Further Profile Customization - Select Sever by State/Province and City
Hey all, after using Proton VPN for years, I love the features and options. However, one option I'm finding I wish I had was further server profile customization.
For instance, if I make a profile for the fastest server in the USA, I cannot select by State. However, when using family streaming accounts on a VPN, I find selecting a local State/Province helps with speed and accessibility. If my family is in Texas and doesn't normally use a VPN, but I log in to the account while connected to a Chicago VPN server, I find the streaming app doesn't work or load until I select and load a server in the same State. Further, different US States have different internet laws. If we can customize to this degree, there might be different cities in the same State/Province we should be able to further select or customize to.
So a further profile customization is not only a fix that could be easily applied, but acts as a workaround for the problem here.
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Photog_ Raph_67 commented
Dear Proton VPN Team,
I’ve been using Proton VPN for a while now, and I’m really impressed with its features, especially the ability to create profiles and use split tunneling. However, I believe there’s room for improvement that would make the experience even better.
Currently, when using split tunneling, it would be incredibly useful to have the ability to create profiles that include or exclude specific applications. For example, I’d like to create a profile for Photoshop that routes traffic through a Turkish server, while another profile for torrenting routes traffic through a French server with a specific port.
Additionally, it would be great if we could define custom ports for specific profiles. This would allow for more granular control over how different applications or use cases are handled.
Could you consider adding these features in a future update? It would significantly enhance the flexibility and usability of Proton VPN for advanced users like myself.
Thank you for your hard work and for providing such a reliable VPN service!
Best regards,
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GizmoChicken
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Agreed! Having the ability to create a profile that would connect to the FASTEST server in a specified CITY is needed.
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GizmoChicken
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Agreed. But I would be equally happy (and perhaps a little happier) if able to select the fastest server by city. Or better still, allow for selecting either: (a) the fasted by state; or (b) the fastest by city.
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Tom
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+1. Why is this taking so long to implement? Seems like an easy feature to add, given the fact that we can already select the fastest counties.
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Tom
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Yes, this would be very useful given the restrictions.
We can already create profiles for individual counties, why not cities within those counties?
And it doesn't seem like it would a hard thing to implement. Why is this taking so long?
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Mark
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Many US states are larger than the largest countries in other regions, and privacy/censorship laws can vary significantly from one state to the other. I would like to be able to mark/unmark which states will be included in my *Random* and *Fastest* profiles to exclude states with undesired privacy/censorship laws.
Related to the above, I'd like to be able to create a profile to select a random or fastest server from the states that have the best privacy laws.
Finally, server load is not necessarily a reflection of the fastest server to select within a state or country. Latency between the client and server, as well as network capacity vs load, are more important. The load icon should be replaced with a "connection quality" icon calculated based on these performance factors, with the specifics listed when hovering over the icon.
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Tim Butterfield
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I have a similar usage. This 'fastest in city' feature exists in NordVPN and I used it almost exclusively. Now that I am trying ProtonVPN, I find I really miss it. The nearest VPN city to my home town is Seattle, Washington in the USA. While I can select the country and scroll the list of all endpoints to find one in Seattle, Washington, this is a very tedious process. A connection that I will use almost every time I need a VPN should be as simple as clicking 'Fastest Seattle' to connect. Being able to create a profile for this selection would allow it to be this way. Instead, because reconnecting is so tedious, I am more likely to just lock my screen when not using my computer instead of disconnecting and reconnecting as needed. This keeps an active VPN connection when it is no longer needed.
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revenano
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Under "Profiles", create the option to connect to the fastest server by state. For instance, when I select the fastest server option, I often get connected to Texas servers, but I don't want to connect to Texas (some states have ID requirement laws for websites). I would like the option to connect to the fastest server in Colorado or some other state.
Alternatively, create the option to exclude certain states from the "Fastest" server profile option.
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Ianick Mathieu
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Hi there!
What I would like to be able is for example to find the "Fastest" server in Canada but for "all Montreal" servers only, not a specific one like I can set right now, so that Proton try to connect to the fastest server in Montreal and not the fastest server in Canada.
Also specify the feature. Example if I want only for streaming or if I want both streaming and P2P, etc. Filters would be able to show if the feature is available of course.
Long story short, a profile for the "Fastest server from all servers of a specific city with specific features from those servers.
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Chief
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TBH, I don't care where the country boundaries are; I just want to pick a server that's not over 1000 km away. Whether the things on the map are countries or provinces or what isn't important, just that they're useful for picking a good server.
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Timothy Maher commented
I would like to be able to build a Profile containing a personalized list of Preferred Servers and a list of Excluded servers.
I have found that certain servers meet my needs better than others.
I mostly prefer US based servers close to my actual location to minimize latency.
I have also found that I DO NOT want to use ANY server located in Virginia (VA), because of VA laws requiring ID verification on certain sites. To that I say - ***** Virginia!
I would therefore like to be able to build an EXCLUDE LIST, which in my case would include all VA based servers.
I want to be able to add multiple servers at once to my Preferred list through a multiple selection process. For instance, if I want to add an entire US State, say NJ, I should be able to add ALL NJ based servers to my Preferred List in one action as opposed to having to add each individual NJ server one at a time. -
Chief
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This. The current situation in the USA is like if you'd just pull all the EU servers in one group.
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VoxiBe
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I agree with you. Not necessarily for the same reasons, but when I created profiles I was quite surprised that they were offered in the form of a server. Actually I don't care about choosing my server, when I create a P2P profile I just want to choose the country and let the software choose the best server for my use.
By the way, on the other hand, I think that options for Secure / TOR / P2P should be presented natively without creating profiles like NordVPN, but that's another debate 😉.
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[Deleted User]
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As there are now 100 countries added, there are countries with local laws that are considered draconian, and the Windows client doesn't support this feature.
We should have extended option to our custom profiles to pick by state. Right now it's just specific individual servers which isn't fair.
I keep thinking of looking for another provider until ProtonVPN corrects this.
For example, states are implementing **** age restrictions mandating IQ laws. They're also trying to add bans on Tiktok and other social media. So I believe we should be able to just pick states that don't have this than just 'fastest.'
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ZW
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PROBLEM:
To enable streaming on some services I have to be "seen" as coming in from a specific geographic region ... such as "San Jose or Bay Area". PBS requires this to associated you with your local PBS subscription for example.So I am forced to select a specific server in the area to connect ProtonVPN to. But this creates a problem in that I can't use the "Fastest" feature to ensure I am getting the best speeds. This is particularly a problem when configuring a "Router VPN" connection as it is essentially permanently connected to the same server I configure when downloading the connection profile.
This is also a problem with "Always On" VPN connections ... which I cycle every so often to select the fasted server ... but the session it is hopping all over the western United States ... while I would like to keep it in a specific region/city.
FEATURE REQUEST:
If you could provide "Regional or City" server pools to configure in a Connection Profile ... for example "San Jose Region" ... and the effect was that when I connect the session selects the "Fastest" server within that specific Region ... it would provide me with the best connection speeds in that region every time I connect. And as I schedule auto-reboots on my router ... it would update the server connection to the fastest one available on a regular basis.In addition, this would provide better Load Balancing on your end. Currently your server loads are being impacted by manual selection of specific servers ... as opposed to balancing the load across servers in a region ... for example ... "San Jose".
This would be a "Win-Win" for you and your customers.