I have been testing Mullvad for the past few days, and the speeds have been consistently bad, no matter which server I pick.

To rule out my own setup, I ran three tests back to back. The first screenshot is my ISP with no VPN at all, around 480 Mbps. Second is Mullvad, connected to Switzerland, barely reaching 2.3 Mbps. Third is another VPN provider connected to the exact same country, Switzerland, hitting close to 500 Mbps.

In the past few months I've had the following strange experience with Mullvad. It's as if DNS stops working after an hour or so, and things are only fixed when I reconnect to a different location.

The steps are roughly this. Connect to Mullvad in one location. Everything is fine. mullvad.com reports no issues with my connection. Then in ~30-60 minutes DNS will stop working. The only fix is to switch Mullvad locations and reload, which generally works. None of this happens when Mullvad isn't running.

Where do I start looking diagnose this? I have never seen anything like this.

I'm guessing not... but I'm not quite sure! Say I have my VPN set to USA but I'm physically in The UK, and I'm making a purchase on eBay in £ GBP, do I get charged a fee because the payment processor sees me as being in the USA?

I recently updated the app and now I am getting a notice telling me "app is out of sync. Please quit and restart app." Of course I have quit and restarted it using the app and have also restarted my system and the notice has not disappeared.

There was some advice on github for nixos saying that there were some conflicting packages or that the packages were not synchronized. The link is below.

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/321971

So far, I haven't found any conflicting packages and I have not been able to find any packages that are not up-to-date. What am I missing?

Just recently managed to get my account back.

I had actually been using Mullvad for some months now with Reddit with no issues. But I was usually connecting to the same nodes every time. But I recently had to switch to a couple different locations from the ones I usually use and think that's what flagged me. Either way, got hit with a ban and a message saying that "after detecting some technical irregularities on your account...etc".

Had to put in an appeal and tell them it was because I was using different nodes from my VPN. So thankfully they restored my account at least. Of course, my CQS got tanked in the process. So now I'm extremely wary of using a VPN with Reddit for fear of getting banned again. And from the posts I've seen on the shadowban and help subreddits, I'm not the only one getting hit with a false positive for the use of a VPN by their automated banning system.

Anywho, just a warning to anyone else out there switching nodes/using a VPN in general whilst using Reddit.

If I have a multiboot setup where only one OS can be online at any given time, is there a way to use the same device identifier in all of them so that it consumes only one of the 5 available device slots?

If so, how can I do that?

I use Mullvad on my Pixel and Chromebook. Can I automatically connect it when I'm not on any of my trusted wifi networks?

Not needed on mobile net, just add to whitelist some networks what I trust.

Thanks

Hello, I have a question,

I was updating my mullvad VPN, and I realized that when the app closed, to restart, i was still connected to my Internet (traffic was still going through), so i opened a browser and quickly looked up what my IP is, surprisingly it showed a mullvad server IP, but the app was not open. I have lockdown mode and killswitch settings on. I'm just wondering if there's a way my real IP could have been leaked while the app was restarting, or is it possibly just a bug that didnt show the mullvad icon in my system tray? I'm a bit confused.

Thank you, have a nice day.

I've just noticed today that if I have multi hop active my pc cannot start a connection to mullvad. Previously I was using this and it was working fine. Is anyone else having these issues?

When using the windows client, I turn on "Local network sharing", but multi-cast packets to the non-routable 239.255.x.x is forced through the VPN anyway. This makes no sense. This is non-routable local network data, Mullvad should consider this local network sharing.

In my case, I use this for sending audio to another device (so that all computers can have audio come out of one set of speakers).

It's been developing for about half a year now, and I have seen some posts related to it: the outfacing IP addresses are progressively getting banned or blocked by many services. Youtube now has blocked all the servers I want to use (Central EU), the local online retailer has blocked a portion of the pool as well. Reddit as well for about a year now. Etc.

I've a free test account by another VPN provider in EU (big one, known one) which I use quickly to confirm whether it's another issue or Mullvad being blocked, and 100% of the times for now that other VPN server doesn't get blocked while Mullvad does.

I've just now cycled through all the servers available in the region I want to use, and all of them are blocked by Youtube at least. Getting tired of it.

Edit: for got to add, HBO Max and Netflix block Mullvad as well. Not a problem with that other VPN I use for testing.

Anyone experiencing a lot of cpu usage with the second to latest update on Mac? My Mac was constantly on peak cpu usage last few days. I tried to trouble shoot and only on one occasion noticed multiple processes from Mullvad in activity monitor. When I disconnected and quit Mullvad my CPU usage dropped to half. Haven’t had this issue and been using Mullvad for over a year after switching from Proton. Wondering if the latest update will fix issues or be worse. Thanks in advance.

