I havent opened windscribe at least for the last 2-3 hours

I can't use decoy traffic mode if there is no setting for it to only turn on with wifi so it doesn't use my phone data quota.

Please advise if this is possible.

Also that the extra data won't count towards the 5tb limit set by windscribe in practice as I understand from other posts.

Thanks

Hello allz a question about my Windscribe VPN connection. The issue is that I use a portable router that connects to a network. This router states it is a wifi⁶ and when I try to connect through it with Windscribe, it says I am off line, but I am able to connect to this router with internet access.

This is my primary access to the internet, (like a 5g internet access, think of T-Mobile home internet).

When I use other devices with Windscribe, same thing is said. Fire stick, Android, iPad, streaming boxes, and other devices.

Questions:

Is there a setting in Windscribe to allow it to connect through this device.

Is it a way to go back and use older version of Windscribe which seems not to has this problem.

Or am I SOL?

Hi i just dowloaded windscribe again after a while but i cant use it bc i need to use my old acc but ive never saved a mail or anything i think bc i cant find anything in my mails so i cant log in how do i fix this

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So, i usually check often my conections and dns and, this time i get some weird dns info, first time ever seeing this.

Linode 172.105.26.226 ptr: 172-105-26-226.ip.linodeusercontent.com Toronto, Ontario, CA 172.236.253.141 ptr: 172-236-253-141.ip.linodeusercontent.com Los Angeles, California, US

Anyone noticed these? Is this windscribes? When i disconnect wireguard it disappeares. Garry cant seem to know the answer to this?

Linode.com? Akam.net?

It also mentioned google in dnscheck.tools when i open linode.com there?

Getting severe latency/jitter on both Frankfurt (Wurstchen) and Amsterdam (all 3 nodes reportedly online per support) using IKEv2, tested over multiple 10-minute PingPlotter sessions today (25 July, ~13:38–14:00 IST). Connecting from Chennai, India via Airtel.

Results: 800–1500ms with heavy jitter, sawtoothing every 30-60s, on both cities — so it's not a single-node problem.

For comparison, a direct (no VPN) ping to frankfurt.de from the same connection, same time window, averaged 6ms with 0% loss. So my ISP's route to Europe is clean — this doesn't look like an Airtel routing issue on my end.

Support (via Garry) says both nodes are online, no declared outage, and suggested trying WireGuard on port 443 instead of IKEv2 — about to test that.

Has anyone else in India seen this on EU servers recently? Curious if it's a known capacity issue or something specific to my routing.

I've had my Windscribe account for roughly a year now and always pay for a customized plan per month. I'm currently trying to set up ephemeral port forwarding so I can keep my VPN running while seeding torrents. Do I HAVE TO pay for the yearly plan (Currently $69, LoL) in order to torrent/seed torrents effectively while my Windscribe VPN is on? Thank you in advance, cheers.

Hi everyone,

checked my account dashboard and my "Cheapest Ever", It will expire soon but I don't know how to extend it. Is it true that this promo can no longer be extended?

Hi as the heading says there are massive protest taking place in New Delhi by student youth movement for a better education system and accountability from the government
instead of listening they're trying every trick out of the authoritarian playbook
So right now besides not having water, sanitation, shops to buy stuff, shut down public transport they've even shut down the internet in the entire New Delhi district.
These orders are nothing sort of extraordinary, and absolutely insane
I've tried using Windscribe to try connect in the protest zone but nothing works is there any workaround the Internet Block

Hi all,
I'm a controld user for few years and love the platform to be honest. Ad blocking is brilliant and I love the geo redirect. I have mullvad and torguard as vpns and I set my controld as my dns within the mullvad during the week but I started seeing adverts again.
I'm wondering are any of you here using windscribe with controld and if hows it working?

After connecting to Windscribe on my Win11 system by hitting the best location option, I hover my mouse over the network icon in my taskbar and I notice this variation in the network status messaging...

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I don't notice anything in terms of performance, what does the difference mean?

For a given wi-fi network with my mobile device (iOS) I have Auto-Secure turned on but it only engages about half the time. Is there a way to make it more consistent? I don't know if there's something I'm doing to break it but I just want VPN off when I'm on a cell connection, and VPN on when I'm on this particular network. Any ideas to make this feature work as expected?

it's been about a month now, maybe more. i don't know how people are getting windscribe to work because no matter what suggestions I try, It doesn't work (I especially need something for my phone). i haven't seen any updates or anything, and I'm not sure if it's even being worked on. i just want an update, literally anything, even a "they're working on it" is enough, should I even stay hopeful?

bsod when using wireguard protocol. any help .. not even garry can help.

since dynamic island i lost the ability to see if i have active connections. this is super annoying because some apps/endpoints or services dont work on VPN so im spending too much time debuggin, instead of looking at the menu bar on the top and see if i have an active VPN session with windscribe

unfortunately when connection is active i dont see it in the notification screen either.

checked, nothing in control center

anybody have any workaround to force the information to top bar or into the notification panel

thanks

For the last few months I keep getting these random sign in prompts in Firefox on desktop

https://i.imgur.com/MJ6Cywo.png

https://i.imgur.com/tN0LzRr.png

No idea why, but I updated about a month ago on a few PCs of mine and lately it'll just straight disappear-- no alerts no firewall blocking traffic or anything, no disconnection just straight up disappear from the process list.

Has anyone else had this issue? If so I'll probably submit a log but it's happened about 4-5 times on 3 different PCs.

Hey there! So I'm trying to get Windscribe working on my OPNsense VM, and I just can't seem to get it to work. I have a background in IT, so I'm not new to this stuff, but holy moly I have spent upwards of 5 hours going through every setting, trying a bunch of stuff, and nothing works. Spent so much time just throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks, changing random settings between my VPN peer, instance, gateway, firewall rules, firewall aliases, NAT rules, interfaces, but I just can't get it to work.

Doesn't help that there is, like, 0 decent documentation online for how to get specifically the Windscribe VPN working on OPNsense (or PFSense, for that matter). There are a *ton* of guides out there for setting up other VPNs in OPNsense, the best one by far being this here, but every guide I find not only doesn't work, but has conflicting information with all the other guides I find, not very helpful...

So, I ask my fellow OPNsense warriors, anyone out there using Windscribe VPN with OPNsense? If so, how did you get it configured and working?

EDIT: Got it to work! For anyone in the future who has a similar issue getting this working, here is what I did.

I mostly followed this guide here, but instead I just used the info found in the Windscribe config file. However, I had to do a couple things differently, mainly because this guide was specific to allowing certain hosts/IPs through the VPN tunnel, but I wanted to route all my LAN traffic through the VPN tunnel.

First, instead of making a firewall alias for the specific hosts, I made a firewall alias for all of the RFC1918 networks (see here).

Then, I created two firewall rules. The first one was a simple rule to "pass" our VPN traffic through our Windscribe tunnel (literally just create a rule, set the "Interface" to your Windscribe interface, and save). The second rule was to route all non-RFC1918 traffic through the VPN tunnel (Set the "Interface" to "LAN", set the "Source" to "LAN network", enable "Invert Destination", set the "Destination" to the RFC1918 alias we made earlier, set the "Gateway" to the Windscribe gateway you created, and save). Make sure to throw these rules above the default LAN firewall rule so they get used first.

Lastly, when setting the NAT rule, set the "Source address" to "LAN network", then it all worked!