Mullvad VPN

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/LuckyBlackKnight on 2025-06-17 19:46:32.

Im attempting to set up a PLEX server, but i have a server then a NAS, i want all my files to be stored on the nas but i also want the PC to be connected to a VPN for qbittorrent. is there a way to access my nas while connected to the VPN?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/VaultGuy1995 on 2025-06-17 00:11:07.

I've been using Mullvad as a primary VPN for about 6 months. Proton kept having issues with slow/overcrowded servers, so I heard this was the next best thing. However, since the latest update (2025.4) it will only connect if I'm already connected to WiFi. If I'm out and about using phone data, it absolutely refuses to connect to any server. When I'm not actively trying to connect, it places my location in a state I'm not even close to. Any help would be appreciated.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Intelligent-Stone on 2025-06-16 21:09:56.

Some commits that aims to add QUIC obfuscation to Mullvad was made to mullvad repository, what do we know about it? Did Mullvad(or a Mullvad dev) made statements about it? I know that Cloudflare also using it in their Cloudflare WARP, the MASQUE protocol of Cloudflare is what was making me connect WARP on my cellular, my provider blocks WireGuard.

My questions are:

• Is it hard to block that in restricted firewalls?
• Performance compared to Shadowsocks/UDP-over-TCP?
• Is it basically a solution similar to what Cloudflare did as I explained above?
• How much time it needs to be available in Mullvad apps for all platforms?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/yourmamabighoe on 2025-06-16 18:58:41.

So the only money I have is cash in coins which Mullvad does not accept, but I had around €1,6 worth of Monero which as you know isn't enough for the minimum of 1 month that Mullvad offers which is €4,5 or €5 depending on how you pay. Anyway I decided to try sending all my Monero(€1,6) to see if it would work AND IT DID! It added 10 days to my account lol. Thank you u/MullvadNew for accepting us broke people:)

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/FenriIlbardo on 2025-06-16 15:20:45.

I recently switched to arch and yes I know it exists on yay but it would be nice to have the flatpack version to make life easier for everyone, So I was wondering why doesn't it exist?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/mrdonkyman on 2025-06-16 11:47:47.

Hi, if I torrent with 4mb/s+, my internet drops on my desktop within an hour. Not mullvad, my internet (aka the wifi/ethernet icon). Have to restart my pc for it to come back. If I have it capped at 4mb/s, it takes longer, might be something to do with the amount being downloaded?

Tried to download the same torrent on my laptop and it worked without issue. So it should not be an ISP/router issue. Have reinstalled mullvad, no change, looked if there was some firewall on mullvad, nothing. Installed an old version of TP or something (saw it in the faq on mullvad) and it made it worse, instead of a clean download til the issue, I had random drops (mullvad drops) until the issue happened.

Does anyone know what the issue might be? Or should I contact mullvad support?

Also, if anyone knows where to get the newest version of the thing I downgraded, I would love that. Mullvad just gave me a direct download to the install, not the website. Do not like that I can just get random drops for nothing.

Edit in case it is important, laptop is on wifi, desktop is on Ethernet.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Major-Credit3456 on 2025-06-16 10:41:31.

Hello everyone.

For certain reasons I would like to install Mullvad VPN on a router and route the connection. How can I do this, what type of router do you recommend?

Has anyone attempted such a thing before?

Thanks.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Zoda_Popinski on 2025-06-16 08:53:16.

I've been using Mullvad for ages (close to a decade soon) and never had an issue until sometime last year when I noticed that Youtube and Reddit (primarily, but other big sites as well) blocked most Mullvad IPs unless you were logged in to your Youtube/Reddit/etc account. Which is an issue for me since I use NewPipe for Youtube.

You have to do a lot of IP switching before you can find one that works so I gone so far that I disable the VPN sometimes for NewPipe on my phone.

I figured that the big tech companies where just having a crack down on VPN IPs and that's just the world I was living in now.

But since I already pay for Proton mail I figured I'd check out if there is a difference with their VPN. And I had no issues viewing Youtube with NewPipe, even with Proton's free VPN where I must assume the IP is flagged as a VPN all over the place.

Anyone can figure out why that's the case? I don't know enough about networking, but for example, Proton blocks P2P unless you pick a specific server. With Mullvad it treats every server as a normal server. So there must be something different between Proton and Mullvad general setup?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/rm-rf-rm on 2025-06-16 01:08:43.

Had no idea they had the funds to afford getting such ads out in premium locations in the SF Bay Area. Its a tell tale sign of profit maximization or at least that is the fear. And with that brings risk of the security of the service being compromised in some way like data logging etc.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/SmallPresentation960 on 2025-06-15 13:31:01.

Hi everyone. I am getting into home server and networking, and so a total noob when it comes to these things. But I am slowly learning.

I have a server running Ubuntu, and I am able to access it on other local machines with SSH. I have installed and activated Mullvad with wireguard, and it is running fine.

Three questions I hope you can help me with. I have tried to find solutions without luck.

1: How can I enable the possibility to access the server via SSH externally through the internett? Just like Amazon AWS or Google cloud? The server is completely empty by the way, so no files can be compromised. It is for learning and practise at this stage.

2: When activating Mullvad I could not use the name @raspberrypi.local, but had to use the IP-address. How come this is the case?

1. To be able to use SSH locally after activating Mullvad, I had to enter “mullvad lan set allow”. What is it with this commando that enables SSH locally again?

