ProtonVPN : script to automatically switch to the fastest connexion

acom1

Hi everyone,

I use protonvpn and I would like to know if it's possible to edit my openvpn.conf script as it would do the following thing : automatically detect the fastest vpn within a set of different possible connexions and eventually (re)connect to it.

My situation is this one : protonvpn let you choose between several vpn connexions (spain via iceland, france via sweden, etc.) and the protonvpn website displays the current speed of these different connexions. So I configured my openvpn.conf following the tutorial there (maketecheasier.com/connect-vpn-automatically-linux) in order to automatically connect to my the vpn connexion I choose. It's a very nice improvement of course since before I had to manually enable the vpn connexion. However, the different connexions speed varies constantly and so does the quality of my "internet experience".

This is why I would like to know how I can easily switch between the different vpn connexions offered by protonvpn OR in the best scenario, how to code a script that regularly pings the different vpn connexions and (re)switch to the fastest. But is that even possible ?

I am quiet noob in programming, I only have some fragile basics but I'm really willing to learn and will appreciate any of your advices. Thanks in advance by the way.

Great day to everyone

acom

TinCanTech

This is not possible ..

acom1

really ? why not ?

TinCanTech

How is the client supposed to tell which server is fastest ?

acom1

pinging it ? I don't know exactly I was just assuming it was possible for the client to do so. ProtonVPN gives an indicator of the speed of its different servers so ... but let's put this aspect aside for now then and let me reformulate my question :
is it possible to configure openvpn as it could switch between different vpn servers ? like in a list ? for instance, is it possible to make it switch to a specific server at a specific time ? thanks for your replies!

TinCanTech

acom1 wrotepinging it

That does not tell you which server is fastest ..

acom1 wrote is it possible to configure openvpn as it could switch between different vpn servers ? like in a list ? for instance, is it possible to make it switch to a specific server at a specific time ?

Not within Openvpn .. maybe you can use cron or systemd but not openvpn.

What you want will not ever be done within openvpn, it will be a wrapper application and it will have to be supported by what ever VPN service provider (or who ever) writes it.

Openvpn provide the VPN .. everybody else can do what they like with it.

acom1

alright ! thanks for your replies