Windows 10: Anybody EVER got Network diagnostic help to work !!!!!

Hi folks

This to me seems probably the MOST USELESS piece of software I´ve ever encountered when using Windows and I´ve seen a real load of "Bovine Scatology" in my time!!!

When you can´t connect to a network Windows offers to help but IT NEVER FINDS ANYTHING at least in my experience.

After a machine windows update I invariably get at least one windows machine that can´t connect.





Sometimes a rediculous shutdown of the entire network plus a router reboot is the only way to fix it !!! IMO not the best solution.

I just cant understand why Windows networking seems to get random problems when other systems such as Linux, MAC, Android tablets, Android phones etc just work usually straight out of the box.

Cheers
Jimbo

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Anybody got the Nokia IPSEC VPN to work?

I am about to have a go at this.

It's quite weird how Nokia implemented it. You start here

https://expertcentre.nokia.com/en/articles/kbarticles/Pages/Nokia-VPN-resource-hub.aspx

There is no user interface at all in the phone. You install their VPN app from the store. For the 808, this app is "not available" so one has to "obtain it via the usual means" (what a waste of time). Then you have to download a VPN config app for the PC, which
is about 50MB and downloads incredibly slowly (2-3 hours). Then you download a .vpn template and edit that. Then you transfer that to the phone.

I am using a Draytek 2955 router which definitely supports IPSEC but getting that to work was an absolute b*astard, and I got it working only between two of these routers (site-site VPN) and by strictly following a Draytek app note.



There used to be a Nokia employee here who helped somebody to get it working but he is now showing as retired.

 

Anybody got the Nokia IPSEC VPN to work?

I've posted more detail here

http://forum.dailymobile.net/index.php?topic=92784.new#new



No, it doesn't work at all, so far.



It is as if the phone is not sending out any data when the VPN is enabled, but I am waiting for a confirmation on that from somebody looking at the VPN router logs.