is amplifi the right choice for me?

Jolle Knolle

hello community,
i need a good vpn solution. i live in germany but i have to work a lot in romania.
i need a vpn service to watch netflix germany and other stuff.
i was thinking of buying the ampliFi HD Mesh and a amplifi teleport for traveling.
am i missing something?
Jolle

Derek Saville

Hi @jolle-knolle - it does work

How well it works depends on a few things:

what you are trying to use it for
the upload speed and latency of your home (Germany) network
the remote (Romania) networks you are connecting to

To live stream Netflix from Germany you will need a good upload speed in Germany and a good corresponding download speed in Romania

If you control both networks it works great

Shared connections, like at hotels, sometimes don’t have good enough download bandwidth or low enough latency to support streaming

In those cases you might need to download videos to watch instead of live streaming

The user interface of Teleport is also NOT user friendly and hotels with difficult portals and unfriendly DNS setups can make it hard to get Teleport working
Right now you cannot connect to a hidden SSID

AmpliFi claim to be working on improving the user interface, but there is no timeline communicated for when those improvements will be ready

So you may experience some frustration getting Teleport to work, but when it does work, it works well

UI-Brett

@jolle-knolle Another thing to consider, AmpliFi Teleport only has a US model.