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ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Midjourney and Cursor each judge exit region, IP type and connection duration in their own way. This page takes the network requirements of six widely used tools apart one by one, explains how web and API usage differ, and offers advice on choosing international routes by scenario.
ROUTE REQUIREMENTS
An ordinary web page that fails to load can be fixed with a refresh; AI tool requests often run for tens of seconds, and one interruption means starting over. Before choosing a route, get these three things clear.
What the server sees is not the city you are in but the region where your exit IP is registered. That registration decides whether the service is open to you, what region label your account carries and which features you can use. The check reads the IP database's registration, not the billing address you type in, so your account region and your exit region need to match.
Data center ranges, exits shared by large numbers of users and exits that change frequently within a short window all push the risk level higher. Triggering a risk check does not mean an outright block; more often it shows up as a CAPTCHA, a request for a second confirmation or requests being queued. Risk scoring is dynamic — the same exit can give different results within a single day.
A chat tool's answer is a long connection that runs for tens of seconds, while image and video generation is a long task plus polling. These connections are far more sensitive to jitter than an ordinary web page: one wobble on the route and the answer stops mid-sentence, the progress bar freezes or the page spins forever. Stability matters more than peak speed.
TOOL BY TOOL
Listed by how strict their region checks are. Strict does not mean unusable — it means the exit has to be more stable and more consistent.
Region checks: the exit's registered region is verified at sign-up, at login and during everyday use, and web, desktop and mobile all share the same check.
Risk controls: sensitive to shared exits — how often a CAPTCHA appears tracks how heavily the exit is used; switching routes mid-session tends to trigger a fresh login.
Recommendation: pin one dedicated route with a stable region and do not change exits between login and sign-off.
Region checks: stricter than most tools — regions outside the supported list get a clear unavailable message rather than a partial feature set.
Risk controls: sensitive to how clean the exit is; once an exit is used at high volume it easily triggers verification, and a failed check means access is briefly refused.
Recommendation: give it an exit of its own and do not share it with other high-traffic uses; keep the same exit after login.
Region checks: decided jointly by the region setting on the Google account and the exit IP's registered location; when the two disagree, some features are unavailable.
Risk controls: shares its login state with the Google account system, so unusual exit changes trigger extra security checks.
Recommendation: choose a route that matches your account region, and complete the first login on a stable route if you can.
Region checks: tied to the Microsoft account and relatively lenient — most regions work directly.
Risk controls: fairly tolerant of exit changes, but session continuity still depends on route stability.
Recommendation: a standard relay route is enough; focus on staying connected rather than on the number of regions.
Region checks: used through Discord or the web, and the check follows whichever entry point you actually use.
Risk controls: image generation is a long task — a dropped connection will not fail the job, but you lose sight of the progress and cannot collect the result.
Recommendation: do not switch routes while a generation is running; keep the page and the connection online after submitting.
Region checks: related to the account's region, with verification at login and at subscription.
Risk controls: completion requests inside the IDE are frequent and small, so they are more sensitive to latency and packet loss; command-line and CI setups also need a fixed exit.
Recommendation: prefer low-latency direct or relay routes; fix the exit in CI environments so each build does not come from a new IP.
TOOL × ROUTE
The table below maps the six tools to route types. Full descriptions of each route type and the node list are on the servers page; the table gives no latency figures, because latency varies with city and time of day — go by what your client measures.
| Tool | Region checks | Recommended route type | Main focus |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Strict; checked at all three stages | IEPL dedicated line | Same exit throughout the session |
| Claude | Strict; unsupported regions are refused outright | IEPL dedicated line | Clean exit, few users sharing |
| Gemini | Checked together with the account region | IEPL dedicated line Relay | Exit matches the account region |
| Copilot | Relatively lenient | Relay, | Connection continuity |
| Midjourney | Checked against the entry point you use | Relay, | No dropouts during long tasks |
| Cursor | Related to the account region | Direct Relay | Low latency; fixed exit for CI |
An end-to-end dedicated channel with a fixed exit and few users sharing it — suited to tools that demand regional consistency.
Connects to a nearby node first and forwards to the exit; friendlier pricing, and a good fit for everyday chat and content generation.
Connects straight to an exit in the target region over the shortest path — a good fit for latency-sensitive developer work.
SIGN-IN NOTES
Whether an account opens smoothly often comes down to the network conditions during those few minutes of sign-up. The points below apply to almost every AI tool.
CLIENT VS API
The same tool used in a browser and used from code does not place the same demands on a route.
Every request in the browser goes through the current exit, and a tab moved to the background gets throttled. Leave a chat page idle for a long time and you may come back to an expired session that wants verification again. The core requirement for web use is that the exit stays the same for the whole session; the speed only has to be adequate.
An API does not care about the browser; it cares about two things: a stable exit and a long connection that is not interrupted. Streaming responses (returned token by token) are the most sensitive to a mid-stream disconnect — one break and the whole response is void. Set sensible timeouts and retry counts on the calling side, and space the retries out so you do not fire a burst of failed requests.
Developer workloads send many small, frequent requests and are more sensitive to latency and packet loss. Most command-line tools accept a proxy port through an environment variable, and IDE plugins usually take the same address in their settings; CI environments need a fixed exit, otherwise every build comes from a different IP and is easily flagged as unusual access.
# Example: point a command-line tool at the proxy port provided by the local client
# Use the port shown in the client's settings page; the value below is for demonstration
export HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1080
export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1080TROUBLESHOOTING
These six situations come up most often with AI tools. Check the likely cause first, then decide whether the route needs changing.
Most likely the exit was flagged as high risk while the request was in flight, or jitter on the route broke the streaming connection. Refresh and try once; if it still fails, go back to the route you normally use and do not retry rapidly — a burst of failed requests pushes the risk level higher.
This means the exit IP's registered location is outside the range the service supports, or the account region and the exit region do not match. Switch to a route with the correct registered location, and keep the same exit from login through use.
The usual cause is an exit shared by a large number of users, or a region that changes frequently in a short window. Pinning one dedicated route usually helps noticeably; if verification still appears, wait a while before trying again rather than submitting repeatedly.
This is the classic sign of an interrupted long connection: automatic route switching in the client, system sleep and network changes all cause it. Check whether Auto Select or load balancing is on, and turn it off while using AI tools in favor of a manually pinned route.
First check whether the timeout on the calling side is too short, then confirm the exit is stable. Raise the timeout, enable a limited number of retries with a growing interval, and fix the exit in CI so each build does not come from a new IP.
The long task usually keeps running on the server; only the progress polling on your side was cut. Reconnect, return to the task page and the result will be there — you normally do not need to resubmit.
ROUTE PICKS
All of the above comes down to one line: a single fixed exit with the right registered location suits AI tools better than a pile of exits you can switch between at will.
The route list and regional coverage are on the servers page, and pricing and data allowances are on the plans page. Three monthly tiers: ¥9.9/month for 60GB, ¥18/month for 250GB and ¥28/month for 500GB; data packs at ¥158/300GB, ¥358/1000GB and ¥658/3000GB, valid until used up and never expiring. Every plan allows unlimited devices online at the same time, supports Alipay / WeChat / USDT, and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.