Particularly on older operating system versions, you may find in some instances that you may need to close and restart our app after wake or you may need to manually restart the VPN connection. Occasionally, they will get hung up when attempting to reconnect on wake and the app may hang due to the unexpected disconnection on sleep. While our VPN apps are able to automatically reconnect most of the time.

To ensure continued security and privacy, both of our Windows and macOS apps will automatically attempt to reconnect your device to the VPN as soon as it wakes up from sleep mode or energy saver mode. When your device loses its connection to the internet, your VPN connection will be disconnected. What happens to my VPN connection when my Windows or Mac goes to sleep?Īs we mentioned above, when your Windows PC or Mac enters sleep mode, its connection to the internet is turned off to save power. If you enable what Apple calls Power Nap, your mac can periodically reconnect to the internet while sleeping to perform simple quick tasks like checking your email or updating your calendar. While sleeping, your Mac will disconnect from the internet to save energy. Because your Mac is still on, waking it back up is faster than restarting your Mac from a shutdown.

Your Mac is still on, but using less power. Most computer screens nowadays are able to save energy by dimming down the back light of the screen itself to a lower percentage, or by just completely. This usually happens after a couple of minutes. Sleep mode on your Mac is very similar to sleep mode in windows such that when you put your Mac to sleep, it enters a low power mode. Some Users reported monitor or screen going to sleep or turning off by itself while watching a movie, playing video games or doing nothing. The main advantage of sleep mode is a fast resume when you wake the computer up, you can just pick up where you left off in very little time. To enter the low power mode for sleep, windows will turn off non-essential components like your network card, so your device will lose connection to the internet during sleep. If you are on a laptop and your battery is getting low, you don't have to worry about losing any work as windows will save your work and turn your computer off if it is asleep. When you put your windows device to sleep, the device enters a very low power mode to conserve battery life or money on your power bill.

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