Yes, IPVanish will slow down your internet connection speeds, but all VPNs reduce your speeds because of the added layer of encryption. My colleague in the US ran speed tests, and IPVanish only slowed down his internet speeds by an average of 38%, which is above average. While IPVanish reduced my speeds by 83%, I am from a country (Romania) that has very fast speeds, so even with this reduction in speed I had fast speeds for browsing, torrenting, and gaming across most of IPVanish’s servers.
IPVanish makes it easy to connect to a fast server — it has 1,900+ servers that are located in most parts of the world, so it’s easy to find a server close to your location to get fast speeds. Also, IPVanish displays the server load (how many active users are connected to a server) and ping (how long it takes the internet signal to travel from your device to the server) to help you find the fastest server. Plus, it has 25+ SOCKS5 proxy servers that provide faster speeds than IPVanish’s normal servers.