v79 has problems

Ramburner

It was said v78 had security problems, so v79 came out. v79 occasionally nixes out my connection to the router. v77 never had that problem.
I'm rolling back to v77 until v80 comes out that addresses this problem. The TAP stays connected, but nixes the network connection to my network.
 

Max-P

That is surprising, there are no changes related to the VPN functionnality whatsoever in v79.

Have you tried fully uninstalling the app and reinstalling it in case it's just and upgrade blip?

Ramburner

Yes, I did what you mentioned, same problem.

p3580925

The Linux version of v79 also appears to have a memory leak. After five days, pia_nw has ballooned to >550MB of resident RAM on Linux Mint 18.3 Cinnamon 3.6.7 64 bit.

EDIT: Just noticed the exe process (apparently also part of the PIA client) now consumes ~375MB of resident RAM. That's almost a GB of resident RAM for what amounts to an openvpn front end!

[Deleted User]

@p3580925, we're investigating this memory leak issue. Any chance you could submit a debug log so that we can take a closer look at the root cause?

Ramburner

OK, my desktop and laptop both running v79 access the Internet just fine, but both show this that the wireless card does not have Internet access but it actually does. Both machines are running Windows 7 64bit. I put a red line over my Network name.
It's the TAP driver doing it, I've done a reinstall of program, did a reinstall of TAP driver, nothing fixes it. As soon as the TAP has Internet access, it nixes out showing the wireless card has no Internet access, but it does have access.

Max-P

@Ramburner That's normal. It's the Killswitch feature that does that. If you disconnect and exit the PIA app it should restore back to Internet access.

The reason it does that is that so when the VPN disconnects, you're left without Internet access therefore killing the internet access until the VPN comes back up. It does that by removing the default route, and without it Windows realizes that adapter has no default route therefore no Internet access and marks it as such. This is fine because it's the TAP that provides the Internet access when the VPN is connected.

Ramburner

I'm not using the Kill switch.
But, if I do disconnect, it does go back to normal and shows it has Internet access.

Ramburner

What you said would make sense if I were using the Kill switch, but since I'm not using the Kill switch, it does not make sense. Remember, this is happening on both the desktop computer and the laptop with v79.