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Unique Issue, Solved by VPN and Now I Want More Power!!!

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LarvaeofMadness
LarvaeofMadness
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Hi All! So... I don't know what the heck is going on with Centurylink's service or why they refuse to help me in any way, but I believe I've found the solution to my connection issues. Well, partially.

After weeks of CL DNS Probe Failure with any browser and using my TMobile Hostpot data through my phone hotspot for the entire frickin house, I was at my wit's end. It was then that I realized that when I was in the VPN tunnel on my work-from-home PC, my WiFi liked to end up on the Centurylink 2.4Ghz sometimes. This was a folly for anything that wanted to connect to the internet as far as I knew. It was working!!! I did some tests runs and realized I just had to jump into the VPN on my hotspot and let go.

So, here I am, still semi-clueless about the intricacies of VPNs and overjoyed the clicking a button in a box with Mozilla VPN has me connected again. I'd like to use this hard-wired PC, with Mozilla VPN, as a hub to host some of my other devices (max 5 of course) via the Win 10 hotspot, but this creates an issue! Centurylink sees me again. I don't know why I'm not allowed the internet by the gods at CL, but turning on the mobile hotspot kills my connection, even once I go into the Network Connections > Mozilla VPN adapter Properties > Sharing> Allow via the mobile hotspot connection.

Any ideas? Any guesses why CL is doing this to me in the first place?!

Hi All! So... I don't know what the heck is going on with Centurylink's service or why they refuse to help me in any way, but I believe I've found the solution to my connection issues. Well, partially. After weeks of CL DNS Probe Failure with any browser and using my TMobile Hostpot data through my phone hotspot for the entire frickin house, I was at my wit's end. It was then that I realized that when I was in the VPN tunnel on my work-from-home PC, my WiFi liked to end up on the Centurylink 2.4Ghz sometimes. This was a folly for anything that wanted to connect to the internet as far as I knew. It was working!!! I did some tests runs and realized I just had to jump into the VPN on my hotspot and let go. So, here I am, still semi-clueless about the intricacies of VPNs and overjoyed the clicking a button in a box with Mozilla VPN has me connected again. I'd like to use this hard-wired PC, with Mozilla VPN, as a hub to host some of my other devices (max 5 of course) via the Win 10 hotspot, but this creates an issue! Centurylink sees me again. I don't know why I'm not allowed the internet by the gods at CL, but turning on the mobile hotspot kills my connection, even once I go into the Network Connections > Mozilla VPN adapter Properties > Sharing> Allow via the mobile hotspot connection. Any ideas? Any guesses why CL is doing this to me in the first place?!

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Eve
Eve
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So you're saying that when you turn on mobile hotspot with your wired connection (while using the VPN) your lose internet connection?

Try allowing the Mozilla VPN through the Windows firewall if you haven't done that already and see if maybe that resolves it?

Definitely strange, I could use some more clarity in what issue you're having:

From what I understand:

You were using your Tmobile hotspot for your entire house due to having no connection with your internet provider, Centurylink, due to the VPN tunnel forcing your network to use the 2.4 ghz band, which doesn't have very good connectivity for your household. So you reset it and got it working again with the VPN< and all seems well, until you try to broadcast your PC as a hotspot, then you lose connection again.

Let me know if I got that wrong at all.

LarvaeofMadness
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Hi There Eve, Allow me to elucidate my ramblings for you: - I turn on my computer and Centurylink is down, again. The error is "DNS Probe Finished NO Internet" on both wired and wireless connections. - I use the T-Mobile hotspot to connect to the internet in the morning since I cannot use CL. - I turn on the Mozilla VPN on my 4 or 5 devices to get in the tunnel. - Once VPN is turned on, I switch to the Centurylink 2.4/5ghz wireless or LAN for these devices and turn the T-mobile hotspot off. - I run a Fing diagnostic and see one warning: 

"DNS resolution is not workingPrimary DNS worked, but secondary DNS 205.171.3.25 failed. Test domain 
amazon.com resolved by 10.64.0.1"

- Centurylink works great now, even with "No Internet". - If I turn the VPN off, we go back to DNS Probe failure. - The WiFi networks show Connected with No Internet - VPN goes back on, we have internet again. - I set up my Windows mobile hotspot and it seems to break the VPN, sending us back to unmasked status and DNS errors. Could it be that Mozilla doesn't like the idea of more devices connecting? - The real is that Centurylink refuses to connect to DNS in the first place!