I'm in the U.S. and I get less than half the speed I pay my ISP for, with Nord. I use a MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad. My most recent tests showed 39 ms ping time, and 20.1 mbps download speeds with Nord running. When Nord is not running, I get 98 mbps.
What's worse is making connections when traveling. We recently traveled parts of Europe and England, and out of 50 tries, I was able to connect to Nord VPN 2 times with my iPad. Using a VPN on public WiFi is when you really need it.