It's important for my internet connection to have an active VPN because it makes things run better.
It's important for my internet connection to have an active VPN because it makes things run better.
I had to wait a full minute to get on most websites, especially Gmail and YouTube. A VPN stopped the problem, but now I have other issues with that setup too. Around late April or early May, I ended my Adobe CC subscription and switched to Adobe CS 5 (which came out in 2010). I tried to remove it, but nothing fixed the delay. Just a few days ago, I realized I still use an old Cat5 cable without "e" on it for that computer. But I bought this cable many years before everything went wrong, so how could it suddenly break things? No wireless laptops or devices in my house have had trouble. It's not just me; none of the others are getting this issue. If it weren't for the VPN fixing things, my computer wouldn't work properly, nor would its old wired connection to the internet. Any other tips?
Basically, if you have a cat5 cable instead of gigabit, your connection speed drops from 100mbps down to just 1gbit. You can usually tell this difference right away by looking at the status lights on your router or machine; those little lights might show it clearly too. Cat5 cables are great for most things and actually run at full gigabit speeds a lot of the time, but I have forgotten what the old limitations were back when cat5e came out. I do know that some people in my relatives' house use cat5 everywhere, and those cables always work at 1gbit without any problem. But honestly, even though they are all wire, there is no magic inside them that lets you bypass things like a VPN easily. There are two main reasons this happens: first, maybe your DNS settings need help. The default setting often makes the router act as a middleman for your internet provider's nameservers, and both of those steps can cause trouble. Try changing your DNS to 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8 directly in the network settings if needed. Another very common problem is IPv6. Sometimes, just for no good reason, people get really slow when using that option. It's usually because some websites are set up only to talk over IPv4 while others prefer IPv6. Most VPNs only work with IPv4, so try turning off IPv6 in your network settings if you see any lag or weird behavior.