Will using a VPN increase my connection stability?

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Hi everyone!

I live in Venezuela, and here the internet is super random: Sometimes I can watch Netflix at 1080p but Google doesn’t load, or I can download a torrent at my full connection speed but YouTube can’t load even at 240p with the torrent stoped. I work remotely with many clients from other countries, and internet stability is more important to me than internet speeds.

Does a VPN helps with this? I’ve had some experience using free VPN services, for example sometimes my bank’s website wouldn’t load, but with a free VPN it loads super quick. I’ve heard many good things about PIA, and with the new partnership with Linus Tech Tips I want to take advantage of the discounts, even buy a 2 years subscription if it can stabilize my connection.

I hope you can help me out.

EDIT: I pretend to use it on Arch Linux and Android, but I don’t see many tutorials to run it on Arch. Are there problems with the Linux integration?

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It’s really hard to say whether using a VPN will help with stability without trying it. Your internet provider could be restricting traffic in any number of different ways - for example, if they’re heavily throttling UDP traffic, using a VPN on a TCP port could help considerably. However, if they’re also throttling VPN traffic, you might run into some issues.

We have a 7 day refund policy, so if PIA doesn’t work out for you we will gladly provide a full refund.

The PIA app runs on Arch, and you can also set it up using OpenVPN. We have tutorials on how to do this on the way!

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Thanks! I’ll be investigating on how to configure it on Arch and I will definitely will give it a try! I did not knew about the 7 days return policy, so that will be pretty handy. Thank you for your response!

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No problem! Feel free to reach out if you need any assistance getting everything configured :slight_smile: