tried and failed...
i am starting to doubt it has nothing to do with my router setting at all...
i tried it again in my office on monday and, once again, it was working just fine and then i checked the default gateway at the time it was also 0.0.0.0... but i could surf the web and everything
i even went to some ip checking site and confirmed that i was indeed using the internet connection at home to browse the web
however, when i tried it again at aother location (with a different ISP (maybe i should've clearly stated that earlier)) it failed me again...
VPN connection - made
access to home pc's folder - yes
internet connection thru VPN - windows network connection icon indicates internet connection available
any kind of internet data transfer - not possible
by any chance it has something to do with the 2nd ISP? but if the 2nd ISP has blocked the VPN port wouldn't i not be able to make the VPN connection at all? or could it simply be the connection from my home to the second location sucks? (please also note that i was using VNC to connect to my home PC from the second location and it was working fine)
Message Edited by FallenC on 08-04-2009 09:23 PM