The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/jtr3322 on 2025-01-19 16:52:27.

I’ve been a Mullvadvpn customer for the last three years or so.

In the last half a year, I’ve noticed a steady but troubling drop in the quality of the connections. Slowdowns, websites not loading, Mullvad blocking the internet as it tries to reconnect, that sort of thing. The frequency of these events has increased from about once a week to once a day - slowly but surely.

I use Mullvad on my Mac, my Linux Desktop, and Android. These sorts of problems appear in all of them. I used to play games with VPN (those that allow it); today, I don’t even bother and turn it off because I know I get dropped out of the game. Websites that use larger bandwidth (YouTube, other media streaming channels) are the biggest problem.

In all cases, as soon as I disconnect from VPN, I have no problem.

I used to have these issues with NordVPN back in the day, and that’s why I switched. I think this issue is caused as the VPN gets more popular and servers get overloaded (yes, switching servers to a different area helps, though temporarily, and it’s not a good solution because I can’t have an IP address from a different timezone for long). I see Nullvad ads everywhere and think many people picked up the service. As a result, it has slowed down because users are overloading the servers or because more spammers use it - in which case websites (like Amazon among others in my example) block certain parts of the website altogether, where in the past, they didn’t.

My question to long-term users of the service is if they see the same pattern. Any long-term solution that helped? I like Mullvard, but I think they are becoming the victim of their own success.