Has anyone else noticed that (at least for me) there are no Windows 10 updates when OpenVPN is running? In order to receive updates, I have to manually disable my VPN connection. If it is running, W10 reports that there are no updates available or displays some error message, which I’ve forgotten.
Anyway, do you know what’s causing this issue and how to disable it? To be honest, I’m rather satasfied to be able to determine the time Windows installs updates, but I’d still like to know what’s causing this.
I’m not sure I usually dont run my VPN for longer than it takes for my torrent to complete. You’re saying you cant even manually start the downloads when connected as well? or at least they dont show up at all when connected to even start downloading?
The updates either don’t show up at all, or I get some error code which I’ve forgotten. These days, they just don’t show up. As soon as I disable my VPN connection they are available again.
That being said, I assume my server’s IP is not really known, since it is just a server VM where I’ve installed OpenVPN. Ths, it’s not a real VPN provider.
Something goofy is going on there then. Not a metered connection issue. Are you connecting to your own personal VPN setup or a paid service? It might be they have blocked updates to mitigate some bandwidth usage.
Edit: I’m out of ideas then. Could be microshaft fuckery.
As a completely different note: When my VPN was quite new, I captured my traffic using Wireshark and noticed that Skype (which belongs to MS) ignores the VPN. This was interesting as well, since as far as I know this has to happen on the OS level. (Just like ignoring the hosts file)
It’s really easy if you’ve got a router that supports it, but I totally understand not having the time/being lazy. Why do you think I’m on L1T and not updating Confluence docs right now?
I dont want my whole network on the VPN, just one box. I tried setting something up with a DO droplet once but could never get the damn thing to connect. I tried pptpd, openvpn, etc. None of it seemed to want to work. I ended up just going for PIA which is much slower for me but works with everything.
I guess it does (on PIA that is, couldnt figure out why it didnt on the droplet) but I figured since its a windows client I would just use the built in one. I dont really care if windows stuff goes out on my public IP so long as my torrent traffic is buried so my ISP doesnt shit themselves, which they have done in the past. AFAIK split tunneling on 10 doesnt matter if its the built in client or openvpn. 10 just doesnt give a shit.
I want to move to linux, but I also want to not have to spend hours tinkering to get my games to run right, or media playback to be as smooth. Also im team green and the drivers in linux leave something to be desired.