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  1. soonerman

    No connection: Nortel Contivity VPN - Checking for banner text

    Last night, I started with reinstalling Windows ME, didn't work. The I got drastic and reinstalled the factory image from Dell, and that didn't work. At that point I thought I was doomed and just started reinstalling software. Earthlink offered a different firewall software than I had before...
  2. soonerman

    No connection: Nortel Contivity VPN - Checking for banner text

    Thanks 1911, I only have 2 NOCs. I've just finished setting my computer back to factory image, installing all Windows ME updates, reinstalling Contivity and...same error, ahhhhh (by the way, I had no other hardware hooked up, printer, scanner, etc.)! Anyway, I'm out $150 for the CD-RW I had to...
  3. soonerman

    No connection: Nortel Contivity VPN - Checking for banner text

    Still very stumped and looking for help on this one. I just upgraded my contivity client to version 4_65.18 and still get hung up at "Checking for Banner Text" followed by "Secure Connection Lost". The thing that might be helpful about this version however, is that I was...
  4. soonerman

    No connection: Nortel Contivity VPN - Checking for banner text

    Just an update, I saw an article in the FAQs about MTU settings being too high on DSL. I went through the excersice and, using DrTCP, lowered my MTU setting by 10s all the way down to 1200 - this did not work, still getting the exact same behavior. Thanks!
  5. soonerman

    No connection: Nortel Contivity VPN - Checking for banner text

    It doesn't look like that's going to be the fix for me. Does anyone have any other ideas? I was sure shocked to see the volume and range of problems with Nortel's client, very dissapointing and their website offers very little in the way of assistance. Thanks!
  6. soonerman

    No connection: Nortel Contivity VPN - Checking for banner text

    Thanks 1911, I'll talk to my corporate folks and see if this is something they might be able to look at.
  7. soonerman

    No connection: Nortel Contivity VPN - Checking for banner text

    All, I have found a lot of good information out here for those having a problem getting a "checking for banner text" hang up followed by loss of VPN connectivity when using Nortel Contivity VPN Client. However, it seems most of those having problems are running routers or firewalls...

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