This VPN really rates about 2-1/2 stars. But all the VPN's out there have issues. When NordVPN does connect the speeds are good, and the connections stable. I'm not sure how many issues are the VPN providers faults, or the server firewall software that tries to thwart the use of VPN's for security (or the inability to track you).
Here are some worthwhile tips? tricks? for getting the VPN to work correctly, and connect to some stubborn websites.
1.) The first one is to close, and re-open your browser, it, if you have the VPN set to open with Firefox this will help it sync up.
2.) The second is to not run the System (O/S) NordVPN application at the same time as the Firefox NordVPN extension add-on. The first tip/trick seems to work most time though, if the VPN doesn't sync to the Firefox browser on the first try.
I have Firefox set to reopen last browser session, and have had good luck on the second opening trick. Hopefully the software will improve sometime in the near future and we can leave the tricks to the video gaming folks.