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L2TP and US Surfing Streaming Server undergoing Reinstall

We are reconfiguring our L2TP server to PPTP connection for support for mobile devices. As such over the next 48 hours there will be some intermittent connectivity with L2TP and US Surfing Streaming as the server is brought down for reinstall and reconfiguration. The US-SurfingStreaming service lies on the same server and therefore will also experience the same intermittent connectivity.

Despite the vulnerabilities of PPTP VPN connections, L2TP seems to be problematic with many mobile devices and PPTP remains the most widely supported VPN protocol in devices. As most users use it primarily to appear from a different location rather than hardcore security, we feel this is an acceptable solution for the intended users of the L2TP server. In any case, it would make the occasional Firesheep/Facebook hacker on a public wi-fi think twice before attempting to break the PPTP VPN. PPTP also has low overhead making it a more responsive protocol.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 29th, 2011 at 11:51 pm and is filed under Upgrade, US-SurfingStreaming, VPN. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

14 Responses to “L2TP and US Surfing Streaming Server undergoing Reinstall”

  1. avatar thehobo Says:
    October 2nd, 2011 at 5:49 pm

    Guys, when this will be up again?

  2. avatar Reuben Says:
    October 4th, 2011 at 10:08 am

    US server is up but the L2TP isn’t. The PPTP for some reason has some bugs with Android. I think it’s to do with Android’s implementation.

  3. avatar thehobo Says:
    October 4th, 2011 at 10:42 am

    Actually the pptp works fine on for my Samsung Galaxy S2. I’m only facing issue configuring it for my Windows machine though.

  4. avatar oneazman Says:
    October 5th, 2011 at 2:05 pm

    Still having problem connecting with iphone/ipad. Is it IOS/bolehvpn or my settings are wrong?

  5. avatar pitboss Says:
    October 5th, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    Please disable encryption and select PPTP only instead of the L2TP/PPTP.

  6. avatar Raymond Says:
    October 6th, 2011 at 10:14 am

    The IP address of the US-SurfingStreaming changed already?

  7. avatar pitboss Says:
    October 9th, 2011 at 7:01 am

    68.68.105.234

  8. avatar oneazman Says:
    October 9th, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    What is the server for pptp? Is it still l2tp.bolehvpn.net or is it pptp.bolehvpn.net?

    I tried both but couldn’t connect. This is frustrating, one of the main reason i subscribed for bolehvpn is to listen to pandora

  9. avatar Reuben Says:
    October 9th, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    It’s up but we need to update our guide. Change type to PPTP but disable the encryption. Use same username/password. Does not work on Android for now due to buggy PPTP support.

  10. avatar Reuben Says:
    October 9th, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    oneazman: http://bolehvpn.net/l2tp.html#idevices try this first

  11. avatar oneazman Says:
    October 10th, 2011 at 12:16 pm

    Sorry, I got a 404 going to the link page

  12. avatar Reuben Says:
    October 12th, 2011 at 2:39 pm

    http://bolehvpn.net/pptp.html

  13. avatar Eugene Says:
    October 17th, 2011 at 12:59 am

    can i knw when android can connect pptp again?

  14. avatar Reuben Says:
    October 17th, 2011 at 1:03 am

    It should be working, if not its a bug with Android Gingerbread and lower as its fully working with HoneyComb. Check out our installation guide.

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