Help! I was trying to download bank statements and the page wasn’t loading. I thought my connection might be blocked because I was using a VPN. I went to Settings>Network and switched my VPN off. This took me completely offline. So next I clicked the gear icon next to my VPN. A dialog box popped up with a “Remove VPN” button. Clicking this deleted my VPN so now I can’t get online at all! I’m connected to my wifi but still no internet.
How can I get back online?
Thanks in advance.
Try typing in terminal
nmcli d status
The VPN could have installed a kill switch. If there is one in your connections use
nmcli c delete connection name
Sometimes when I have VPN issues, I have to shut down the VPN (PIA) and also close the browser completely (Firefox is what I use) and then restart the browser for the internet to work. If I restart or reconnect the VPN without restarting the browser it won’t do anything as if I didn’t have internet. If that doesn’t work try restarting the computer.
I had the same issue using proton vpn; typing “ip r” in the terminal showed a default via proton, which it could not find when the vpn was off, but was being prioritized above the regular default. I removed the vpn default via terminal (“ip r del default via xx.xx…”) so that my system would not default via the vpn and kept a connection with the internet when my vpn was off. I had to toggle the vpn Killswitch on and off for this setting not to return.
I am not very knowledgeable on this subject, just telling the lessons I learned though the guidance of a more experienced friend, maybe the cause of your issues is similar
Maybe check your proxy settings?