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VPN using hotspot with ios 10 not working

I frequently work offsite and use my AT&T iPhone 6s to tether my Windows 10 Pro work tablet (ASUS Transformer T300CHI). Although a lot of the places I work have Wifi, most do not allow VPN which I need to connect to my work server. After the ios 10 update (I am on 10.0.1), I have not had issues tethering, but VPN no longer works.

The Windows 10 Pro built-in VPN on my tablet has an automatic configuration that appears to detect the type of configuration (IKEv2/PPTP/IPSec/L2TP, etc) and you just put in username and password. According to my IT dept, the VPN connection in the office not only supports PPTP (which I understand has been disabled with ios 10) but also supports IKEv2 and L2TP/IPSec. Regardless, I always left VPN setup on Windows 10 in Automatic. I have tried selecting the type of connection but this has not worked either. I typically get a "VPN tunnels failed" error

Any thoughts would be appreciated

iPhone 6s, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 19, 2016 9:30 AM

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srakhra

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Posted on Oct 15, 2017 2:43 PM

Hi Yannhaur

I was having same issue just until few days back. We were having PPTP VPN which never worked when I connected my laptop to iPhone hotspot.

We recently move across to using L2TP VPN connection on all external users out of security concerns. Using L2TP on windows is just not easy. I followed this guide to configure that:

https://www.giganews.com/support/vyprvpn/vpn-setup/windows-10/l2tp.html

Surprisingly, now I can also connect to L2tp windows VPN while connected to iPhone hotspot.

Maybe this can work for you as well.

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flamman

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Oct 31, 2016 1:13 AM in response to simonspy

Hi simonspy,

Could you describe some more about this step:

9. Select Netdriver folder and OK

Where do you locate this on the C: drive? Is this the iTunes Mobile driver or somewhere in the C:\Windows-folder?

simonspy

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Oct 31, 2016 4:13 AM in response to flamman

Try

Device manger

Universal Serial...

Applemobile... - double click

drivers

update drivers

browse my computer..

pop down the menu and net driver should by an option

Location

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\NetDrivers

rahmanmj

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Dec 15, 2016 7:39 AM in response to simonspy

i stil got problem with VPN connection using ios 10.2 hotspot

server that i want to connect with is out of my control,i can't touch it,

plz help,TQ

Baldur74

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Feb 3, 2017 7:31 AM in response to MattyBH

We are seeing the same thing but only when it is tethered using a USB cable. If you connect to the hotspot via the Wi-Fi on the laptop the VPN tunnels will still connect.

Timbo46

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Jul 5, 2017 11:22 PM in response to 02FAR

Thanks, this worked for me. Months of frustration over in a few minutes. 🙂

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