Just to add, Nord also does a TLS renegotiation every hour - this is done on the sever side, to ensure perfect forward secrecy for the static session key. Leave these values to "-1" or default on Asus router.
Also, TCP/UDP timeouts can happen every few days due to your ISP going down, or if...
Have used the following, so personal experience only.
- PIA:
Pros: Proven No Logs, Speed Average and Good Price Point
Cons: No Netflix Support (Proxy error) / 5 Eyes Country *Firmly trust their no logs policy*
- Nord
Pros: Netflix Working, Lots of servers and you can choose a server/...
I am running RT-AC66U, with Asus Merlin. I subscribed to Nord and set it up according to their instructions on the website. The connection worked, stayed up for about a day, and would drop usually a ping time out error. Contacted support, was told that's quite normal..... Yes, sometimes there's...