Demolished speeds with Bitdefender VPN

Has anyone been able to reliably solve the absolute travesty of reduced speed with the VPN enabled? Normally I’m at a 300/30, and with VPN enabled it’s reduced to 5/5…this isn’t sustainable by any means. I completely understand that speeds can be reduced but these are near halted. Has anyone else been able to resolve this? I’ve performed every troubleshooting step I could find and nothing seems to have fixed the issue. I’m at a loss here.

Bitdefender has some steps to increase your speed via VPN (especially to select locations from your country):

https://www.bitdefender.com/consumer/support/answer/82366/

What is your location and to which vpn server did you connect?

I’ve noticed since about mid-year the speeds have been fluctuating. Really badly. Have been looking at an alternative vpn because of it.

I won’t broadcast my exact location but I normally connect to the closest available server in proximity to my location which is perhaps no more than 100 miles away from me.