If you can read this on Reddit, you probably already figured that out. So the point of this post is to share “It’s not a problem on your end”.
Thanks for the update, I was wondering what’s going on. I woke up yesterday to only having bangladesh on my open web and it was barely working. Tried to contact Astrill customer service and they seem to have disabled live chat support. Any idea on the cause of this? Olympics-related maybe?
It is Aug 1. The PLA day.
I tried it, says there’s no available vpn adapter. This is the first time my Astrill has been down in 2 years… right when I need it for my homework assignments
It is frustrating that the “Smart mode” isn’t working at all. It isn’t automatically filtering Chinese and non-Chinese internet traffic right now, have to constantly switch the VPN on and off.
It’s back up and running for the most part now. I was wondering the same. I have to say, it has been nothing but a headache from the start. It seems to take turns every day either being brilliant or not working at all. I’ve never paid such a high price, one year subscription, for such an inconsistent POS in my entire life.
So, what are the differences between openVPN
and StealthVPN modes?
Yep, I was wondering what happened. With OpenGuard, all of the servers were gone.
Just set up your own server in the future! My ladder was working yesterday without any issues.
Anyone else still have trouble connecting to OpenWeb?
A little late to this post but I’m currently having issues with openweb
Astrill constantly shares “don’t discuss workarounds because it makes our job harder to keep our vpn working.”
And people still make reddit posts with tips and tricks and spam in wechat.
You people are the least trustworthy humanbeings on the planet.
“HEY MY ILLEGAL WORKAROUND ISNT WORKING, HERES DISCUSSING IT PUBLICALLY.”
If you’re so inept at digital devices you can’t read on their stealth option that it’s more encrypted, or on their site where it suggests using stealth…i don’t know what to tell you.
Some people shouldn’t have access to this stuff.
ExpressVPN was also killed in August. Could be a full-on crackdown on the Ass-Drill…
I use Star and it has never failed me yet on all devices.
Dec 7th and open web is still down. Never seen such bad and slow support from Astrill. Definitely not renewing
Stopped working yesterday for me. About 3:00
So you disconnect, switch to stealth, reconnect and then you get that message? Does it give any other message first?
yes, only stealth is working (OPENVPN still mia) and I can’t play steam games without turning off VPN. The application filter doesn’t do anything.
I find it odd that people always blame Astrill when it is clearly the government that’s doing something. It’s like living in a flood zone and complaining about the best sandbags on the market still letting a trickle of water through during a large storm.
Astrill is a small Swedish company that is tasked to counteract the work of the second most powerful government in the world. At least we have the options of StealthVPN and such - back, like, in 2012 before those protocols were rolled out when VPNs went down, VPNs went down.
Just from observation, Stealth is higher ping but better hides/changes your location. It can bypass some barriers openweb can’t.