Crosspost from:
http://forum.goldenfrog.com/t/vyprvpnservice-exe-constantly-running/1247/8
"vyprVPNservice.exe constantly running"

Crossposted here at request of Golden Frog.

@keegan

Thanks for the update! I had also noticed this behavior and figured that something like the reasons you enumerated were the cause of it.

Suggestion:
This is especially important on potentially memory-starved systems where the user may wish to use VyprVPN, but cannot afford to have it running full-time, or on the Android version where memory and processor cycles are very likely to be at a premium:

• Create separate option items for "Start Application and start Service on startup, where "Start Application on startup" would automatically enable service start too.

• Add the behavior that, if both "Start application" and "Start service" at startup are not selected, when the application quits that all subordinate processes are killed as well.
  ** Alternately, there could be an option " 'Quit' also kills background services" that would be enabled if neither of the previous options are selected. (i.e. This option would be greyed-out if either of the two prior options get selected.)

• Add the behavior that, if the service is not running at application startup, that the service gets started silently. (This would also solve the "Cannot Contact Service" issues everyone is reporting!) An exception (error) would only get thrown if the service could not be started within a reasonable amount of time, or after "X" number of attempts.

The justifications for these actions are thus:

• If the user does not want the app to run at startup, he probably has a good reason for not wanting it to run at all. (i.e. He's on a trusted network, etc.) Forcing the user to specifically hunt-down and kill the service, if not selected at startup, is just pissy and annoying.

• If the user wants the service to run at startup, it can be selected. It can even be selected as the default setting during installation.

• In memory starved environments, or operating systems that are just pigs, (make that read "Windows 8"), leaving the service running can impact system performance.

• Android systems, especially on phones, are often memory and processor cycle starved. Leaving potentially unnecessary services running can have a seriously negative impact on performance, causing the user to ultimately un-install the app to avoid the performance crunch.

Thanks again for an excellent application, and I hope that these suggestions will receive expedited consideration.

Jim (JR)

Please see my forum posting on this same topic located at http://forum.goldenfrog.com/t/connect-to-fastest-server-within-a-specific-region/1057/2

Currently VyprVPN has the capability to connect to the "fastest server", which is an excellent feature.

However, there are times when the "fastest" (closest) server is not the best one for me to use.

Example: I am abroad, (outside the U.S.), and I need to connect to a server within the U.S. - somewhere - though it may not really matter where. (My e-mail clients depends on this to successfully send mail.)

As it is now, I select a particular server, (in my case, NY), and automatically connect to it at Windows startup.

What I would like to do is to connect to whatever server is the fastest server within a particular region - be it the U.S., Europe, Australia, etc. This would have certain particular advantages:

1. If my "usual" server, (NY for example), goes down, has issues, or is swamped with connections, my VyprVPN would automagically select another - better - server to connect to.
2. If a new server is added to the region I selected, it would automagically become part of the server pool I can use to connect.
3. If the server rotation feature becomes available - and is integrated with this feature - I would have the potential for a different server location each login - which could be a significant advantage if you want to avoid being geo-location tracked.

Thanks again for a wonderful product!

Jim

I am running XBMC/KODI on a Fire TV and Windows but can't stream content from the USA as it is blocked by my IP.

Can you please provide an add-on for XBMC/KODI? I have seen another VPN provider do this (won't provide link here out of respect). I know I could set this up at the router level, but I don't want to do this for all traffic, just my Fire TV and am unable to do this with my router as far as I can see (RT-AC68U).

Ideally, this would start the VPN whenever I launched KODI, but I could live with running it manually in KODI if required.

I'd just like to suggest that you allow people who were on a paid plan to be able to switch to the free plan. I have very very very limited need for your service. so even though it's a great service, paying a monthly fee wouldn't make sense for me since I don't even login once a month usually.

The only way for me to use the free plan now (since i was a paid member before) is to sign up for another account. It seems pretty silly and wasteful to make people create multiple accounts. Just going to eat up more of your time since people will forget which account is what and either contact support for help finding their other account, or if they cant find their other account they'll just make even more accounts.