Mysterium VPN Review Australia

The price box and plan table on this page are kept current automatically. The written review below was last edited 24 Oct 2026; details in the text may have changed since.

Reviewed by Laurence Deer, founder and reviewer in Melbourne, testing VPNs since 2019

Mysterium VPN

Price checked 24 OctTested 24 OctNumber 4 of 18 in our calculated order

Good for watching Netflix UK or Netflix Japan from Australia

Mysterium VPN suits Australians who mainly want to stream from overseas: on 24 October 2026 Netflix UK and Netflix Japan played, the first time Netflix Japan has played in our tests. The catch is lag. Every server, even Sydney, sat behind a distant relay, so connections from Melbourne took far longer than without the VPN. Fine for streaming that buffers, poor for video calls and games.

From US$2.29 (about A$3.26) a month

Plus plan, paying for 2 years, US$54.94 upfront. Renewal price not shown on its pricing page. Lowest plan of each VPN we track: A$2.79 to A$17.80.

Black Friday deal ends soonVisit Mysterium VPNFrom US$2.29/mo · checked 24 Oct (Lowest monthly price (about A$3.26), on the Plus plan paid upfront for 2 years; checked on 24 October 2026)

Price and plan details read from www.mysteriumvpn.com.

Mysterium VPN: key facts

Money-back

30 daysVPNs we track: 7 to 45 days

Free trial

Not checkedCompare VPN free trials

Devices at once

6 to 15VPNs we track: 2 to unlimited

Server countries

108VPNs we track: 30 to 150

Australian cities

Not checked

Mysterium VPN: our tests

Speed, Australian server

71% keptOf our download speed with the VPN off. Tested 24 Oct 2026

DNS leaks

None foundTested 24 Oct 2026

Streaming

9 of 15 playedSBS On Demand✓ played9Now✓ playedABC iview✓ playedPrime Video✓ playedPluto TV✓ playedTubi✓ playedPrime Video US✓ playedNetflix UK✓ playedNetflix Japan✓ playedNetflix US✕ blockedBBC iPlayer✕ blockedChannel 4✕ blockedITVX✕ blockedPrime Video UK✕ blockedABEMA✕ blocked3 more opened but we did not play them. Tested 24 Oct 2026

Speed kept by the VPNs we have tested (2021 to 2026 rounds): 44% to 100% or more.

Tested on an account Mysterium VPN gave us free of charge (24 Oct 2026).

See our results in full

Mysterium VPN: what has changed

• 24 Oct 2026 Our latest test round: local speed, overseas speed, streaming, leaks, kill switch settings (drop test not run) and torrenting
• 24 Oct 2026 Review text last edited

No price or plan changes seen between 13 Oct 2026 and 24 Oct 2026.

We check Mysterium VPN's prices by hand every week (last checked 24 Oct 2026) and record every change we see.

The short version

Mysterium VPN is for Australians who mainly want to stream from overseas. I tested it on the evening of 24 October 2026 from our Melbourne NBN line. Netflix UK and Netflix Japan both played, and Netflix Japan had never played for any VPN in our tests before.

The catch is lag. Every server sat behind a distant relay, so even the Sydney server was slow to answer: 445 ms to reach Amazon’s Sydney data centre, against 28 ms with the VPN off. That is fine for streaming, which buffers, but poor for video calls, online games and quick page loads. Netflix US, BBC iPlayer and ABEMA blocked us, and there is no Melbourne server.

Who should buy Mysterium VPN?

Buy it if British or Japanese Netflix is the main reason you want a VPN. Both libraries played on 24 October 2026, and no VPN had played Netflix Japan in our tests before. It also suits you if you want protection without touching settings: the kill switch and DNS protection come on by default.

Skip it if you make video calls home, play online games or want pages to snap open, because the lag is there on every server. Skip it too if you want American Netflix, BBC iPlayer or a Melbourne server. The VPNs under alternatives cover those better in our own October 2026 tests.

Our October 2026 tests from Melbourne

The result that shapes everything else is lag. At 6 pm on 24 October 2026, connected to Mysterium’s Sydney server, my ping was 440 ms. A connection to Amazon’s Sydney data centre took 445 ms, against 28 ms with the VPN off a few minutes earlier.

