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<blockquote data-quote="Stopspying" data-source="post: 1008420" data-attributes="member: 69368"><p>This would be a pretty good write up of my experience too. I tried Portmaster again thie week. I really want it to be a good experience as I like what I've seen that it can do and I also want to be able to monitor connections etc in the manner that this product offers. I've installed it a couple of times but it seems to take an age familiarising itself with my Win 10 setup, I'm guessing that is what the delay between the install completing and actually being able to go through all the options and uses.</p><p></p><p>Leaving everything on the default settings I started exploring what was on offer but I noticed a significant slowing down of my connectivity. I didn't have the time to go through all of the possibilities that might speed things up so I decided to uninstall it. I'm thinking that this might reflect a new user's experience who might not want to 'risk' meddling with the settings, this is why I'm posting these opinions here for the developers to maybe read. I had watched Henry's video of thechat with them before trying it again, and was again impressed with their aims etc</p><p></p><p>Like you I am intrigued by the concept of the SPN but haven't tried it. I like the prompt/allow/deny options that you run through and explain some scenarios for their usage. I like this feature a lot - "..it allows ALL applications to communicate without prompting you, but it does this over secure dns.. and filters out the telemetry/malware domains etc from the filters..."</p><p></p><p>After the uninstall and a reboot I had no internet connectivity, a network adapter reset sorted this, but that has to have been caused by the uninstall of PortMaster, as I'd not changed anything else on the device involved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Stopspying, post: 1008420, member: 69368"] This would be a pretty good write up of my experience too. I tried Portmaster again thie week. I really want it to be a good experience as I like what I've seen that it can do and I also want to be able to monitor connections etc in the manner that this product offers. I've installed it a couple of times but it seems to take an age familiarising itself with my Win 10 setup, I'm guessing that is what the delay between the install completing and actually being able to go through all the options and uses. Leaving everything on the default settings I started exploring what was on offer but I noticed a significant slowing down of my connectivity. I didn't have the time to go through all of the possibilities that might speed things up so I decided to uninstall it. I'm thinking that this might reflect a new user's experience who might not want to 'risk' meddling with the settings, this is why I'm posting these opinions here for the developers to maybe read. I had watched Henry's video of thechat with them before trying it again, and was again impressed with their aims etc Like you I am intrigued by the concept of the SPN but haven't tried it. I like the prompt/allow/deny options that you run through and explain some scenarios for their usage. I like this feature a lot - "..it allows ALL applications to communicate without prompting you, but it does this over secure dns.. and filters out the telemetry/malware domains etc from the filters..." After the uninstall and a reboot I had no internet connectivity, a network adapter reset sorted this, but that has to have been caused by the uninstall of PortMaster, as I'd not changed anything else on the device involved. [/QUOTE]
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