Cannot use git or SSH when on cellular connection

Question

Long time reader, first question! I have been developing using WSL (Ubuntu) and remote servers. Recently I got a sim card for my laptop for those long hours on the road. My issue is that I cannot use both git or SSH while on the cellular connection. For example, both of the commands below work on WIFI, but time-out on the cellular connection:

$ ssh new@sdf.org

ssh: connect to host sdf.org port 22: Connection timed out

$ git pull

fatal: unable to access 'GIT URL': Failed to connect to github.com port 443: Connection timed out

I have been searching for a long time but could not find any information to this specific issue. Other internet access seems to work (e.g. "apt-get").

This must be a setting I need to set for the cellular connection specifically, but I am at a loss as where to look.

Any ideas would be most welcome!

A.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/33437568/13126651 does this helps? — Jatin Mehrotra, Feb 23 '21 at 04:19
In addition to checking if the SIM network is setting up a proxy automatically (per @Jatin-Mehrotra's comment), I would also just try a `wsl --shutdown` and restart to see if the Hyper-V virtual NIC that WSL is running behind gets remapped to the correct Windows interface. — NotTheDr01ds, Feb 23 '21 at 14:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 23 '21 at 07:56

If this is WSL2, there are a lot of issues around connectivity.
microsoft/WSL issue 6427, for instance, suggests:

testing the same WSL, converted (again, for testing) to WSL1:
```
wsl --set-version Ubuntu-18.04 1
```
Disabling the swap of the WSL2 VM:

%userprofile%\.wslconfig
[wsl2]
swap=0

Cannot use git or SSH when on cellular connection

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