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Offline dx90

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I'm using Torgaurd VPN software on my windows PC and the PC won't connect to Ecowitt.com or Ecowitt.net web sites.

Why can't I connect to Ecowitt using my VPN software and has anyone else had or is having the same problem?

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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2022, 08:04:09 AM »
By sites, do you mean the sales sites, or the sites for your data?
Both are working for me. Did they ever work with your VPN software? Have they worked without your VPN software?

It is possible the site is blocking the IP range used by the VPN
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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2022, 09:05:13 AM »
Same here. Problem is not on the TG side. CCP has obviously blocked Torgaurd VPN's (and many other) IP addresses.
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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2022, 05:41:46 AM »
Same here. Problem is not on the TG side. CCP has obviously blocked Torgaurd VPN's (and many other) IP addresses.

That explains that. It used to be able to connect just fine and now it doesn't. What a shame. I always use my VPN as extra security. I do not like to turn it off.

Thanks both for your help.

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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2022, 02:58:51 AM »
That explains that. It used to be able to connect just fine and now it doesn't. What a shame. I always use my VPN as extra security. I do not like to turn it off.
unless you want to hide your visit to the weather server (ecowitt.net) or the sales site (ecowitt.com), your connection should be safe enough (encrypted) with the SSL protocol (https://) - no VPN needed for that.
But for other use cases this can be different.
Some services like NordVPN allow an interruption for a certain time (1 minute, 5 minutes etc.) and will re-build the VPN connection after that time - that might work and be sufficient for checking the sites once in a while.
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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2022, 07:47:30 AM »
I use VPNUnlimited and experience the same issue.  I cannot connect to ecowitt.com or ecowitt.net If I enable the VPN.  I have to check whether my VPN allows a "pause".

 

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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2022, 04:43:04 PM »
Some sites block the use of VPN, and then you cannot access these sites. The only way to bypass this blocking is through proxy servers. I usually use private proxies for ad verification since this is the way to ensure privacy that allows me to use any sites I don't need without access problems. Using a proxy, the client first connects to the proxy server and requests some resource located on another server. Then the proxy server connects to the specified server and gets the resource from it or returns it from its cache.
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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2022, 05:07:31 PM »
Here is the deal, some countries  will block anything they don't like. They maintain a list IPs that doesn't meet their criteria , some like the CCP block known VPN IPs , (Which could be viewed as a form of a proxy) , addresses because , to them, it shields the actual address of the user.

I have no idea what you are meaning by a proxy, as that can have a number of various interpretations on what the proxy does.


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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2022, 06:19:59 AM »
Most likely, these sites block your access because you use VPN. Therefore many owners and moderators of the site do not want a person to try to hide their location somehow. Therefore, you will have to access these sites only by finding a whitelisted IP with VPN or simply by abandoning this application. When I created my website, I first purchased the IP checker API from apiip.net to see which users use VPN or proxy servers. And as a rule, those who managed to bypass the protection were spammers who were quickly banned by moderation. I Hope my reply will help ya!
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Re: Torgaurd VPN software on PC won't connect to Ecowitt web sites.
« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2022, 08:11:14 AM »
Most likely, these sites block your access because you use VPN. Therefore many owners and moderators of the site do not want a person to try to hide their location somehow.
indirectly yes - but not because you use VPN, the site won't know that, but because your IP address belongs to a country (or a service) from and to where they don't want a connection to take place - it's the IP address given to the VPN user by the VPN server.
And it's not the target site which blocks the IP (usually), but the filtering and blocking takes place much earlier, e.g. in a central internet node of the country where the target site is located.

You could probably work around this issue using a Torguard VPN server in a country which is not blacklisted.
Of course, if the blocking agency has a complete list of all VPN servers of all VPN providers (or in this case only the Torguard VPN servers), then a connection from there could be identified as a VPN connection (but this VPN connection ends at the VPN server - later on it is open).

I think what they want to avoid/block is that someone from their country uses such a VPN server to circumvent the IP address blocking to services outside the country. So they do not allow the VPN server to be contacted from within their country - which also means that no information can flow back even if the VPN server contacted a server inside the country. So you can probably contact but won't receive a response.
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