But if you buy one of the paid plains, you get a 30-day money-back guarantee. Within the limits of the plan (countries are just Japan, Netherlands, and the United States), you can use it for as long as you'd like.

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We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. I hope this helps someone else who encounters the same issue down the road.ZDNET's recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. I opened up port 500 on my firewall (port 4500 was already open) and now I can connect using the ProtonVPN app. IP Protocol Type= UDP UDP Port Number= 4500 <- Used by IKEv2 IP Protocol Type= UDP UDP Port Number= 500 <- Used by IKEv2 outbound traffic), you must open the outbound ports below for Proton App which uses IKEv2: Due to the setup with PFsense and using strict firewall configurations egress traffic is filtered (i.e. Just wanted to post this because it was not found in any documentation anywhere on the site. However, there was an extremely useful comment from one of the users at the bottom of the article: Well, I setup the IKEv2 connection in my network settings and it also failed. Apparently, the ProtonVPN app uses a similar connection. One of the things ProtonVPN support had me try was creating a manual IKEv2 VPN connection.

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