Tried 2 relatively well known VPN providers, both got disconnected within minutes. Now I’m using a smaller VPN provider, they seem to be able to connect for longer. We’ll see how it’ll hold up.
Yep. I think Cox is doing some kind of known VPN server IP block.
I eventually switched ISP. Now my VPN connection is much more stable.
I know I’m late to the party but COX is DEFINATELY blocking my VPN (Proton) and I also tried IPVanish and they blocked it as well. As soon as I disconnect the VPN my internet magically gets connected again.
To all you guys who said, no way, cox isn’t blocking your VPN, it’s YOUR fault, you are so wrong. Sadly, Cox has a monopoly in my area and not even ATT is a choice. I mean not ONE other ISP here, and I’m not in the country or anything, pretty big city.
The worst!! Gotta love how they lie their @sses off about sudden charges appearing on your bill.
I have an agreement, you moron, that includes taxes and you just raised my bill then say I don’t have any agreement? My bill has been the same for 8 months for a reason. I’m done with them, going to their store, wait to make sure there’s plenty of people there, and expose the crooked liars. Here’s your pos TV box. Here’s my bill showing the rep lied and the increase I’m not paying. No wonder people hate you and you’re losing customers.
Is it a personal vpn or a vpn provider? Cause I use a vpn on my cox connection to work from home. Ergo vpns aren’t blocked. Plus we have hundreds of thousands of other people using a vpn on a cox connection.
I keep an eye on it on my free time!
I am literally experimenting with both a business and a residential account and am able to prove that within 5 minutes of initiating a VPN of any sort on either one of these accounts than the account is disconnected for 24 hours to a week at a time.
That is a very good point. I have never connected to servers in China. I typically connect to Germany or something like that… no real reason. On Windscribe you can choose other countries. Prob worth a test to see if you still experience the issue. If you do, then I feel you are right in your assumption.
Good luck. I’ve always used IPVanish with no issues.
Looks like that’s the only option then. Unfortunately, that’s the only high-speed provider in my area. Thanks for sharing your experience and responding to me! 
Proton VPN has a stealth mode, maybe give that a try.
It’s a VPN provider. I tried 2 different VPN providers and multiple different connection protocols, it’s definitely getting reset, not a provider issue. Also I see your title is Business rep, I’m sure they aren’t blocking VPN on business accounts, but maybe they started to block VPN on consumer accounts.
Yes, unfortunately I think I’m right in this case. With this smaller VPN I can connect for about 1-2 hours, then it goes to disconnect like crazy until it won’t reconnect. Then when I see it hours later, it’ll reconnect again for a few hour. It’s very similar behavior to when I saw in China when the ISP (which is state owned and part of the GFW) disconnects my VPN.
No. Wife works from home so business VPN. No disconnects consumer nothing special account. If she was disconnected trust me I would hear about it.
Hmm, I’ve used various vpn providers over the years(PIA, Mullvad VPN, ExitLag) and haven’t had any disconnects from any of them.
What hardware you running? Modem, router, wired/wireless, and your pc NIC?
One of the VPN was actually Windscribe. I even used their Stealth protocol which was able to get pass the China GFW and it still disconnected every few minutes on Cox. I tried another VPN that didn’t have stealth mode at all and it disconnects every few minutes as well. But I got another small VPN that also has a stealth mode for China and it’s able to stay connected for 1-2 hours before getting disconnected. So I’m guessing Cox might be doing some disconnecting based on known VPN server IPs, not protocol alone. That’s why work VPN corrections are not affected. I think the disconnect now is due to the VPN’s behavior, it’s very different that normal traffic to web servers, so eventually this VPN’s servers might get blacklisted too. There’s still one more protocol that’s made for China that’s going to solve this by better mimicking normal HTTPS traffic, but I’ll have to rent or buy own cloud servers to use that, so I’ll only did it of this smaller VPN provider gets blocked too.
I’m not using any of those VPNs. But the 2 that I’m using are still relatively well known. I just bought a sub for a super small VPN that I used when I stayed in China last time, their shadow mode seems to be holding. I don’t want to jinx it yet but it’s been over 30 mins and the VPN still didn’t get disconnected.
You could just be getting packet loss on your actual connection.
+1 on this thought. I would run Pingplotter to see if your getting packet loss when you experience a disconnect. See here for instructions.
Yes, the packets are probably getting dropped. I’m using wired connection. I think Cox is blocking based on protocol and known IPs. That’s why the smaller VPN company works.