Avast Secureline VPN Proxy

The updates seem to never really solve the biggest problems. This app, which I have paid for the last two years, frequently drops the connection to the server and does not reconnect. It doesn’t notify you either. I suddenly realize on public WiFi or at home that suddenly I’m no longer connected to my VPN. Happens during active use or idle periods. Additionally, every couple weeks or so it will say that it has to reinstall the VPN profile out of the blue. Closing the app and relaunching sometimes fixes this. Very annoying especially when your connection is no longer secure. Sometimes it asks to reinstall the VPN profile back to back to back even with a reboot of my phone. IPhone 10 and 6+ have identical problems running this app. I’m going to start looking for a better VPN service before my next years payment. Time to do some homework and hope to not deal with the same frustration with other providers. I’m even willing to pay significantly more elsewhere just not to be frustrated so often. I have other apps from Avast that work flawlessly so why can’t they get it together with SecureLine?

I have ATT internet but am switching to Spectrum. No problem using VPN app while I was an ATT subscriber. Instead of an ATT modem-router combo, I bought my own router to go with the Spectrum modem to avoid rental fees. That is where my troubles began. I could not get the Netgear app to work on my iPad and one suggestion was that VPN could interfere. I ended up switching to a Linksys router. I was able to connect the Linksys app after setting up my account on my laptop, but my internet connection became a problem. I kept getting disconnected. So, I deleted the Avast VPN app on one iPad. No problem connecting on that one. Since I still have ATT, I connected to the internet on my other iPad using ATT and went into the Avast app. I disconnected the “connect automatically when not on a trusted network” feature and was able to connect to the internet again. Then I decided to add the Linksys router to my trusted networks. So far it is working. I went into copious detail so maybe people with more technical knowledge can figure this out. I am not sure if the problem is with Spectrum’s internet settings, the change to a separate router and modem, the app or what. BTW, initially the Spectrum connection worked, then it stopped working later in the day. I may end up manually connecting the VPN if my solution does not continue to work, something I can live with.

this happens also for avast vpn for the mac mojave..there’s apps that no longer connect with rhis vpn, soo..why would i want a vpn if a can’t no longer use the programs that connect to the 2020 “internet” don’t get me wrong am no “hater” i LOVE AVAST been using it for a year or more for mac mojave and sierra and it has saved ma sorry self LOTZ o times! so we as family decided to pay them n maybe get them apps...but they won’t be worth paying for em...so maybe a won’t wipe this apo from the phone, as i could use it for web pages...but if the rest of the apps, including appstore, no longer connect to the net, being that those apps ONLY purpose is to CONNECT to tha freackyng net won’t be useable with THIS VPN a pretty much just won’t use vpn at all...so just hold on 2 THAT AVAST ..you rock it with antiviruses, but u aint doin well on the “pay” apps...

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I started using the Avast VPN on my Iphone and PC. For about 6 months it worked ok except that sometimes Google won’t let you do a search because it detected too many searches from the proxy server everyone was using. So i had to disable the VPN to use Google. I am not sure what happened at 6 months (maybe an update?), but after that it never worked well. Some problems were: - i get a License expired notice in the middle of the license term. Then this cleared after a few days. - the VPN did not turn on automatically like it used to before. I would be using the phone and realize later that the VPN was not active. Then i would manually start the app. That is very inconvenient and resulted in not using it at all. - when i am at home using my WiFi, the app would not allow me to start the VPN at all. It would give a message that said somethinh like “cannot use VPN when using a trusted WiFi connection. Remove trusted WiFi connection to use VPN”. What is the point of this limitation? Even if i am using a trusted WiFi from my home the ISP provider and websites i am accessing can still track me. But the app is not turning VPN on until I forget my WiFi and connect using LTE. Today my license expired so i am not going to renew it. Will try something else for a change this year.

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The most recent update made a decent app (by an otherwise crummy company whose stuff does NOT work on PCs) finally as bad as the rest of their stuff. It now disconnects constantly, does not reconnect, and -this is really cute- no matter how many times you select “automatic reconnnect,” that option will not remain selected! So every couple of days it will stop reconnecting, you’ll have to re-open the app connect, go to settings, select “automatically reconnect,” and then wait and see how long it works this time! I was already set on not renewing my subscription on my phone once the company’s product didn’t work on my PC, and they provided customer service that was unhelpful and eventually just stopped replying. At this point, I’m about to go find a new VPN and put that on my phone and PC, and just write off the rest of my Avast subscription as a lesson learned on what companies not to buy products from.