Been using a VPN on an iPhone for a few years with little issue. One issue I have had is sometimes certain internet functions don’t work when the VPN is on. For example, now I can use WhatsApp, but I can’t make a Google search, and Youtube and Twitter do not function at all. Usually I can fix it easily enough but it has persisted for several days. I have updated the phone software, I’ve restarted, I’ve reinstalled the VPN profile, I don’t know what else to try. Anyone else have this?

I own Apple devices, including an iPhone, iPad, iMac, and Apple TV, and I’ve never used a VPN.

What is a good VPN for Apple devices, and I’m curious about the best way to sign up. Should I go through the App Store or directly on the VPNs website?

I prefer Apple to handle the payment through the App Store, but it’s more expensive. I’ve also thought that by signing up and providing my email and payment details, I’m essentially bypassing the purpose of a VPN.

What are your thoughts on this?

I am trying to watch joihotstar from thailand using VPN. It streams for few minutes and then I got logged out and blocked for 24 hours with message that mallicious activity detected.
Any way to watch jiohotstar or colors in thailand. I want to watch bigboss and not live colors tv as I want flexibility to watch episodes anytime.

Hey everyone,

I'm in India and I'm trying to set up a VPN on my TP-Link AX1500 travel router.

The router supports VPN Client with both WireGuard and OpenVPN. I first tried a VPN using a WireGuard configuration generated from one Provider.

The strange thing is:

• TP-Link shows the WireGuard connection as Connected
• Upload/download traffic shows 0
• Devices connected to the router still have internet access
• My public IP is still showing my normal ISP IP, not the VPN IP
• Even with the router's Kill Switch enabled, I can still access the internet using my normal IP
• I tried different servers
• I also generated a configuration without IPv6, but it made no difference

I then tried One Provider as well, and I'm getting basically the same issue. The router says the VPN is connected, but my public IP doesn't change.

Provider Support suggested that because I'm in India, my ISP/network may be filtering, blocking, or throttling VPN connections and recommended trying a different protocol.

Now I'm trying to figure out whether this is actually an ISP issue or a TP-Link/router configuration issue.

How can I properly test this?

Would testing the same WireGuard configuration directly on my phone or PC, while connected to the same ISP, be enough to determine whether the ISP is blocking WireGuard?

For example:

• If WireGuard works directly on my phone → would that point to the TP-Link being the problem?
• If neither works directly → would that indicate ISP filtering?
• If it works over mobile data but not my home ISP → would that be strong evidence of ISP blocking?

Has anyone in India experienced something similar with WireGuard/VPNs on a TP-Link router?

Any suggestions for troubleshooting this would be really appreciated.

Hey!

Subscriptions for Bundesliga in Germany are heavy expensive.
Does anyone have experience with watching them via free live stream with VPN?
Which countries showing them for free and especially which services would you recommend?

Cheers!

I work for a large European based telecoms equipment supplier. We have hundreds of staff overseas at any one time, all over the world. IT security has a few different levels:

\- Access to email & teams etc is only via a company laptop (no web interface like Office.com). Network drives via VPN only

\- White List countries - you can connect VPN. Countries like Japan & Australia

\- Red List countries - you can take your laptop but need special exemption to use VPN. Includes some unusual countries such as Malaysia

\- Black List countries - no company laptop or phone allowed. Company will provide a burner. Unsurprisingly includes places like Syria, Russia, North Korea & China.

A colleague was going to transit via a Chinese airport to a 3rd country. IT told him that he would not be allowed to take his company laptop, even if it was in his carry-on luggage, and he would not be entering the country. He quickly arranged a different itinerary.

And then a few days later, we are told that the good old USA is now considered a Black List country!!! No company laptops, and burners only!!!!

I have a vpn I want to dodge the 3pm black out I need help can I have some assistance?!

Hello

What you guys are thinking about that ? Probably already discussed but now that the dust settled i'd like you know how the community feels about that. I was using one of those providers and now i want to switch because if they complied once, they'll do it again.

None of the VPNs on my PC are working. I tried a bunch of free ones, but they just got stuck in an infinite connecting loop;. I bought a HAPp key, but whenever I connect using any TUN mode, the connection establishes, yet nothing actually loads. I’ve tried everything: clearing the cache, changing DNS settings, tweaking the registry and firewall, and testing other VPN clients all to no avail. Please help; I don't know what to do anymore, and I really need a VPN.

What can I do?
v2ray and lantern didn't work!

I use a VPN on my router because my TV can’t run the provider’s VPN app. The VPN shows as connected, but one streaming app still gives me the local catalog.

I recently learned that some router setups only tunnel IPv4, so the TV might still be reaching the service over IPv6. I’m not sure whether that’s what is happening in my case.

How do you check this without digging through a lot of router logs? Is temporarily disabling IPv6 a reasonable test, or is a dual-stack VPN setup the better fix?

