For this free VPN service test, we’ve used a cut-down version of the full-scale download speed tests we use to rank our Best VPNs, using smaller files of around 60MB and only testing HTTP throughput. This means that we can accurately compare services that have a bandwidth cap, but have slightly reduced average download speeds across the board. As always, data transfer tests only ever represent a snapshot of performance from a single endpoint server at a specific time, although we can refer back to the results of previous tests to obtain a broader picture of how a given service has evolved. In all cases, we’ve recorded the best speeds we were able to obtain for each provider during our test period