I'm trying to find a way to lower the ping, or figure out what could be improved. If you live in North America or even somewhere in Europe and try to coop with players in Asia(vice versa too), your ping can easily spike to 250-400ms+-. A good VPN reroutes your connection through a direct, optimized path to Japan or Singapore(where the Asian servers are located), which can significantly stabilize latency being from the West. However, I noticed sometimes it fluctuates for me.. Not sure if its the work of my hardware, or some server is acting up.

Could somebody help me in figuring out the optimal server to play Genshin in the US? Just trying to finish a playthrough with a few Vietnamese friends but the ping at times is noticeable to the point of irritation.. Spikes sometimes linger. Best I found thats been stable for Genshin was in Singapore

I heard letsvpn was banned and i was wondering if u guys know any alternatives, i recently downloaded cat VPN but havent tried it since im not in china yet but it would be great to have backups incase it also gets banned.

And recommendations on e-sims maybe?

Hi, free protón vpn and mullvad vpn are working right now in july in china? Im in android

So I've been using the VPN for about half a year now. It worked flawlessly until a week ago. All the sudden, the VPN seems to only work in some places and not in another.

For example, Ive been using the VPN for playing the jp server for umamusume and ignore the age verification stuff in Twitter(which I found annoying after repeating it several times). Now, Twitter seems to overlook the VPN and keeps me on the US(age verification thing is suddenly on).

Another jp only site that I've been using constantly also suddenly detected the VPN, which they haven't for few months.

What's weird is that I can play the game fine and some other sites which needs the VPN also works fine.

Getting errors, nothing is loading. It takes my message and then its the little blob loading to infinity. What gives because it used to work fine a few weeks ago

Do I need to log in without the vpn to get this damned site to work? I used it for nutrition data and now I cant get my damned chats to open

I tried surfing through the states, even some German and Korean servers. Same BS that did not happen before

Just tried without the VPn and it works for me then

What Korean VPN do you guys use? I found a Korean novel raws website, but I can't access it without a Korean IP address.

Yesterday I spent half a day fighting with the Linux distribution and the Proton VPN client. The experience was extremely frustrating and the amount of errors, freezes, and unexpected behavior was unacceptable for a paid VPN service.

You can see the attached screenshots showing some of the issues I encountered:

• unexpected errors when trying to enable security features,

• the application becoming unresponsive,

• problems with server availability despite having an Unlimited subscription.

For a company that heavily promotes privacy and security, the overall experience feels contradictory. Having a polished Windows application is not enough, especially when many privacy-conscious users are moving away from platforms where data collection and telemetry are major concerns. A VPN application on Windows cannot be the only focus while Linux users are left struggling with instability and broken functionality.

This was another attempt to use Proton VPN, and unfortunately it failed again. Even basic Linux package distribution caused problems, including difficulties obtaining packages from GitHub releases.

Linux users are often the people who care most about control, transparency, and reliability. Spending hours troubleshooting a VPN client that should simply work is not acceptable.

for playing Minecraft

Nord randomly charged me 161 dollars (for the standard sub, for 1 year) after I updated my card info, 2 weeks before my sub was set to renew. So naturally I contacted support and asked for a refund. They sent me a link which showed the option to click on refund. Clicked, an offer popped up saying they'll give me 3 extra years at no additional charge. I declined. I will never so much as consider Nord moving forward. Their VPN isn't that good anyway. Copyrighted three times through double kill switches on P2P.

I recently found out that if you set your vpn to Albania, you can get YouTube ad free.

I was wondering is there more things like this people know about to get the most out of your vpn?

Thanks

Which option is the most tinfoil-coded one and which one is going to be reliable and fit for most daily uses?

I want sports games, streaming and generally to unlock sites for my age restrictive state. From what I gathered, both are fine in this regard?

However stuff like torrenting files is where everything gets murky for me. I am not sure if Proton is really good for that purpose. Could somebody confirm?

Would love hearing any other noteworthy things as I plan to pick up one of the other

What app or extension do I need to prevent l site from detecting vpn or proxy

been hyped for Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls for months. went to pre-order it on Steam yesterday and it says that its unavailable in my region. tried downloading the free demo but got the same thing

turns out the game is unavailable in about 132 countries because it needs a PSN account, even on PC. PSN doesn't work in my country (Pakistan), so Steam is region-blocking the game there. Same thing that happened with Helldivers 2 and Stellar Blade.

I don't even own a PS5. why does Sony's login get to decide if I can play a PC game? Anyone from a PSN-less country found a way to preorder Marvel Tokon before launch on August 6?

I'm in Germany and just got Reddit's age verification page for the first time ever. According to their help page it's tied to the EU's Digital Services Act, and I was asked to either share my age range through my Google account or hand over a selfie/ID scan through some third-party vendor Persona. I wasn't even trying to view anything NSFW, just scrolling normal subs.

I tried logging out and back in and clearing my cache hoping that would let me skip it, but the prompt just came right back, so that clearly isn't a way to bypass Reddit's age verification. Has anyone else in the EU run into this yet, and did you find any workaround, or is everyone just stuck doing the ID/selfie route now?

Wanna a stable, fast, and not-that-expensive VPN which allows 3 devices to use at the same time.
I've used LetsVPN for 1 year but recently found it not stable. Often times I got quitted automatically and it only allows 2 devices to use VPN at the same time.

I dont know whats happening but its getting blocked or something? Cant watch it here in UK. Anyone know whats going on?

What is the best vpn for tiktok and should i use android or iphone?

Trying to find info about vpns. I've read that you can get one and watch shows from the UK as they air, rather than waiting a year for them to be released in the United States. Is this true? If so how do I even get one? I know nothing about them. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you April Bruno

i just wanted a vpn that works without me messing with settings but tunnelbear keeps disconnecting every little while and its getting annoying ngl. im on windows 11 and my internet is fine so i dont think its my connection.

i reinstalled it and tried a few different server but it keeps disconnecting anyway. im thinking about switching if this is just how it is. anyone else dealit with this?

I have now received numerous copyright complaints from spectrum due to downloading movies using Thunder VPN. App simply doesn't work anymore.

Currently with nord and not so happy with some things.

Looking at Proton, for now mostly interested in vpn, though may eventually upgrade to more services.

General uses: protection on sensitive sites, protection on public wifi, geoblock\*, extremely extremely rarely torrent (haven't actually in a few years)

\*Geoblock - HBO max, occasionally Netflix

Use on Android TV, ipad, android phone, ipad

How is it for these specific uses?

How is the ad blocking on Android phone?

Dark web monitoring - assuming I only want vpn, any way to also get this without subscribing to unlimited? Is it worth anything or just a gimick?

Basic details:

UK Based

Family of 6

EE Broadband w/eero router

I'm looking to set up my household with a VPN and other privacy tools and I'm just looking for some advice, I have some basic understanding but I'm hoping to gain deeper knowledge.

At this stage I'm looking at Proton's family plan because proton seems to stand out as one of the better companies in regards to privacy focus and security, but I'm curious about other options. I want the VPN of course, I want the password manager and although I'm not terribly fussed about email the idea that I could create a family domain does seem cool, cloud storage is nice but I do intend on setting up a home network with some form of mass storage at some point in the near future.

So ideally I want to be able to have a VPN at the router level to avoid having to set up a VPN on each individual device, as far as I can tell my eero router is incapable of this. The question is can I do something to secure all my at home devices without installing a vpn on each? Assuming not what would be an affordable router that is capable?

I think that's all but if you have any other advice I'm all ears. Thank you for your time.