IS VPN with problem now?
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A Former User last edited by
@fkvjktsk said in IS VPN with problem now?:
@leocg Thank you for acknowledging that there is a problem. Hopefully you are right and Opera will address and fix the problem; keeping in mind that the VPN is their competitive edge.
not completely accurate, while most of us are frustrated with the vpn opera's main value for me is the fact that opera opens far faster than either firefox or chrome, and the fact that opera doesn't get as bogged down anywhere near as bad as firefox and chrome can.
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jarhead38 last edited by
In the U.S., when I use VPN and pick a site in the Americas and go to YouTube, why am I offered almost 90% Russian YouTube videos?
Is this normal?
Something I should be worried about?
Many thanks.
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A Former User last edited by
@chuchkyschild said in IS VPN with problem now?:
for me is the fact that opera opens far faster
It doesn't open "far faster" when the VPN is slow; it takes time to validate the VPN tunnel.
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A Former User last edited by
@fkvjktsk said in IS VPN with problem now?:
@chuchkyschild said in IS VPN with problem now?:
for me is the fact that opera opens far faster
It doesn't open "far faster" when the VPN is slow; it takes time to validate the VPN tunnel.
yes it does. from the time i click on the opera i can till the interface is open is at least 10 times faster than firefox or chrome. but you knew what i was referring to.
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A Former User last edited by
This VPN slowdown was planned from get go when VPN first introduced. They want ppl to subscribe to the paid Opera version
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A Former User last edited by
@rudrick said in IS VPN with problem now?:
This VPN slowdown was planned from get go when VPN first introduced. They want ppl to subscribe to the paid Opera version
as i said that's not going to happen.
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blackbird71 last edited by
@rudrick said in IS VPN with problem now?:
One can subscribe to Opera Gold.
Opera Gold refers to a paid upgrade version of an iOS/iPad app in Apple's App Store, offered by OSL Network Services Limited, which operates over Opera's former SurfEasy's VPN service:
This app is only available on the App Store for iOS devices.
This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad
Seller: OSL Network Services LimitedFrom the business listing of OSL Network Services:
Osl Network Services Limited was set up on Monday the 22nd of February 2016. Their current address is Dublin 2, and the company status is Normal. The company's current directors Petter Lade and Roar Olbergsveen have been the director of 6 other Irish companies between them.
Registered Address:
Fitzwilliam Business Centre,
77 Sir John Rogerson's Quay,
Dublin 2, IrelandIt's unclear (to me) just how the paid app may have been affected, if at all, by Opera's sale of SurfEasy in September 2017.
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A Former User last edited by
The VPN provided from this december 2017 update is very slow(all locations) .it's not even usable.hav planed for any fix on next update
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A Former User last edited by
Suddenly now when I use the Opera VPN feature and try to use Google, Google Ukraine always comes up...to get to Google US I have to turn off Opera's VPN feature and reboot google...what up with that?
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blackbird71 last edited by blackbird71
@moonz said in IS VPN with problem now?:
Suddenly now when I use the Opera VPN feature and try to use Google, Google Ukraine always comes up...to get to Google US I have to turn off Opera's VPN feature and reboot google...what up with that?
Google will auto-respond with a search portal version for the region associated with the IP of the server sending the search request to Google. If that server's IP is registered as Ukraine, then Google will respond with a Ukraine-locale search portal. It appears that one of the Opera VPN servers is registered as Ukraine and that is thus the locale sending the search request to Google. Some of the same things happened in Olde Opera days when using Opera's Turbo server.
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A Former User last edited by
How can the VPN be sooo much slower, it's like back on 56k.
Some of the 'VPN' addons however do work - and speed is similar to the old Opera VPN.
Maybe use that in the mean time? Or the Tor Button Addon...
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zalex108 last edited by zalex108
As far I've read on the blogs and understood, it should not happens.
Maybe it's related to the current and "problematic" change.
@moonz
You can try toggling that option to "reset it".
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blackbird71 last edited by
@rudrick said in IS VPN with problem now?:
How can the VPN be sooo much slower, it's like back on 56k.
...A lot depends on the VPN server in use, its software, and its data pipelines. Because a VPN has multiple users who are continually running traffic both ways, and because perhaps much of that traffic is video, the traffic load can be terrific if the VPN service is popular. If the server, its control software, and its pipelines aren't sufficient or fully optimized for the traffic burden, slowdowns are the typical result. If there aren't enough physical servers and data trunks to handle the load, things will bog down. Data over a given connection is broken down into discrete packets, and during overload, individual or multiple packets will be delayed - sometimes for long periods. Until the necessary packets arrive and can be properly reassembled, things simply pause or stop for brief periods. Since multiple packets are involved, the overall effect appears as "slowdown" in the apparent data rate, or even service unavailability.
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blackbird71 last edited by
@zalex108 said in IS VPN with problem now?:
As far I've read on the blogs and understood, it should not happens.
...The questions are: is @moonx even using that setting; is the setting working if they are; and, as you noted, is there some other problem somehow related to the ongoing VPN issues.