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In the VPN Gate public VPN Relay Servers list, is that possible to test the accessability to these servers from local automatically, and only show those accessable servers? In China, a lot of servers in the list have been banned by GFW. User have to try to connect the server one by one manually.

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It’d be great to have a tool that tests the servers automatically and only lists the ones that work in China. That way, users can focus on the accessible options without all the manual testing!

Also interested in such feature. Saves a lot of time. Although this could also be done outside of the software (any python script to scrape the ips would do, really. I don't know how to write such system but I'm sure it will be less trouble than implementing it in the UI)

im the same person as johnmrston, the forum is lively. would be epic to do some maintainance on the software, Iran's situation is crazy. Today they shut down SSH completely and IPV6 is already nuked. a lot of users use vless protocols, but they're both slow and the people selling them are opportunists (unlike vpngate)

Greetings! I'm a user from Russia, and I'd also want to ask for this feature.
The gov. cracks down on VPN services and free information really hard here, and VPNGate is one of my last stands for connecting to the outside world, as it is barely even known here, and, thus, not blocked by the gov. yet, as it is probably considered to be a minor threat or not even used as it is too old and hard to use.

Unfortunately, the client software is very outdated and most of the servers in the list are inaccessible, + refreshing the list doesn't always work (sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, and is just showing the "loading" animation forever.).

It is quite hard to find those few actually accessible servers among a few hundred servers in the list that can't be connected to, and and the list doesn't even remember the position of the scroll between attempts, and if you sort it by connection speed and press "home" or "page up" to go back to the top of the list for best results, it loses the focus on the server that you've tried to connect to last time, and sometimes it's hard to remember on which server you've stopped while trying them one by one.

And the fact that servers abruptly disconnect quite often (getting shut down or otherwise?), and always unexpectedly, sometimes it brings a lot of trouble when you can't quickly connect to another working server and have to spend several minutes (sometimes even 10 minutes or more) trying to find another working server (if there are any left on the list at all, that is).

So yeah, a new / updated client (something like Happ or nekobox, maybe?) with an option to ping the servers locally and find out which ones are actually accessible and their actual ping from user location, and remove inaccessible servers from the list until the next manual list refresh request would be great.

Or maybe make a happ-compatible "subscription" URL for VPNGate servers, if possible?

Vic wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 22, 2026 6:53 pm

Greetings! I'm a user from Russia, and I'd also want to ask for this feature.
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Unfortunately, the client software is very outdated and most of the servers in the list are inaccessible...

Hello, if "outdated" refers to XP-like GUI then you are spellbound by "modern" rot of flat, border-less, contrast-less, blend-mess windows patchwork of W10/W11.

There is no reliable way of verifying local accessibility. Consider this example viewtopic.php?t=69366 where RKN's DPI examines the traffic and after a while blocks it. In short, ping check is inconclusive and traffic check is unfeasible.

Compose your own list of usable servers and create connections to VPN Gate manually viewtopic.php?t=69953