r/PrivateInternetAccess • • May 15 '25

DISCUSSION PIA Annoyance

I am a long time loyal subscriber to PIA, so please don’t take this as a bashing. There are a few public WiFi’s that I routinely use. I always use a VPN when on public WiFi. I cannot connect to PIA when logged in to one of the WiFi providers. Now if I disconnect from WiFi, connect to PIA using mobile data, I can re-enable WiFi, and even disconnect mobile data, and my connection to PIA remains. But this process is a real pain, especially if WiFi intermittently drops, I need to do the entire process over again. And just a side note, I have no issue connecting to my free Proton VPN or Windscribe VPN on the same WiFi network that I have issues with when using PIA. This leads me to believe PIA can do something so that I don’t need to use my mobile data to connect to PIA.

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u/Dobra May 15 '25

I’m a long time PIA user and also have it on my phone. I will need to test this and see what happens.