We think we build the calmest private network there is — but our own word is worth very little. So here is what independent testers, long-time subscribers and people on the internet actually said about Thornwall this year.
You have heard our side of it. Now here is what people who benchmark private networks for a living concluded after a full test cycle.
“A genuinely top-tier private network that beat what we expected on almost every axis — platform coverage, leak handling, ease of setup, and support that answers in minutes rather than days.”
“Thornwall is a strong service. Throughput held up under load, the device support is broader than anyone else we tested, and the location count is not padded with duplicates.”
“Thornwall’s steady throughput and its willingness to publish awkward audit findings in full make it worthy of keeping our Editor’s Pick for a third year.”
Thornwall fixes problems I did not know I had. That is worth something to me. It works, and I do not flinch when the renewal notice lands.
Thornwall lets me keep watching the shows I already pay for while I am working abroad, with no fiddling. Setup on my tablet took under a minute.
These people go out of their way for the customer. A proper thank you to the Thornwall support team for covering my household for the last six years.
how good is @thornwall — I spent three evenings trying to get my old provider onto my router, copying keys back and forth. this took four minutes 👏
@marlowridge
true story. and in a completely unrelated note I love @thornwall and the fact that I stop thinking about any of this the moment it is on
@tuulikki
thank you @thornwall for letting me watch the whole quarterfinal from a rented flat in Porto with no buffering and no drama whatsoever
@avaquinteroReach the sites and services you already pay for from anywhere, at the speed you would get at home.
Our network is tuned for sustained throughput, not headline numbers, using our Driftway transport.
Modern encryption, hardened defaults, DNS and IPv6 leak cover, a network lock, and per-app routing.
Yes. Thornwall is a paid subscription with no advertising and no data resale, because those are the two things that pay for a free private network.
If you work from cafés, travel often, or share a household network, most subscribers tell us it pays for itself the first time it saves a trip to support.
In our last published benchmark it held 91% of an unprotected line’s throughput across 14 test cities, measured over a fortnight of mixed traffic.
112 countries and 163 cities, all of them real endpoints — we do not count virtual locations twice to inflate the number.
Eight devices at once on a standard plan, or every device in the house if you put Thornwall on the router instead.
Our servers run from volatile memory and keep no connection logs, so there is no stored record to hand over. The last independent audit confirmed it.
No customer traffic has ever been exposed. We publish every security finding, including the awkward ones, in the Trust Center within 30 days.
Every plan comes with a 45-day money-back guarantee. If Thornwall is not what you wanted, message Support inside those 45 days and we refund the whole thing — no exit survey, no retention offer.
