From the TunnelBear support bears: 'L2TP is an alternative way of connecting to our servers, the normal app version connects via OpenVPN which is a different protocol and quite a bit faster. I've solved this problem with a little help from a few other websites.The complete steps are below after the intro.įor the configurations check out this awesome post: ur-mac/įirst, I've confirmed with TunnelBear customer support that L2TP is too slow to really work for my uses. This is an update for anyone else having the same problems. I'm willing to purchase Server.app, if anyone thinks that setting up the VPN there will work better.

I also don't know what else to try to get the VPN connection to behave. I'm stumped as to why the manual setup would be so much slower then the app's setup. None of this had changed the download speed. And have tried it with and without 'Send all traffic over VPN connection'. I've also altered the service order (via Set Serve Order) to every possible option. I'm using all Google's DNS servers (on the VPN connection, and on the ethernet connection) and I've also tried logging in directly to the TunnelBear's IP address. I've tried messing with the MTU number on the incoming ethernet connection (up and down, to some common know VPN numbers, and to the lowest size), but this has had no effect. What I can not do is get a fast connection to the VPN server, when I've manual configured the account in this manner. And even share the VPN network over WiFi: Connect to the TunnelBear server and login. This is what I can successfully do: create the TunnelBear VPN account in Network Settings (using L2TP settings from TunnelBear). You can not share the TunnelBear service using their native app (I've confirmed this with TunnelBear). This means that I'm not using the TunnelBear app, but rather got the backend L2TP settings from tech support at TunnelBear. Some background: I'm attempting to share my Internet connection over WiFi while manually connecting to the TunnelBear servers (a VPN service).

Tunnelbear vpn free download for mac