Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to absolutely rant about some annoying shit: VPN problems!!

Infuriating VPN Challenges

Really fucking annoying VPN problems! ARGH

I'm getting really sick of encountering these ridiculous VPN problems. I signed up for a VPN and was doing so, thinking that I would be clicking one quick little button and boom I would be in good shape, connectivity established and my data secure between me and the VPN provider, hidden away from my ISP and phone provider.

_{What's the matter bro??? You good??}

But noooo this isn't the case. The first few weeks with the VPN were great. It worked perfectly fine, no connection issues and it would connect right up. I don't know what the fuck happened but the past 2 months or so, every fucking night I have issues connecting to the damn VPN. Sometimes I need to click the button twice for it to work, other times I have to restart my computer 4 or 5 fucking times before the piece of shit will connect and stay connected. I'm really getting to my wits end with this shit..

The kicker on all of this is that I took the "deal" and paid for 1 year of VPN service hahaha. Fuck me for trying to get a decent bit of money saved to do so. That was absolutely a mistake and I don't know if I will be doing that again, particularly with a provider that is starting out on the VPN business. I don't necessarily think the provider is doing anything shady, I think it's just fucking ridiculous to have so many connection issues when it really should be simple. I've been using VPN's for a few years now, granted most of them are through work and thus quite a bit different then the one that I set up on my own but still. It shouldn't be that difficult to have a service that connects to the VPN reliably.

I've put in tickets with their helpdesk, contacted different folks, searched the web for both people having issues with the VPN and the resolve steps that others took. None of that seems to be working for me and I'm at the point where I will try and pay for an alternate provider for a month just to see if it's my fucking laptop or something.

What really bothers me is that I don't have all the time in the world to sit down and write. I usually get an hour max every night that I have a window in which I can write some posts, hit some comments and get out there for the activity. That time is cut the fuck short though when I run into these damn freaking VPN problems. I refuse to connect to the internet pages that I need to visit like PeakD, Leo and others without being on my VPN. These days, god knows what the companies are doing with the data they are provided by snooping on us.

Thankfully the VPN that I use on my laptop started on my phone. It works perfectly fine on my phone, which is likely one of the reasons that I haven't thrown the shit out the window at this point, because it does work, just on my phone 100% of the time but not my laptop. It really burns my ass to have these things going on when all I want to do is connect up, write 2 or 3 posts, do some comments and go to bed. Writing this post here tonight, I wasted 23 minutes trying to get my VPN connected when I just said fuck it, and tethered my laptop to my phone and am running off my phone connection and VPN through my phone. I don't love doing that because the connection is a little bit slower and I already use a pretty good amount of data as it is lol but you gotta do what you gotta do in order to get fucking connected.

We pay these companies for these services because we can't come up with them ourselves and we get hamstrung like this. I guess I will have to do more digging to see if I make some changes to the hardware settings on my laptop if that will make any improvements to this disaster or not. Fingers crossed here dudes!

^-CmplXty. _{Real human written content, never AI.}

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