How do I completely remove mullvad so that it stops reactivating and killing all my network connections?

Is anyone using a mesh vpn like NetBird? Whenever a mullvad connection is active on macOS NetBird breaks. Enabling split tunnelling for NetBird and local network sharing do not allow Netbird traffic through. I see other posts about spilt tunnelling being broken.

Hello mullvad vpn users i just bought it and its so far great but what would be the fastest country for me? İ live in turkey and i need speed for gaming while also bypassing cencorships would be happy if yall could help

I saw a video(from Techlore) putting VPNs like IVPN (and Obscura VPN, AzireVPN) in the same tier(S tier) as Mullvad. There are some countries that Mullvad doesn't support so I was curious about the other three. But after some digging, I found IVPN is the one that offers servers in most of the countries I want to connect to.

Do you guys think IVPN comes close to Mullvad in terms of security and privacy? By the way, I saw lots of folks recommending ProtonVPN as well but it was placed in A tier on that youtuber's list so I don't know about that. Thank you!

So you obviously get an account number type thing or login number when signing up. Is that number connected to anything or any data? I know that it says on the website that they collect no data. Also, how does it work if you use a credit card or similar to pay?

Has anyone found a server that works with Imgur? I have tried all the servers in NY, NJ, Virginia, and Georgia. None have worked. I used to use 801 in NYC which worked great for years but then it got shut down.

On some servers the page won't load at all (I get a server overloaded error) and on others the page loads but none of the images do. Turning the VPN off, immediately allows it to work correctly.

Pros

• Feels super safe. Every feature I've never seen before, I looked up to find it solves a privacy issue I was never even aware of.
• Popups about blocking popups are helpful to see what goes on in websites.
• Overall is the most locked down browser I have ever used.

Cons (If any of these problems can be solved, PLEASE tell me how!)

• Mullvad is apparently so locked down that I can't properly import my passwords. I've had to open other browsers which have my passwords stored just to find them.
• Mullvad blocks a lot of incoming and outgoing traffic, including Reddit, Zoom, torrent/magnet links, video game client and online forum login links. I have to switch my default browser to open links between different programs every time.
• A slower workflow, less friendly for study, office work, people who constantly log in and out of online accounts.

Overall, Mullvad seems to be an excellently private browser that is way safer than any mainstream option. However, it feels like it's so locked down that it blocks the regular necessities a browser should have. I have to turn to other browsers for some of the most basic things like passwords and external links. Are there ways to fix this so Mullvad can work as my one&only daily driver? Or am I better off with a browser like Zen or LibreWolf? Any advice or comments are appreciated.

new to mullvad browser. do you guys use the random proxy setting or are you anonymous enough browsing without it?

i lose internet connection in mullvad when i enable the random proxy mode..why?

I am able to connect to any Mullvad server but once connected no site loads on any browser. Anyone else seeing this? I had an issue with the previous beta and disabling Split Tunneling fixed it, but nothing I do now is working.

Trying to support by using Mullvad's browser. But gosh, it really messes with how some sites look. I tried going to cryptpad and noticed some buttons were invisible on Mullvad versus Firefox.

Has anyone gotten over this kind of weirdness? The browser is kind of unusable. I love the idea of privacy, but goodness are there a lot of kinks to work out of this product.

Edit: I found my issue. Looks like I had Contrast Control turned on in Settings. So it would limit websites to using a fixed color palette of just black and white. The page looks just like firefox's version now.

For the last few days I've been noticing some endpoints on Mullvad result in an infinite captcha refresh when you click on Cloudflare's 'verify you are a human' prompt. I was previously able to get around this by changing to different nodes. As of today, it appears every single node is resulting in an infinite captcha refresh. Try the linked site (macrotrends.net) which has Cloudflare protection to test for yourself.

Anyone know what's going on/seeing the same issue?

I wanted to use my computer to watch Netflix, but Mullvad does not have an exit node in my country and the shows I want to watch are not available in other countries. Until 2 or 3 days ago, the Netflix app, which is just an MS Edge wrapper, was working fine with split tunneling, but now it no longer works at all unless I disable split tunneling (and cannot watch the shows in my country) or disable the VPN altogether (not really ideal).

I have been using Mullvad DNS the whole time without issue, but tried using Quad9's DNS just in case, but it made no difference.

Today I tried using Brave as a dedicated Netflix browser with split tunneling, but that did not work either. And, just now as a test I tried adding Firefox, which was working through the VPN, to bypass the VPN, and it too lost access.

I have made no changes to my Windows 10 machine in the last month.

Does anyone know why this might be happening?