On several occasions I’ve been unable to use WiFi in hotels or cafés because I’m using my VPN. This kind of defeats the purpose of having one? what ways are there around this?
I believe it’s been discussed a few times before, but still: try switching between protocols. Also, connecting to obfuscated servers can help too.
I usually turn off VPN, once logged in, VPN back on and works perfectly.
I did same with KLM on board wifi
Depending on the platform, using IPSec/IKEv2 instead of the native Nord client gives you additional flexibility. I recall a time when I was called in for jury duty and the courthouse wifi wouldn’t let me maintain a connection with the native iOS Nord client. Reconfiguring the iPhone to use IKEv2 and the necessary Nord certs and login info got me in.
And in other cases, I’ve had to use another vendor VPN solution (sometimes with OpenVPN) that allows different protocols -and- port numbers than what is commonly used. For example, I believe Nord w/OpenVPN uses port 443 for TCP and 1194 for UDP connections. But PIA has OVPN files that support port 501 and 502 for TCP; and 1197 & 1198 for UDP; and the native PIA client supports a few more ports on UDP (8080, 853,123,53) and TCP (80,853,8443).
And although I haven’t tried it with Nord, I have sometimes resorted to modifying a PIA OVPN configuration in OpenVPN to connect to a server by its IP address instead server name.
Unfortunately this hasn’t worked yet
Kinda difficult when nord vpn blocks the internet connection, but also wants you to log into their app first, which is impossible because in order to do that you need Internet