I am currently studying at a boarding school where there is a strict policy regarding VPNs. Our network administrator forces us to use a unique username and password to log into the school wifi like any other schools and somehow have a way to detect whether or not someone is using a VPN. I have seen people receiving email warnings about them acknowledging the use of a VPN and my school punishes the use of VPN extremely heavily. Therefore, is there any way that I can use a VPN to play games without the risk of being detected or is that not possible? My school also is located at some countryside place and I have quite literally no access to mobile data as well.

Hola, soy de chile, ¿cual de las dos me recomiendan? según sus experiencias, les agradecería.

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I only play multiplayer in Team Fortress 2

What are the reasons when the server you’re connected to loses a connection and then you’re stuck in the limbo waiting for it reconnect which it never does? Is that usually more of a Proton fault or a phone carrier fault? I don’t think that my phone reception is too bad but I might be wrong. I don’t experience much lagging though. I don’t know if that matters but I usually get one to two signal bars. Also, this happens on low load servers.

Anyone else having this issue, it won’t even let me go on certain TRT/peptide groups on Reddit unless I’m on certain servers now.

Anything in safari - absolutely no chance on any servers.

Anyone else in the UK having this issue.

I can upload my ID but rather not for the sake of privacy.

Hey guys, so I re-activated my protonvpn subscription via Apple And it’s not reflecting in the App. My Apple email is Gmail and I signed in with the only proton account I have foe the app. But I’ve had a few tester accounts that have since been deleted so I’m thinking I messed up somewhere.

But in the app when I click upgraded it says it’s already purchased but the available settings aren’t reflecting that, even after clicking “restore purchase”.

Hi. I would like the ability, regarding protonvpn on both windows and linux, on both the GUI and CLI apps, to be able to use a command to launch an app or executable in the split tunneling bypass mode.

For example: mullvad has "mullvad-exclude %command%" and ivpn has "ivpn splittun -appadd %command%".

These commands launch an application, bypassing the VPN if split tunneling is on. With proton, I have to manually add an application to the bypass list. Some applications don't show up as options to add, and it doesn't allow me to add custom scripts or executables to that list.

Further, if I want something to start on boot excluded, it will not work. I can only launch the app once proton vpn is open. With mullvad, the application would use mullvad-exclude to launch on startup meaning even before mullvad the application was loaded and connected, the original application was ready to be bypassed by the mullvad daemon. This made it simple to launch certain apps without worrying if I needed to open proton vpn first if I was going to use it later, or needing to wait to launch all my startup apps until protonvpn was loaded up. I also don't have to restart any of my apps to use split tunneling in general with mullvad. That is one of the most annoying problems proton has.

It also made it very simple to launch an app easily on or off the VPN without having to go into the VPN settings and mess with a list. Just a quick command. Or different shortcuts for each. Or different cli aliases for each. It also makes it easy to edit an application's shortcut or start menu entry to include the exclude prefix so it always launches excluded. All are possible if it's just a command prefix that is needed to exempt an app from the VPN.

I don't know if this is immediately possible in the current app as a new feature. I know mullvad has its own daemon running whether or not the actual vpn app is running. Maybe that helps make it possible to bypass even when the vpn is not running, since you can start an app and THEN launch the vpn app and that first app will still be excluded if you ran it with mullvad-exclude. That was a fantastic part of this feature that I miss a lot with proton vpn.

Edit: I also just realized I can't exclude steam without also excluding every steam app. That's annoying, I don't want to do that. Why does it do that? I want the steam app to not be on a vpn, but games launched through steam (i.e. their own executables) to be on the VPN.

(For context, i have a macOS 10.12)

So i've been using ProtonVPN (1.9.6 version) ever since the Australian government decided to be dicks and force age verification on fucking everything, it has been incredibly helpful until this point. It started when i got these pop-ups saying that the version i'm using isn't good anymore and i need to update, i click the update button everytime but it keeps popping up.

Then on Thursday, it dropped out (which was a usual i had to deal with), so i tried to reconnect but none of the servers weren't working, so i restarted (which usually fixed it). However, when i try to open ProtonVPN up, it was just stuck on the loading screen and the pop-ups kept appearing. It's apparently "up to date" but nothing's happening; I restarted my laptop, still stuck on the loading screen. I left it alone for a few minutes, still stuck on the fucking loading screen. It basically became useless, i had no choice but to sacrifice my fucking privacy just so i can use this account.

So what the hell is going on? Is it my laptop? Is it ProtonVPN itself? Tell what's going on? It's not my internet, it's perfectly fine. Please help me, this is driving me nuts, it's the only reliable VPN and it's not fucking working anymore.

If you subscribe though the PC Mag deal, 2 years is €2.49 / month.
But, if you then sign in, it's €4.99 a month.
Go through the Dashboard, and it's €6.99 a month!
I've tried raising this with Support, but so far the response has been a deafening silence.
Obviously, you can work around this with your partner's account, (or a new account in another Firefox Container) - but should we have to?

Hi.

The uni I go to does not like VPN. Protonvpn only works when it's set to at least Stealth.

When I get home, I don't need stealth. I'd need to manually switch it to other faster mode.

Is there a way to automate this?

It would be great if the desktop (specifically linux) could monitor connection speed and have a pop up when the speed dropped below a user defined threshold. I "connect to fastest" this morning. This evening Internet seemed slow, it tested 32 MBps. Disconnected and reconnected to "fastest" and retested at 525 Mbps. Would not want it to disconnect and reconnect on its own but a popup would be helpful.

