Has anyone experienced issues with Astrill VPN sharing feature lately?

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I have been using the VPN sharing in Astrill for a very long time and it used to work very well with my Quest 2 VR.

But lately I can’t manage to make it work anymore, I always get this error in the Astrill logs: “Failed to enable ICS on VPN interface. VPN sharing will not work.”

I think I tried everything I know from my side:

  • ICS is running in Windows services

  • Network discovery is enabled for both public and private networks

  • Reinstalled Astrill

  • Run Astrill as Admin

  • Tried on both Win 10 and Win 11: none working

  • Tried with a different internet connection, still no joy.

I contacted Astrill support about this issue but they blamed it on Windows and they got away with that excuse.

At this point I guess i won’t be able to connect my VR to the internet anymore, kind of hopeless :-/

If anyone has encountered this problem and managed to fix it somehow it would be very much appreciated if you let me know.

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astrill is.fucking dogshit. the mods here got paid to promote it just like they did for express which is also shit. do not give astrill any more money

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Not sure about Astrill, but I sideloaded V2Ray onto my Quest 2 and use Wannaflix VPN to still be able to use the Internet.

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JFC

Search the group before posting things about whether a VPN is down.

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Do you really think they’re paying us?

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Thanks for the suggestion! I didn’t know about Wannaflix VPN, I’ll check it out and hopefully I will be able to use again my quest 2 :folded_hands:t2:

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The VPN itself isn’t down. In general it works well for me, just the sharing feature within Astrill isn’t working anymore as it used to do, sadly.

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Give it a try! Use Side Quest (search on Google) to load V2Ray onto the quest. Then you can just use the URL provided by your Wannaflix account and add that to a new subscription on V2Ray. Your available servers will be loaded in and then you can just select one and connect.

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Trying right now :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: I went to the GitHub page of V2Ray and I saw there are several APK versions. which one did you download?

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Ah that’s a pity. Honestly it’s hard to find a decent VPN alternative so I have been using Astrill for 12+ years. Which VPN are you currently using?

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Totally disagree. Been using it for 3 years and it’s a very smooth experience for me.

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I’m afraid I don’t remember. Just try any one which works with Android and it should be fine on the Quest 2. Feel free to keep commenting or PM if there are any problems.

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No worries, thanks much for helping out :saluting_face: