NAT, PPTP, VPN and routers

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Hi,

I have two almost identical laptops running XP that connect to their
owners (different) networks using VPN and PPTP. We recently replaced
out trusty netgear wireless router, once it started going doolally.

The replacement was a belkin F5D8630 (pre-n, adsl modem, wireless).
However, both laptops in question are running 802.11g crads (not the
proprietry belkin pre-n cards)

All of a sudden, with the new router, one of the PC's can't maintain a
reliably VPN connection (for more than 30 seconds). However, the other
is still absolutely fine. The wireless connection itself seems fine
through our router, indeed it is a noticeably stronger signal with
greater range than its predecessor, so it doesn't seem to be the
wireless connection itsef that is the problem.

This initially made me suspect the problem lay with the host networks,
and the timing was coincidence. However, if we use a neighbours
wireless network both PC's can connect reliably to their respective
VPN's.

Belkin suggested port forwarding, but that is no good becuase firstly
we have lots of PC's needing a VPN, and secondly with DHCP and changing
numbers of laptops port forwarding would never work.

Can someone explain to me what may be going on now that wasn't
previously, and still isn't with our neighbours router? I thought it
might be that there was no PPTP passthrough, but in that case surely no
laptops should work.


Any ideas? I'm getting shouted at a lot till I can find a solution.
Even if that solution is to change the router, it would be nice to know
what was wrong in the first place...

Cheers,

Ben

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