Thanks in advanced for your help. I would also appreciate links to resources for best practises, learning networks and servers. I am currently going through https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/01/

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/clattygobshite on 2025-06-15 11:16:36.

I use Mullvad VPN on a grapheneOS device and run the VPN pretty much constantly. I also use Newpipe as my YouTube client, which conflicts with the VPN and can't play videos. I have set up Mullvad split tunneling specifically for Newpipe.

Now, are there any benefits of setting Mullvad DNS in the device's network settings or does that conflict somehow with the VPN?

My thought is: If I set up DNS in the device network settings, will it only be used for non-VPN connections automatically? I have disabled DNS in the VPN itself, following the documentation on the Mullvad website.

Quote from Mullvad website: "This service is primarily meant to be used when you are disconnected from our VPN service, or on devices where it's not possible or desirable to connect to the VPN. When you are already connected to our VPN service the security benefits of using encrypted DNS is negligible and it will always be slower than using the DNS resolver on the VPN server that you are connected to."

Thanks in advance for your help.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/As1an31nst31n on 2025-06-15 10:58:31.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/R-deadmemes on 2025-06-15 09:21:02.

Are there any servers that work in china currently? All the threads from 3 months ago dont work for me, it just says connecting but never actually connects

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/TheDr3bb2 on 2025-06-14 17:46:25.

Original Title: My vpn says it's connected to Dallas where I want it to, but when I go on social media or YouTube or whatever it's clear that I'm connected to India. I get India ads and content. Anyone else have this problem?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Intelligent-Stone on 2025-06-14 07:12:23.

So, in a university network with captive portal they seem to block Wireguard and Shadowsocks just fine, Wireguard can only operate under UDP over TCP obfuscation, which, as you know it's so slow.

For the first time today I wanted to give OpenVPN a try, it didn't work as Wireguard, but enabling OpenVPN bridges, and selecting a bridge server let me connect with a better and stable speed (with UDP over TCP, it's not stable at all, speedtest can even fail randomly in the middle, or any other process)

So, how do you retire OpenVPN while not providing a solution like this under Wireguard?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/newtonian_dildo on 2025-06-13 15:59:20.

I often use mullvad for work in order to check for open ports on clients public firewalls. In the last few months I've noticed that my scans are no longer completing if I run a full scan (nmap -Pn -p- [ip address]). Mullvad will say it's connected, but I can reach anything until I reset the connection.

Anyone else having this issue?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/slavebob on 2025-06-13 15:37:35.

i read through previous posts and i can connect but reddit and youtube continue to fail to load…

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Jaded_Orange_6252 on 2025-06-13 14:27:15.

What to do?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Intelligent-Stone on 2025-06-13 07:20:16.

I'm connected to a network with captive portal, on my phone the Mullvad connection using Shadowsocks is just fine, but on laptop it never gets connected to the Mullvad with Shadowsocks being enabled. I'm on 2025.7-beta1 (because there is a BSOD problem in 2025.5 and I have to use beta until next release) so any help? Currently UDP over TCP lets me connect to the Mullvad, but you know how slow it is.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Horror-Repair-7328 on 2025-06-13 02:52:21.

Started having issues attempting to connect to any VPN. Would just say unable to block network traffic and ask me to report the issue.

Tried messing with WireGuard, Open, etc. to no avail. Same issue. Lockdown mode was off. Was going to just uninstall and reinstall but the uninstaller doesn't work now either. Says 'Uninstallation Aborted' 'Uninstall was not completed successfully'.

Used an uninstall tool called geek to force remove it and its registry entry, then tried to reinstall. Reinstall says mullvad is running and to close it, its not running and when I force close 'it' (which is just the installer, actual program isnt really running), it just stops the install obviously. When I say 'okay', it continues the install for a moment, then pops up with 'Failed to remove driver: error 0x5', when I click 'Ok' on that, it hangs there and does nothing.

Mullvad icon appears on desktop at this point, but its not functioning, and installer never completes. Just says please wait and hangs near the end forever.

This is the entire process as far as I know. Not sure what I did differently or how I broke it. Running these things as admin doesn't help either.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/c419331 on 2025-06-12 17:50:25.

"Hi,

I was hoping you would stop posting on Reddit and fix it yourself :-)

...

Stefan"

So we now have to pay them to use their service AND fix their app? Sounds like they have run out of chatgpt fixes.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/John_From_The_IRS on 2025-06-11 19:09:24.

Hi! When I choose any country through mullvad relay set location ____, then run mullvad connect, I get no network connection. I try mullvad status and am always stuck on connecting. Every once in a while it will try to switch servers, but it is never able to connect. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/SunzLight on 2025-06-11 13:42:29.

Why, even though IPv6 is off in settings, its always on in the network adapter settings? (it creates new one every time mullvad connects to a server)

The IPv6 doesn't seem to be on but an IPv6 address is created, and I had a software bind to that IPv6 address!

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/SuburbNacho on 2025-06-11 05:27:01.

Running Android 15 on a Pixel with GOS where I have Mullvad Beta installed for me to disable IPv6, as this caused several apps not to work when enabled. The mullvad app draws ~56% of my battery. Can this be reduced in any way, or do I have to live with it?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/LuckyBlackKnight on 2025-06-10 23:15:58.

Hello, I’m attempting to set up a PLEX server and am nearing completion but I would like to make it so that only qbittorrent traffic goes through the vpn, I want everything else to go through my normal network. How do I go about doing this, I tried using openvpn and I get a connection error any help?(im using windows)