Five-step check
- Try another route in the same region. IEPL dedicated, relay and direct routes back each other up — when a single route wobbles, switch route type first.
- Switch the connection protocol in your client and reconnect; different protocols behave differently on different networks.
- Quit the client completely and reopen it, and check that your system time and time zone are correct — a clock skew makes the encrypted handshake fail outright.
- Reproduce the problem on another network, for example moving from home broadband to mobile data, to tell a local network issue from a route issue.
- Open an ordinary website and a site that wouldn't load before, one after the other, to see whether everything is down or only some sites are affected.