Solved Getting this error across multiple websites, started after uninstalling and re-installing PIA VPN

Zoloft · Oct 18, 2023

I know this must be a VPN issue, but PIA's support is notoriously slow to non-existant, so hopefully someone here can tell me what I may have done wrong.

Firefox 118.0.2 Win 11 Pro x64 22H2 22621.2428

Thanks!

OAT · Oct 18, 2023

Zoloft said:
I know this must be a VPN issue, but PIA's support is notoriously slow to non-existant, so hopefully someone here can tell me what I may have done wrong.

Firefox 118.0.2 Win 11 Pro x64 22H2 22621.2428

Thanks!

Please try with another browser. SSL errors are usually browser specific.
The cache of your existing browser may need cleaning & the command IPconfig /flushdns needs to be run.
We'll get a clearer picture after that is done.

A service that is not to your expectations does not deserve your subscription.

Zoloft · Oct 18, 2023

Hahaha, I'm dumb as dirt, don't know why I didn't already try that, but same issue in chrome and edge.

OAT · Oct 18, 2023

Zoloft said:
Hahaha, I'm dumb as dirt, don't know why I didn't already try that, but same issue in chrome and edge.

You were right in your first post. You can blame it on your VPN service.

Zoloft · Oct 18, 2023

OAT said:
You were right in your first post. You can blame it on your VPN service.

I'm sure I just set one of the setting wrong when I re-installed, hopefully they will respond to their ticket, and let me know the likely culprit, otherwise, tomorrow morning I'll uninstall again and start from scratch. Thanks for reading.

OAT · Oct 18, 2023

Zoloft said:
I'm sure I just set one of the setting wrong when I re-installed, hopefully they will respond to their ticket, and let me know the likely culprit, otherwise, tomorrow morning I'll uninstall again and start from scratch. Thanks for reading.

You had it working before?
If so, your mode of connection might be set wrong. (TCP, UDP, WireGuard)

Zoloft · Oct 18, 2023

No pages wouldn't load before reinstall, so, yes, and I was using Wireguard, and still am, and it only gives TCP/UDP options while using OpenVPN, as opposed to Wireguard.

FreeBooter · Oct 18, 2023

Use the batch script to reset TCP/IP protocol to its default state, hopefully that will help.

Zoloft · Oct 18, 2023

FreeBooter said:
Use the batch script to reset TCP/IP protocol to its default state, hopefully that will help.

Doing so now...

Zoloft · Oct 18, 2023

bat didn't help, nor did flushing dns (sorry, forgot to mention that earlier)

FreeBooter · Oct 18, 2023

Go to Control Panel --> internet options --> Security tab and click reset button on costume level page.

Zoloft · Oct 18, 2023

FreeBooter said:
Go to Control Panel --> internet options --> Security tab and click reset button on costume level page.

No improvement, unless the computer should need to be restarted, which I will do when I uninstall the VPN tomorrow. . .

Zoloft · Oct 19, 2023

Completely uninstalled the VPN, re-ran all the tips and tools from this thread, rebooted, and no better. . . let's see what a system restore will do *sigh* good thing I don't have much to do today.

Zoloft · Oct 19, 2023

System restore did nothing, re-installed VPN with less than ideal settings and all is well. . . something odd is broken with PIA, but at least it all works.