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Issues with public wifi

Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 1:48 am
by mrbaseball
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?

Re: Issues with public wifi

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:02 pm
by Traffic
What is the IP address of your server LAN ?

Re: Issues with public wifi

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:57 pm
by mrbaseball
Not sure. What difference does it make?

Re: Issues with public wifi

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 7:21 am
by maikcat
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.

Re: Issues with public wifi

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 2:17 pm
by Traffic
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.

Re: Issues with public wifi

Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2015 3:34 pm
by mrbaseball
Ip address is 10.0.0.1

Re: Issues with public wifi

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:06 am
by maikcat
Traffic wrote: If you need further assistance please post your server config and log.

I agree,

Michael.

Re: Issues with public wifi

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 1:29 pm
by Traffic
mrbaseball wrote:Any idea what is wrong?
The Magic-8-ball says:
"Cannot predict now"

Re: Issues with public wifi

Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 3:33 am
by simonvm
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.