Without wishing to mix zoological metaphors, the engineers and developers at Surfshark have been very busy bees of late.
Not satisfied with resting on its laurels of being ranked among the very best VPNs on the planet, the last 12-month period alone has seen the provider unveil a number of upgrades to its infrastructure that it considers crucial not only for the benefit of its users in the short term, but also to future-proof the service for years to come.
Among the most eye-catching of the improvements it has announced was the rollout of 100 Gbps servers to its network — an upgrade that Surfshark says it has "built for the internet of tomorrow and ready to handle whatever comes next," in an X post announcing the launch.
100 Gbps: A "new standard" for VPN speed
It was only in 2024 that Surfshark announced that it was upgrading its whole fleet of servers around the globe from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps.
It was therefore no surprise to see during our latest round of testing that connection speeds were extremely fast, clocking an average of 1,615 Mbps when using the WireGuard protocol.
With 10 times the headroom of 10 Gbps, we can reduce congestion and maintain consistent speeds, even during high traffic spikes.
Justas Pukys, Senior Product Manager at Surfshark
Fast-forward to October 2025 when Surfshark announced what it called "a major leap forward from the standard 10 Gbps servers" with the launch of shiny new 100 Gbps servers.
These have been rolled out only in Amsterdam in the Netherlands in the first instance; Surfshark is using a location close to its home as an experimental site in order to monitor performance and test the 10-fold leap in speeds from its usual 10 Gbps servers.
The pursuit of "near-maximum internet speeds"
If Surfshark was already so fast, why bother investing in even faster servers?
We asked the company's Senior Product Manager, Justas Pukys, to shed some light.
"Our objective was to proactively address the increasing requirement for higher bandwidth ensuring that VPN services won’t become a bottleneck as internet speeds continue to rise," he said.
"Increased bandwidth reduces the need for throttling or deprioritizing traffic, ensuring users can consistently achieve near-maximum internet speeds, which is a major advantage when uploading large files to the cloud or downloading a new game."
The company cites several scenarios where 100 Gbps servers will prove especially useful:
- Future-proofing performance
- High-quality streaming and VR
- Smoother gaming and virtual meetings
- Greater peak-time reliability
Pukys went on to say that the servers would be particularly beneficial for content creators, gamers, or remote workers who rely on stable, high-speed connections.
While Surfshark's 100 Gbps servers will be confined to Amsterdam for the time being — Pukys says "it is too early to tell where and when we can expect similar advancements" — it would be no surprise to see these rolled out in various other locations soon.
How will 100 Gbps servers affect your VPN use today?
Realistically, the vast amount of Surfshark users are unlikely to feel the tangible benefit of the infrastructure upgrade immediately.
"You might not notice a difference right away," confirms Pukys. The proportion of day-to-day users that even have a 1 Gbps internet connection is relatively small, and there won't be many people around the world bemoaning their VPN throttling speeds to 'only' 10 Gbps.
Instead, the company says that it is preparing for new technologies that will need more bandwidth in the future.
Even if you don't fall into one of the above categories of user, faster servers should still ultimately mean quicker connectivity as and when online technology requires it.
And what about other VPN providers? Pukys predicts that they will follow where Surfshark has led.
"As more high-bandwidth devices become common, we anticipate other providers will also recognize the need for solutions to prevent VPNs from becoming a bottleneck."
What other network upgrades has Surfshark made this year?
While unleashing 100 Gbps servers onto the world may generally be regarded as a good year's work in its own right, it's far from the only upgrade Surfshark has made to its VPN infrastructure this year.
Two other such announcements have helped the provider to solidify its position as one of the industry's most innovative.
Surfshark Everlink
Surfshark successfully applied for patent protection ahead of the launch of its new Everlink structure, describing it as an "industry-first self-healing server infrastructure".
It’s effectively a backup system designed to ensure your secure connection remains intact even if the server you’re connected to experiences instability.
You can think of it as a bit like a souped-up kill switch — the tool common to many VPN providers that cuts off your internet if the VPN goes down in order to ensure your IP address is never exposed.
Everlink iterates on this; instead of requiring you to manually restart your VPN, it seamlessly works in the background to reconfigure your connection through another server and thus maintain your connection automatically.
1,300 more servers
Also in October, Surfshark announced that its server count had skyrocketed from 3,200 to 4,500 in total across 142 locations in 100 countries.
While some people think that server numbers are a somewhat irrelevant bragging contest (indeed, Surfshark itself considers quality more important than quantity), more servers should still bring greater connection stability and better performance by reducing server load.
Surfshark in 2025: other improvements to the VPN
Surfshark has steadily announced several other improvements to its service over the course of the year including:
- Bypasser for macOS: the provider's name for split tunneling that gives you more control over what apps and programs are subject to the VPN's encrypted tunnels, Bypasser was previously only available on Windows, Android and iOS.
- 7-day free trial: you can now try Surfshark without paying a cent upfront — a more attractive prospect to many prospective users than paying upfront and then relying on the service's 30-day money-back guarantee.
- FastTrack feature: FastTrack uses the long-established Surfshark Nexus network to optimize speeds by, it says, up to 70% by automatically routing your traffic in the most efficient way when connected.
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