Private Internet Access vs Ovpn

I am using the local pia vpn server, not one in another country. Yet netflix restricts my access since it detects my IP as a VPN one (PIA). Yeah, it's Netflix fault that this is happening, but IT IS PIA's FAULT THAT WE ARE LIED TO ABOUT IT.

Don't bother reading this rant below unless you want technical details, but that administrator misconfigured his VPN to the point where OVPN underperformed by four times what it should have been.Its been ages since I played around with networking at a low-level (we're talking teenage years, when ARIN didn't charge for netblocks, and Cisco 7206VXR's could hold the entire internet BGP table in it), but I'll give it a go.1) It's not a fair comparison to begin with since OpenVPN is effectively maintaining a lot more information as it's acting as either a) as is in his configuration, a Layer 3 router, there's bound to be more overhead as it's maintaining a lot more information than a single Point-to-Point SSH connection; he should be using Bridged Mode and routing via a virtual switch at L2 instead.[1] He sort of acknowledged this by making an appeal to the OSI layer, but then didn't check to see if there was a way to disable the full-routing functionality and move down to switching

Only PIA seems to be faster in my limited exp with VPNs. I think it is Mullvad which is highly recommended on privacy forums but not sure personally. Until proton I always was talked Private Internet Access was top tier. It also seemed to work with Netflix and such yet no other VPN will