How to save yourself (and your speed) with Surfshark ONE

Whether you're looking to mask your identity as a streamer, seek opponents in different regions, or download new games without risking a wonky file, you should fortify your defenses with the Surfshark ONE suite. Offering a ton of useful features for PC gaming and while on the go, all with minimal hit to your speed (and potential improvements to your ping and latency), there's a lot to love by rerouting your traffic through this trusted source.

You've no doubt heard of a VPN. It's a simple acronym for a virtual private network. Though it's easy to imagine the benefits from the name alone, you wouldn't be the first to think it sounds like something only an IT pro could set up. So if you're the type to send your PC in for repair, you're likely to think a VPN is way out of your league.

With the Surfshark ONE suite, you couldn't be more wrong.

The Surfshark ONE package and its included VPN are designed for everyone. This one-click approach immediately reroutes any activity on the installed device, hiding anything and everything you do from not only your network administrator but your ISP, too. That's the big conglomerate providing your speedy internet connection.

Your searches, downloads, and uploads are entirely encrypted. Not even Surfshark can see what you're up to, keeping your online activity shrouded like a perfect run of that stealth game you just don't have the patience to see through without popping someone off.

But using a VPN isn't just about hiding your online activity from the big corporations who profit not only from your massive monthly service fee but from your data. They sell that stuff, you know. Rerouting your traffic can have great benefits to your gaming sessions, too. By choosing less crowded or congested server locations and rerouting your activity accordingly, you can experience reduced latency and lag, making it easier to compete with those practically squatting the game server.

Eager to check out that new FPS or MMORPG picking up steam somewhere in Asia? These typically region-locked games are no problem for Surfshark. By rerouting your traffic through a country where a particular game is freely available, you can jump straight into new titles like Final Fantasy XIV Mobile or Blue Protocol: Star Resonance.

You can dodge lootbox restrictions in countries like Belgium, gain access to titles banned in Germany, try for some great deals through regional pricing, or sneak into a game that's yet to come to your region.

Worming your way into annoyingly geo-locked games isn't the only benefit of this particular buff. For those second-screen viewers who just can't help but cram in a long series while grinding a game, Surfshark's one-click approach can open up a much grander streaming library, saving you money in the process.

Rights management deals essentially make every region's streaming catalogue wildly different; whether that's through Netflix, Prime Video, Discovery+, or all the quirky US-led streaming platforms that'll never see the light of day outside the States. Surfshark unifies the lot, giving you access to everything.

For example, the UK's Now TV service, which is another costly platform, has most of the spinoffs from The Walking Dead on lockdown. Activate Surfshark ONE, reroute your traffic to the US, and you'll find them on Netflix as if by magic. By ridding the need to sign up to yet another streaming platform just to watch one show, the comparatively tiny subscription to Surfshark ONE can pay for itself in seconds.

Circling back to the inherent need to be a computer wizard to use a VPN, Surfshark can make your day-to-day browsing far less risky, too. Grabbing backups of your favorite retro games? Antivirus and the Malware Shield file screening service, included in the Surfshark ONE plan, mean you won't have to worry about a dubious download playing havoc on your weekly raid night. All those ads masquerading as download buttons won't trip you up again.

Think rerouting your traffic to a faraway land will slow you down? Not necessarily. Independent tests show Surfshark ONE has a minimal hit on your expected speeds. Gone are the days of sacrificing downloads for a safer internet experience. Around 65% of your typical upload speed is maintained through its WireGuard protocol, depending on proximity to the chosen server location. That can skyrocket up to 93% with downloads. Running an ultra-fast service shouldn't mean having to drop stream quality just to stay safe.

The natural shield Surfshark ONE offers also makes it easy to hide your location. Hiding traffic includes shrouding every sort of online identifier, like your IP address, that internet wrong 'uns can intercept to find out where you live. It can even secure your webcam and microphone from anyone attempting to infiltrate your hardware. It won't stop them from spotting a streetlight reflecting in the lens of your VR headset's tracking system, but nobody is perfect.

Surfshark ONE even gets you Alternative ID. That's a whole new email address and phone number to tie to accounts. You can make yourself visible to potential business and partner deals without giving your viewers (and inevitable haters) the means to flood your everyday accounts. Putting yourself out there to entertain others shouldn't mean sacrificing your safety.

Already in the trenches? Made a few mistakes in the past? Just looking for a fresh start to escape that cringy username you conjured up in school? SurfShark ONE+ even includes access to Incogni, a service that can seek out and destroy any sensitive data that's already out there. It can yank your information from pesky mailing lists, databases, and search sites automatically.

With 16 billion passwords leaking in one mega breach in 2025 alone, the Surfshark Alert feature can even let you know to take action before your accounts are compromised. Already certain the internet giants are tailoring your experience based on the info they've got on you? The Surfshark browser plug-in makes it easy to regain your anonymity in search, block ads (and allow them on the sites you want to support), and more. With the in-app Surfshark Search button, you can even scour the web without your history impacting the results.

So what are you waiting for? Before you kickstart that streaming career and start spouting hot takes, download Surfshark ONE to keep you safe from the worst the internet has to offer. With thousands of server locations across 100 countries available at just a couple bucks a month, sticking it to the giants of the web and avoiding its most dubious dwellers has never been easier, cheaper, or more important.