[remlov]

I am partial to blackvpn.com. Cheap and they don't store logs. I did a couple armchair speed tests through a couple of their locations vs my baseline internet connection:

  NO VPN enabled
  http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6168457639
  PING 17 ms
  DOWNLOAD 195.94 Mbps
  UPLOAD 23.60 Mbps

  BlackVPN through Canada
  http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6168460690
  PING 53 ms
  DOWNLOAD 151.71 Mbps
  UPLOAD 16.48 Mbps

  BlackVPN through Brazil
  http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6168447144
  PING 160 ms
  DOWNLOAD 186.43 Mbps
  UPLOAD 10.21 Mbps

  BlackVPN through Switzerland
  http://beta.speedtest.net/result/6168451606
  PING 263 ms
  DOWNLOAD 19.93 Mbps
  UPLOAD 5.60 Mbps

[bradknowles]

With respect, I would advise using other speed testing sites. Speedtest.net is well-known to be optimized by most ISPs, and so doesn't really give you accurate results.

Fast.com is provided by Netflix, and you use their actual CDN to download a part of a freely available movie, and so you get a really good estimate of what kinds of download speeds you can see from them.

The other one I like is from dslreports.com -- it uses only HTML5 instead of flash, and they adaptively test your bandwidth from multiple simultaneous server sites, with adaptive multi-streaming.

You can't make a reasonable conclusion if you don't have reasonable data to work from, and with Speedtest.net you can't trust any of their results.