Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix

Dangerously close to fake news? This isn’t a political post. Microsoft broke a major feature affecting millions of people. Why do you feel the need to defend that?

Tailscale is what I use

The update is stuck at zero. I am hollowing.

I recommend what’s recommended here: https://thewirednomad.com/vpn

TLDR: Brume 2 for server and Beryl AX for travel router. Most cost effective and best performance. And the Beryl AX has the newest chipset.

Maybe its the dead switch or the server you were connected to? It might be worth to reinstall it. if the above suggestions don’t work.

It doesn’t need to be political to be clickbait or generally fake.

In this case the article doesn’t explain what if any impact this really has. It says “Windows devices might face VPN connection failures after installing the April 2024 security update, or KB5036893.”

What types of devices, what is the probability of these failures, how do these failures manifest?

The complete lack of details means your claim “Microsoft broke a major feature affecting millions of people.” is not verifiable. What was the feature they broke and how many people does it really affect? You can’t say because you don’t actually know.

Because it didn’t break a feature affecting millions of people.

Some users using a very specific VPN feature, that few use, might be impacted.

That’s the point they are making.

That the article grossly misrepresents the reality.

Sounds perfect, very much appreciated

Hey! This is a fantastic resource thank you!

Have you had success using your travel router over very long distances? IE: working from Europe while the home server is west coast USA ?

Thanks in advance :folded_hands:

But it’s not fake. They admit they broke it. It’s real news. We don’t know the impact because Microsoft has an incentive to hide it.

So I’m the author of that website and I’ve actually had a client use this Tailscale setup from Vietnam and was able to still make voice calls perfectly fine. Kind of surprised me due to the latency. So, yeah I think you’d be fine. But gotta watch out for those public DERP relay servers since they throttle the speeds a lot. Bare Wireguard is always the best if possible, but Tailscale is a great backup that just works.

But it’s not fake. They admit they broke it. It’s real news

Them saying that the new update might cause a specific vpn feature to not work is true.

Microsoft broke a major feature affecting millions of people.

this is not.

You can report on a real event and strip away all context and misrepresent it and it be fake news.

You’re doing a major motte and bailey logical fallacy.

Which I said “dangerously close”. It’s technically true, the Microsoft security update could in theory interfere in some VPNs in some very specific and unknown circumstances.

But why I said this was close to fake news is because what you took from that article was “Microsoft broke a major feature affecting millions of people.” Which the article implies, but in reality is not substantiated.

You proved my point that the title of the article is intentionally misleading and gives an impression of a greater scale of a problem that doesn’t appear to actually exist.

But if you are really just hung up on those few words, I struck them out of my comment to resolve this dispute.

Oh wow! Well thank you for your service :saluting_face: it’s a super helpful read.

I happen to have a pi4 sitting at home gathering dust so I’m inspired to fire it up and see if I can make that work!

I haven’t played with networking since I was in school so I’m definitely excited to play around with it :slight_smile:

Awesome! It’s pretty easy, all said and done. The fun comes in trying to setup your own DERP relay server lol.