Help

Guides for different situations: they will help you get started, find your way around the service, and move on to the more advanced ways of using it.

• Lopux-VPN on a computer: from the download to the first connection

  This guide is for someone who has nothing yet: no app, no account. It walks through the whole path on Windows and macOS — download the app, create an account, get your config, import it, and connect. It takes about ten minutes.

• Lopux-VPN on Android: from the download to the first connection

  This guide is for someone starting with nothing: no app, no account. It walks the whole path on an Android phone — download the app, install it past two warnings that are supposed to appear, create an account, get your config, import it, and connect. It takes about ten minutes.

• The kill switch on Android

  A VPN protects you while it is up. The question this guide answers is what happens in the seconds when it is not — the tunnel drops, the app is killed, the phone reboots. Without a kill switch your phone quietly carries on over the ordinary network, and nothing tells you.

• Split tunnelling: choosing what goes through the VPN

  Normally everything your device sends goes through the tunnel. Split tunnelling lets you carve out exceptions — a banking app that distrusts foreign addresses, a printer on your own network, a work tool that only answers locally.

• Turning on Lopux-Internet in the desktop app

  Beside the ordinary internet we run one of our own, with names like mysite.lopux that no public DNS knows. This guide turns it on in the desktop app: what the app asks permission for, what that permission can and cannot do, and how to take it back.

• Turning on Lopux-Internet on Android

  Beside the ordinary internet we run one of our own, with names like mysite.lopux that no public DNS knows. This guide turns it on in the Android app.

• Registering a name in Lopux-Internet

  Beside the ordinary internet we run one of our own, with names that exist nowhere else. This guide walks a name's whole life, from creation to deletion: we claim a name, add records to it, then remove them all and give the name back. It assumes you already have an account; if you do not, start with the first guide.

• Putting your own site on a .lopux name

  You have a name in Lopux-Internet; this guide puts a real website behind it, reachable by anyone using the app. If you have no name yet, register one first.

If something here does not match what you see

The app and this site change. Go by the names in the text: a button is called that in your language too, even where a picture beside it shows the English interface.