Can you explain what you meant by it’s not good to use the same VPN provider as email provider?
Netflix worked very smoothly with Mullvad, just as it does on ProtonVPN. I had no problems streaming.
OMG!!! I didn’t see an announcement or anything 
Installing it when I get home from work.
THANK YOU!
That’s what I do, I look on my phone to see where it goes, and then use OpenVPN on the laptop.
It’s weird because Mulvad and even PIA clients have no issue. My job somehow knows to block the Proton clients, on all devices. Even the ProtonMail Bridge (for Thunderbird) won’t connect unless I am running the VPN.
So on Android it did not work either. I normally use UDP but I did download the profiles so I’ll try tomorrow and report back.
Have you tried to test both after ProtonVPN added WireGuard support?I’m interested in knowing the results you got since I’m trying to pick between the two.
I’m on a 16-inch MBP. Perhaps it’s a server related issue. Some locations are more stable than others (e.g. London, UK is relatively okay). I usually connect to Hong Kong server and gets disconnected a few times every day. Taiwan servers are the worst I think. Just did a reinstall and will see how it performs.
I brought up the issues a few time last year when I firstly got into Proton. It didn’t improve well all the problem I had still exists. They mentioned similar reason that Apple makes them harder to implement stuff into their app.
But I came from PIA and their app was almost perfect on my MacBook. The contrast was huge especially on the random disconnect thingy. I only switched due to them being purchased by Kape and I believe Proton is a more privacy respecting company than others.
But anyway, their Windows and Android apps work okay overall. I use Mac at work and sometimes the random disconnect thing is quite infuriating to deal with.
Sure you can always pay more, but that wasn’t my point.
Can you explain what you meant by it’s not good to use the same VPN provider as email provider?
Just saying that I would prefer not to have my primary email address linked to my VPN account. Fewer links = better. Also, more entities have to be compromised to get access to both.
He is trying to say, don’t put all the eggs in the same basket, I think.”
Who do you work for?
Okay, looking forward to hear the results
Hm I don’t use servers in HK or Taiwan, mostly USA, sometimes Europe and occasionally Singapore and I’ve found it to be really stable. I leave it on most of the time and barely notice it. I’m on a 2018 MBP.
You said Proton only allows two concurrent connections. That is plainly not true. That’s what I was responding to.
Nice try boss!
I work for a public school district, and they block reddit, so I VPN in lol
OK, here we go, on my phone, I get “Connection Failed, Gateway is unreachable.”
Client on Windows no connection, Smart, TCP, or UDP.
OpenVPN UDP, no problem, connects normally.
OpenVPN TCP does not work:
EDIT (like 100) for the life of me I could not format the below to be readable, please copy and paste and replace Mon May 24 to have a break, then it’s readable. Tried soooo many things…
Mon May 24 11:29:03 2021 DEPRECATED OPTION: --cipher set to ‘AES-256-CBC’ but missing in --data-ciphers (AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM). Future OpenVPN version will ignore --cipher for cipher negotiations. Add ‘AES-256-CBC’ to --data-ciphers or change --cipher ‘AES-256-CBC’ to --data-ciphers-fallback ‘AES-256-CBC’ to silence this warning. Mon May 24 11:29:03 2021 OpenVPN 2.5.1 x86_64-w64-mingw32 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [PKCS11] [AEAD] built on Feb 24 2021 Mon May 24 11:29:03 2021 Windows version 10.0 (Windows 10 or greater) 64bit Mon May 24 11:29:03 2021 library versions: OpenSSL 1.1.1j 16 Feb 2021, LZO 2.10 Mon May 24 11:29:03 2021 MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25344 Mon May 24 11:29:03 2021 Need hold release from management interface, waiting… Mon May 24 11:29:04 2021 MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25344 Mon May 24 11:29:04 2021 MANAGEMENT: CMD ‘state on’ Mon May 24 11:29:04 2021 MANAGEMENT: CMD ‘log all on’ Mon May 24 11:29:04 2021 MANAGEMENT: CMD ‘echo all on’ Mon May 24 11:29:04 2021 MANAGEMENT: CMD ‘bytecount 5’ Mon May 24 11:29:04 2021 MANAGEMENT: CMD ‘hold off’ Mon May 24 11:29:04 2021 MANAGEMENT: CMD ‘hold release’ Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 MANAGEMENT: CMD ‘username “Auth” “…”’ Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 MANAGEMENT: CMD ‘password […]’ Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 NOTE: --fast-io is disabled since we are running on Windows Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:5995 Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 Socket Buffers: R=[65536->65536] S=[65536->65536] Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:5995 [nonblock] Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621880946,TCP_CONNECT, Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 TCP