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PIA’s latest update claims to triple connection speeds on Windows — here's what's new

Plus bug fixes and bandwidth boosts

Tarun Mottlia

Via TechRadar

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PIA’s latest update claims to triple connection speeds on Windows — here's what's new
Image: WireGuard is now PIA's default protocol on all platforms, good news for less powerful devices like smartphones (Image credit: Future)

Private Internet Access (PIA) has released the v3.8.0 update for its eponymous VPN, which the company says could boost Windows connection speeds by more than 200 per cent.

The update makes WireGuard the default protocol on all platforms, replacing OpenVPN, and updates Windows clients to use the WireGuard-NT 1.1 kernel driver.

In the patch notes, PIA says this driver can boost ‘WireGuard speeds by more than 3x on higher-bandwidth systems’.

Compared to OpenVPN, WireGuard is a more modern and less…

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