A traceroute showed why. The first hop inside the tunnel was already a long way off, apparently in the US, on both the Sydney and California servers. Your traffic travels to that relay first and only then to the exit you chose. Picking Sydney does not keep your traffic in Australia, or anywhere near it.

What it means: streaming is fine, because video buffers ahead. A video call to family in the UK would have an awkward delay, fast online games are out, and every new web page takes a beat longer to start loading.

I ran every test on the test Mac mini at home in Melbourne between 5.55 pm and 7.02 pm, on Mysterium VPN 2.4.11 for macOS. Mysterium supplied a Pro monthly account. The protocol stayed on WireGuard, the app’s default and a fast modern protocol. I measured the line with the VPN off first, so each result is against the same line that evening. A morning sitting is still to come.

Leaks and server switching: nothing showed

Mysterium kept our real address hidden in every check on 24 October 2026, and its protection is on before you touch a setting.

• Switching servers: at 6.37 pm I switched from London to Tokyo on default settings, while a script on the test Mac checked my public IP address every second or two. My Melbourne address never appeared. There were about 4 seconds with no connection, then Tokyo took over. Nothing you had open could see your home address during the switch.
• DNS: no leak on Sydney, California, London, Tokyo, Mumbai, São Paulo or Johannesburg. Every lookup went to Cloudflare through the tunnel, so our internet provider could not see which sites I looked up.
• WebRTC: BrowserLeaks’ WebRTC check never finished at this latency, so I ran a direct browser test against Google’s and Cloudflare’s servers on the Sydney server. It found no address at all, home or VPN. WebRTC is the browser feature behind video calls, and a leak there can reveal your address even with the VPN on.
• IPv6: our line has no IPv6, so I could not test for an IPv6 leak. If your NBN connection uses IPv6, we cannot yet tell you whether Mysterium covers it.

The defaults deserve credit. In Settings, under Connection & Protection, the kill switch (“Blocks internet traffic if the VPN connection drops”) and DNS protection (“Prevents DNS leaks”) are both on and greyed out, so you cannot switch them off by accident. Many VPNs ship with the kill switch off.

I have not yet forced the connection to drop, which is the kill switch’s real job, so we cannot yet say how it handles one.

Speed: enough for streaming, but it varied

On the Sydney server on 24 October 2026, Mysterium kept 71% of my download speed, leaving 31 Mbps. That is enough for a 4K stream by Netflix’s own guidance. The first Sydney run at 6 pm was far slower, though: one download crawled before the next two recovered.

Speed kept

Melbourne home connection · October 2026

Australian server	71%
India	91%
Brazil	78%
United States	75%
Japan	66%
United Kingdom	42%
South Africa	3%

Download, upload and ping in Mbps, and how we measured

From our test bench Melbourne, October 2026

Australian server, tested from Melbourne, October 2026

Connection	Download	Upload	Ping
No VPN	43.8 Mbps	17.7 Mbps	15.8 ms
Mysterium VPN, Australian server	31 Mbps −29.1%	9.60 Mbps −45.8%	439.9 ms

Overseas servers, tested from Melbourne, October 2026

Server in	Download	Upload
United States	32.8 Mbps −25.1%	6.80 Mbps −61.9%
United Kingdom	18.5 Mbps −57.7%	5.50 Mbps −69.2%
Japan	28.8 Mbps −34.3%	3.70 Mbps −79.1%
India	39.9 Mbps −8.8%	6.20 Mbps −65.3%
Brazil	34.3 Mbps −21.6%	5.30 Mbps −70.3%
South Africa	1.10 Mbps −97.4%	1.20 Mbps −93.2%

Our own measurements on a Melbourne home connection of about 44 Mbps at the time, October 2026. Changes are against the speed of the same line with the VPN off, measured the same day.

Share of our download speed kept with Mysterium VPN on, against the same line with the VPN off, measured the same day.

Overseas, California kept 75%, London 42% and Tokyo 66%. All three had a slow run first, and London swung most. Each left enough for HD streaming once it settled, which is what you pick those servers for. The lag rules out Japanese online games and makes a call home to the UK awkward.

I ran each server once, in one evening, so treat these figures as a single sample. The morning sitting will show whether the slow first runs are a pattern.

