EDIT: Using IKEv2 worked for me!
My school blocks a large variety of ports and does deep packet filtering. Everything Proton uses is blocked. Is there any way to use a custom port like port 80, 21, 20, 123, or anything like that? Windscribe on its free tier has obfuscation and a slew of ports you can use and it works for me. Is there anything like this on Proton VPN? I’m still within the 30 day money back guarantee if its not available.
There’s a particular firewall – I don’t recall the name – that’s used in many schools. Its blocking is very robust and difficult to circumvent. Perhaps your institution uses this. If so it might be a lost cause.
Have you tried the Alternative Routing feature? Or perhaps I’m misunderstanding what is happening. Thought it would connect to a third party server before going to Proton’s.
Hi! Please keep in mind that some public Wi-Fi’s, for example in hotels, airports, schools, universities, and others, tend to restrict their networks as part of their security policy. These restrictions are made by blocking specific ports. If the required ports for the VPN protocol to connect are blocked, then a user experiences connectivity issues. You can try to connect while at school, however, if you are having any problems we suggest you try manually switching between WireGuard, Stealth, OpenVPN TCP, and OpenVPN UDP protocol, and check if the issue persists with all of them: https://protonvpn.com/support/how-to-change-vpn-protocols/.
The Alternative Routing feature and the Stealth protocol should be what you’re looking for.
I’m also wanting to know.
Same at my college proton doesn’t work but other rando workds.
I don’t have paid version of Proton, as it’s not my daily use one. But try Settings > Connection > OpenVPN - TCP.
TCP for proton is generally port 443…which is HTTPS (just like SSL based websites would be using). Remote desktop depending on the program or how you access it is also sometimes 443 (or 3389). But it is also a TCP connection. UDP is more often blocked than TCP ports.
See if that changing to TCP helps any. Don’t believe Proton allows changing ports.
I’m in the exact same boat, let me know if anything works for you. I’ve been continuing to use my other vpn since that one works fine, but I’ll be leaving that service once my subscription ends
FortiGuard probably.
No, we use Lightspeed. Oddly enough, it doesn’t block ftp or any kind of remote desktop. I’ve been using remote desktop basically the whole time.
I recently joined Proton and have had issues connecting to my campus too. I’m thinking of refunding it also since I’m still within the period. What’s crazy is that my ExpressVPN connects just fine but im wanting to get away from that service once this month ends. I wish I knew specifically what makes ExpressVPN work over Proton though
Where is this feature? I thought I’ve looked everywhere in the settings.
So it’s an option, not some kind of connection configuration, so that’s why I couldn’t find it. Its been on and hasn’t worked.
Someone else in the comments mentioned it but I haven’t been able to find this feature anywhere. Where is it? I must be blind…
Why’d they remove all internet access? Are you in Russia?
FortiGate is the firewall, FortiGuard is a feature
ExpressVPN works because of the Lightweight TCP protocol which can connect over port 443
Oh sorry to hear. Looks like protonvpn replied suggesting trying different vpn protocols. Hope that works.
If you’re on Windows there’s no stealth setting yet.