Re: VPN connection problem with wireless router in network

29 Jun 2006 2:19 PM

Bill Kearney

> Sometimes this happens but it's an easy fix to just close IE and then
> open up a new one and that's no problem. Actually the problem that I
> have happens like 1 or 2 days afterwards and not just immediately after
> I disconnect the VPN. Someone else also repsponded in a wireless
> networking group and suggested that I change the order of my
> connections under advanced network settings. I'm gonna try that when I
> get home and advise what happened...

I've found IE can get pretty confused about how it's supposed to be getting
it's connection to the internet. I found the cure was to stop using IE and
switch to firefox. For the few cases where you 'need' IE you learn to live
with it's oddities. Otherwise Firefox is a tremendously nice alternative.

You could try resetting the various config options in IE. Or setting them
as 'disabled as possible'. Like usng the 'never dial' option, and not using
automatic browser configuration or proxies. But your office setup might
require the proxy. IE and windows don't easily allow you to reconfigure
applications and how they connect based on a per-session or specific
subnets. But nothing else really does either. As in, only use a proxy or a
VPN connection when making requests from IE for device in domain x.y.z or a
particular subnet. It'd sure be handy but there's no way to configure this.
I suspect that's more or less what's happening in your situation. Both IE
and windows are confusing themselves about what sort of connections should
be used.

I'd just switch to firefox and see if that makes things 'less worse'.

-Bill Kearney

29 Jun 2006 2:41 PM

John Navas

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:19:20 -0400, "Bill Kearney"
<wkearne***@hotmail.com> wrote in
<EJudnR75n6f0fD7ZnZ2dnUVZ_tydn***@speakeasy.net>:

>> Sometimes this happens but it's an easy fix to just close IE and then
>> open up a new one and that's no problem. Actually the problem that I
>> have happens like 1 or 2 days afterwards and not just immediately after
>> I disconnect the VPN. Someone else also repsponded in a wireless
>> networking group and suggested that I change the order of my
>> connections under advanced network settings. I'm gonna try that when I
>> get home and advise what happened...
>
>I've found IE can get pretty confused about how it's supposed to be getting
>it's connection to the internet. I found the cure was to stop using IE and
>switch to firefox. For the few cases where you 'need' IE you learn to live
>with it's oddities. Otherwise Firefox is a tremendously nice alternative.

Never seen any such problem with IE. Doubt that Firefox will help.

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24 Jul 2006 1:26 PM

Brett

Bill, sorry it's taken so long to respond. I've been super busy at work
and also have been on vacation for a week.

In regards to suggestion for another browser, I'll put firefox on my
desktop and see if it has the same problem. Also I can try some other
free browser or maybe the new IE 7 or whatever the newest IE is will
work.

Jerry Park had suggested changing the connections order. I did that on
both computers and now I'm not getting the annoying pop-up that asks me
to connect to some dial-up connection. Meaning that the problem I
described is still there when I'm working on the desktop and someone
gets on the internet on the laptop, but when that VPN connection is
severed all I have to do is simply re-connect and I'm back working
through a VPN connection. So right now this work around of just
re-connecting is working fine.

Thanks so much for the help!!!

Bill Kearney wrote:
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> > Sometimes this happens but it's an easy fix to just close IE and then
> > open up a new one and that's no problem. Actually the problem that I
> > have happens like 1 or 2 days afterwards and not just immediately after
> > I disconnect the VPN. Someone else also repsponded in a wireless
> > networking group and suggested that I change the order of my
> > connections under advanced network settings. I'm gonna try that when I
> > get home and advise what happened...
>
> I've found IE can get pretty confused about how it's supposed to be getting
> it's connection to the internet. I found the cure was to stop using IE and
> switch to firefox. For the few cases where you 'need' IE you learn to live
> with it's oddities. Otherwise Firefox is a tremendously nice alternative.
>
> You could try resetting the various config options in IE. Or setting them
> as 'disabled as possible'. Like usng the 'never dial' option, and not using
> automatic browser configuration or proxies. But your office setup might
> require the proxy. IE and windows don't easily allow you to reconfigure
> applications and how they connect based on a per-session or specific
> subnets. But nothing else really does either. As in, only use a proxy or a
> VPN connection when making requests from IE for device in domain x.y.z or a
> particular subnet. It'd sure be handy but there's no way to configure this.
> I suspect that's more or less what's happening in your situation. Both IE
> and windows are confusing themselves about what sort of connections should
> be used.
>
> I'd just switch to firefox and see if that makes things 'less worse'.
>
> -Bill Kearney