Like if I should connect my VPN I won’t be able to do so many things because of the slow network speed but if I wait for everything to load it will work but it doesn’t really come up with the speed it usually does when I’m not connected to the VPN.
Hope it works for you. I wonder if you're using a terrible VPN provider though. Based on my experience any decent paid VPN doesn't slow down your speed that much. Have you tried different VPN providers or switched server locations? Things will be different if you're using a free service since most of the time they don't allocate enough resources for you, hence the limited speed/quota.
Well, I’m using the free version - since I only get to use it during this period when I’m unable to access anything which doesn’t happen frequently I just didn’t think it was worth paying for any vpn. I have used only two different VPNs and both of them were free and they both showed slow network connection.
I've started reading your post from the former one, no wonder your internet speed becomes slow when you connect to the VPN. Well, this should not deter you or force you to pay for it or not use a VPN again, you should look for a better one, there are many of them that will give you a free pass and will still not slow down your internet speed. Some will even give you options to indicate that some IPs might be slow and others will be fast and will also show their speed strength for you to know the best one to choose.
Proton VPN is one of them but note that nothing is better compared to a paid VPN.