How to use VPN?

[hobanagerik]

@anon44786522

Tough to do though as those servers and speeds can constantly change.

Not tough at all. I’ve already done it twice.

Extremely slow and fluctuating download speeds

Yes, I’m pretty sure it just uses good old HTTPS for transport. Here I set up a display filter to only show traffic leaving my IP, cleared the trace, then hit the install button for the KTEX airport in the “My Content” page: [image] You an see my source port of 62874, and the destination port of 443. I repeated this for another uninstalled purchase, the Carenado Arrow. You can see the conversation get set up, the “Client Hello”, and the key exchange. [image] Client Hello indicates what …

The intent behind the VPN is simply to make the sim believe I am in some other geographic location, and force it to use a different CDN server.

I’m in the UK, so I would set my VPN to terminate in the US, or Japan, for example. I repeat the test, and simply look for lots of 443 traffic, and look back for the “Client Hello”, and “Server Hello” packets. I just found my server!