The lower half is for the more detailed information, including data that’s gone up and down from your PC, your current VPN IP address, and a small, cleanly designed map showing which country you’re connecting from. It’s a lot of excess space, but it works. That timer takes up the entire upper half of the window. The interface then changes to a timer at the top to show you how long you’ve been connected. Hit the power button, and HotSpot Shield connects to the United States by default, or your most recent connection choice. When HotSpot Shield first opens it offers a large power button in the center of the window and nothing else. Go there for details about competing products and how we tested them. Note: This review is part of our best VPNs roundup. There are no interactive maps, mobile-style single-panel interfaces, or elaborate settings. It eschews most design ideas we’ve seen for other VPNs so far.
What struck me the minute I turned on HotSpot Shield was how simple and attractive the design is. AnchorFree’s paid service that removes the ads and offers faster speeds. That service is still around, but today we’re looking at HotSpot Shield Elite.
It was free, easy to set up, and only required that you look at some ads injected into your browsing. Before people got serious about VPN encryption post-Snowden, a top choice for encrypting your Wi-Fi connection was AnchorFree’s HotSpot Shield.
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