I have my router set up to use Proton’s VPN servers. It went down last week and rendered my internet useless. Finally got it back up and then same thing happened today. Could not access the internet no matter what I did. I just ended up formatting my router and restarting as nothing would work. I didn’t install the VPN again. Will just use on client devices for now. Pretty annoyed with this as I was hoping to route all my home internet access through VPN. I can’t keep messing around with it as I have a life to live.
Starting to feel like this whole VPN thing isn’t worth the frustration. /end venting (for now).
Same exact thing here… The first time it went down, it had been up for a year (with only minor/brief outages)… Then it went down hard and stayed down, nothing could bring it back up…
So I refreshed the config with a new one from the downloads page. Stayed up for a day or two then started failing with “Certificate” issues… Pulled down *another* config, and now its working again… but for how long?
I’ve had a constant VPN connection in one of my Debian VM’s for 2 days, 16 hours. But I would be surprised if every VPN server isn’t rebooted at least once a week for at least security updates and to clear RAM.
If your router can’t automatically connected I’d blame the router, not Proton for doing appropriate maintenance.
Some servers were decommissioned yesterday, and the server you were connected to might have been one of these servers. If you have a contact email connected to your VPN account, you should have received a notification email earlier this week. In any case, please try downloading a new server config from our website.
All these people in here got the wrong answer even with changing servers happens a lot. I’ve already said something nobody listens.
If your router allows it, you can add more
remote x.x.x.x pppp
lines to the advanced configuration; you should review them from time to time but at least you have some redundancy in place. It’s written in some online guides.
I don’t remember the exact server but I picked several in New York. I thought I had it set up to randomly connect to any of them but I guess they all went down? I ended up deleting those server ip addresses and put in the generic us proton connection (I can’t remember name…something like us.proton…). It would not connect even with that.
I’d like to connect to another country but then when my wife is shopping it changes USD to what ever currency the country I am connected to and then I hear complaining. My work around was to stay connected in the US.
I am just feeling frustrated as I’d like privacy with the VPN but then when it stops working and my whole network goes down I just want to say fuck it.
I have been giving this some thought though and let me know if you think this will work. I have three Ethernet ports on my pfsense router (Protectli vault). What if I configure the LAN port to be a network that routes traffic all through VPN. Then I have a second LAN without a VPN but with the same exact DHCP range as the VPN LAN? This way if the VPN fails, I can just switch over to the non VPN port and still have all my network connected devices still work. Would that work. Can I have two LANs on the same router with the same private IP ranges? Then I’ll use the third for Roku and Netflix because Netflix doesn’t like VPNs.
Yes I believe that is the problem.