The newest version of Proton VPN for Windows supports Split Tunneling, allowing you to decide which applications should use the VPN encrypted tunnel. There are also more profile options and OpenVPN ports.
Split Tunneling
With Split Tunneling, you can protect your private data with VPN encryption and still access public networks at the same time. By activating Split Tunneling, we will route all of your Internet traffic through the encrypted VPN tunnel except for the apps and the destination IP addresses you select. By excluding non-sensitive data from VPN encryption, you will reduce latency and be able to access foreign and locally geo-blocked content at the same time.
To activate Split Tunneling, navigate to Settings
and then select the Advanced tab.
Once you turn Split Tunneling on, you will be able to select which apps and IP addresses to exclude from the encrypted VPN tunnel. For more details, see our Support article.
Inverse Split Tunneling
Inverse Split Tunneling is, as the name suggests, the opposite of Split Tunneling. Instead of selecting which apps and IP addresses to exclude from the blanket VPN encryption, Inverse Split Tunneling lets you choose which apps have their Internet traffic encrypted in the VPN tunnel. All other traffic will be excluded from the VPN tunnel.
Increased Profile customization and syncing
You can now write longer names for your Profiles (up to 25 characters), and select new options for profile colors. Profiles are also now saved to accounts rather than devices. This means that your saved profiles will be automatically accessible on other devices that run Windows when you sign in to the Proton VPN app.
Additional OpenVPN ports
Beginning with version 1.7, the Windows app will randomly select an OpenVPN port — and it has a greater selection of ports. Not only does this provide better load balancing (leading to better performance), it also offers better protection against VPN blocking. Now, if the first port selected is blocked, the app will automatically fall back to the next randomly selected port.
Sign up for a Free plan for Windows and download version 1.7 (or the latest version) of our Windows app on our site.
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How about Split Tunneling for MacOS X?
Hello, Bobby! Thank you for your question! The split tunneling feature for MacOS is considered to be developed in the future. Unfortunately, we cannot provide a fixed ETA at the moment. If you follow us on our social media channels, you can get all the news and updates. :)
I’d love to have port-forwarding as a feature in general. Please consider it.
Unfortunately, port-forwarding is not supported on ProtonVPN at this moment. We will consider adding this feature in the upcoming period, but we cannot give you any specific time-frame for that to happen.
With this new version I can no longer connect to any services running on 127.0.0.1. This includes Protonmail Bridge listening on 127.0.0.1. I cannot connect to any local 127.0.0.1 SSH tunnels either. Disconnecting and existing the software is not enough, I have to kill the Protonvpn service process in task manager to restore connectivity to 127.0.0.1. It does not matter if I use an include or exclude model for split tunneling (even if I exclude 127.0.0.1), or have no splitting tunnel configuration at all, 127.0.0.1 remains inaccessible. Since I rely on Protonmail Bridge I’ve had to stop using Protonvpn. Anyone else seeing the same issue?
We will need more details to detect what exactly is causing that behavior so please provide all of the applicable details by creating a ticket for our support team: https://protonvpn.com/support-form. We would be glad to help you out!
Will you consider adding SSH/SSL Tunneling in order to better get around ISP blocking and throttling?
Hello! This would require port-forwarding which we do not support at the moment, but we will consider it for our further developments.
Richie, I would be very interested to hear ProtonVPN’s perspective on the advantages of using the VPN as it relates to new threats posed by 5G technology. Have a great day.
Hello! That’s a great suggestion, thank you! It will be passed on to our team.
Love the split tum\ neling , great feature , well implemented easy to use and setup / thanks it really adds o the value
Interesting addition. I have two questions:
1. Are there any plans to allow two separate tunnels to different VPN servers on a per-application basis?
2. Is there a way to do the above on Linux with some OpenVPN magic?
Hello, thank you for your comment! At the moment, we do not have any plans but we will consider implementing this feature in the future. Regarding your second question, unfortunately, that is not possible.
Awesome !
Can’t wait for the Linux version !
Hello! The native client is under development, but we cannot provide any specific date for its release yet. For now, the most optimal way to connect on Linux is via our ProtonVPN Linux tool: https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-tool/