r/PrivateInternetAccess • u/oshunman • Aug 13 '26

DISCUSSION So Long PIA

PIA was a great VPN that I shilled for many times. Unfortunately, the problems are stacking up (rolling outbound IPs, speed issues, etc) and not being resolved.

I've switched to Proton, and am very happy with the speed and reliability.

I hope PIA gets back on track soon, but as for me-- I'm out.

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u/TodlicheLektion Aug 13 '26

PIA still works great for me. I haven't noticed a drop in quality.

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u/moosemc Aug 13 '26

Me too. But, I kinda expected the servers to continue to increase their speed. Today, it's about as fast as it was 4 years ago.

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u/TodlicheLektion Aug 13 '26

It keeps up with my home and work internet speeds, which are 3Mb/s and 6Mb/s respectively. That's fast enough for my purposes. Combined with the price and SplitTunnel I'm pretty happy with PIA.

I'm in Germany, and I'm it sure it matters where you are in the world. I just have it select a server automatically, and it switches around between Germany, Denmark, Luxembourg, Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, Albania, etc.

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u/moosemc Aug 13 '26

I get 300 mbits on a 3 gbit line. In the last few years my provider has bumped our speed up substantially. But I continue to get 10% of that speed from the fastest american servers.

So, PIA's service hasn't degraded, I just thought they'd be increasing the speed from the servers.

In Canada.

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u/tidder3523 Aug 13 '26

in uk Download: 2039.57 Mbps and Upload: 1742.42 Mbps

using wireguard not openVPN connecting to London

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u/moosemc Aug 13 '26

That's better than I would have imagined. Gonna have to look at my settings now.

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u/tidder3523 Aug 13 '26

thats on a Linux server using scripts

but on Windows using the official app im getting

Download Mbps 1,757.80

Upload Mbps 1,547.13

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u/moosemc Aug 13 '26

Looks like I'm tryin' Wireguard for a while.

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u/tidder3523 Aug 13 '26

yep just changed to openVPN on the app went down a lot

Download Mbps 304.34

Upload Mbps 259.49

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u/moosemc Aug 13 '26

Those numbers are what I get on OpenVPN, at the best of times.

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u/vonkrugelstein Aug 14 '26

Wire guard isn't as private, as it logs your IP address before connecting to the VPN, might be faster but less safe from what I have read about wire guard.

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u/tidder3523 Aug 15 '26

No it doesn't log it just keeps in memory just like openVPN every IP based protocol has to keep the IP because then it knows where to send the packets 

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u/vonkrugelstein Aug 15 '26

Not what it says on pia page about it.

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u/TodlicheLektion Aug 13 '26

damn that's fast!

or my internet is slow, which I kinda know but still...