[DasMoritz]

Hello everybody,

I have a problem with my TP Link 1043 ND (dd-wrt) and the WLAN and PPTP-Connection.

Setup / Situation:

My girlfriend is studying abroad and she has only a network cable in her living room. The students connect via network calbe to the local network and using a PPTP-Connection to the PPTP-Server.

Everything works fine on her cable-connected laptop (Win 8.1., cable-connection directly between cable and laptop without a swtich e.g., PPTP-Network).

My idea was to setup the TP-Link 1043 ND as an PPTP Client (Option 1) which connects to the PPTP-Server and allows PPTP-Passthroug. In my opinion the clients only have to connect to the WLAN of the TP-Link 1043 ND and everything should work fine.

But the 1043 ND isn't connecting the PPTP-Server (WAN-Type = PPTP, Settings like in this tutorial http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Static_PPTP_VPN_Client#Configure_PPTP_Client).

The lan-cable is connected to the WAN-Port at the 1043 ND, for tests we also use the normal LAN-Port.

There is no connection to the PPTP Server but i don't know why.

The other idea (Option 2) was to setup the 1043 ND as an normal WLAN-Access-Point connected to the LAN-cable via LAN-Port (not WAN-Port). Every client shoud use his own PPTP-Settings without any kind of PPTP-Configuration in the 1043 ND.

We can connect with the laptop normally, first the WLAN-Connection, than the PPTP-Tunnel - everthing fine.

If we want to connect with the two Android-Clients, they can connect to the WLAN for 2 minutes and the WLAN-Connection is rejected after 2 minutes, without any reason. If the clients are connected, we are using the default Andoid-App to connect to the PPTP-Server but it seems as the connection to the PPTP-Server isn't working (and the devices are disconnected by the server?).

Does anybody have an good idea to configure the 1043 ND as an regular PPTP-Client which connection can be used by the WLAN-CLients.

My english isn't the best, sorry.

Thank you.

[katat]

Dear DasMoritz,
The PPTP Server may check the mac address. You can try to clone your girlfriend's computer mac address to the router.
Good luck.
Katat