I know that this topic has been covered in the past and archived, but my computer with Norton VPN on has been working fine until a week or so ago. Did something change in the last couple of weeks? If I go to a website and it is buffering, I can right click the Norton icon in the taskbar, turn off VPN and the site comes up instantly. The problem happens with Firefox, Edge and Chrome. I have read that as long as your Wi-Fi network is protected by a password you may not need VPN. Is that accurate?
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What virtual location are you connecting to with the slow response? Have you tried different virtual locations in the VPN settings?
This depends on what you are expecting of the VPN. If just protecting your home network properly set up with a strong password from local snooping, then you should be alright without the VPN. Properly configured home modem/router is already encrypting the connection between your computer and the router.
If you want added protection against your ISP from tracking your online activity, then a VPN is necessary.
I usually go to my State sites, USA Government sites, weather sites, local retail sites, medical and Rx sites, TV show cast member sites, and probably a few more. I don’t, that I know of, search overseas sites and I don’t use anything like Facebook, X, etc.. How do I find out what virtual location I am using? Keep in mind I am a fairly knowledgeable user, but I don’t have a lot of technical or any programming knowledge, so even the term virtual location is new to me. My computer does have Norton AntiTrack installed. Keep in mind that my Norton VPN was on and I didn’t have any problems connecting to sites until a week or so ago. I am hard wired from the router to the computer, but use the WiFi for streaming. I am not a gamer.
From the main 360 interface, click on Privacy on the left side. Then click on Open for Secure VPN. Then click the Connection tab and you will see a button to Change Location. Clicking that will bring up a list of countries you can use to make it appear that you are located in those countries.
I usually use the Fastest Location setting so the VPN will check around to get the best connection from your actual location. Once you turn on the VPN with this setting, you will see what country the VPN has chosen. Even though I’m in Canada, occasionally I will see that I have been connected to the United States.
Peterweb,
I checked the location and there was no location shown, so I chose the United States. i checked a few sites and most were fairly fast. Some sites were slow, but not to the extent they were before. (My setting was “Auto Connect”.) Thank you for the information. I’ll keep the VPN on and see how it goes from here.
Thanks again,
cv
If the USA setting starts slowing again, be sure to try out the Fastest Location setting. Choose that and ensure the VPN is turned on.
I didn’t see the Fastest setting the 1st time I looked at Privacy. After selecting the Fastest it still came up with the United States. (It hung up on Reply, so I had to turn off VPN to Reply.) I’ll have to learn to turn VPN off when necessary or recheck the virtual location. That should take care of my problem.
Thanks again,
cv
You are welcome. Glad I could help.