Ookla launches Speedtest VPN, a free virtual private network

Ookla, the company that owns and operates speedtest.net, will soon offer another free service for savvy Internet users: a VPN. The Speedtest VPN, as it’s being called, is available through Ookla’s Speedtest apps for iOs and Android. On paper, it looks fairly good, especially for a free VPN. Ookla promises that its free VPN keeps no logs and doesn’t track user activity. It also taps into a shared pool of over 40,000 IP addresses and assigns them to users randomly to help bolster anonymity. However, like all free VPNs, there are a few catches. Firstly, the Speedtest VPN is currently in Beta, so there are bound to be a few bugs as Ookla hammers everything out. Additionally, users are capped at 2 GB of bandwidth every month. Perhaps a bit ironically, the data sent and received in Ookla’s speedtest eats up this allowance.