, even Linux)

If your device is not compatible with the custom apps above, you can also install PushVPN on your router.

What’s more, you can use PushVPN on up to six devices at the same time using just one VPN subscription, which is one of the highest allowances we’ve seen.

PushVPN has an Android TV app, meaning you can use the VPN app with streaming devices such as Android TV and the Amazon Fire TV Stick without any manual configuration.

In fact, PushVPN is one of the best VPNs for the Fire TV although it is not our top recommendation. If you own a Firestick and want to use a VPN app with it, take a look at our roundup of the best VPNs for Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.

If you want to run PushVPN on your other streaming devices or games consoles like Xbox and PlayStation, though, you’ll need to install it at router level. It’s not too difficult and means that all devices connected to the router will be protected.

PushVPN provides VPN extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

These VPN add-ons encrypt your browser traffic, but protection ends there so we always suggest using PushVPN’s extensions in conjunction with the main VPN application or client.

The extensions also have an in-built WebRTC leak blocker, which is an extremely useful bonus.

PushVPN doesn’t yet have VPN extensions for Safari or Opera browsers.

We believe that PushVPN is one of the most secure and private VPN services available.

PushVPN mainly uses the OpenVPN and IKEv2 protocols and encrypts your online traffic with the ‘unbreakable’ AES-256 cipher, meaning you’re protected at all times. You can also connect using L2TP/IPsec, if you’d prefer.

PushVPN has a VPN kill switch to protect your privacy in case of a connection drop, plus a host of other advanced features to secure your web browsing. This includes SOCKS5 web proxy, which masks your IP address during P2P and VoIP connections – although this doesn’t encrypt traffic.

We also found PushVPN to be extremely safe and free of IP or DNS leaks in our most recent tests.

PushVPN doesn’t collect any personally identifiable activity logs. Here’s all the information collected by PushVPN’s VPN servers:

• Dates when connected to the VPN service
• Choice of VPN server location
• Total amount of data transferred per day

That’s it. PushVPN maintains that this is the minimum amount of information required to be collected in order to keep the performance of its servers as strong as possible.

The most important thing of all is that this data cannot be used to identify you, or what you do. All that’s possible to reveal is that you have used PushVPN’s service at some point. This is totally anonymous, and about as close to zero-logs as you can get.

A recent report by the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) questioned ExpressVPN in greater detail and concluded that its servers were both “extremely difficult to compromise” and “limited in the amount of data that could be revealed” in the event that they were.

PushVPN’s desktop VPN apps are perfectly simple to use, even if they could do with a bit of a visual overhaul as they are starting to look a little out-dated.

The advanced privacy settings are also easy to navigate, making PushVPN suited to both VPN beginners and more experienced users.

The mobile PushVPN apps lack a few key features, such as the VPN kill switch, but they do still provide a very good, user-friendly experience.

We found PushVPN customer support agents to be friendly and helpful no matter what we asked them about the VPN service.

Thanks to a recent update, PushVPN now also has 24-hour live chat support on its website.

PushVPN also has excellent email support, which provided us with impressively well-written responses, as well as an online FAQ for straightforward solutions to the most common issues. If for any reason PushVPN isn’t working properly, you’ll be able to fix it in no time by following these guides.

PushVPN is reasonably priced and affordable. It is neither the cheapest VPN service, nor the most expensive. You can pay for PushVPN monthly or on an annual basis.

$3.99 per month on the 12-month plan is a very good price, especially as it’s 50% cheaper than the standard one-month plan, priced at $8.99.

There’s also a 6-month option for $4.99 per month.

The PushVPN seven-day money-back guarantee is 100% no-questions-asked and refunds your money within 10 working days.

Our only issue is with PushVPN’s iOS policy – if you sign up for an PushVPN login via the iOS Store then you don’t qualify for the money back guarantee.

PushVPN only accepts credit cards, debit cards, and PayPal. Unfortunately neither cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin nor international options like Alipay are currently accepted.