We generally use a VPN for office networks or to establish an increasingly secure connection with the internet. While setting up a VPN connection is a breeze, there can also be problems associated with it. Many users experience an error while connecting to a VPN network (which had worked earlier) saying, “A connection to the remote computer could not be established. You might need to change the network settings for this connection.”
If you are also experiencing this error, nothing to worry as this can fixed easily. Let’s see how.
Solution 1 : Using Device Manager
Step 1: Press the Windows key + X together on your keyboard and select Device Manager from the context menu.
Step 2: In the Device Manager window, scroll down and expand Network adapters. Now, right-click on WAN Miniport (SSTP) and select Uninstall device from the menu.
Step 3: Repeat the same process as shown in Step 2 to Uninstall device for the all the Miniports listed below one by one:
- WAN Miniport (PPTP)
- WAN Miniport (PPPOE)
- WAN Miniport (Network Monitor)
- WAN Miniport (L2TP)
- WAN Miniport (IPv6)
- WAN Miniport (IP)
- WAN Miniport (IKEv2)
Step 4: Now, click on the Action tab at the top of the window and select Scan for hardware changes from the context menu.
This will re-install all the WAN Miniports again as it was earlier. So, basically, it installs them freshly and now your VPN should work back again.
Solution 2 : Disable Proxy
1. Press Windows key + R to open run command box.
2. Write inetcpl.cpl in it and click OK.
3. Click on Connections Tab from the top tab list.
4. Now, click on LAN Settings.
5. Make sure that Use a Proxy server for your LAN is unchecked.
the first solution worked for me
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Simple instructions. First option worked for me on a Windows 10 Pro PC.
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Thank you very much for this solution! I have been struggling to get Windows VPNs to work for years, and no other suggestions have ever worked. Now I can connect!
First solution worked for me too. Thanks
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Although I have already uninstalled and reinstalled the miniports a few times over the last couple of days trying to get this #[email protected]% connection to work, after our IT guy gave me an IP address to use as the server address, it didn’t work until I uninstalled and reinstalled them again! Many thanks!
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Solution 1 fixed the problem.
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This worked when my VPN for work suddenly failed me (windows updates to blame!). Never had any issues over 2 years of remote working. This fixed it in 2mins. Thanks so much for sharing.
Solution 1 works !!!
Solution 1: Device Manager was able to resolve this for me. Wonder if there was some sort of Windows update, as several of my clients are suddenly having this issue. I’m hoping this will resolve it for them as well. Thanks for the article!
Thank you very much. Method 1 worked well.
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Fix my issue with method 1.
Fix 1 is not working for me. Fix 2 was already unchecked but it is still not working for me. Please help me out
Thank you
Solution 1 : Using Device Manager
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Greetings! Thank you very much! Solution 1 worked for me on my work computer. I had 3 people from IT who COULD NOT figure this out. SHOCKER, I KNOW. LOL. Anyway, if you’re still responding to this post, can you tell me what happened and what makes this solution work? Please and thank you.
That’s great, got it working with the miniport reinstall, thanks a lot!
It helped me. Thanks to author.
Fabulous – thank you, your explanation totally sorted me out!
thank you, solution 1 worked for me on Windows 11
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The WAN Miniport delete did the trick.
Thank you!
Worked like a charm. I was stuck on finding the MS updates. Removing the WAN Miniports and rescanning worked.
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Golden. Uninstalling the WAN miniports and scanning again worked like a charm! Top notch information. Thank you very much!
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OMG. Tried everything, got an IT guy in, uninstalled windows updates, reinstalled updates, restarted the laptop a gazillion time – then I tried this and hey presto, straight back in. Legend, huge thanks 🙂
Deleting the WAN miniport drivers and re-adding worked for me on a new W10 laptop (2021)
Worked like a charm. Thank you.
Thnx. Worked perfectly (deleting and reinstalling mini port)
Great guide…it worked for me as well…Solution 1. Thanks a million
It can also be a problem with DHCP relay on the VPN server…. you can workaround solve that by adding an IP Pool rather than forwarding to DHCP server. Just make sure you use a range of IPs outside of the normal DHCP.
Thank you very much for making this very helpful guide. The first solution solved my problem very successfully.
uninstalling & reinstalling the wan miniports worked for me.
thought it didn’t work, but saw comment where it had to be done twice.
worked after the second uninstall & reinstall.
thanks!
Thank you so much! Solution #1 worked perfectly.
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Prob’ly 2 months of trying. Thanks so much.
You did better than our IT department.
Thanks for the short and helpful guide. The first version solved my problem.
Thank you so much. This was the solution after a month.
Remove all Miniports worked for me, thanks
Thank you very much, had this issue for over a month. The first solution worked for me.
Awosome! This first solution fixed my issue. Thank you!
miniport uninstall/refresh worked great. Thanks!!
I had this exact same issue and it turns out my DHCP scope for the vpn vlan was out of addresses. I increased the ip range and lowered the lease duration to 2 days (it was 8) and it immediately started working again. Maybe this will help someone.
Thanks. The disable miniport solution did the trick!
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Clearing out the WAN miniports was the only thing that worked after nearly an hour of troubleshooting both on the client and server-side, thank you so much!!
Solution 1 is helpful. Fixed. Thanks a lot.
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Thanks!!!
Unistalling the WAN miniports did it for me!
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OMG!!! You saved me. I have many people with this issue. Thanks so MUCH!!
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It didnt work the first time around but after doing it a second time it worked. Thank you very much!
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Thank you! Fixed my issue after a month of trying.