Locations: Sydney only, but real servers further afield

Australia means Sydney on Mysterium: there is no Melbourne, Brisbane or Perth server in the app’s datacenter list. 9Now proved the point, serving the NSW feed on the Sydney server, so you get Sydney’s local news.

Three countries Australians often want are real local servers. My IP checks placed India in Mumbai, Brazil in São Paulo and South Africa in Johannesburg. India kept 91% and Brazil 78%, plenty for local streaming.

South Africa was the exception. Johannesburg managed only a trickle on all three runs, and a later check was slower still. That is too slow for video, and slow even for ordinary web pages.

The US is listed by state rather than city.

Australian TV, banking and games

SBS On Demand, ABC iview, 9Now and Prime Video all played on the Sydney server on 24 October 2026. On a first try, ABC iview and Prime Video each failed while the other was loading at the same time; on their own, both played. Stan’s site loaded, but I have no Stan account to press play.

Everyday use in Australia

Melbourne home connection · dated per row

ABC iview	✓ Played24 Oct 2026
SBS On Demand	✓ Played24 Oct 2026
9Now	✓ PlayedIt served the NSW feed: 9Now placed the server in NSW.24 Oct 2026
Prime Video	✓ Played24 Oct 2026
Stan	Site opened, not playedNo account, so we could not press play.24 Oct 2026
Banking and myGov	✓ Opened normallyCommBank NetBank, NAB Internet Banking, myGov: log-on pages only; we did not sign in24 Oct 2026
Connection to Sydney (games)	445 ms with the VPN, 28 ms withouttime to connect to an AWS Sydney server, one evening; not an in-game ping24 Oct 2026

"Site opened, not played" means the service's site loaded through the VPN but we had no account to play anything.

That matters most if you are travelling: an Australian server that plays SBS, iview and 9Now gets you the news and shows you would watch at home.

CommBank NetBank, NAB Internet Banking and myGov all opened their log-on pages normally with the VPN on, with no block or extra check. I did not sign in, so I cannot tell you whether a bank asks for more after that.

For games, the Sydney connection time above is the result that counts. Through Mysterium it was many times slower than with the VPN off, so you would feel it in any fast game hosted in Sydney.

Overseas streaming: Netflix UK and Japan played; most British TV did not

What played

Melbourne · our own tries, dated per service

Netflix US	✕ Blocked24 Oct 2026
Netflix UK	✓ Played24 Oct 2026
Netflix Japan	✓ Played24 Oct 2026
BBC iPlayer	✕ Blocked24 Oct 2026
Channel 4	✕ Blocked24 Oct 2026
ITVX	✕ Blocked24 Oct 2026
Prime Video	✓ Played24 Oct 2026
Pluto TV	✓ Played24 Oct 2026
Tubi	✓ Played24 Oct 2026
ABEMA	✕ Blocked24 Oct 2026

"Site opened, not played" means the service's site loaded through the VPN but we did not play anything.

• Japan (Tokyo): Netflix showed its Japanese library and played Vivant. That is the first time Netflix Japan has played in our tests. ABEMA blocked us as outside its region. TVer showed no region block, but pressing play opened its required viewer survey, which I did not fill in, so I have no TVer playback result.
• United Kingdom (London): Netflix UK played The Rookie after a UK advert. BBC iPlayer said it “isn’t available in your region”, Channel 4 returned “Access Denied”, ITVX told me to turn off my VPN, and Prime Video UK named the VPN too.
• United States (California): Netflix showed “You seem to be using a VPN or proxy”. Pluto TV played a live channel, Tubi played The Social Network, and Prime Video played The Terminal List on our Australian account. I did not check which country’s Prime catalogue it showed.

So if Netflix is why you want a VPN, Mysterium got us the UK and Japanese libraries, not the American one. If the BBC is why, it did not deliver on 24 October 2026. Streaming services keep closing the doors VPNs open, so treat each result as true on the evening I tested it.

Torrenting: allowed, and much slower

Torrenting worked on the Sydney server at 6.06 pm on 24 October 2026, but at about a third of the speed of the same download with the VPN off ten minutes earlier. I used the official Debian DVD torrent, downloaded for 2 minutes with aria2c, capped uploads, did not seed, and deleted the partial file.

