luckystrike
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Question of the day ~ Do you use free public wifi?
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XperiAnce
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So Battlefield V ended up being about 12ms worse (171 to 183) but all those servers are hosted in Germany. I'll try Rainbow 6 now which has Ireland and Netherlands servers.
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Yea so this VPN server hits London from Cape Town at 150-151ms vs the normal 141-142, so when i use it basically my normal ping is increased by 10ms since i am hitting London at +10.
When playing Apex i use it to get better ping to Belgium and Finland only at the cost of every other ping going up by 10.
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It's connected to Rainbow 6 Netherlands. The ping is worse (8ish Ms), however this is a godsend. When Ubisoft created South African servers, it meant matchmaking took over an hour. It was virtually dead. Now I can actually get back into this game by being in a populated region.
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Yes, matchmaking is also partly the reason for the VPN
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My Xbox is going to pull everything through this vpn now, including multiGB patches. Will this mess with the service / get me in trouble / mess with your capacity? Would you ideally like me to toggle if doing a big DL or does it not really matter?
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PC is great, you can just set it in the config file
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Nah, all fine.
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Hi @TheRoDent
Referring to this thread https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...g-the-promised-latency.1149704/#post-29030762
Any ideas on when/if we are getting a SACS vpn for BR?
Referring to this thread https://mybroadband.co.za/forum/thr...g-the-promised-latency.1149704/#post-29030762
Any ideas on when/if we are getting a SACS vpn for BR?
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Hello!
I saw this this morning on my default cool Ideas connection! Have you guys started routing some ip's to Singapore? I know its not to all Singapore ip's Since pings in game are still high even if you pick Singapore
Kind regards
Hello!
I saw this this morning on my default cool Ideas connection! Have you guys started routing some ip's to Singapore? I know its not to all Singapore ip's Since pings in game are still high even if you pick Singapore
Kind regards
Soul Assassin
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It has been like that for ages now, 3 months at least.
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That provider peers in JHB and goes via SAFE
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its cool ideas themselves.... I just want to find a way to connect to Singapore without having to jump to an other service provider in South Africa first
CrypticZA
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Nah its the server host all ISP's are seeing this ping, i researched it as soon as it came outits cool ideas themselves.... I just want to find a way to connect to Singapore without having to jump to an other service provider in South Africa first
Cool Ideas Fibre ISP – Feedback Thread 4
I've complained about FrogFail here many times. I've had fiber with FrogFail since October 2018. @PBCool and @TheRoDent and many other support staff at CoolIdeas have tried to help me - and CoolIdeas have always gone the extra mile - I have had CoolIdeas equipment here at my house to try and...
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We had the discussion here host name is Unitas Global they provide servers for a few games and most ISP's are seeing this same latency to this server.
With the recent google capacity issues in JHB, it started affecting my gaming traffic where the servers are hosted on google cloud, so I decided to setup a VPN tunnel on my mikrotik that automatically starts up the VPN connection to the CISP UK VPN whenever a device on the network tries to access google cloud.
This allows me to bypass the JHB POP giving me lower latency and no more disconnects.
I hope the dial on demand wont cause CISPs logs to get spammed to much with all the disconnecting and reconnecting whenever its used.
This is very convenient for me because I dont have to worry about manually connecting & disconnecting from the VPN all the time.
I thought I would share the setup I have if anyone is interested (use the firewall rules at your own risk though) - RouterOS 7.x
This allows me to bypass the JHB POP giving me lower latency and no more disconnects.
I hope the dial on demand wont cause CISPs logs to get spammed to much with all the disconnecting and reconnecting whenever its used.
This is very convenient for me because I dont have to worry about manually connecting & disconnecting from the VPN all the time.
