Review by knitting ninja

I found Norton Hotspot Privacy to be way way too temperamental. Although installation and setup were painless, establishing connections really tested my patients. Things worked easily on my secure home network - where I don’t need it - but on public networks establishing a secure connection was a real trial. I nearly gave up as I set out to write this review at my local Starbucks and also when I tried to connect on a business trip stay over at a Days Inn.

I tried connecting to the local wireless network and then starting Hotspot. I tried starting Hotspot and then connecting to the network. I closed everything and started over both ways several times. Nearly always the login for Norton would hang and then after logging in no other web pages would load.

So back to the on and off thing again and after a few more times I was able to get it to work. Once it was working the overhead seemed reasonable and browsing didn’t seem to slow much. But adding on the substantial subscription price to the erratic connection issues makes me want to explore other options.