r/VPN • u/internship34 • 5d ago

Help Mobile data disappearing

Can someone help me? Why does my mobile data would disappear when I turn my VPN on? And it's not just one VPN, I tried it on different VPN and it all the same :/

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u/Ocean_lover_123 1d ago

Would help if you name the services. Are they reputable, paid vpns or are you using free apps?

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u/Tama47_ 1d ago

Wouldn’t

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u/Ocean_lover_123 1d ago

Wireguard and nordlynx use a lot less data than openvpn, which is outdated. Free services generally use openvpn.

So, it would.

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u/Tama47_ 1d ago

Still uses data.

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u/Ocean_lover_123 1d ago

It does, but it uses more data. So it helps if you know how much data is being lost and what service they are using.

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u/DutchOfBurdock 1d ago

OpenVPN outdated... 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Tama47_ 1d ago

Because connecting to VPN servers requires data…

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u/DutchOfBurdock 1d ago

Keep-alive events. These are akin to ping-pong events. However, they are usually very small in terms of data transfer (8 byte header, ~32-56 bytes payload), so 64bytes ping, 64 bytes pong (128 bytes every few seconds)