Issues with public wifi

mrbaseball · Post by **mrbaseball** » Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:48 am

OpenVPN setup and works great at home on my laptop and my Iphone 6. However, when I go anywhere else that has public wifi I constantly get connection timeouts and it never works. Whenever I switch wifi off to LTE, service starts working again. Any idea what is wrong?

Traffic · Post by **Traffic** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:02 pm

What is the IP address of your server LAN ?

mrbaseball · Post by **mrbaseball** » Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:57 pm

Not sure. What difference does it make?

Post by **maikcat** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:21 am

mrbaseball wrote: Reply with quote Post Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 11:57 pm
Re: Issues with public wifi
Not sure. What difference does it make?

Are you sure you want help?

Michael.

Traffic · Post by **Traffic** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 2:17 pm

Traffic wrote:What is the IP address of your server LAN ?

If your server LAN is 192.168.0.0/24 or 192.168.1.0/24 then:

NOTE: your local LAN uses the extremely common subnet address 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x. Be aware that this might create routing conflicts if you connect to the VPN server from public locations such as internet cafes that use the same subnet.

If you need further assistance please post your server config and log.

mrbaseball · Post by **mrbaseball** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:34 pm

Ip address is 10.0.0.1

Post by **maikcat** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:06 am

Traffic wrote: If you need further assistance please post your server config and log.

I agree,

Michael.

Traffic · Post by **Traffic** » Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:29 pm

mrbaseball wrote:Any idea what is wrong?

The Magic-8-ball says:
"Cannot predict now"

simonvm · Post by **simonvm** » Tue Mar 03, 2015 3:33 am

Does it happen with all public WiFi? It could be due to port blocking. Are you using standard port 1194? Maybe try changing to 443 if you're running your own server.