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    Laptop Not Connecting to VPN

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by woprtech, Oct 21, 2007.

  1. woprtech

    woprtech Newbie

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    I have a linksys wireless router with vpn pass through when I connect from my desktop to a VPN using WinXP it works fine.

    I have a laptop that connects wireless to my router and the internet works fine but when I launch VPN from my laptop it says connecting and just times out.

    why can i connect from the desktop to vpn but the laptop wont connect wirelessly to a vpn?
     
    woprtech, Oct 21, 2007
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  2. blue68f100

    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Are you connecting from you own network or from outside?

    From your internal network your VPN is not necessary and it is not seeing the port forwarding. Look at the router logs and your local logs to see where it is failing at.
     
    blue68f100, Oct 21, 2007
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  3. gshall

    gshall Notebook Enthusiast

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    Is the laptop Vista? I've been having a similar problem.
     
    gshall, Oct 21, 2007
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