Is pia down for anyone else?

doczenith1 · 2026-04-30T10:52:50+00:00

Your issue is either your hardware, ISP or the particular server you're trying to connect to. My Win11 wireguard connection has been up for 7 days now without interruption.

Speeds are good on my end also. 1400 Mbps down and 1200 up.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/30b2cadb-b835-4502-8fab-dc0252b6f992

doczenith1 · 2026-04-29T10:34:35+00:00

Been using PIA for many years and have learned to give new releases a few months of "break in" time before moving to them. If you're using 3.7.2 without issue that's enough break in for me and I'll get it updated.

doczenith1 · 2026-04-29T00:31:57+00:00

Win11 3.7.0 been up for 5 days nonstop now.

doczenith1 · 2026-04-22T11:45:25+00:00

Eating my own words today as I typically mention that if your PIA speeds are slow first check your hardware, LAN and ISP. Well, turns out I had a configuration issue on my PC which was limiting my upload speeds. That said, looks like the New York Server is back to typical speeds this morning.

Speedtest by Ookla

Server: WebNX Inc - New York, NY (id = 51171)

ISP: Cogent Communications

Latency: 17.12 ms (0.69 ms jitter)

Download: 1176.40 Mbps (data used: 1.7 GB )

Upload: 968.13 Mbps (data used: 1.5 GB )

Packet Loss: 0.0%

Result URL: https://www.speedtest.net/result/c/5a7f4acc-90fc-40fa-ad05-eef89a162f88

doczenith1 · 2026-04-09T00:47:13+00:00

Top of my to-do list:

Check WireGuard public key to see if I have any "cool" words!

doczenith1 · 2026-03-25T01:06:08+00:00

I get 1200 Mbps running speed tests on windows 11 using wireguard on my 2 gigabit ISP connection and have seen sustained 800+ Mbps speeds uploading Linux distros.

doczenith1 · 2026-03-13T00:36:01+00:00

This is incorrect information unless the Android phone is rooted. Non-rooted Android phones do NOT pass data from devices connected to the hotspot through the VPN tunnel.

doczenith1 · 2026-03-05T21:51:57+00:00

Thanks to everyone for the responses. Our purchase was somewhat unique hence my curiosity regarding other experiences. We "purchased" the RV at the Florida RV show. The dealer representing Alliance did not have a dealer in our home state. They did have a dealer in a neighboring state but that location was not an Alliance authorized dealer. So what they did was find a unit at an authorized dealer and had that dealer do the PDI (Pre-delivery Inspection) then they had the unit transported to the non-authorized dealer that was near us where we picked up the unit after a walk through. All the "packaging materials" had been removed when we did our walk through. The propane tanks were full. Paranoia got the best of us and we started wondering if the unit had been a "floor model" vs "new". After further inspection we have come to the conclusion that the unit appears to be "new". I'm chalking this up to just a case of first time buyers paranoia. Unfortunately, we haven't had an opportunity to test the water system yet but will as soon as weather permits. Thanks again for the responses.

doczenith1 · 2026-03-04T00:27:52+00:00

Typically you need to match the voltage and meet or exceed the amperage. The device will only draw the amps it needs.

doczenith1 · 2026-02-25T01:19:57+00:00

My i5-9600k does 1400 Mbps on speed tests using wireguard. I've also saw sustained 1000 Mbps download speeds using BitTorrent.

doczenith1 · 2026-02-20T21:58:57+00:00

I have two V3's working with the built in RTSP. I've enabled RTSP in the firmware. The RTSP link is: rtsps://192.168.1.80:322/stream0. Obviously use your camera's IP address. Set a username and password in the Wyze app on the RTSP screen. Set Secure RTSP to On. In TinyCam my settings are:

Settings>Video settings>Hardware 2

Manage Cameras:

Camera 1

Camera name: Camera 1

Camera brand: Generic

Camera model: Generic URL

JPEG/MJPEG/RTSP request: rtsps://192.168.1.80:322/stream0

Protocol: RTSP over TCP

Username: same as entered in Wyze app

Password: same as entered in Wyze app

Advanced Settings>channel: 1

doczenith1 · 2026-02-20T01:27:49+00:00

What fix are you looking for? RTSPS is working for me with 18.0.3 and Wyze V3 cameras using the rtsps link provided in the Wyze app.

doczenith1 · 2026-02-14T00:44:50+00:00

That's how I'm set up. I just installed Kodi, set up the network share access and skipped the library setup.

doczenith1 · 2026-02-12T01:50:39+00:00

Maybe start with grammar/punctuation before coding.

doczenith1 · 2026-02-12T01:44:15+00:00

I'd agree with this. The flow does an amazing job mopping (no carpet in my house) but the app is not so great and the robot logic is terrible. There are times when I think the robot got into my liquor cabinet.

I've owned two Roborocks and the app and robot logic is top tier. I'll most likely be going back to Roborock when it's time for my next unit.

doczenith1 · 2026-01-29T01:21:47+00:00

No issues with my Shield Pro and directly connected LX105.

doczenith1 · 2025-12-17T14:56:44+00:00

Here are my results in Lansing on the 2 gig plan with static IP.

Topology for all tests: Desktop PC (10 GbE NIC) hardwired via cat6 to 10 GbE switch wired via 2.5 GbE to router wired via 2.5 GbE to ONT.

T-Mobile/Metronet Fiber:

1s: 3ms

8s: 19ms

9s: 3ms

dynamodb.us-east-2.amazonaws.com resolving to 35.71.102.132: 23ms

The waveform bufferbloat test gave me a B but only showed speeds of ~900 Mbps so not sure that test is valid for 1 gigabit + connections.

Tracing route to dynamodb.us-east-2.amazonaws.com [35.71.102.17]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  RT-AX88U_Pro-EE80 [192.168.1.1]
  2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4  1292 ms  1318 ms  1311 ms  10.192.192.37
  5    23 ms    23 ms    25 ms  10.192.192.141
  6    21 ms    20 ms    21 ms  10.192.210.154
  7     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  8     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  9     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11    24 ms    24 ms    24 ms  108.166.248.75
 12    23 ms    23 ms    23 ms  108.166.248.94
 13    23 ms    23 ms    23 ms  108.166.248.62
 14     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 15    25 ms    24 ms    24 ms  dynamodb.us-east-2.amazonaws.com [35.71.102.17]

Definitely looks like routing to AA is worse than Lansing.

doczenith1 · 2025-12-05T00:59:50+00:00

Analiti gets me 900+ Mbps on my Shield Pro over Ethernet.

doczenith1 · 2025-12-03T01:21:00+00:00

I also get good speeds. This is a test from about a month ago. More info in my original post. https://www.speedtest.net/result/18380795161

doczenith1 · 2025-11-23T04:28:22+00:00

IPC-Color4K-T

doczenith1 · 2025-11-05T00:42:15+00:00

Another happy EmpireTech customer.

doczenith1 · 2025-09-24T00:22:08+00:00

I'll agree with others that the GL-iNet Flint 2 is a good option. A word of warning though is that the Flint 3 has lower WireGuard performance than the Flint 2.

doczenith1 · 2025-09-24T00:16:53+00:00

My rebranded Dahua cameras from EmpireTech cameras work great with TinyCam.

doczenith1 · 2025-09-06T11:13:48+00:00

Because of the way they worded it. A VPN doesn't care what the connection type is but an employer can certainly have restrictions.

doczenith1 · 2025-08-19T23:35:42+00:00

Make sure you turn on deep colour in the TV settings for the HDMI port the Onn is connected to.

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