Afrihost Gaming PPTP [alpha]

[valjeanh]

Tried both not working, I'm with Vuma

 

[PatchTuesday]

any OpenWRT wizards here? Trying this on my setup but running into a few snags

 

[13en]

any OpenWRT wizards here? Trying this on my setup but running into a few snags

Hi @animehero , on Openwrt you need to create a firewall rule src wan dest input(this device) TCP port 1723 , assuming you already have the required packages installed ppp-mod-pptp kmod-nf-nathelper-extra , ssh to your router then paste the below.
cat << EOF >> /etc/sysctl.conf
net.netfilter.nf_conntrack_helper=1
EOF
service sysctl restart

If you followed the guide to install and setup the vpn, the only missing step is the firewall rule, I ran into the same issue then fixed it by creating the rule.
Additional steps required for Openwrt , edit /etc/ppp/options.pptp and comment out #mppe required,no40,no56,stateless , If you still have issues create the below fw rule.
config rule
option src 'wan'
option name 'Allow-GRE'
list proto 'gre'
option target 'ACCEPT'

 

[Death-Angel-ZA]

Started using this. Many thanks. Sometimes marginally better for playing fortnite to EU servers. There seems to be a 20ms delay at amazon cpt for some reason. It fluctuates but makes playing almost impossible. I used to get 130-140 ping to EU but now it's more like 150-180 ping to EU, unplayable at times without blatantly camping!

 

[Death-Angel-ZA]

Screenshots to show you what's happening.

 

[AfriNatic]

Screenshots to show you what's happening.

I'm busy installing Fortnite now to see if I can capture the in-game server being used It's probably different to the one you are doing a pingplotter to.

Want to test from the pptp to see the route. I think traffic is via JHB for AWS in some cases.

 

[Death-Angel-ZA]

I'm busy installing Fortnite now to see if I can capture the in-game server being used It's probably different to the one you are doing a pingplotter to.

Want to test from the pptp to see the route. I think traffic is via JHB for AWS in some cases.

Great thanks!

 

[AfriNatic]

Great thanks!

After a few tests it seems that in Fortnite EU means exactly that EU. There are a bunch of servers from different providers some Amazon AWS and some Microsoft Azure.

The few tests I did was mainly UK London and France Paris and both were Microsoft Azure servers

UK: 172.166.235.67
FR: 4.233.130.126

The problem with Microsoft Azure is they accept the traffic for these servers locally in CPT or JHB but when the traffic comes back they give it to us somewhere in Europe and that is what is causing the latency. This has been a known issue with Microsoft and there isn't much we can do about it unfortunately, because they don't have to listen to us even if we complain.

 

[Death-Angel-ZA]

After a few tests it seems that in Fortnite EU means exactly that EU. There are a bunch of servers from different providers some Amazon AWS and some Microsoft Azure.

The few tests I did was mainly UK London and France Paris and both were Microsoft Azure servers

UK: 172.166.235.67
FR: 4.233.130.126

The problem with Microsoft Azure is they accept the traffic for these servers locally in CPT or JHB but when the traffic comes back they give it to us somewhere in Europe and that is what is causing the latency. This has been a known issue with Microsoft and there isn't much we can do about it unfortunately, because they don't have to listen to us even if we complain.

I appreciate your time and that makes sense. I thought I was going mad, but something has definitely changed in their setup. Thanks again. I will need to take this up with Epic support.

 

[ronnie_94]

Anyone managed to set this up with the tp link ex511?