Add manually

Last resort. Four values, and two you should not skip.

Only worth doing when your provider gives neither a file nor a block of text. Typing keys by hand is where mistakes happen, and a mistyped key looks exactly like an expired one.

The four required

1. Private key

   A long string of letters and numbers ending in an equals sign. It identifies your device.

2. Tunnel address

   The address your device takes inside the tunnel. Usually starts with 10.

3. Server endpoint

   A host name and a port, separated by a colon. This is what decides the country.

4. Server public key

   Also ends in an equals sign. Careful, a configuration contains two keys and they are not interchangeable.

DNS and MTU

Swiptv fills the MTU with 1420, the value that works almost everywhere. Leave it alone unless your provider tells you otherwise.

The DNS is the one to care about. If your provider gives you one, put it in. If it does not, Swiptv asks you to confirm before saving, because without it your internet provider still sees which sites you ask for, even though the traffic itself is hidden.

A profile saved without a DNS keeps an orange mark on its page, so you can come back and fix it once you have one.

Where to find the DNS

If you ever had a file or a block of text from your provider, the DNS was already in it, on a line beginning with DNS. Swiptv reads it for you and the question never comes up.

In a manual setup it is written on the provider’s own setup page, usually an address starting with 10. It is fixed for that provider and identical for every customer, so it is not something personal you have to hunt for in your account.

If you run the server yourself, it is your server’s own address inside the tunnel.

Do not invent one. A wrong DNS does not leak, it simply stops names from resolving, and the app then looks broken for no visible reason.

One tip that saves an evening

Paste each value rather than typing it. A single wrong character in a key produces a refused handshake, and nothing on screen can tell you which character it was. If a connection fails right after a manual entry, suspect the keys before anything else.