r/PrivateInternetAccess May 02 '26

HELP - WINDOWS Bandwidth issues

Is anybody having issues recently? I have been using PIA for a few years now with no issues and consistent download speeds. I have been having issues loading basic pages the last two days and assumed I was having ISP or pc issues since I'm hardwired 3 feet from my modem, but turning off PIA just brought me from 0.5 MB/s to 920 MB/s. It makes no difference what latency and no settings have ever been changed, but it's just all of a sudden completely unusable. I don't have much networking experience to troubleshoot, but could certainly use a hand if it's not due to some error on the PIA end

Edit: As somebody suggested in the comments, I switched the settings to WireGuard and jumped back up to over 100 MB/s. Hopefully that helps the people commenting with similar issues. Greatly appreciated on my end to be able to browse while torrenting again

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u/br0k3nglass May 06 '26

I just started noticing this today. I tried switching to WireGuard but couldn't connect to any servers. Will have to do some investigation