Hey there, @p0020968! You should be able to enable MACE by visiting http://209.222.18.222:1111/ within a few minutes of establishing a connection on your router. The page will error out in your browser, but MACE will be enabled.
Yes, as mentioned, the page will error out, but making the request will enable MACE. You should be able to check whether it is enabled by visiting google-analytics.com, which MACE blocks by default.
To expand on what PIAColleen said, the way the MACE API works is simply: we just need to establish a TCP connection to 209.222.18.222:1111 within 2 minutes of connecting the VPN. Not very convenient, but this API is intended to be automated and be called immediately after connecting which is exactly what the official PIA apps do.
Opening this "page" in a browser is an easy and accessible way to cause a TCP connection to it, but the API is fundamentally not a web page at all, it doesn't even speak HTTP. So it will systematically error out, but it will have been enough to enable it.
The browser will actually throw two different errors depending on what happened: the first one will say that the server closed the connection before accepting/sending any data (that's a success), the other one will be your usual Connection Refused error (that means the API is gone, so either too late or the API has already been called).
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when i clicked on the link it just said page not found or something?
how do i test or know it was enable
Opening this "page" in a browser is an easy and accessible way to cause a TCP connection to it, but the API is fundamentally not a web page at all, it doesn't even speak HTTP. So it will systematically error out, but it will have been enough to enable it.
The browser will actually throw two different errors depending on what happened: the first one will say that the server closed the connection before accepting/sending any data (that's a success), the other one will be your usual Connection Refused error (that means the API is gone, so either too late or the API has already been called).