Hi all, I'm posting on here in the hopes that I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. Before anyone says this, I've already reached out to support and talked it over with them. Needless to say, they've insisted that there is nothing wrong on their end, and that it could be my ISP routing the traffic wrong.
So here's what's going on for me. I'm a returning customer. Therefore I have two shiny new IPs (one for the US and one for the UK) - I kinda miss my old ones tbh. The US one works great over WireGuard and OpenVPN. However, I can't say the same about the UK one. Here are some odd issues I'm getting from the UK one while using the above mentioned protocols - WG and OVPN:
- YouTube thinks I'm from the US (no country abbreviation next to the logo like "GB")
- Pages load very slowly
- Speedtest.net can't seem to find an optimal server to run a test on
-traceroute to something like cloudflare (1.1.1.1) doesn't seem to end
- Websites see me coming from my dedicated IP (more on this later)
- There is no "whois" data for my dedicated IP
After all of this, the only thing that seems to work well for me is Netflix.
The above issues were ONLY present on WG and OpenVPN. The moment I switched to something like OpenConnect, my issues suddenly went away. I'll break them down:
- YouTube was now able to correctly assume my location (hooray!)
- Speeds were MUCH better and things actually loaded for me
- Speedtest.net was able to run tests for me (FINALLY!) but it showed me coming from a different IP (I assume it was the pool/server IP that TG is using)
- Whois returns a wealth of data about the IP I'm coming from.
The fact that after these two tests, I seem to be transmitting two different IPs. This seems very sus and I don't believe I've ever had this issue before.
So I'm asking everyone here: Have YOU had this issue? Right now, my solution is to just use openconnect, and forget about WG and OpenVPN for my UK IP.
It's been less than a few hours since I re-registered and got my IPs, so who knows? Maybe things will change in the next 24-48 hours, maybe they won't.
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Hi all, I'm posting on here in the hopes that I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. Before anyone says this, I've already reached out to support and talked it over with them. Needless to say, they've insisted that there is nothing wrong on their end, and that it could be my ISP routing the traffic wrong.
So here's what's going on for me. I'm a returning customer. Therefore I have two shiny new IPs (one for the US and one for the UK) - I kinda miss my old ones tbh. The US one works great over WireGuard and OpenVPN. However, I can't say the same about the UK one. Here are some odd issues I'm getting from the UK one while using the above mentioned protocols - WG and OVPN:
- YouTube thinks I'm from the US (no country abbreviation next to the logo like "GB")
- Pages load very slowly
- Speedtest.net can't seem to find an optimal server to run a test on
-traceroute to something like cloudflare (1.1.1.1) doesn't seem to end
- Websites see me coming from my dedicated IP (more on this later)
- There is no "whois" data for my dedicated IP
After all of this, the only thing that seems to work well for me is Netflix.
The above issues were ONLY present on WG and OpenVPN. The moment I switched to something like OpenConnect, my issues suddenly went away. I'll break them down:
- YouTube was now able to correctly assume my location (hooray!)
- Speeds were MUCH better and things actually loaded for me
- Speedtest.net was able to run tests for me (FINALLY!) but it showed me coming from a different IP (I assume it was the pool/server IP that TG is using)
- Whois returns a wealth of data about the IP I'm coming from.
The fact that after these two tests, I seem to be transmitting two different IPs. This seems very sus and I don't believe I've ever had this issue before.
So I'm asking everyone here: Have YOU had this issue? Right now, my solution is to just use openconnect, and forget about WG and OpenVPN for my UK IP.
It's been less than a few hours since I re-registered and got my IPs, so who knows? Maybe things will change in the next 24-48 hours, maybe they won't.
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