NordVPN obfuscated servers disguise your VPN usage, allowing to be connected to a VPN even in highly restrictive environments. Read more on how do obfuscated servers work.
While you're able to connect to obfuscated servers within the NordVPN app, manual connection can become handy if the app doesn't work on your device.
To set up NordVPN obfuscated servers manually on your device, you need to:
- Download NordVPN obfuscated server configuration files
- Use these configuration files for your device manual setup
Downloading NordVPN obfuscated server configuration files
To be able to set up NordVPN obfuscated servers manually, you first need to download them:
- Go to Nord Account and log in:
- Go to NordVPN tab on the left:
- Scroll down until you see advanced settings and click set up NordVPN manually:
- You will see a server recommendation tool. Click advanced filters:
Server type filter will become visible:
- If we will have obfuscated servers for a country of your choice - you'll be able to choose that from server type filter:
- Once you've filtered the server of your convenience, click get setup configuration:
- Click download configuration files:
After following these steps, the obfuscated server configuration files will be downloaded to your designated folder. Once that is done, you can move on setting up the obfuscated servers manually.
Setting up NordVPN obfuscated server manually
To set up NordVPN obfuscated servers manually, you'll need to use the downloaded configuration files for your device's manual setup, instead of the ones given in our guides:
- Setting up NordVPN manual connection on Windows
- Setting up NordVPN manual connection on MacOS with TunnelBlick
- Setting up NordVPN manual connection on iOS
- Setting up NordVPN manual connection on Android
- Setting up NordVPN manual connection on Linux
- Setting up NordVPN manual connection on a Router