![]() ![]() I did contact Xfnity/comcast and as usual results vary, first rep was like " Nope, you're using your own modem I can't help you (nice enough person polite and all but didn't know a lot I am sorry to say), realizing that was totally different from what other xfinity reps have said in the past called back and got a super nice guy who did what reps have done before - sent a "refresh signal" to my modem (despite it not being comcast/xfinity property). and it's the ONLY PC with this problem all the other PC's, phones, tablet, laptops, no problem at all connecting to the 'net and the problems started when I used Windscribe recently thus the blaming of the Windscribe. I've completely uninstalled Windscribe off my PC and STILL have intermittent connection issues where everthing's going fine, turn off the computer for the night, turn it back on and wham PC cannot connect to the internet. (groans) that's an excellent point too it wouldn't surprise me at all if Microsoft did some update that caused windows to "not play nice" with Windscribe anymore. that's a lot of useful info I appreciate that. Since you manually install and configure that you will at least know exactly how to uninstall it if you start to have issues. Most the major vpn services will run with the public openvpn client. It is surprising how many so called "best vpn" have some completely unkown ones near the top with some of the other more common ones like say Nord in their so people don't suspect that it is all a lie. The vast majority of search results are paid advertising. If you are looking for a vpn be extremely careful and suspect of anything you read. They seem to break all kinds of stuff with every update. It would not be unexpected that microsoft updated something and broke the vpn client. ![]() Best to run only the vpn part if you can. When they have added feature like yours does related to filtering of stuff they also can conflict with virus and firewall stuff on the machine. These clients are all different and have all kinds of strange hooks into the OS that make the vpn work. I now run the on a router but I guess if you can get them to run with a one of the standard windows versions of openvpn then that would be ok also. I stopped running vpn on my machines after I tried a couple out and they did not properly uninstall and I actually had to reinstall windows. In this case it appears this has changed to a pay service so if you get it for free then I guess you are one of the lucky ones. Some very shady ones got caught mining bit coin on peoples machines. They have to make money to pay for all their servers and all the internet bandwidth somehow and many times that is by stealing customer information. In general I would never recommend any so called "free" vpn service. I'm posting this because I really don't want to give Windscribe up, I love the program but I don't see any other alternative for me unless someone here has a suggestion to get around this? I have followed all the suggestions here well you guys all know just how crazy Windows can act sometimes. I'll be honest guys it's really scary for me when I lose that internet connection in that I find myself fearing (quite possibly irrationally I know ) that I'll never get it back but. In theory I could just keep following the above steps to regain internet connection I mentioned above after using windscribe but. and no good same problem with the internet disconnecting and refusing to connect again I did try following the troubleshooting steps given here including turning off the firewall, uninstalling and reinstalling windscribe (I'm using the latest version of windscribe). (you can probably guess from the "ethernet " thing but I connect to the 'net through an ethernet cable ) the internet connection troubleshooter program commented more than once that there was a problem with DHCP. after some terrified troubleshooting I ended up manually forcing an ethernet reset by going into the "network connections" panel, right clicking on "ethernet network 2", disabling it and enabling it then waiting until the internet connection "caught" itself and started working again. even after exiting out of Windscribe I still wouldn't have my internet connection. then suddenly (Nov 2022) it would knock out my internet connection completely. for several years Windscribe worked flawlessly on my Windows 8 computer and after that seemed to be working okay on my Windows 10 computer. Hi guys.I'm really scratching my head trying to figure out what happened and why Windscribe is suddenly having issues. ![]()
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