Whenever I try to use my vpn I get super high latencies that I should not be getting but it is only on my PC that it happens when I go to use PIA on my phone which is connected to the same network all of the severs around my area are anywhere in the 9-20 ms range but on my PC the lowest latency server is not even close to me and the ones that are all have 120-200 ms. I have tried reinstalling and restarting drivers but nothing seems to work.
Are you connecting to the same PIA servers?
Seeing the same issue for the past few weeks across 5 different devices running Windows / macOS, ticket went no where and they basically said the latency that is displayed from a ping check from your client may not actually be what is derived during the connection.
I’ve had no issues on my phone either.
If you connect to one of those close vpns with a high latency and then do a speedtest, what is the latency for download / upload? If you use https://speedtest.net , there are 2 little icons (a light blue arrow pointing down and a purple arrow pointing up) for those speeds.
EDIT: Grammar
My latencies are super high, in the 800-1200ms range - sometimes more. I’ve read from someone else that these numbers seem to not really be significant. My connection speeds seem to not be impacted too much.
I too have seen high latencies while using PIA. I think it’s related to my IP (AT&T). I connected my computer through my phones hotspot (GoogleFi) and the latency was normal for PIA.
I can also tell the latency is having an issue when watching YouTube and live streams start stuttering a few seconds for no reason, or when I’m in Microsoft flight sim and the photogrammetry isn’t working correctly. Turning it off immediately fixes it.
How do you see the latency? On my android, the list doesn’t show the ping at all, but each server have a little planet with a ring around it in grey (i dont know what it is for) and on my WinPC, all the servers have like… 3000ms+???
Yes I used both US East and other states on both my phone and pc
Yeah i did this they are roughly the same as stated on the client. I hypothesized its almost as if the servers are wrong since when I do run it the server that it says im connected to on the speedtest is in Texas or Nebraska even though im on the east coast
Ive definitely noticed it I mainly i use the vpn to bypass my universitys internet to play certain online games but my connection is always bad but it was never like this before
If the results are different with the same endpoint serves I think you might have an issue with your pc.
Have you tried to use a native vpn client / openvpn / wireguard rather the pia client?