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ExpressVPN review 2025: Fast speeds and a low learning curve

Tests showed ExpressVPN keeps download speeds high for fast streaming and torrenting, and latencies low for remote gaming -- though it's a bit lacking in features and customization.

We conducted this on Windows, using the automatic protocol setting with the Lightway Turbo feature active — a recent ExpressVPN addition that keeps speed more consistent by processing connections in parallel. Founders Dan Pomerantz and Peter Burchhardt registered the company in the British Virgin Islands from the start to take advantage of that territory's favorable legal environment for online privacy. During that time, the US Justice Department announced it had fined Gericke and two others for their previous employment on a surveillance operation called Project Raven, which the United Arab Emirates (UAE) used to spy on its own citizens.

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