Surfshark with OpenVPN (UDP) & (TCP) both Work Flawlessly

[pronoctic]

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What worked? Surfshark has been working without any issues when choosing either OpenVPN (UDP) or OpenVPN (TCP) in the VPN settings page.

What did not work? Haven't had any luck when choosing the Wireguard protocol.

Debug Information:

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[Raphty]

thank you for the report, are you on windows 10 or 11? or on what linux distro?

[pronoctic]

Oh, completely forgot to mention that. I'm on Windows 10

Although its been working without any issues, I'm still testing several other VPN providers because I get a significant speed drop in both TCP and UDP OpenVPN options respectively. But it has nothing to do with Portmaster as when I stop portmaster completely I still get the same significant speed drop.

Surfshark has 3 options to choose from Wireguard, OpenVPN (TCP), OpenVPN (UDP) -- and both openvpn options are significantly slower accross basically all the servers I've chosen from their list.

apologies for the closed/open issue, ran a script for my keyboard macros and it just went crazy

[Raphty]

for context surfshark seems to have worked for longer see: #785

that ticket was also mentioned in the wiki: https://wiki.safing.io/en/Portmaster/App/Compatibility

it is good to get updates from time to time, which is why I am linking the two issues.

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