There’s a “hub” mode where your endpoint inside the network grants access to the whole network like a standard VPN server.

Incompetent seems pretty spot on since it can’t even burn the trash.

HIPAA covers the spreading of medical information by anyone who’s not the patient themselves.

You’re the popcorn of the rich.

A VPN is only as much of a security improvement as the service behind it. If it gets installed in a shady way, how much trust can you put into the service?

Not that unusual depending on the software. A lot of them honour the TTL literally.

One enterprise software I know that does it is VMware vcenter. I’m sure there’s plenty of consumer software that retries excessively.

If a lot of it is chrome you might’ve identified the issue that’s actually plaguing you already.

Why not switch to Firefox+ublock… and… you complain about sign in requests when using incognito? Yeah, well, that won’t be different anywhere.

You sound more troll than 30 toolbars in IE4.