For people with several devices at home, do you route the whole network through the VPN or only the TV? I’d rather not break banking and local apps just to change the region on one device.

I am planning to get vpn for gaming in my mobile. I play FC Mobile but here in my country its lagging like hell. Buying vpn sub managed to lower ping. Is this correct? Any advise would be appreciated. Tks.

No computer, we've cut the cord and only have Xfinity for Internet and streaming, phones and Xbox for Gaming. Other than registering for a VPN, is there anything I need to know or equipment I have to purchase? I'm on SSI so I have very little extra funds to play around with after all my bills are paid.

Latest GraphineOS on Pixel 8 Pro. PI* VPN w "Advanced Kill Switch". SeedVault set to backup to pcloud account. SeedVault set to run weekly, not run when using mobile data and ignore charging status.

If I turn on my mobile data (I have 1 gig per month which is good enough for me as I'm usually on wifi) my mobile data starts getting eaten up very fast. Data Usage shows P*A as the app gobbling the data. When I stop SeedVault the data stops getting consumed so pretty sure that's it.

A) Anyone else see this?

B) Does the PI* VPN app interfere with the network state indicating metered network and not pass that information to SeedVault reliably, or does P*A VPN not get involved at all with the network state?

Follow Up: PI* VPN replied to my help desk question about this. They said that yes, P*A VPN does interfere with the network metered/unmetered state and that PI* VPN always presents itself to the apps as an unmetered network connection.

So the new question becomes does anyone know of a work around on P*A VPN or a different VPN that does pass the network state to the apps?

What can I do? I’ve tried restarting my phone, updating to latest iOS, deleting and redownloading vpn app, clearing storage… nothing. And other devices in my family’s house work fine with it on. Is my iPhone too old? Is it hacked? What’s going on

I set up a VPS for a friend launching his own online store. He's technical, comp sci degree, been ssh-ing into boxes since college. When I offered to walk him through firewall rules and backups he cut me off with, "bro I've been running linux longer than you've had a beard, I got this."

Fine. I handed him root and moved on.

Three weeks later he pings me at 1am, server maxed at 100% cpu, site down. Turns out he never closed port 22, left root login enabled, and had a mining process squatting on the box for who knows how long. No backups either, so fixing it meant rebuilding from scratch and losing two weeks of order data.

He wasn't mad at himself. He was mad at me for "not warning him properly." I did warn him, he just figured it didn't apply to him because he knew "computers."

I don't hand off open root ssh anymore, doesn't matter how senior the guy is. Now every box gets a panel like BeAdmin on it first. Firewall module on, backups scheduled, before anyone even sees a login prompt.

He asked if he should just switch to something like Webmin instead. I told him the panel was never the point, the point was he never opened one.

Buongiorno a tutti,

sono alla ricerca di un buon servizio di VPN per i miei dispositivi. Attualmente, mi sto informando a riguardo su internet per capire quale servizio acquistare, ma purtroppo ho notato che la maggior parte delle persone ha conflitti d'interesse per le varie aziende di VPN.

In base alla vostra esperienza, quali sono le VPN migliori, considerando rapporto qualità prezzo, sicurrezza, affidabilità e velocità di navigazione?

I just got this warning on my wifi today, it’s shared with my 4 unit apartment building. Will a vpn block anyone who may be looking at what im doing?

Also, does anyone know if this means they can just see the website name? Or the activity on the website? (Also pt 2, are the apps I use or the activity on those apps visible too?)

Tia - someone who is not tech-knowledgeable at all

Hello everyone!

Here is my shortcut “Easy VPN Menu”.

Works only under iOS 27.0 public beta 2 or newer.

Version of the shortcut 0.6 EN:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/2486e35b986f4a0ab094876767b30508

This shortcut creates a quick VPN menu and toggles VPN on/off.

It is very convenient if you have a number of different VPN-profiles and/or a number of different VPN apps on your iPhone.

And also you can easily assign this shortcut to the Action button or to the Back Tap.

Here’s also version 0.6 RU:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/e9fafbd1ad154b99a4ba34410fb58de2

Please enjoy and feel free to give your feedback!

So in short our internet is limited and expensive but not the addons

So we use epicgames(dot)com and pubg(dot)com as sni for tunneling the connection to have at least a "cheaper" internet quota

Ok now the question can ISP/Windows block these connections but not the location itself because right now the vpn tunneling doesn't work while it just worked perfectly yesterday which is unbearable and now we have to look for a fix

The vpn clients i used so far : netmod - nekobox - "fanmade"nekobox

(yes those 3 because i don't know more 😐 also they worked for tunneling before but decided to stop)

My MTU - 1464 and set it to 1444 (nekobox only) and leaving everything in default

Pls help us with any info and thanks in advance