Is anyone else experiencing problems with the WiFi Assistant VPN service?
I have noticed that it connects to Google's VPN intermittently. And when it is connected, it blocks outgoing SMTP email from third party apps.
I contacted Google service through the Pixel. They first tried to blame it on my network. But the VPN connection is intermittent elsewhere too. And I experience no other problems when connected to their VPN but SMTP, and emails send when the VPN is disconnected. That and if I'm connected to a VPN, how could the WiFi service know I'm sending email? So obviously the WiFi services isn't to blame.
They, then, had me boot the Pixel into Safe Mode. But the intermittent VPN connection persisted.
Has anyone else experienced these problems?
NWTSCL said:
Is anyone else experiencing problems with the WiFi Assistant VPN service?
I have noticed that it connects to Google's VPN intermittently. And when it is connected, it blocks outgoing SMTP email from third party apps.
I contacted Google service through the Pixel. They first tried to blame it on my network. But the VPN connection is intermittent elsewhere too. And I experience no other problems when connected to their VPN but SMTP, and emails send when the VPN is disconnected. That and if I'm connected to a VPN, how could the WiFi service know I'm sending email? So obviously the WiFi services isn't to blame.
They, then, had me boot the Pixel into Safe Mode. But the intermittent VPN connection persisted.
Has anyone else experienced these problems?
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Surprising that no one else has experienced these issues. Google has confirmed both to me in support calls, and says that they are "working" on fixes.
Interestingly, I noticed this today while setting up my work email. I was on Google's VPN when setting up email and it just wouldn't connect. I never used Google VPN until today. Stopped using it.
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I'm trying to establish a VPN (PPTP) connection to my office via GPRS, without any success. When I click to activate the VPN connection, a GPRS connection is established, then it tries to connect to the VPN address (203.xxx.xxx.xxx), after about 30 secs it comes up with the following message:
"VPN server problems. Verify your username and password, and try again. If the problem continues, turn the device off and try again."
I've turned the device off and tried again, to no avail.
I've also done a search on the forum and notice some users having similar problems but no solution has been posted yet. So this is a bump for all of us who are having this VPN probs.... BUMP!
Hi,
I am facing the same problem. Initially, I thought that my Telco was blocking VPN traffic. I have tried on two different telco network and none worked. Has anyone got VPN working before? If so how? FYI, I am trying to VPN into an MS ISA box running PPTP CHAP2. My VPN is working because user on landline dailup or broadband can get connection without problems.
Regards,
Kueh.
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?
I am on stock android 2.1 (non-rooted).
I use an app called Vulkano to connect to a place-shifting hardware to view live TV on my mobile. This is the company's own app.
I removed sprint's rtsp proxy and I can connect to this rtsp stream over 3G but when I try to connect over wifi, the connection fails.
Any thoughts on this odd behavior? Perhaps it is the app, but I wonder if there are any settings that might prevent the wifi connection from connecting.
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I am on stock android 2.1 (non-rooted).
I use an app called Vulkano to connect to a place-shifting hardware to view live TV on my mobile. This is the company's own app.
I removed sprint's rtsp proxy and I can connect to this rtsp stream over 3G but when I try to connect over wifi, the connection fails.
Any thoughts on this odd behavior? Perhaps it is the app, but I wonder if there are any settings that might prevent the wifi connection from connecting.
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Was it working with the proxy in place? Are you on your own wifi network, or a public one?
It was working sporadically over 3G with the proxy. The RTSP proxy set by Sprint causes issues with rtsp response timeouts so it would work maybe 20% of the time. Removing the proxy it connects without issue over 3G.
As far as wifi goes, I am not using any proxy. The connection fails both at home as well as at work - both wifi networks. Since the PC client connects without issue, I don't think the service provider is the issue. I'm leaning towards the app being the issue but haven't ruled out that the phone settings could somehow prevent connection.
Hello!
I was on a vacation abroad recently and tried out something novel for me: To use VPN while on a public wifi. Another neatness was that the PPTP VPN server was running on my ASUS RT-AC66U router back home, an endpoint I'm pretty comfortable with
However, there was one thing that griped me: Whenever I established a connection to a wireless network, Viber or Facebook Messenger or something would pop up a message before I could establish the VPN connection. Now, since I don't know how these services work, I don't know if there was a brief period in there that my device communicated messages and credentials in the open. Hopefully there remains some sort of encryption certificates from a previously negotiated session, but I'd like to be confident that it's not possible to send unencrypted credentials or messages.
Ideally, the phone should remain passive until all traffic is routed through the secure tunnel. Is there any way to do this? Android introduced "Always-On VPN" that sounds like it claims to be what I'm looking for. However, it only works for L2TP as far as I understand.
The usage case scenario here allows for no data by default/block all ports/route everything locally. Then if wifi connection is established, open port for VPN connection, establish VPN, then open all ports. Presently I've switched to OpenVPN also, and installed the "OpenVPN for Android" application. I have no problems establishing a VPN connection, it's just tightening any holes I'm interested in.
My office has recently changed our networking. We now have a separate WiFi for personal devices and company devices.
Since this change, I don't receive any GCM push notifications when connected to the WiFi. As far as I can tell it's either that the router is fixed to IPv6, or that incoming traffic on the port is blocked. But don't have admin access to the router.
Any ideas on solutions?
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My office has recently changed our networking. We now have a separate WiFi for personal devices and company devices.
Since this change, I don't receive any GCM push notifications when connected to the WiFi. As far as I can tell it's either that the router is fixed to IPv6, or that incoming traffic on the port is blocked. But don't have admin access to the router.
Any ideas on solutions?
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Not received at all or very much delayed?
Looks like GCM keeps an open connection opened and reopens it router informed that it cuts the connection or 15mn heartbeat hasn't been seen.
If it's not working at all then it could be that server are blacklisted or fw/proxy playing fool with https certificates. You could try accessing server using https from a browser.
If delayed then the stateful firewall times out for this connection (normal) but doesn't inform so through a FINish or ReSeT TCP flag (not normal)
Connection is initiated by the phone and falls back to https so ipv6 shouldn't be a problem.