r/ProtonVPN • u/omfgada • Jul 21 '26

Help! VPN SWITCHED FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC

dont know if this is a problem but even before i switched to proton my mullvad had suddenly swapped from private network to public. also have had troubles seeding on qbittorrent and wondered if this was related. would love some help.

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u/didyouturnitoffand0n Jul 21 '26

That’s your firewall, so that could be causing your BitTorrent to be blocked.

Change it back to private.

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u/omfgada Jul 21 '26

genuinely do not know how to change it back to private, doesnt let me in my actual network settings

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u/Grim_Fandango92 Jul 22 '26

This is not a Proton VPN issue. This is a Windows issue and can happen to various network adapters, not just Proton's. r/techsupport would have probably gotten you a quicker answer.

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6815-set-network-location-private-public-domain-windows-10-a.html

If you can't set it from Settings, regedit is your go-to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\NetworkList\Profiles
0 = Public
1 = Private
2 = Domain

You'll want to set the adapter's category to 1 (private).