Alternate Ports

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WiTopia currently has alternate port servers in the following cities

Washington, DC Metro (Northern Virginia)

Hong Kong, CN

Manchester, UK

The recommended configuration (detailed instructions below) for using an alternate port server is to have you randomly connect you to one of our available alternate port servers. This will provide you with the greatest reliability and redundancy. However, we also provide you the ability to choose between the CN, UK and the US.

Here are the options available to you

tcpvpn.witopia.net - all alternate port personalVPN™ servers (recommended)

tcpvpn.hkg.witopia.net - alternate port server(s) in Hong Kong, CN

tcpvpn.iad.witopia.net - alternate port server(s) in Northern Virginia

tcpvpn.man.witopia.net - alternate port server(s) in Manchester, UK

You can try our Configuration Maker tool which will allow you to build multiple configuration profiles to make switching from one WiTopia gateway to another point-and-click or you can follow the manual instructions below.

Changing from UDP 1194 to TCP 443

To configure personalVPN™ to use TCP port 443 (the alternate port we have chosen), please do the following:

BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES TO YOUR CONFIGURATION FILE, WE STRONGLY SUGGEST MAKING A BACKUP COPY

1. Disconnect from the VPN
2. Change the config

   If you are running Windows, right-click on the gui icon in the taskbar, select "Edit Config" or

   If you are a Mac user, click on the Tunnelblick icon, choose "Details..." and then "Edit Configuration"

   • Look for the lines beginning with "proto" and "remote" and change them from this:

   proto udp

   remote vpn.witopia.net 1194

   • to exactly this:

   proto tcp

   remote tcpvpn.witopia.net 443 (or choose one of the other options presented above)

   Note: With a Mac, you may have to do the following before Tunnelblick will allow you to save the new configuration

   a. Go into openvpn folder found here: Home Folder -> Library -> openvpn

   b. Highlight/select the personalVPN™ .conf file

   c. Go to File menu at top and choose "Get Info" and change permissions at bottom to allow "everyone" to "Read & Write".

   d. Modify and Save the config again.

3. Save the config
4. Reconnect to the VPN

Proxy Users

Customers required to use a proxy can now use personalVPN™ through a proxy when using TCP 443. Here's what you need to do:

1. Follow the above to edit your config file
2. Add the following additional line to your config file
   • http-proxy [IP Address] [Port] - the IP address and Port should be provided to you by your IT department or ISP

   For example, the config would look like this: http-proxy 123.123.123.123 8080

3. Alternatively, Windows users can configure the Proxy Settings through the OpenVPN GUI
   • Right-click on the gui icon and select "Proxy Settings" and a window similar to this should appear:

   

   • Select "Manual Configuration" and enter the IP Address and Port provided to you by your IT department or ISP, then click "OK"
4. Reconnect to the VPN

Advanced & Adventurous Users

With the latest versions of OpenVPN you can change your configuration file so you can have both TCP & UDP configured and when connecting the VPN will try one, then the other. Here's what you need to do:

1. Follow the above to edit your config file
2. Locate the lines beginning with "proto" and "remote" and change them from this:

   proto udp

   remote vpn.witopia.net 1194

   • to this (its probably easiest to cut and paste this):

   <connection>

   remote vpn.witopia.net 1194 udp

   </connection>

   <connection>

   remote tcpvpn.witopia.net 443 tcp

   </connection>

3. Save the config
4. Reconnect to the VPN