Just as I said. The VPN is PIA. The OS is Mint 21.newest. It happened after installing Nicotine+. I also touched the router settings while trying to establish an open listening port for Nicotine. But I rebooted the router and it didn’t fix the problem. I rebooted the PC as well.
The VPN being on doesn’t really interfere with anything. I’m usually allow it to seed most of the time its active anyway.
I checked the VPN settings to make sure the kill switch wasn’t on. Not that it would matter if the VPN wasn’t active.
Probably tomorrow I’ll reboot the router again. I already contacted support. If they get back I’ll let you know what they say and if it worked.
This was what fixed this issue from me, found it on another sub:
go into network and sharing center, click on “change adapter settings” on the left side, find your main internet connection that should be working, right click it and hit properties, click on “Internet Protocol Verison 4 (TCP/IPv4)”, leave it checked but hit the properties button that becomes visible when you selected it, and hit the radio button “Obtain an IP address automatically” and then also hit the other one “Obtain DNS server address automatically”. Click OK. Your internet should work now. feel free to give me gold for this comment by the way. im almost out and need more.
yeah im not sure. i just know when i had VPN troubles like what you’re describing, it was because my /etc/resolv.conf got misconfigured somehow by the VPN (proton)