connection established with [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:5995 Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 TCP_CLIENT link local: (not bound) Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 TCP_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:5995 Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621880946,WAIT, Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 Connection reset, restarting [-1] Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 SIGUSR1[soft,connection-reset] received, process restarting Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621880946,RECONNECTING,connection-reset, Mon May 24 11:29:06 2021 Restart pause, 5 second(s) Mon May 24 11:29:11 2021 NOTE: --fast-io is disabled since we are running on Windows Mon May 24 11:29:11 2021 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:29:11 2021 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:29:11 2021 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:8443 Mon May 24 11:29:11 2021 Socket Buffers: R=[65536->65536] S=[65536->65536] Mon May 24 11:29:11 2021 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:8443 [nonblock] Mon May 24 11:29:11 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621880951,TCP_CONNECT, Mon May 24 11:31:12 2021 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:8443 failed: Unknown error Mon May 24 11:31:12 2021 SIGUSR1[connection failed(soft),init_instance] received, process restarting Mon May 24 11:31:12 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621881072,RECONNECTING,init_instance, Mon May 24 11:31:12 2021 Restart pause, 5 second(s) Mon May 24 11:31:17 2021 NOTE: --fast-io is disabled since we are running on Windows Mon May 24 11:31:17 2021 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:31:17 2021 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:31:17 2021 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:443 Mon May 24 11:31:17 2021 Socket Buffers: R=[65536->65536] S=[65536->65536] Mon May 24 11:31:17 2021 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:443 [nonblock] Mon May 24 11:31:17 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621881077,TCP_CONNECT, Mon May 24 11:33:18 2021 TCP: connect to [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:443 failed: Unknown error Mon May 24 11:33:18 2021 SIGUSR1[connection failed(soft),init_instance] received, process restarting Mon May 24 11:33:18 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621881198,RECONNECTING,init_instance, Mon May 24 11:33:18 2021 Restart pause, 5 second(s) Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 NOTE: --fast-io is disabled since we are running on Windows Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:5995 Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 Socket Buffers: R=[65536->65536] S=[65536->65536] Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:5995 [nonblock] Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621881203,TCP_CONNECT, Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 TCP connection established with [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:5995 Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 TCP_CLIENT link local: (not bound) Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 TCP_CLIENT link remote: [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:5995 Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621881203,WAIT, Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 Connection reset, restarting [-1] Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 SIGUSR1[soft,connection-reset] received, process restarting Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621881203,RECONNECTING,connection-reset, Mon May 24 11:33:23 2021 Restart pause, 5 second(s) Mon May 24 11:33:28 2021 NOTE: --fast-io is disabled since we are running on Windows Mon May 24 11:33:28 2021 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:33:28 2021 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 512 bit message hash ‘SHA512’ for HMAC authentication Mon May 24 11:33:28 2021 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:8443 Mon May 24 11:33:28 2021 Socket Buffers: R=[65536->65536] S=[65536->65536] Mon May 24 11:33:28 2021 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]MY_IP_ADDRESS:8443 [nonblock] Mon May 24 11:33:28 2021 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1621881208,TCP_CONNECT,
Yeah maybe their server provider in Asia is not on par with their own servers in the US and Europe. And the HK server is a total joke because I’ve just tested it and got lower ping when pinging google.com.hk from Taiwan server than HK server.
And also another complaint I have is that their Mac and iOS apps are lacking quite some features compared to their Windows and Android counterpart, like split tunneling and Wireguard. There isn’t a lot of setting to tweak in their Mac and iOS app.
He wrote “(4€)”… , 2 devices at 4€ plan. It is very true. https://protonvpn.com/pricing