VPNhub Free Review

As VPNhub only allows us to connect to one server location, we could only test its speeds when connecting to the US.

But these results were quite impressive, featuring minimal speed loss for such a long distance connection – 9% loss of download speeds, and 12% loss in upload speeds (we test from London, UK).

Download speeds of 23Mbps and upload speeds of 45Mbps is pretty decent, enough for streaming with ease.

The free version of VPNhub allows you access to the US only. All other countries are inaccessible unless you pay for a premium account. 

VPNhub claims to have over 500 servers within the US for free users, but that’s not true: we were only allowed to connect to its Houston location. Although an IP check told us we were connected to Las Vegas.

Needless to say, this is extremely limiting.

If you like watching Netflix on your phone, then you might consider VPNhub.

It accessed the popular streaming service with ease and streamed content quickly. 

VPNhub also works to get access to Disney+, just as long as you can download the mobile app through a US-registered account on Google Play store or App Store. You can read how to do this in our page for Disney+.

VPNhub won’t work for BBC iPlayer, at least on its free version, as it doesn’t give you the option for a UK server connection. 

You can torrent with VPNhub. You should bear in mind, however, that it’s quite slow.

We also don’t like its privacy stance, making it less than ideal as a VPN for torrenting. 

P2P users should avoid.

VPNhub won’t work in China, alongside a roster of other countries, including:

• Cuba
• Egypt
• Iran
• Myanmar 
• North Korea
• Qatar
• Saudi Arabia
• Sudan
• Syria
• UAE

VPNhub is quite open about this, stating:

“While we cannot say that it’s impossible to connect in these countries, there are a few challenges to overcome.”

We’re not surprised by any of this.

VPNhub does come with an ‘Obfuscate Connection’ option, but that seems pointless if it doesn’t work against state surveillance. 

VPNhub claims to support a number of protocols: 

• IKEv2
• L2TP/IPSec
• OpenVPN (TCP and UDP)
• PPTP
• SSTP

There are a lot of protocols here, but you can’t manually select which ones you prefer. That means you may end up connecting to a protocol as insecure and outdated as PPTP. Our favorite is OpenVPN, which is much safer. 

We asked VPNhub and it told us IKEv2 is used for iOS and OpenVPN for Android. 

We sought out more details and were told the app uses AES-256 encryption. This cipher is considered virtually unbreakable, which is good news for security.

VPNhub includes a kill switch. This is an essential feature that protects against your real IP address being exposed should the VPN disconnect for whatever reason.

It also has a split tunneling feature, an option to ‘Obfuscate Connection’ (designed to bypass censorship and VPN blocks), and you can turn off the option to ‘Allow Data Collection (GDPR)’.

We didn’t experience any DNS or IPv6 leaks and, while VPNhub doesn’t own its servers, it uses those owned by StackPath, the cloud giant used by the popular no-logs VPN, IPVanish. 

All in all, this is a pretty good free VPN when it comes to security. 

We’ll give VPNhub this: it’s perfectly simple. 

You don’t need any technical know-how at all with VPNhub.

It’s little more than a main screen with a settings option. It also doesn’t feature incessant and annoying pop-up ads like most free VPNs do. 

It doesn’t skimp on settings or additional features either, making complex things simple ‘On’ and ‘Off’ switches – good for newbies. 

The very minimal settings menu allows you to opt out of sending your advertiser ID to VPNhub, although we wish that that was standard and didn’t require manual toggling off. 

You can also choose a ‘discreet icon’ for your handset’s home screen, if you don’t want onlookers seeing its standard branding (which is near identical to that of Pornhub).

VPNhub has a basic FAQ on its website and a better one in the app itself – but it’s still limited.

There are no guides or troubleshooting tips, and there’s little information about any of the technical details of the app. 

There is a customer support email hidden in its privacy policy, but we’d like to see it more obviously advertized. It uses the popular customer support platform Zendesk, which automatically responds to requests and issues a ticket. 

We waited three days for a short, impersonal response that lacked depth or detail.

This isn’t good enough.

There’s also the option to ‘Report a problem’ in the ‘User profile’ menu, which directs you to a VPNhub email automatically, but that’s not much use when you want to ask a simple question and not report a problem. 

We can’t wholeheartedly recommend VPNhub, but we don’t think it’s an awful VPN either.

VPNhub is likely to do a good job of protecting your privacy as your browse the web, and it’ll also work to access US Netflix. 

As a free VPN, it is far from being the worst that we’ve come across – in fact it’s actually one of the better ones. 

But its one location server puts some serious barriers to its overall usefulness. Its servers being based in the US is also bad news for privacy, and its woeful customer support is a problem.