Connecting to Frontier Servers Without Bringing Down VPN

Gabriel Theodoulos

Gabriel Theodoulos
Hello,
Have been trying to connect to the Elite Dangerous Frontier Servers and am receiving an error, "Cannot Connect to Frontier Servers". Have checked the launcher and am seeing that the SERVERS are OK. After playing 20 Questions, I am noticing that I can connect to the Frontier Servers if my VPN is brought down.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

Dropping my VPN is tantamount to dropping your britches in public: its just not done, especially with everyone from your ISP to Amazon wanting to peek into your privates.
 

Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
Why on earth would anyone want to reduce their bandwidth to play ED via a VPN unless they lived in China or somewhere. Some of you people are seriously paranoid if you think you need a VPN for daily days interwebbing?.
 

TransTechGirl

TransTechGirl
A VPN is basically essential if you want to retain any semblance of privacy. I have a similar issue with mine, but haven't found a solution yet.

Working in IT security may well have made me paranoid, but I'd rather that to the alternative.
 

Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
TransTechGirl said:
A VPN is basically essential if you want to retain any semblance of privacy. I have a similar issue with mine, but haven't found a solution yet.

Working in IT security may well have made me paranoid, but I'd rather that to the alternative.
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Here is a must have for all you paranoids :ROFLMAO: (y)
 

Gabriel Theodoulos

Gabriel Theodoulos
Saltyseadog said:
Why on earth would anyone want to reduce their bandwidth to play ED via a VPN unless they lived in China or somewhere. Some of you people are seriously paranoid if you think you need a VPN for daily days interwebbing?.
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It's the same reason why I have curtains and blinds in my windows. I don't believe that I should freely give my info out to my ISP or _. My VPN gives me a 250MB window, which is fine.
 

Ah Clem

Ah Clem
My VPN provider just pushed out a client update that may have solved my problem. I now have the option to use the newer WireGuard protocol rather than the older OpenVPN protocol. I switched and everything seems to be working now. I don't now for sure if that did the trick, or if Frontier made some changes. But if you have that option with your VPN setup it's worth a try.
 

Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
Ah Clem said:
My VPN provider just pushed out a client update that may have solved my problem. I now have the option to use the newer WireGuard protocol rather than the older OpenVPN protocol. I switched and everything seems to be working now. I don't now for sure if that did the trick, or if Frontier made some changes. But if you have that option with your VPN setup it's worth a try.
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Let us hope so, at last we'll stop Frontier spying on our data while playing Elite. :cool:
 

Morbad

Morbad
Saltyseadog said:
Let us hope so, at last we'll stop Frontier spying on our data while playing Elite. :cool:
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Frontier isn't spying on our data. They have whatever your client sends them, VPN or not.

What a VPN can do is obfuscate your IP and geographical location, which has utility enough--especially since everyone you connect in game in any way, even as far as friends lists is given that information. It can also reduce the exposure of your data to third parties.
 

Gabriel Theodoulos

Gabriel Theodoulos
Morbad said:
Frontier isn't spying on our data. They have whatever your client sends them, VPN or not.

What a VPN can do is obfuscate your IP and geographical location, which has utility enough--especially since everyone you connect in game in any way, even as far as friends lists is given that information. It can also reduce the exposure of your data to third parties.
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I'm not running my VPN in behalf of Frontier, but because of the lack of Net Neutrality. A VPN encrypts my data when it leaves the computer/ phone and passes through the ISP or phone carrier. It hinders unwelcome eyes from easily seeing the specifics of my activity. Could they use heavy tools to see what I am doing? Sure, but it will cost them between $12-20,000 to watch what a one-legged old fat man is playing :p.

I've been running PIA as a VPN for years, but lately they've been dropping the ball on quality lately (crashes, poor latency, etc.). Am thinking about migrating to another service. I like what I'm hearing about ExpressVPN and NordVPN, but those boys are pricey.
 
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Saltyseadog

Saltyseadog
Morbad said:
Frontier isn't spying on our data. They have whatever your client sends them, VPN or not.

What a VPN can do is obfuscate your IP and geographical location, which has utility enough--especially since everyone you connect in game in any way, even as far as friends lists is given that information. It can also reduce the exposure of your data to third parties.
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Yes, I know what VPN's do I use one myself at times but they all reduce your download bandwidth by at least 50% and a lot of the same people using them will be posting complaints at these forums on how they can't connect to the servers or their game or graphics are slow and aren't working properly. I get that for certain things you need to take steps to ensure privacy but running Elite Dangerous through a VPN is certainly not on that list.
 

Morbad

Morbad
Saltyseadog said:
Yes, I know what VPN's do I use one myself at times but they all reduce your download bandwidth by at least 50% and a lot of the same people using them will be posting complaints at these forums on how they can't connect to the servers or their game or graphics are slow and aren't working properly. I get that for certain things you need to take steps to ensure privacy but running Elite Dangerous through a VPN is certainly not on that list.
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It's certainly true that connection problems can be the result of a VPN, but bandwidth is nearly irrelevant for this game and properly provisioned VPN doesn't reduce it. A VPN is also not responsible for rendering performance issues.

What level of privacy is important is subjective and it's not at all irrational for someone to not want their IP addresses exposed far and wide. That I can see the external IP of anyone connected to my client, and use that IP address to get their general location or as corroboration of other information (an accurate IP address can easily be the difference between having essentially no idea of someone's real-world identity, to being able to conclusively narrow it to a single individual) that could lead to greater breaches, is rightly concerning to those worried about privacy issues. An extra layer of obfuscation is well worth it to many, even if it occasionally results in issues.
 

Cmdr Zund

Cmdr Zund
Avast Secure Line VPN gave me no problems with Elite Dangerous (ED). Then I switched to Express VPN and ED will not connect. It hangs up on the screen where it shows you your ship and Continue, Social, ect. selections. I made a ticket for this, ED support had no answers but they did tell me that ED data is sent via a secure channel. So there's that I guess. 😐
 

FraggleRock

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To get Elite going with ProtonVPN I have to sometimes switch my Options -> Network -> Network Adapter to be the VPN one (called "Local Area Connection" for me) rather than the direct Ethernet or wifi connection.
 

Cmdr Zund

Cmdr Zund
Ok, I've sorted out a solution ExpressVPN. Disconnect VPN, then go Options > General tab > put a check in the box labeled "Manage connection of a per-app basis" > click the Settings Box just below that > navigate your computer's file directory and add EliteDangerous64.exe.

This worked for me.
 
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