Uptime
This is the length of time that this VPN has been up
Roundtrip
This is the round trip time (RTT) for an IP packet from your device to your friend’s and back
RTT can tell you a lot about your connection to your friend. 834ms like you see in this dialog is really a long time. For example, if I ping google.com I see RTTs in the 30ms range.
With an 834ms RTT for packets you can expect that communications to this peer will feel laggy. This is not anything related to Gabriel, but is more a function of either this peer’s network or my own.
Peer
This is the secure domain name (SDN) of the peer you’re communicating with
Device
This is the name of your peer’s device (a name that he/she chose)
Presence
This will show “Active” unless the peer goes offline or the only device they have online is a server device (cloud) in which case it will be “Online”.
Active VPN
This will be true as long as the VPN is still alive
TCP Only
Our VPNs tunnel through both TCP and UDP packets. Users can disable UDP tunneling which would be indicated here as “true” for TCP only
Connection
This shows your VPN’s IP address -> your friend’s VPN IP address. For example, if I were to ping 172.18.58.66 I would be pinging the Galaxy S tablet of this peer.
VPN statistics
Below the blue bar you will see 2 columns (TCP, UDP)
Direct
This tells you if you are able to directly connect/tunnel a route directly to the peer. In most cases this should be true. Depending on the peer’s network configuration behind routers it may be impossible for us to discover a NAT route. In this case (as you see here) you will be communicating with the peer over a relay server.
Note that our relay servers never have access to view your data. It is always encrypted end-to-end and only your peer has the key to decrypt the information. All the relay server sees is the destination and forwards the data. No data is ever kept on the relay server.
Address
This is the public IP address of the endpoint for your peer (in a direct connection), or the IP address of the relay server (if a relay is required). For example, if you did an nslookup on 192.241.213.206 you’d see that is one of our west coast relay servers (w2.virnetx.net). If this peer and I had a direct connection the
IP address here would likely be the IP address from his/her Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Sent
The number of bytes sent from me to this peer over TCP and UDP
Received
The number of bytes received by me from this peer over TCP and UDP
Even though both TPC and UDP will show data sent and received, a direct UDP connection is preferred. You will notice a majority of data will be transmitted using this protocol, when available.
