It’s hard to trust any service that isn’t well known or is relatively new. Most people would go for the services or products that are already tested and proven to be of high quality. In the VPN industry, a VPN new player needs to compete with the more popular and well-established VPN service providers in the market. And quite frankly, it’s a tough competition out there since there are several VPN service providers in the market that have tons of followers.
We heard about a new VPN service provider that’s making waves these days. In the tough VPN industry, a new player rarely makes it into the mainstream scene. Can this VPN new player called VPN.Asia prove that it has what it takes to make it big in the industry? Read along to find out what the VPN company has to offer.
About VPN.Asia
VPN.Asia was launched in June 2015. That’s all we know. There is not much information we can find about the company behind VPN.Asia. The only company information mentioned on its website is that it is based in Belize City, Belize.
We learned that VPN.Asia is actually a part of Virtual Performance Group Inc., an app publisher based in Belize. As of the moment, Virtual Performance Group Inc. only has VPN.Asia as its product offering.
Jurisdiction and Logging Policy
According to the VPN service provider’s privacy policy, VPN.Asia does not collect or log in any way user data and traffic. The VPN company said user privacy is one of their main priorities.
When signing up with VPN.Asia’s services, one must provide certain personal information such as email address, complete name and payment information for their subscriptions to push through.
The company stands by its policy of providing legit anonymity service on the internet. Therefore, VPN.Asia promises that it won’t sell or rent out personal information to others.
We’ve done some research to determine if there are data retention laws in Belize and found that none exists at the moment. Which is relieving to know that the Belize government does not have control over user data traffic information.
Server Locations of VPN.Asia
When it comes to server count, VPN.Asia has quite an impressive server location offering. As of this writing, there are about 187 servers that are strategically located across the globe. VPN.Asia has 90 servers in United States, 61 in Europe (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Pola, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK), 2 in Brazil and 34 in Asia. Unfortunately, even though it has several numbers of servers, they don’t offer any servers in Australia or South America.
VPN.Asia also claims that it is the fastest tier-1 VPN network in the world. Many VPN providers claim such support but most of them are just for marketing purposes. As for VPN.Asia, we’d say that it really isn’t the fastest in the industry.
On the other hand, VPN.Asia uses the strongest encryption system available today which is the 256-bit encryption. VPN.Asia also offers over 24,000 dynamic IP addresses across its server network.
Platform Support and Product Features
VPN.Asia supports a variety of security protocols and VPN enabled devices. VPN.Asia supports OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP. OpenVPN comes with a high level of encryption system using AES-256 with SHA256 hash authentication. L2TP and PPTP also uses data encryption but not as secured as OpenVPN. L2TP is secured with 256-bit encryption and PPTP uses 128-bit.
VPN.Asia offers a dedicated client app for Windows, Mac OSX and Android devices. As for other devices, users will need to manually setup their device to make VPN.Asia work. VPN.Asia is compatible with Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Ubuntu, Chromebook and DD-WRT routers.
There is no information detailing the VPN service’s support for BitTorrent. We did try using BitTorrent while connected to the VPN.Asia server and we found that it does support torrenting activities.
VPN.Asia Plan Prices VS Competition
As of this writing, VPN.Asia is offering a Free trial access to all of its servers for 3 days. If you would like to give VPN.Asia a shot, you may want to opt for the free trial account first. In case VPN.Asia’s services suits your needs, know that the VPN company charges $9.00 per month. If you do decide to subscribe to VPN.Asia, the VPN provider is giving you a big discount for your first month. You will only be charged $1.00 for your first month.
If you want to avail of more discounts, you can subscribe to the 3-month VPN access worth $25.00 or the 1 year plan that costs $73.00. VPN.Asia accepts credit card payments, Paypal, Bitcoin, AliPay, Transfers and bank transfer (for Thailand only). All of VPN.Asia’s VPN plans come with a 7-day money back guarantee.
Quality of Customer Support
As far as customer support is concerned, we believe that VPN.Asia needs to improve on this area. There is a live chat support feature but the response time wasn’t really instantaneous. When we tried asking for assistance, the live chat support responded in a few minutes.
VPN.Asia also offers a knowledgebase it’s really not that helpful since it still lack the necessary information and articles related to their service. If live chat is offline and you can’t find the answer you are looking for on the knowledgebase page, you can just sent your inquiries via the ticketing support feature.
Can we trust VPN.Asia?
VPN.Asia is a newly established VPN service providers and it still has a long way to go before it can even par with the top VPNs in the industry today. Quite frankly, there are better VPN services out there for the same price that VPN.Asia is asking for. Overall, VPN.Asia isn’t that bad, but it’s not that good either.
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