Please help me set VPN connection over my home PC

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rshri

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Hi,

I am using Airtel broadband over my home PC (Windows XP SP3). My modem is BEETEL 220BX which is connected through bridge mode to my router Linksys WRT54GS. Since its on bridged mode, PPPOE dialing is done by router. Router has DHCP disabled. I have given static IP 192.168.1.2 to my PC which has a wired connection to my router. 'VPN Passthrough' is enabled in router.
My problem is that when I try to connect to a VPN Server I get a 800 error (I tried PPTP dialing using Windows only). I am able to ping VPN server but not connect to it. Enabling/disabling uPnP on router made no difference. I tried IPSec (TCP & UDP) through OpenVPN, but that didn't work either.
I do not use Windows firewall and instead use KIS (Kaspersky Internet Security) 2009 as Antivirus + Firewall. Some googled internet posts suggested disabling monitoring of SSL (443) port in KIS but that didn't make any difference either.

Please help me here.

Thanks!
 
Forwarded port 1723 and 500 on router. Disabled firewall. Still no success.

Default gateway may not be the issue because I am not connecting to some office network that may have addresses like 192.168.X.X. Instead I am connecting to trial service of a premium VPN Service.

--- Updated Post - Automerged ---

Figured this out :-) VPN Server was the problem. Tried VPN of some other service and connected without problems even without any opened ports
 
rshri said:
Forwarded port 1723 and 500 on router. Disabled firewall. Still no success.

Default gateway may not be the issue because I am not connecting to some office network that may have addresses like 192.168.X.X. Instead I am connecting to trial service of a premium VPN Service.

--- Updated Post - Automerged ---

Figured this out :-) VPN Server was the problem. Tried VPN of some other service and connected without problems even without any opened ports
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You should have mentioned it before itself! Try USAIP also.
 
Problems ain't over yet..

I cannot browse internet while VPN is on. My entire purpose of setting VPN was to route my internet traffic through VPN server. So its a bummer.

I can enable internet by un-checking 'Use default gateway on remote network' in Advanced TCP/IP settings of PPTP connection. But then it doesn't routes traffic from VPN, thus defeating my purpose.

Need you help here!
 
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