For the last few days I have not been able to connect to any servers with OpenVPN. It had been a little spotty before, but now I cannot get a connection anywhere regardless of my connection configuration. Has PIA gone WireGuard only?
Not sure if it’s related, but right now I can’t authenticate with the manual-connections script too. It seems like there’s some problem with them currently.
My Mac mini home server is connected with OpenVPN to the Las Vegas server right now. Working fine. Maybe it’s been fixed between your post and now?
I was using their client app v 2.3.2, not OpenVPN, on Win7 pre-SP1 box, and it started getting hard to connect to any servers (I tried several, but not all of them of course), to the point where it wouldn’t work for hours, so I installed OpenVPN 2.4.5 x86 and it’s working fine “right now” to connect to one of the servers I regularly used in the past and wouldn’t connect with their client app, with no further configuration beyond using the PIA provided *.ovpn config files.
Before the past few weeks, connecting with their 2.3.2 PIA app had not been spotty at all.
As of a month ago it has become very difficult to connect to PIA on any server. Like others, I’ve had to click down the list of servers to find one that would connect. I use an older OS and downloaded their app as suggested on their website. During the trial period their service worked very well, and then soon after I subscribed to their plan on a Black Friday deal it became nearly unusable. And don’t ask me to change my OS after I started paying for the service. It was working at first. I hope they did not bait and switch. If they fix this problem, I will come back and report.
I’ve been having this problem, too - unable to connect to most servers. I was using client 2.3.1 so I just upgraded to 2.3.3 (the last version that supports Windows 7) and it connects just fine now.
Interesting. I just went through all the US servers and only Las Vegas, Atlanta, Rhode Island, and Salt Lake City are still taking connections. I did not find any of the international servers taking connections, but I did not systematically check them all–only a dozen or so.
Would you mind sharing what server you connect to?
I followed stinkyhank’s example and downloaded and installed version 2.3.3 of the PIA app as he did. The server connections seem to be working normally again. The connections are fast and worked with the few random servers that I tried.
On PIA’s download page it doesn’t list the versions of OSs that 2.3.3 supports, which left me in the dark. The last supported version for mine was supposed to be 2.3.1.
Dammit! I mean… thanks! That was the cause of my problem.
I have multiple servers, but they were all using Win 7 and the 2.3.1 client (which I thought was the last release that supported Win 7). I did not realize that they trickled out a couple updates to that branch. With the 2.3.3 client everything seems to connect.
This fixed my problem—thanks! For the past few months on Windows 7 I’ve been having to server hunt through the Canada servers and connect/cancel connect repeatedly to eventually get a good connection.
Thanks!
I was running 2.3.1 on an embedded, pre-SP1, Win7 box. Was going to submit a support ticket and on it they want you to pick which app version and only listed 2.3.2, not 2.3.3, so I installed 2.3.2 so I’d be on the same page with support tech, and it was barely working and stopped. Didn’t submit that support ticket (yet), figured they’d just tell me to update the OS which isn’t an option.
I *thought* I had tried to install v2.3.3 and it wouldn’t, maybe I had just tried too many other things to remember it right, but just now, v2.3.3 installed on above system and immediately connected, then tried another server and immediately connected to that too.
Grr, this after I spent some time finding an older OpenVPN that would install. The newer ones wouldn’t, error about starting a service, tracked it to needing a supporting DLL file that wasn’t present and can’t regsvr32 it (then has some entry point error trying to run), and can’t install Visual C++ to get the DLL either, so stuck on OpenVPN 2.4.x with installer 601 versions maybe? Heh, I didn’t want the learning curve of that right now, was just Supposed To Work.
Thanks! I had been using 2.3.1 and today I couldn’t connect to any servers. Upgraded to 2.3.3 and it’s working fine again.
This solved my problem too, thanks.
I tried several, first in Canada and then midwest and eastern US, then further out, then after about 20 or so, I made a conclusion that trying this many times just to use the VPN wasn’t viable.
Perhaps I am missing the point of your question. Right now, with OpenVPN 2.4.5, I am successfully connected to CA, Toronto.
I am sorry if it is not clear, you said:
I installed OpenVPN 2.4.5 x86 and it’s working fine “right now” to connect to one of the servers
Which server did you connect to that was working fine “right now”?
Sorry, I edited my prior reply, CA, Toronto.