Weirdly works for some applications but fails in several ways for others. Split tunneling not working with online gamingĪccording to the reports, the technical implementation of ProtonVPN But the 1st one is almost making me consider giving up using VPN at all.Īccording to many reports, split tunneling on ProtonVPN is very buggyĪnd has been so since this feature was introduced in 2018.ĭoes anyone else have problems with Split Tunneling? The 2nd issue is not a big one (it's just for a few seconds usually), I mentioned it just in can help in trouble shooting the issue. No other browser (the ones excluded from the VPN) can connect to anything till then. When I startup my ProtonVPN, while it's connecting to the VPN server & tunneling my laptop has now internet connection till the time it's done establishing the tunnel. Sometimes just shutting down the VPN works, sometimes, I also need to run 'ipconfig /renew' before it starts working - even this is not foolproof, sometimes it just doesn't work for a long time.

If I shut down the VPN, the same sites now start opening through my excluded browsers. I am unable to reach several sites on my other browsers (unable to connect to the site). This is an occasional problem doesn't happen all time. My problem is that my native connection (the one that is used by the other browsers) behaves differently when my VPN tunnel is on. My ProtonVPN is configured for split tunneling - Only the Brave Browser on my laptop is to use the VPN & all other applications would be excluded from the VPN tunnel. I connect the laptop to the internet using Wifi from Cable Internet. I am using the free version of ProtonVPN on my Windows 10 Laptop.

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