I thought I would share the setup I have if anyone is interested (use the firewall rules at your own risk though) - RouterOS 7.x
Code:
#Address list
/ip firewall address-list
add address=34.104.116.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.116.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.118.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.124.52.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.88.0.0/16 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.104.96.0/21 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.124.32.0/21 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.203.232.0/21 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.217.0.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.220.26.0/24 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.228.0.0/16 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.242.26.0/24 list=gcc_eu
add address=8.34.208.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=8.34.211.0/24 list=gcc_eu
add address=8.34.220.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=23.251.128.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.76.0.0/14 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.140.0.0/16 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.187.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.187.160.0/19 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.189.192.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.190.192.0/19 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.195.0.0/16 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.205.0.0/16 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.206.128.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.210.0.0/16 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.220.96.0/19 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.233.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.240.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.241.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.242.64.0/19 list=gcc_eu
add address=104.155.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=104.199.0.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=104.199.66.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=104.199.68.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=104.199.72.0/21 list=gcc_eu
add address=104.199.80.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=104.199.96.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=130.211.48.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=130.211.64.0/19 list=gcc_eu
add address=130.211.96.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=146.148.2.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=146.148.4.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=146.148.8.0/21 list=gcc_eu
add address=146.148.16.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=146.148.112.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=192.158.28.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.89.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.105.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.142.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.147.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.189.64.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.197.192.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.203.210.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.203.212.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.203.216.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.214.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.220.20.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.230.128.0/19 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.234.128.0/19 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.235.48.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.242.20.0/22 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.242.128.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.246.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.89.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.104.112.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.107.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.124.48.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.141.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.198.64.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.198.128.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.207.64.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.207.128.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.220.18.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.234.64.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.235.32.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.242.18.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.242.192.0/18 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.246.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.90.0.0/15 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.104.126.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.124.62.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.141.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.147.0.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.204.0.0/16 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.214.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.220.16.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.234.160.0/20 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.242.16.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.65.0.0/16 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.104.110.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=34.124.46.0/23 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.216.128.0/17 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.220.44.0/24 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.235.216.0/21 list=gcc_eu
add address=35.242.44.0/24 list=gcc_eu
#Routing Table
/routing table
add disabled=no fib name=GCC
#Mangle
/ip firewall mangle
add action=mark-routing chain=prerouting comment="Google Cloud - EU" dst-address-list=gcc_eu new-routing-mark=GCC passthrough=no
#Route
/ip route
add comment="Google Cloud - EU - CISP VPN" disabled=no distance=1 \
dst-address=0.0.0.0/0 gateway=cisp-vpn pref-src="" routing-table=GCC \
scope=30 suppress-hw-offload=no target-scope=10
#NAT
add action=masquerade chain=srcnat comment="NAT - CISP VPN" out-interface=cisp-vpn
#PPP Profile
/ppp profile
add change-tcp-mss=yes idle-timeout=3s name=cisp-vpn use-encryption=yes
#VPN Interface
/interface sstp-client
add comment="Cool Ideas - UK VPN" connect-to=ukvpn.cisp.co.za dial-on-demand=\
yes disabled=no keepalive-timeout=10 max-mtu=1460 name=cisp-vpn profile=\
cisp-vpn tls-version=only-1.2 user=test password=test
#Firewall - use these firewall rules at your own risk
/ip firewall filter
add action=accept chain=forward comment="Allow established & related - Forward" connection-state=established,related
add action=accept chain=input comment="Allow established & related - Input" connection-state=established,related
add action=drop chain=input comment="Drop All - Input - CISP VPN" in-interface=cisp-vpn
add action=drop chain=forward comment="Drop All - Forward - CISP VPN" in-interface=cisp-vpn
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You are a genius, well done. I never thought about doing a split-tunnel on the mikrotik itself. Would have saved me a few grey hairs.
I have been experiencing the problem since last year. See that you use SSTP and not OpenVPN. The config supports both although I remember the Mikrotik had a quirk on the OpenVPN handshake which required a patch.
There is a debate that OPENVPN is faster but it makes no difference if sstp works just as well, In actual fact, sstp is far easier to implement!
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@Jason-ZA
So, your address list is interesting. What are those ranges specifically?
I'd be happy to give you a BGP feed that might make it easier to populate that list more dynamically. If it is a specific AS number.
Alternatively, maybe we could setup a cloud router, and you can populate the list? Might be useful.
I complained about this very thing years ago, when I wrote some scripts to do routing on a "local-only" DSL account, and approached several ISP's for a BGP feed, and got turned down. Had to write scripts that would login to public route servers, and create a list.
Would love to help.
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I got all my ranges from here: https://www.gstatic.com/ipranges/cloud.json
There is a similar one for AWS: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json
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Ok, the region info is not something that we'd typically receive on a BGP feed.
But with some scripting to pull the json, and some clever use of BGP communities, this can be turned into a CISP "service".
Keen?