I think there are a lot of weird issues with VPNs and various services. I have been using PiA for over a year, and it’s been great. I use it in my phone, tablet, home PC, and my work laptop when I’m on shady wifi. So far, the only thing that ever sucks is that Netflix won’t work with it. Otherwise I’ve been very…

That’s odd. I did the same thing and it’s been working flawlessly for me. I use it on my mac, my iPhone and my work android. I’ve used it in Germany, the US, Australia and New Zealand and it’s always connected without a problem. I also don’t see much drop in speed. I’ve been quite happy with it.

Did you work with PIA support or just put up with it? If you work with them, they can whitelist your email servers to allow mail through. Every once in a while it happens to me with Gmail’s SMTP server (Google adds/changes IP’s every once in a while I guess) - if you alert PIA support, they’ll help get it working…