VPN.lat has free servers in Romania. No account, no email, no card, no data cap.
Romania has a statistic that surprises people who don't know it: it regularly appears among the top European countries for fixed consumer internet speed, because of how fibre was rolled out there. Add a large technology sector and an enormous diaspora, and you have the two audiences for this server.
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What a Romanian IP is actually for
Reaching Romanian services from abroad. This is the main use by a wide margin. There are millions of Romanians living across western Europe with banking, paperwork and television back home, and those services block or challenge foreign logins. With a Romanian IP the session looks normal and the task goes through.
Routing into southeastern Europe. Bucharest is well placed toward the eastern Balkans and the Black Sea. If you're in the area, measure it alongside Hungary, Bulgaria and Serbia.
A European IP with good capacity, because of the country's infrastructure.
Geolocation testing from southeastern Europe, a region services frequently treat as one market when it isn't.
What to know about the jurisdiction
Romania is an EU member, so it applies the European data protection standard, including the obligations that framework places on telecommunications providers. It isn't an exotic privacy jurisdiction and we won't sell it as one.
What actually matters: what protects you isn't the jurisdiction of the server, it's that the service keeps no records. We keep no activity logs, here and anywhere else we operate.
What a VPN protects, and what it doesn't
What it does:
Your internet provider stops seeing what you visit. It sees an encrypted connection to a server, and nothing else. Not the sites, not the searches, not the apps.
Websites stop seeing your real IP. They see the server's, shared by many users at once.
Public Wi-Fi stops being a problem. Nobody else on the network can read your traffic.
What it doesn't do:
It doesn't make you anonymous once you log in. Open your email or your social accounts and those services know exactly who you are. The IP changes; your account doesn't.
It doesn't clear cookies or browser fingerprints.
It doesn't protect you from downloading something malicious. It encrypts the road; it doesn't inspect the traffic on it.
It isn't enough on its own with your bank. If you live abroad, tell your bank: the IP isn't the only signal they read — they also have your device and your usage pattern. Telling them works better than any workaround.
Public Wi-Fi and travel
On the Wi-Fi at a hotel, an airport, a café or a shopping centre, anyone else connected is in a position to see a good deal of your traffic, and an open network can be misconfigured or simply fake.
If you're about to open your bank or your email on a network that isn't yours, turn the VPN on first. This is the least arguable thing a VPN does.
Connect to Romania for free
No signup, no email, no seven-day trial, no data cap and no paid tier hiding behind it. And on a page read in large part by people living away from home, that deserves saying plainly: no hidden paid tier and no card to register.
84 countries, all free. If you live abroad and what's blocking you is your Romanian bank, this is exactly the server that fixes it. Compare speeds with our speed test.
