VPN on mobile - does direct APN still work?

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#303082 15-Jan-2023 17:59

Hi, have recently switched from spark to 2D for mobile but can’t seem to get WireGuard working on the cell network.

Have found the posts recommending changing the APN to direct but this seems to make no difference.

This was working perfectly fine on Spark but a no go on 2D. Works fine when I’m on wifi as well.

The tunnel opens but it looks like no handshakes complete, the phone sends data but no data is recieved by the phone.

Any ideas? Hopefully I’m missing something simple.

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#3021693 15-Jan-2023 18:21

WireGuard works fine on 2degrees mobile.

Where is your WireGuard server though? did you switch your home broadband to 2degrees? If you did then you’re likely on CG-NAT now so don’t have a public IP address.

Have a look at Tailscale (https://tailscale.com/) or Zerotier. I also recommend Cloudflare Zero Trust + Cloudflare Tunnel as solutions that work well behind CG-NAT.

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#3021702 15-Jan-2023 19:03

Nope home still on slingshot as it was before. Only thing that’s changed is mobile from spark to 2D.

Are you using WireGuard on 2D? If so what settings are you using that work?

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#3021713 15-Jan-2023 19:28

Super weird, within an hour of posting it’s started working after not having worked since changeover in late Dec.

Not the only weird behaviour unfortunately, have also had a couple of instances where mobile data just stops with full coverage and won’t come back even with a restart.

Fingers crossed all good from here.

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#3021721 15-Jan-2023 20:38

WireGuard has been super reliable with me. Sounds like your WireGuard server may have had issues or was perhaps missing the iptables rules required to make it work. Nothing at all special with my setup also and 2degrees does nothing with this traffic apart from pass it through.

If you’re using PiVPN then run the connection troubleshooter and it’ll fix everything up for you.

Glad it’s all working though.

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#3021752 16-Jan-2023 07:38

scottr: Super weird, ... Not the only weird behaviour unfortunately, have also had a couple of instances where mobile data just stops with full coverage and won’t come back even with a restart. ...

Also had a super weird issue. Made changes to data sharing & the mobile phone sharing the data lost its data connection, but the phone receiving the shared data remained online throughout. A phone call to customer support on day +1 & then on day +2, things came right by themselves. 🤷

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