My browser is slowed down to a crawl when it’s activated.
I know it’s the VPN because when I turn it off the speed goes back to normal.
I’ve even tried running a speed test with Chrome and Opera running it’s VPN at the same time and the difference is night and day, can’t even get 1mbps on the download speed with the VPN up but after deactivating it and running the speed test again all of a sudden it jumps to 20mbps.
I know the VPN can slow the speed a little but I’ve always used it and never experienced this dramatic of a drop in speed with it before. Anyone else experiencing this?
It’s not even operational from my end. It used to work. But not now. Before it happened, the speed crawled down to about 50KB/s, then it got totally unresponsive. Now it stuck at “connecting” state, but the actual network connection did succeed when checked with netstat. Several bytes no more than
Same thing happens a few years ago. It doesn’t work for a few months, then it worked again.
This is a server problem, and it depends on the users’ location. Because some users experience problems, some don’t. The VPN server seem to split network traffic based on the source location, and redirected them to source-location bound servers. And some of those source-location bound servers, have problem.
I’ve seen it become very slow recently, but today is the first time in a long time where I’ve seen it completely dead.
Opera has been pathetically slow for me for the past month or so, not sure exactly when it started happening but it’s making me think I travelled back in time and am looking at the internet through dial-up speed. Images showing up a few lines at a time with long gaps while it loads, youtube or any videos stopping to buffer every few seconds no matter how low I set the playback speed, pages taking a lot longer to load than what I had become used to. I assumed it could be the built-in vpn (that’s not really a vpn) but honestly turning that off doesn’t seem to help much, if at all, and I only run a few essential add-ons like ublock, no script lite and ghostery. Maybe it has to do with their built-in ad blocker being out of whack? I got so fed up with chrome that was what prompted me to look into opera in the first place but if this doesn’t improve I don’t see why anybody would continue to put up with a product so inferior to the way it feels like it just was.
Nah. Still slowing down with the VPN on.
I don’t even use built in adblocker as it only leak data to Opera. So, it’s not caused by the bult in adblocker.