VPN	Our torrent speed	P2P policy	Kill switch	Port forwarding	Audited by
Mysterium VPN	1.74 MiB/s tested October 2026	Allowed in our test tested October 2026	Not checked	Not checked	–

Torrent speed is the average download rate we measured on an Australian server, with its date. Features and auditors are as each provider lists them; "Not checked" means we have not recorded it yet.

The people sharing a file set much of the pace, so one run is a rough guide. For a big download it means a noticeably longer wait. The app also lists P2P servers, which I have not tried.

Still to test

I have tested Mysterium only in the evening; a morning sitting is due before 20 November 2026. I have not yet forced a connection drop with the kill switch on, tried the phone apps, or tested the residential network properly. We will add each result here, dated, when we have it.

Mysterium VPN deal in Australia (checked 24 Oct 2026)

What Mysterium VPN costs

Mysterium’s website blocks our automatic price checker, so we check its prices by hand on its own pricing page. The table shows that check and its date. Mysterium shows its prices in US dollars, so your bank will convert them.

GST may apply.

Checked 24 Oct 2026 Price and plan details read from www.mysteriumvpn.com.

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The lowest price is US$2.29 (about A$3.26) a month on the Plus plan when you pay for 2 years upfront. Mysterium VPN's pricing page does not show what the plan renews at.

On 24 October 2026 the two-year Plus plan cost less than two-year Basic, and it adds residential addresses and more countries. Basic sticks to data-centre servers, so it suits you only if you never need a home-style address.

Check the refund rules before you choose a term. Only the two-year plans give you 30 days to ask for your money back; on the monthly and one-year plans you get 7 days. Mysterium allows one refund per person and pays it in US dollars, so the amount you get back can differ from what you paid.

Is Mysterium VPN safe? Privacy and audits

We have not yet checked Mysterium’s privacy policy, logging promises or audits, and we will not describe a privacy policy we have not read. Until we have, judge Mysterium VPN on the test results above: no leaks, and protection switched on by default.

Apps and features

I have tested only the Mac app so far. On 24 October 2026 it had these settings and extras:

• Kill switch and DNS protection: on by default and greyed out (see the leak tests above).
• Change IP on reconnect: on by default, so you get a different VPN address each time you connect.
• Blocker: set to None by default, so there is no ad or tracker blocking unless you choose it.
• Speciality servers: Low latency, Max privacy and P2P sit above the location list. I have not tested them.
• Residential IPs: a second tab of addresses the app says are “provided by real households”, which it calls less stable. A residential address comes from a home internet connection rather than a data centre. I tried one once, so we have not tested the residential network properly yet.

The first time I connected, the app asked to install a VPN profile, which macOS then asked me to approve. After that, switching location disconnects first and then connects.

Using Mysterium VPN in Australia

• Australian servers: see Mysterium VPN's server list for current Australian locations.
• Billing: charged in USD, so the Australian-dollar cost moves with the exchange rate.
• Refund period: 30 days.

Australian law requires internet providers to keep customers' metadata for two years. A VPN encrypts the connection between your device and the VPN server, so your internet provider can see that you are using a VPN but not which sites you visit. It does not make you anonymous to the VPN provider itself, which is why the provider's logging policy and audits matter.

Alternatives to Mysterium VPN

If you want BBC iPlayer, Channel 4 or ITVX, Intego VPN played all three in our 22 October 2026 test, and AdGuard VPN did the same on 24 October 2026. If American Netflix matters more, PureVPN played it on 21 October 2026. To compare results from our own October 2026 tests in Melbourne, see NordVPN, Surfshark and Proton VPN. The list below is picked by a fact in our data.

Private Internet Access

Lowest advertised price we track: A$2.79 a month

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NordVPN

Servers in 150 countries, the most we track

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Has a free plan

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Mysterium VPN FAQ

How we keep this review current

Our test results carry the date they were measured, and each retest is added here with its own date. Every 2026 figure comes from our test log. Mysterium’s website refuses our automatic checker, so we check its prices and plans by hand each week and show the date of the last check.

Sources

Our own results are from the evening of 24 October 2026, 5.55 pm to 7.02 pm (Mysterium VPN 2.4.11 for macOS, Melbourne, on an account Mysterium supplied). The location list, settings, defaults and the residential description are from the app as it appeared that evening. Prices, plans, device limits and country counts are from Mysterium’s pricing page, checked by hand on 24 October 2026. The refund rules are from its help centre, read the same day.