Slow Internet in Egypt Kills the Internet Experience
Internet speed in Egypt depends heavily on where you are and how you connect: the fastest connections are concentrated in a few cities, and mobile speeds drop when a tower is crowded. For current averages, Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index publishes Egypt’s median fixed and mobile speeds every month.
Speedify is an app that combines the internet connections you can get (home broadband, Wi-Fi and 4G/5G cellular) into one faster, steadier connection, and encrypts your traffic at the same time. The speed gain needs two or more connections. On a single connection, Speedify works as an encrypted VPN and can be a little slower.
This post covers why people in Egypt use a VPN, the problems most VPNs run into locally, and how Speedify handles both speed and privacy together.
Why You Need a VPN in Egypt
The internet in Egypt is not just slow but also heavily censored. This is why it becomes important to use a VPN. There are several websites that are blocked in Egypt. When the government suspects that a particular website is spreading extremism or fake news, that website is blocked.
Exposing your true identity on the internet can sometimes be risky. In 2010, Khaled Mohammed Saeed, a young man in Alexandria, died after being beaten by police; his family said he had a video showing officers sharing the spoils of a drug bust.
With all the restrictions in Egypt, many people prefer to keep their browsing private, especially if they comment on social media posts and express their opinions openly.
One way to do that is by using a VPN. A VPN encrypts your connection and reroutes it through another server. This means that your ISP cannot see what you’re doing. And the website you’re visiting will see the IP of the server you’re connected to, which means your location will be hidden.
The Problems of Using a VPN in Egypt
As mentioned earlier, a VPN encrypts and reroutes your traffic. This takes extra steps and resources. As a result, your connection speeds drop.
There are several VPN providers that will promise blazing fast speeds. However, there is still a small drop in speeds. If you’re having a 100 Mbps connection, a little drop in speed might not be significant. But if your speeds are already low, connecting to the VPN will have a visible impact on your speeds.
This might put you off from using a VPN. But then again, if you want to bypass the online censorship in Egypt, you’ll need to use a VPN. This results in sluggish connections that need a lot of patience.
Using a regular VPN in Egypt can be frustrating when it comes to speed. Other VPNs slow you down; with two or more internet connections, Speedify adds their speed together, so the VPN does not cost you speed.
How Speedify Helps You Get the Fastest Internet in Egypt
Speedify is a VPN that combines connections. As a VPN, Speedify encrypts your web traffic, so your ISP cannot see the sites you visit. And by combining the speeds of two or more networks, such as home broadband and 4G/5G cellular, Speedify gives you faster internet.
If you live in Egypt, slow speeds and government censorship both limit what you can do online. Speedify helps with privacy on any connection, and with speed when it has two or more connections to combine.
Speedify routes your traffic through an encrypted connection to a Speedify server outside Egypt (there is no Speedify server in Egypt; the nearest locations include Tel Aviv, Istanbul and Dubai). Some sites blocked in Egypt may load that way, but Speedify is not designed to unblock content and does not make you anonymous. With two connections combined, HD video on sites such as YouTube buffers less.
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