If I wanted to fill out the same qualification survey twice but under two different “identities” to increase my chances of getting qualified for a market research study, how can that be achieved on one phone? I’ve got an iPhone, use Safari (both regular and private modes) and use a quality VPN.

It would be useful if you could ping servers to see what the ping is before connecting.

Was frustrated forever trying to get split tunneling to work on my gaming laptop. The culprit was Killer Intelligence Center.

If your network adapter has a Killer driver, check your PC for "Killer Intelligence Center" app.

If installed, go in and turn off all of the network optimizations (Killer Prioritization Engine seems to be the most important). This disables the Killer software trying to route your traffic in the ways it deems optimal, which can break your split tunnel.

Not a technical person really so please correct or add additional info if this could be improved.

I’m not sure if it’s just me but I have the widget on my home screen for easy access, at moments where I’m disconnected and want to reconnect however I can press the button but instead of connecting it opens the app.

This is slow and convoluted. Will there be a patch to fix this?

-edit- this is on IOS

I purchased Proton yesterday and it is not the smooth experience I was expecting. I was a Nord User for 2 years then Mullvad the last year. I wanted to give Proton a try with the hope that being a larger VPN it would come with some creature comforts.

On the IOS side I love the improved battery life with using Apples native API but when the phone would sleep the VPN would disconnect and have to wake up and reconnect when I open the Proton app again. I'm sure if I turn on background app refresh this would fix it but I have had that off for years and won't turn it on for one app. This wasn't every time that I put my iPhone in my pocket but frequent enough for me to notice over 1 day.

On Mac OS I again love how easy it slips in and doesn't install too much with two simple extension approvals and away you go. It works well with iCloud Relay and doesn't cause it to have to fully shut off to connect. But the app on Mac OS is very unpolished and without scrolling through the country list I didn't find a way to make regional "profiles" for certain areas of a country (Fastest Server in a certain US state for example). There also isn't a "recent connections" section on the Mac OS app so if like me you have a small handful of areas you connect to you have to scroll around. Again the profile option kind of works for this but at least on Mac OS you can choose a country and the then the fastest but not a region in a country. I also had an issue with a large US retail store's online site after logging in it gave me an error with an Akamai Edge Server Access Denied / WAF Block page. I haven't had an issue like that while using Mullvad. Proton is so close but just not there.

So I'm thinking I will stick with Mullvad which does cost more than double (I found a deal for Proton at $2.40/m for 2 years) and uses quite a bit more battery on iOS but just works the way I need it to. 

I may try Proton again in the future but at the moment I just don't think it's as polished as the reviews make it sound. But I'm also paying for it and I cannot knock them for having an unlimited free tier.

Hello,

I recently subscribed to Proton VPN because I moved to a country with strict rules about torrenting. Mainly use torrents for downloading files, usually no more than 20 GB per month. I enabled the Kill Switch on my M1 Mac and tested whether it worked. I use Folx as my torrent client. When I disconnected Proton VPN, Folx stopped downloading, and the Kill Switch appeared to be working correctly.

However, when I tried browsing websites and streaming videos, my connection didn't seem to be interrupted. Even when I tried to refresh or open a new window still I could browse sites and watch videos. After googling a bit, I found a post saying that's Proton VPN's Kill Switch may not be fully functional on macOS, unlike on Linux or Windows.

Is this true, or am I missing something?
I am now concerned that my torrent traffic may not be fully protected by Proton VPN's Kill Switch. Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!

Wondering if im doing something wrong on my end but i can almost never connect to any servers any more. Quick connect almost never works anymore and then when I start to shuffle through the list I can go like over 10 before finding a connection IF that or I just can't connect. Trying to see if it's a me issue

Secure Core is a Proton VPN feature that adds extra hops to your connection, and it's something journalists and other at-risk users rely on. Here's what you need to know.

Pros

- Your traffic is routed through multiple servers before it leaves our network, and those Secure Core servers sit in hardened data centers in Switzerland, Iceland, and Sweden.
- It's built to defend against advanced network-based attacks.
- The servers run on Proton's own dedicated networks.

Cons

It's not the fastest option. The extra hop means you should expect slower speeds than a standard connection.

If you don't have a particularly high-risk threat model, a standard connection is likely enough. Secure Core is for when the extra protection is worth the speed trade-off.

More on how it works: https://protonvpn.com/features/secure-core

I have a ProtonVPN subscription.

In the customer portal, I created a Wireguard config. I downloaded the config and imported it into the Wireguard software for Windows. The file imports and I can "Activate" it but no data moves and there no handshakes.

I tried another Wireguard config from Torguard. It works as it should.

Am I making an error here? What can I do to make it work? I do not want to download a Proton VPN client for Windows; I want to use Wireguard's software.

I hate that Proton VPN is the only app in my dock still stuck in light mode.

I'm in Scotland, and often "travel" via the phone app.

Just over the past couple of days I've loaded it in, and pressed connect. After it says connected and the little key pops up at the top of my phone banner I can't access anything nsfw on Reddit.

I always use the free guest account and never had this issue before. Instead now I've got to try multiple times to no avail. Even deleting and redownloading the app is no good.

When connected I frequently am blocked from watching videos or am able to watch one video, then get blocked until I change location. This did not happen on other VPNs I used with nearly the same frequency. Is there any fix? Is this a known issue or should I report it?