Comments on: OverPlay

By: Noel Clinton

Noel Clinton — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:34:03 +0000

im retired and needed a new way of life. I amwith Overplay for 12 months.
it is a new life as I now watch tv from RTE and all the UK sites. since i became familar with Overplay i am trying to expand my day to a 40 hour day.
giving five stars for each catagory is a great understatement.
you will find that those nasty comments about overplay are more likely by some opposition VPN provider. we are no longer isolated in Australia as we now have OVERPLAY.

By: Allen Grove

Allen Grove — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:05:38 +0000

Basically, this service is complete rubbish. In Qatar all sites blocked by the government are still blocked when using Overplay, so for TV streaming, it’s fine, but if you live in a country like this where the internet is censored, it’s utterly useless. I would guess this means that all your internet use can still be tracked, too. I signed up for three months but a week later I am now removing it. Very disappointed. Not had this problem with any other vpn provider.

By: William

William — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:20:25 +0000

Purchased this service in order to play US/JP only online games only to find that all the servers are already IP blocked in a large number of games. Since I can’t use the service for what I purchased it for I am going to have to give a bad rating. I would warn that if you are buying a VPN for the purpose of playing foreign games, this might not be the best choice.

By: Alex Norton

Alex Norton — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:15:54 +0000

Now been over a year using Overplay (after trying vpngates and lamnia) and everything has been working exactly to expectations. I am in the US and I use their service to view UK and some Italian servers. Speed has got better over the past 6 months and many times we can watch BBC HD streams directly (a year ago we would be limited to SD) I also use their service on ipad and iplayer app and that also works reliably.
They added a yearly fee which makes sense rather than going month to month.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:28:03 +0000

Been using Overplay for about six months now, all has been fine, but recently noticed speeds have really reduced, now it’s almost impossible to use them to watch streaming video. Disappointed. Contacted support, but they haven’t responded (they’re not very fast at responding in general).

Maybe time to find another service?

By: Peter Cunningham

Peter Cunningham — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:23:05 +0000

Simple to set up, excellent speeds, worth every penny!

By: Rick N

Rick N — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:59:48 +0000

I have been with Overplay for one year now. The service has been excellent. Recently, I have suffered from slow connection speeds which the support team at Overplay analyzed within a minutes of my support request. My ISP was severely throttling my traffic to the VPN. Overplay had the solution and I’m back to high speed once again.

Special thanks to Dave at Overplay.

By: OverPlay.net

OverPlay.net — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:04:35 +0000

Matthew, that doesn’t sound right, possibly your ISP attempting to throttle unknown connections at busier periods – drop us a line at vpnsupport@overplay.net and we’ll help you out with that.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 18:25:16 +0000

The service has become very slow in the afternoons lately. For the last two days it has showed lower than modem speed. Late nights and mornings are still perfect with very good speed. Possibly Overplay have received too many new users and have not upgraded their hardware fast enough.

(Turning off the tunnel makes full speed return so I can rule out any other components in the setup.)

A graph on the website for each VPN server showing current load would be very useful to help us choose which path to select for best performance. Also this would make error handling a lot easier as we could instantly identify the tunnel as the cause of slow traffic.

Otherwise a very neat service! Hope things get back to “normal” (or faster soon…

By: Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:47:49 +0000

I am little bit puzzled.
There is supposed to be a “demo”, slow server in the US, but on their own web page the server name is misspelled.
It only shows as “vpn1-us-free.overplay.co” which by the way is incorrect, it does not resolve (even if fixed to be “vpn1-us-free.overplay.com”)

It resolves to the same IP address as the small connection utility only if modified to vpn1-us-free.overplay.net, but in any case I never get a response from the server.

puzzled.