Review of Proton VPN


Rated 1 out of 5 stars

THE worst VPN I’ve ever had the…

THE worst VPN I’ve ever had the misfortune to pay for. The connection starts off ok - then it grinds to a bloody halt a while later especially on Opera.

The CS flunkeys can save the pre canned BS response - you’re expecting people to pay for a premium USABLE service yet it delivers oh so little.

I would have though coming from CERN you could do better seeing it was a bunch of egg heads that thought it up.

It really is a p!SS poor show. I’m tired of rebooting my laptop due to your crappy VPN connection can’t hold up the speed.

This month is my last subscription. Bloody awful speed and it’s just NOT GOOD ENOUGH 😡😡😡💩💩💩

Edit: I’ve just rebooted my laptop and set the bog standard Opera VPN to start …. Guess what? the speed is perfect , no glitches like Poor Proton VPN.

I’m sure this service must be farmed out to some Chinese bitcoin farm stealing a bit of your bandwidth every time you log on as it really is utterly total trash and complete rubbish.

The other 1 star comments back me up on that.

You are best avoiding this - my subscription ends Monday - guess what? I won’t be re-subscribing it really is a blatant con of a service.

I’m watching the upload / download speeds on Wireshark and the data packets.

Save your money folks you WILL regret subscribing as I have.

I thought I’d give you the benefit of the doubt but you’ve failed.

The bottom line is this

1: don’t BS customers about line speed as you have in other responses and

2: if you CANNOT offer a FAST paid for service give it up - DONT CON PEOPLE 💩😡

I’ve looked at the processes on the laptop too and god is Proton a memory grabbing app. No wonder my laptop (2 years old) grinds like a Windows XP 20 year old laptop.

July 28, 2024
Unprompted review

Reply from Proton VPN

Hi John! That doesn't sound right.

Do you happen to have any antivirus, firewall, or network monitoring software installed on your device? What type of internet connection are you using? Which specific version of the Proton VPN app do you have installed? Please contact us at https://protonvpn.com/support-form with more details so we can have a better understanding of the issue. We'd be more than happy to help.

Meanwhile, note that connection speeds can be influenced by numerous factors such as your native ISP speed, location, server load, network setup, etc. You could try some of the tips at https://protonvpn.com/support/increase-vpn-speeds to see if your connection speeds improve. Additionally, make sure that you disable any other VPN services on your device when using Proton VPN so as to avoid any interference.