I recently switched from Sprint to Cricket and upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S5. I couldn't be happier with the device and network (AT&T). I get signal everywhere which is awesome. Sprint was spotty at best.
Ok so here's the deal. I use OpenVPN for Android to connect to my AirVPN service. It works great on Wifi, but not so great on Cellular signal. I am able to connect to VPN without any issue, but a few moments after I start pulling data I get disconnected. If I pull no data, VPN stays connected.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.blinkt.openvpn&hl=en
I have worked with both AirVPN and Cricket. Both support teams have been great and very responsive, but at this point they are just pointing fingers at each other. Cricket assures me that they do not block any TCP or UDP traffic. AirVPN thinkgs that cricket is blocking UDP traffic. However, I have the same issue when using TCP.
I have tried connecting to multiple VPN servers and I am consistently dropping connections after trying to access data.
AirVPN configuration is below
https://airvpn.org/generator/
Any ideas?
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HI there,
Has anyone experienced an issue whereby bluefire or similar contivity VPN client connects seamlessly over WIFI and 3G however will only allow RDP or VNC over WIFI.
I am currently running bluefire and am able to authenticate through 3G but thats it, I have no other functionality.
Any help would be great!
Thx
I've seen it where specific ports are blocked on the 3G providers network, but given that you're establishing a vpn tunnel, that should be irrelevent, as all the traffic should be tunneled via the VPN. I wonder if the Device isn't picking up the new route to send the traffic via the VPN, and is instead sending it via the 3g connection to a non-existant device.
Does your VPN-endpoint give you any logs to show if its actually receiving the traffic from the device? Are you able to ping anything within the remote network (assuming ping is allowed) from the device?
One thing I have noticed is that if you have a 3G connection open, then establish a wifi connection, the routing table doesn't seem to update to use the wifi connection and you actually have to kill the 3G session. I wonder if something like that is happening here - the 3g session establishes a default route, the VPN session then comes up but the device doesn't realise to send traffic via the VPN session. Or are you getting any traffic through the 3G/VPN connection?
I have the option to turn on verbose logging. I ll give that a go and see if it highlights anything really obvious.
I have a 6800 with Verizon and I attend Penn State at the main campus. We have group authenticated VPN security for our on campus wireless. I downloaded BlueFire mobile VPN because it has group authentication capabilities. I connect to the Penn State wireless and then connect with the VPN client, however I notice that my phone calls the 777 number to access the VPN server for some reason, even though I have wireless. I messed around with connection settings, but got no results. My issue with this is that I don't have any data plan because I don't want to pay for it and the data call eats up my minutes.
Does anyone know how to properly set up the connection settings so that I don't pour money into Verizon's pockets?
Also, I don't think this is possible but I might as well ask... is there any way to use the VPN software included with WM to connect to group authenticated VPN servers?
Any clues?
Have you tried turning off data connection?
Greetings
Background:
I have a Verizon wireless vx6800 with no data plan. I was unable to find any information on google so i thought i'd come here.
Question:
If i am connected to the wireless network at my company, can i connect to our vpn server without being billed for data usage from Verizon?
I did connect to our vpn network, and the phone had the data connect symbol above the antenna symbol. The phone did not dial the #777 that verizon uses for their data plans, but i just want to make sure before I connect and get a surprise bill..
Any help or comments will be very useful..
If you're connecting to Microsoft Exchange, then you are using data.
I think you misunderstood the question. I'm talking about a vpn connection to a specific pc on our network. Not our exchange server.
You can connect to an exchange server via wireless network. btw
Ok, so I am looking at different options for reducing my bills and one of them is to get rid of the Verizon FIOS and replace it with the T-mobile service I am already paying for by replacing one of the lines with a mobile hotspot.
I have the Magicjack phone service now and it works fine however it requires an ethernet connection to the internet. I currently have it plugged into a Hub which is connected to the FIOS router. If I lose the router how would I be able to pickup the internet signal from the hotspot and get it to the ethernet connection of the magicjack???
(without plugging it into a computer which would require leaving the computer on all the time)
I am hoping someone would be kind enough to help, I have spent hours searching the net and still can't find the answer
I have the Note 3 on Three UK which allows unlimited data and tethering, I can tether to my PC no problem.
I want to tether to my wired devices which I currently connect using a router and Netgear WN3000RP Range Extender, this set up works fine when I connect to my main router.
I tried to set up my tethering to the WN3000RP and it connects, but does not share the connection. I did the firmware check and it said there is no new version - so that tells me the extender is accessing the internet, but going out of it, no connection to the internet
I have tried pinging 192.168.43.1 which is no use - fail
Has anyone done this before? is there an app to help?
I am not sure what the problem is but I have tried everything - resets, reboots, restores etc.
Thanks in advance
what are your wired devices looking for as the default gateway and DNS, are they trying to DHCP for their address?
If they can identify the phone and ping it then at least you have comms up to the edge but the gateway and DNS need to be set for them to reach further and out to the web.
aengus4h said:
what are your wired devices looking for as the default gateway and DNS, are they trying to DHCP for their address?
If they can identify the phone and ping it then at least you have comms up to the edge but the gateway and DNS need to be set for them to reach further and out to the web.
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After much hair extraction, I think I have finally figured this out!
I was not setting any security and using MAC filtering on the phone instead of encryption as the bridge was struggling. As soon as I connected the extender, I added it as an authorised device, then connected to my pc and nothing.
After much messing about, I put some rubbish apps on which reset all the settings and renamed the APN to (APPNAME_COOL) or whatever it was and removed the MAC Filtering - and it works
So, I dont quite understand this, but the setup goes
1) Note 3 - WIFI Tether
2) Netgear Range Extender - RJ45 to
3) Netgear DSL Router - RJ45 to 4 different devices
Now all these 5 devices show up as connected by wireless, I thought the router would be connected to the extender and the extender to the phone as totally different devices, not passed down each step of the way.
Oh well, now on to the next amazing challenge, I have just put OpenWRT on the router and am aiming to set this up with my ADSL from downstairs and my DC-HSDPA as a "Bonded" connection to give me download speeds of about 40-45meg!
Thats a long way off though as I have not even got 1 connected via wireless yet, so still using extender+router
Not too shabby, but could be better
good to hear you got it working
I take it your DSL router is connected to an ISP? You may find that you get contention between the router and the tether in terms of where traffic ends up going, will depend on where the devices see the default gateway taking them. If the router were a cable type you might get away with the extender plugged in to the WAN port so all traffic would route via the 4G tether. Wouldn't then extend the range for other devices that well if the phone isn't there to provide the uplink to the isp.
Am on EE myself, not unlimited data (3GB) but last check I got 40-50Mb download and 24Mb up