I first wanted to say I just recently purchased PIA for one year for my home laptop. I use a wireless connection, which pretty good speeds. My ISP speeds hover around 200Mbps download speeds.
When I first launched PIA, it initially was working OK, but then after about 10 minutes or so, the speeds have gotten really slow. I’m talking less than 1Mbps slow.
I did try rebooting the PC, and picking several different connections in PIA - each of which initially seemed to have good speeds, only to slow down again shortly after.
I use a VPN for my work laptop when I work from home, and I have never had slowness/speed issues on that service. I do have a pihole on my network, but again my work laptop connects just fine with decent speeds, so I don’t think that is the case.
I did try the option in PIA for TCP instead of UDP, which didn’t help. I then tried the option for Wireguard instead of OpenVPN, and initially that worked - I was getting over 100Mbps while connected, but about 20 minutes later I am back down to 1-2 Mbps.
I really am thinking of trying another VPN server to see if it’s the PIA vpn or something else, however I already paid for a year of PIA so don’t want to be out the money, and considering my work laptop is working on VPN all the time, I don’t think it’s my network, it would have to be PIA or the settings, right? It’s just very frustrating because my laptop is basically useless on PIA - music pausing, YouTube freezing, downloads stalling, games crashing. Very frustrating.