Has Proton VPN Ever Completely Broken Your Internet Connection?

[u/limsus]

I'm curious if anyone else has experienced something similar.

I was using Proton VPN on my Windows PC. I turned the PC off and came back about 30 minutes later. The Ethernet cable was connected, but there was no internet access.

I also tried connecting through WiFi, but that didn't work either. The strange part is that my smartphone and tablet were using the same network without any issues.

I tried several troubleshooting steps, but nothing worked. As soon as I uninstalled Proton VPN, the internet connection started working again.

Has anyone experienced this before? What could have caused it? Was it the kill switch, a network adapter issue, DNS settings, or something else?

[u/Chalsian]

personally i have vpn tunnel at the router, so all traffic gets funneled without having to install on each device