Free VPN Service – Ultra VPN

Passing Thoughts – UltraVPN is only for nerds who can play with technical aspects of OpenVPN service as UltraVPN herself does not seem to hide your IP address. It can be used for basic Internet surfing, nothing more!

In my ongoing quest to create a list of free VPN services, I plan to write about the ones that are easy to setup and work smoothly. This article will focus on Ultra VPN which looks like an appreciable free VPN service though it has its disadvantages.

During the launch of Ultra VPN the founders were smart to use free OpenVPN technology instead of PPTP to power their VPN service. OpenVPN has always been considered as more secure when compared to PPTP based VPN services. UltraVPN has a small list of servers that are spread around France and USA. Also, please be aware that UltraVPN performs no server switching.

OpenVPN has been widely criticized for cases where it is not able to avoid drops in Internet connections. This makes OpenVPN highly unreliable and prone to data loss. Though UltraVPN’s privacy policy is well defined yet most of the time they use France based servers and not US based servers as you might expect from a VPN service.

Your account is active the moment you register with UltraVPN. A standard OpenVPN software distributed by OpenVPN is installed on your machine so as to use the services of UltraVPN. Users can relax as UltraVPN won’t install anything other then the already trusted OpenVPN software. UltraVPN uses the standard OpenVPN application with no modifications whatsoever.

Cons of UltraVPN:

• The service does not has multiple IP addresses in its pool thus most of the time you might end up using the same IP address. This does not makes sense as anyone can figure out that the traffic source is coming via UltraVPN’s servers.
• The services does not hide your IP on the first place. UltraVPN uses OpenVPN services with zero modifications thus it makes no extra efforts to hide your IP address. You ISP can easily find your original IP address thus pushing you into unwanted risks.
• It does not perform server switching so in case people want multiple countries as their source then they got to depend on multiple plans.
• No automatic start up.
• I don’t think they will offer any form of support as their forum page was a broken php code. You will figure out nothing!

Salman Siddiqui is an expert technology analyst. His vast experience of freelance writing is backed by his passion to swim against the tide. You can grab him on Twitter.