Mayak Blog
We write about what we know from practice: how a private network operates, why a connection sometimes misbehaves, and what to do about it. The topics come from the questions people actually bring to our support.
Our measurements on Megafon, MTS and Beeline in Moscow: on one the connection never establishes, on another it dies after two and a half seconds, the third does not interfere. And why the advice “move it to port 443” does not work.
A “connected” badge proves nothing. Four checks in a minute — address, traffic, DNS and IPv6 — and you know whether the tunnel works or merely looks like it does.
AmneziaWG is WireGuard with the outward shape of its packets changed. What exactly changes, why obfuscation does not make the encryption stronger, and what it costs.
The shield icon is on, yet no page opens. Five real reasons — from expired access to Wi-Fi login screens — and a fix for each.
Servers cost money. If you're not paying, the bill is settled with your connection, your browsing history, or ads injected into your pages. The documented cases, no scare tactics.
Between “Connect” and “Protected”, the app can try up to three routes to the server and verifies each with a real request. How that ladder works.
