Norton VPN Slowing My PC

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Norton VPN (360) on my desktop is slowing down my pc for websites - if I turn the VPN off then the speed works fine.

My connection and everything else is fine - it is definitely the VPN that is the issue.

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DianaBH:

The region must remain US.  98% of the time I am in a home with a router for only the home and no others allowed.  I'm not going to waste time trying to work with each provider about the VPN.  Norton is just wasting my time.  I am so disappointed with how the service has deteriorated. Byebye 

I think @DianaBH meant to post above reply here:
https://community.norton.com/en/comment/8552776#comment-8552776 

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DianaBH:

The region must remain US. 98% of the time I am in a home with a router for only the home and no others allowed. 

When Should You Use a VPN?
Circumventing Censorship
[...]
Dodging Surveillance
[...]
Torrenting
[...]
Streaming
[...]
Public Wi-Fi
[...]

https://www.howtogeek.com/779091/5-things-you-should-use-a-vpn-for/#when-should-you-use-a-vpn 

Do you need a VPN at home?
If you’re logging onto the internet from your home? Do you need a VPN?
Probably not. When you established your home Wi-Fi network, it is likely that you protected your network with a password. Because of that, you may not need the added security of a VPN to shield your online activity.

https://us.norton.com/blog/privacy/what-is-a-vpn 

So when should I use a VPN?
There are roughly two use cases where you might want to use a VPN:

  1. You are on a known-hostile network (eg. a public airport WiFi access point, or an ISP that is known to use MITM), and you want to work around that.
  2. You want to hide your IP from a very specific set of non-government-sanctioned adversaries - for example, circumventing a ban in a chatroom or preventing anti-piracy scareletters.

In the second case, you'd probably just want a regular proxy specifically for that traffic - sending all of your traffic over a VPN provider (like is the default with almost every VPN client) will still result in the provider being able to snoop on and mess with your traffic.

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29#so-when-should-i-use-a-vpn 

Test your browser to see how well you are protected from tracking and fingerprinting:

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ 

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@DianaBH

If you are on your own home network and it is secured by a strong password and no others can get in then you do not need a VPN.

VPN is for public networks that can be unsecured and compromised. The VPN encrypts your data and disguises your network. 

 

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The region must remain US.  98% of the time I am in a home with a router for only the home and no others allowed.  I'm not going to waste time trying to work with each provider about the VPN.  Norton is just wasting my time.  I am so disappointed with how the service has deteriorated. Byebye 

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Use your Norton product to optimize and improve computer performance
https://support.norton.com/sp/en/us/norton-360-deluxe/current/solutions/v120813372

How to Test Your VPN Speed (and How to Speed up a VPN)
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VPNs will always adversely affect your speed and latency. There's just no way around that. According to Dimitar Dobrev, founder of VPNArea, there are three reasons for this: how far the server is located from you, the load on that server, and the level of encryption used on the connection.

Distance between You and the Server
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VPN Server Load
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Encryption
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https://www.howtogeek.com/723924/how-to-test-your-vpn-speed-and-how-to-speed-up-a-vpn/

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VPNs will always slow down your speed many times by a very large percentage. And some networks will throttle your speed because you are using a VPN.

Try changing to a different region to see if that helps. Also use the VPN on different public networks and you will see a large difference in speed also.