r/PrivateInternetAccess

After a back-and-forth with PIA support over a few weeks, they eventually came back to me on Saturday asking me to update the Chrome extension to version 5.

I can confirm that it works after updating.

It won't connect and when I suspected maybe my account expired, I tried to make a payment, and when I was submitting creddit card info, it consistently said "Your credit card expiration date is in the past" when I was putting in a 2027 date. Did this in both Chrome and Edge. So I can't renew.

I've tried 3 different router brands that are all supposed to be good for PIA, but the routers, themselves, are problematic.
For regular internet, our Reyee E5 is the best I've found, but their VPN instructions are clear as mud.
Anyone had any experience putting PIA on a Reyee?

I’m by no means a tech savvy guy. I honestly kinda suck at this stuff. But I have been using PIA for over a year now and it’s always worked perfectly. On my computer it still works and changes my ip, but on iOS it doesn’t.

No matter what server I click, anywhere in the USA, or other countries, it “connects” me, but does not change my actual ip, and the “VPN ip” area underneath my server selection is completely blank. I’ve tried changing to like 10-15 different servers over the last few days, tried changing some settings, and I’m completely lost at what to do. My subscription is still active until November as well.

If anyone could give me some insight on how to fix this on IOS, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Anybody else have this issue? Facebook is predatory and I want to use a VPN. But as soon as I connect to PIA I get auto-banned, even after submitting video selfies for ID confirmation.

Does anyone have a working solution without abandoning PIA?

The Chrome extension is broken and has two main issues. First, the feature to always stay active does not work at all. Second, while using it, the extension randomly disconnects and prompts me with a dialogue box to re-enter my credentials. I have to use a different VPN extension provided by my Usenet provider to get the access I need. I would prefer to use PIA if their extension worked properly.

The app used to update frequently, but it has been a long time since I got an update. I’m not interested in moving to a beta version, but if that meant a more secure connection, I’d probably consider it. The fact that the app hasn’t been patched yet makes me wary of using it, seeing as it’s more likely to be somehow compromised.

What are your experiences and what do you recommend? To be fair, the app runs okay, but I’m still a bit worried for the reasons I stated above.

PS: I’m running PIA on an old Mac running Monterey.

I might be wrong here, and I am not saying this applies to every vpn, but it seems like most of them probably still have the ability to access traffic even if they say they do not log, which is maybe fine in some cases but also kind of depends on trust a lot.

So I am wondering if there js possibly a vpn that maybe removes that capability entirely, not just in theory but actually in practice, though I could be misunderstanding how these systems are designed.

Hi! I currently use PIA VPN.

My ISP has a TV service, but that TV service does not carry and will never carry some sports channels I need to watch. Because of this I have decided to look at IPTV services. I plan on cancelling my TV service to go with IPTV and wanted to know about privacy in this situation. How can I prevent my ISP from seeing that I'm using/connecting to a IPTV service? Would DNS over TLS in my router settings be of any help? Help with this is appreciated! Thank you!

Does anyone has experience using PIA with IPTV providers? Currently i have PIA and another well known VPN brand. The other VPN has some servers that work fine with my IPTV provider, the PIA servers seem not work with the IPTV provider.

Does any of you, know if PIA has working configurations for IPTV?

Its been like 25 days with the chrome extension being broken. The reason for using PIA is because of the extension working on chromebooks. Kinda upset I paid for something and its not working.

Yeah Anyone reading this don't buy or renew. Their fucking servers suck.

For years it seems most IPs in Sweden and Norway have started with 46.*.*.* or 212.*.*.* and belong to Glesys. Recently the Swedish IPs switched to 158.*.*.* and seem to belong to Datacamp Limited. I switched to Norway and they still had the usual Glesys IPs, but now I keep getting Datacamp 158.*.*.* from there too. Finland still seems to use Glesys for now.

Is PIA switching providers/ISP from Glesys to Datacamp in Scandinavian regions? Is it temporary? Anyone else noticed this or is it just me?

I'm using OpenVPN btw.

Does anyone know if PIA can be installed on a router?

I’m currently using a Netgear RBRE 960?

Just trying to torrent things normally and, despite 600Mbps+ without PIA running, it consistently drops to 40-100Mbps when I'm connected. I've tried toggling basically all of the settings in the PC client to no avail, and the same issue seems to happen on my Android phone through any PIA servers when trying to torrent things. 5G connection or through the same home router as my PC, doesn't seem to make any difference.

BT client is QBitorrent 5.0.3, PIA is 3.6.1, build 08339. Hardwired to my router via gigabit. Tried clean installs of both the VPN client, though is there a definitive "clean sweep" method of uninstalling all traces of the client and reverting to 100% defaults? Doesn't seem to be my router, but are there any settings that could be crippling my bandwidth on it?

And just to be clear here, sufficiently-seeded torrents completely saturate my bandwidth if I turn QBT to "any interface" to the point where the lack of bandwidth on other devices on the network is noticeable. So it's not like my modem or router are physically dying. I tried torrenting a few different massive Unix distros repeatedly and for ~30m straight, the hardware worked just fine at max speed.

Edit - does uPNP need to specifically be enabled/disabled? That seemed to be causing issues previously until I turned it off (hence the need for the port forwarding-enabled servers), but then it regressed back to this.