NordVPN Keeps Disconnecting or Failing to Connect completely. I've tried everything that people have said to do to fix it (whitelist firewall, reset app, flush network, change protocol), and nothing works. Help? Anyone having this problem?

Title. On the rare occasion where it actually does succeed in connecting to the VPN, it will disconnect after about 5 minutes and I will have to disable and re-enable the VPN again, and then it usually fails to connect.

What network are you using?
I switched from LTE CDMA to global and I believe that fixed my problem

Mine’s working okay, but it would be helpful if you could add the OS and your ISP/network. Also, have you tried contacting support already?

Do you also have an Antivirus app installed that autostart on login? I have BitDefender installed and it goes through a sequence of activity, pause, more activity. Anyway, that sequence of hogging the network either prevent NordVPN to successfully connect to your favorite or last-used server, or prevent NordVPN from maintaining its connection.
If this is your problem, you have two choices:

  1. Disable Auto Launch of NordVPN when computer starts (that is not needed until you start browsing or start some app where you need to go around internet censorship anyway). When I do this, I wait for my Antivirus app to quiesce before I manually start NordVPN. Unfortunately, sometimes I forget about VPN altogether.
  2. When you have this problem, Quit NordVPN IKE, wait for your Antivirus app to quiesce, then re-launch NordVPN. Somehow, in enduring the thrashing and manually sequencing its startup, I rarely start browsing without VPN.

Of course, heavy traffic in a popular can cause the same problem. That’s a different problem and the solution depends on where you live!

Try changing your password. That helped me once. And it was a suggestions from NordVPN support.

Actually it didn’t never mind, I just checked it :woozy_face:

I am on PC, not mobile.

windows 10 and ImOn. No I haven’t, I figured reddit would be more helpful than support tbh.

Yeah I’m on mobile and that’s where I’m having my trouble and my PC is fine so it doesn’t look like we can overlap problems :woozy_face:

Would suggest contacting them first using the chat box. They have diagnostic tools that can help to see where the issue is.