WiFi Hermosa Beach Support

[nelson_elsegundo]

This weekend I tested the WIFI at Hermosa Beach and was absolutely tickled giddy when I opened up my laptop and was able to connect to the internet and then VPN to my office at Sony and then VPN to Sony Online Entertainment all from this great restaurant called Club Sushi. But sadly I was met with not as much success when I walked with my family to the beach and connected to WIFIHermosa (LA Unplugged M5) and was NOT ABLE to connect to my office through a VPN tunnel. It appears that that the network firewall for that node has VPN/IPSEC turned off to not allow secure connections through. Was hoping to inquire and request of the network admin to turn that on so as I work from home on Fridays that I can come down to your city and beach and work off of your generous bandwidth. And by the way, much kudos to being the first city in the South Bay to do this and do it beautifully. Just please turn on IPSEC pass through to gain secure connections so we can work and enjoy your beautiful city.
Thank you!

[PatSheba@hotmail.com]

Could it be the timing? I have noticed since last spring that I can not connect to WiFi most afternoons. 11-12 to 4-5. I thought perhaps bandwidth was reserved for the club networks and after summer was over, connection during this time period would resume; but I still am unable to connect most afternoons?

I get 4 towers with my new high powered antenna, show connected in the afternoons, but get DNS errors all afternoon.

Could it be because I leave my network open for others to connect to wifi thru? And traffic is so heavy in afternoon, I lose my own connection?

Seems very strange.

[nelson_elsegundo]

No I am referring to VPN IPSEC pass through ... I wasn't talking about LOSS of connection, but not able to gain access through that tower's firewall setting for VPN access to my job. I don't think they have it turned on for that tower and I am trying to through this forum request that they turn it on for those of us that would love to work from the beach SECURELY! It would require them to turn on IPSEC passthrough on the tower's firewall firmware options.

[athenaz]

How do you set up L2TP VPN with a shared secret / pre-shared key on Windows XP Pro Service Pack 3? I looked this all up for hours today and just can't figure it out. It needs to be L2TP preferably built in and working on SP3. It must support shared secret / pre-shared key because I'm using this for the iPhone and it requires it.
____________________
yahoo keyword tool ~ overture ~ traffic estimator ~ adwords traffic estimator