Can someone help, i have been having trouble connected with my home universities vpn, for past 15-20days, it is an openvpn connection, so i have been using networkmanager-openvpn to import my config files, and they have worked previously, but for last 15-20 days i get connection timed out, all certificates used are correct, i have tried to connect on cli,

Connection activation failed: The connection attempt timed out

and it suggests to check journalctl logs (nothing erroneous i could find) i am also able to connect with this vpn with my phone (with openvpn official app with same files), and also i am able to connect to proton’s vpns with my laptop, so i guess my device is not completely broken, i have tried to redownload my certificate files, recreating vpn profile, reinstalling networkmanager, nothing worked

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    #####******************############**************
    STUFF I HAVE WRITTEN
    ##############*************************
    Intentionally not written nicely to be able to distinguish
    ######################***************************
    remote had the my college's vpn domain vpn.coll.eg.e
    CA had college's certificate file name (in the same dir as config)
    cert myid.crt
    key myid.key
    
    
    ##############################################
    # Sample client-side OpenVPN 2.0 config file #
    # for connecting to multi-client server.     #
    #                                            #
    # This configuration can be used by multiple #
    # clients, however each client should have   #
    # its own cert and key files.                #
    #                                            #
    # On Windows, you might want to rename this  #
    # file so it has a .ovpn extension           #
    ##############################################
    
    # Specify that we are a client and that we
    # will be pulling certain config file directives
    # from the server.
    client
    
    # Use the same setting as you are using on
    # the server.
    # On most systems, the VPN will not function
    # unless you partially or fully disable
    # the firewall for the TUN/TAP interface.
    ;dev tap
    dev tun
    
    # Windows needs the TAP-Win32 adapter name
    # from the Network Connections panel
    # if you have more than one.  On XP SP2,
    # you may need to disable the firewall
    # for the TAP adapter.
    ;dev-node MyTap
    
    # Are we connecting to a TCP or
    # UDP server?  Use the same setting as
    # on the server.
    ;proto tcp
    proto udp
    
    # The hostname/IP and port of the server.
    # You can have multiple remote entries
    # to load balance between the servers.
    ;remote my-server-1 1194
    ;remote my-server-2 1194
    remote 
    port 1194
    
    # Choose a random host from the remote
    # list for load-balancing.  Otherwise
    # try hosts in the order specified.
    ;remote-random
    
    # Keep trying indefinitely to resolve the
    # host name of the OpenVPN server.  Very useful
    # on machines which are not permanently connected
    # to the internet such as laptops.
    resolv-retry infinite
    
    # Most clients don't need to bind to
    # a specific local port number.
    nobind
    
    # Downgrade privileges after initialization (non-Windows only)
    ;user nobody
    ;group nobody
    
    # Try to preserve some state across restarts.
    persist-key
    persist-tun
    
    # If you are connecting through an
    # HTTP proxy to reach the actual OpenVPN
    # server, put the proxy server/IP and
    # port number here.  See the man page
    # if your proxy server requires
    # authentication.
    ;http-proxy-retry # retry on connection failures
    ;http-proxy [proxy server] [proxy port #]
    
    # Wireless networks often produce a lot
    # of duplicate packets.  Set this flag
    # to silence duplicate packet warnings.
    ;mute-replay-warnings
    
    # SSL/TLS parms.
    # See the server config file for more
    # description.  It's best to use
    # a separate .crt/.key file pair
    # for each client.  A single ca
    # file can be used for all clients.
    ca 
    cert 
    key 
    
    # Verify server certificate by checking
    # that the certicate has the nsCertType
    # field set to "server".  This is an
    # important precaution to protect against
    # a potential attack discussed here:
    #  http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm
    #
    # To use this feature, you will need to generate
    # your server certificates with the nsCertType
    # field set to "server".  The build-key-server
    # script in the easy-rsa folder will do this.
    ;ns-cert-type server
    
    # If a tls-auth key is used on the server
    # then every client must also have the key.
    tls-auth ta.key 1
    
    # Select a cryptographic cipher.
    # If the cipher option is used on the server
    # then you must also specify it here.
    cipher AES-128-CBC
    ;cipher BF-CBC
    
    # Enable compression on the VPN link.
    # Don't enable this unless it is also
    # enabled in the server config file.
    comp-lzo
    
    # Set log file verbosity.
    verb 3
    
    # Silence repeating messages
    ;mute 20
    
    route-method exe
    route-delay 2
    
    auth-user-pass