

My average speeds to Singapore registered the slowest at 158.54 Mbps - still impressive considering the distance from my location. Speeds to Australia were impressive, where I averaged 269.4 Mbps, even though I was connecting to a server located on the other side of the globe.

My average speeds dropped when connecting to the UK, where I averaged 310.58 Mbps, while my average speeds to the European servers in France and Germany came out to a slightly faster 314.23 Mbps. I averaged 340.84 Mbps to Mullvad's New York servers. Surfshark, with its 17% speed loss, still ranks as CNET's fastest VPN. That 23% speed loss is far better than the 58% speed loss we recently calculated with IPVanish or the 52% speed loss with ExpressVPN. My total average speed without the VPN was 364.92 Mbps, and my total average speed connected through Mullvad servers was 278.72 Mbps. I tested Mullvad's servers in New York, the UK, Australia, France, Germany and Singapore, using the OpenVPN protocol.

But Mullvad only slowed me down 23% on average when I tested its speeds in April 2022.

You can usually expect to lose about half of your regular connection speed when you connect to a VPN. Mullvad is fast - it blows the competition out of the water.
