Later edit: all of the below is, so far, incorrect again. Apparently they completed another round of tests.
Starting midnight today, 2+ hours ago. The connection gets established, but then it interrupts, reestablishes, and so on, in an endless loop. Here, an excerpt from the log. All gates are affected, including premium ones, except somehow Zurich. The resulting quality is abysmal: no pages open at all, and Chrome constantly reacts with a 'network change' error.
Coincides with other network problems which spiked in my region at the same time, so likely another round of DPI censorship. For example they also hurt legit Telegram traffic which works poorly even without VPN.
Can confirm, impossible to connect to any of the free servers in Europe, CA / Montreal still works.
Hard to tell if it's just the Russian 'sovereign internet' problem though, since network load is also all on that Canadian server at 90%, with Euro ones only having 20-30% each.
Well yes, it's just that usually the EU servers for free accounts were always at around 80% capacity during their day time, but for a few weeks now are all at the same 20-30% capacity no matter the time I check them, and Canada is overloaded at 90%. Hence why I'm guessing it's not specifically a Russian region problem.
Thanks for checking, on my end Poland server have started to work again (most of the time), but Amsterdam and Paris still get these messages repeating in the log while trying to re-authenticate:
Try setting the routing mode to bridges in settings!
Geph has two routing modes: directly connect to exits (like other vpns) or connect to exits through an extra hop, called a bridge. Bridges are constantly switched out to prevent getting blocked. In countries with heavy censorship, Geph should always automatically choose to use bridges. Currently if a user is in China or Iran (sophisticated censorship) Geph automatically forces using bridges.
However sometimes when a censor in another country doesn't blacklist exits but instead dynamically detects whether a connection is a VPN connection and cuts it off after a few seconds, Geph can have this bug: a direct connection (not using bridges) gets established, and Geph chooses to use this connection, but then the ISP interrupts the connection and Geph gets stuck. This is a bug.
If turning on force bridges fixes the issue, we're gonna add Russia to the list of countries where Geph always forces bridges
Try setting the routing mode to bridges in settings!
Changing routing to Bridges worked! I looked at that setting before but only having "Auto" and "Bridges" as options for some reason made me think that the latter is the only option and so I didn't touch it, haha