Internet drops with VPN after some time, Comes back the instant I disconnect

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I’m having issues with the VPN that I’ve seen in other posts, but my issue isn’t exactly the same as others I’ve seen. In most cases, it seem that people loose all network access and the computer shows as disconnected from the internet, and the problem persists even after disconnecting/closing the VPN client. That’s not my case.

In my case, everything works good with the VPN connected for most of the day, but then at some random point, websites stop loading and even apps that I have set for split-tunnelling to bypass the VPN stop connecting to anything. Computer and VPN both still claim I’m connected, but no traffic goes through. If I disconnect the VPN, pages open in my browser instantly connect again and everything starts working. In rare instances, I can reconnect to the VPN and it all keeps working, but most of the time if I reconnect the VPN it all stops again. I can’t connect to the VPN again until the following morning, at which point it repeats working most of the day. It’s almost like I’m running onto some kind of data limit, but AFAIK, Proton does not impose data limits on the VPN, or am I mistaken in that?

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Please contact us with the error logs through the in-app option ( https://protonvpn.com/support/report-a-bug/ ) so we can investigate your setup further and suggest appropriate troubleshooting steps.

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same problem. it’s exactly like trying to load a .torrent. the connection stops responding but the vpn is still connected. the vpn server must be confusing it with a torrent connection. it’s the same thing with facebook calls that block the vpn connection for 30s.

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Same problem, constantly happening

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I have also been having this issue on like two different computers the last couple days.

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I have that same problem recently. Well since July.

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Greetings, sorry to necropost but have you found a solution ? I have the EXACT same problem, at this point I can’t even use the VPN I paid for ….