Public or private network? Which should we utilize?

[Goldendexter]

I heard it's better if windows thinks I'm on a private network. Is this true? Could this be causing disconnects?

 

[koala]

Windows doesn't work "better" or "worse" if you choose this or that network type. The type decides how the Windows firewall will handle accepting or rejecting incoming and outgoing connections. It's security and protection against hacks, not performance or reliability.

Rule of thumb:

• if you are at home in your LAN/WLAN behind the NAT router from your ISP, choose "private" network
• otherwise choose "public" network

 

[Goldendexter]

ah, interesting. Thank you so much for the reply. I changed mine to private and I also added OBS to the exceptions to the firewall.