New Latency Problem After Years Of Use
Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2023 5:16 am
Hi all,
I’m having a new issue and am trying to troubleshoot - hoping the community may have some advice. I have been very happily using OpenVPN on my Ubiquiti Er-X’s for years. The location of my router is in Georgia, USA. Speeds have been more than acceptable. I am currently in South Korea at a hotel whose Wi-Fi I has successfully used this particular VPN several times in the past. On this visit, I’m able to connect, but have little to no connectivity.
My server is intended to be secure and pushes all DNS requests through the remote gateway. Here’s the weird thing…. I have no problems accessing local resources (ie Remote Desktop) on the server LAN, but anything else gets zero connectivity. I have tried bypassing DNS and entering IP addresses directly as well.
A ping test of my server’s DNS and of Google’s (8.8.8.8) yields ping times between 200-300ms with 5-10% packet loss.
I have tried this both on the hotel Wi-Fi and on local South Korean cellular. Any suggestions what might be going on? If I hadn’t previously used my VPN successfully on this hotel wi-fi I might just chalk it up to being too far away from my server. Interestingly enough, I have tried on a very similar OpenVPN server in Florida with the exact same results. Any thoughts? Thanks all.
I’m having a new issue and am trying to troubleshoot - hoping the community may have some advice. I have been very happily using OpenVPN on my Ubiquiti Er-X’s for years. The location of my router is in Georgia, USA. Speeds have been more than acceptable. I am currently in South Korea at a hotel whose Wi-Fi I has successfully used this particular VPN several times in the past. On this visit, I’m able to connect, but have little to no connectivity.
My server is intended to be secure and pushes all DNS requests through the remote gateway. Here’s the weird thing…. I have no problems accessing local resources (ie Remote Desktop) on the server LAN, but anything else gets zero connectivity. I have tried bypassing DNS and entering IP addresses directly as well.
A ping test of my server’s DNS and of Google’s (8.8.8.8) yields ping times between 200-300ms with 5-10% packet loss.
I have tried this both on the hotel Wi-Fi and on local South Korean cellular. Any suggestions what might be going on? If I hadn’t previously used my VPN successfully on this hotel wi-fi I might just chalk it up to being too far away from my server. Interestingly enough, I have tried on a very similar OpenVPN server in Florida with the exact same results. Any thoughts? Thanks all.