Ugh. I hate being the newbie. Need some fundamentals explained.

fosterofdensen

I am not an idiot. I have just never done this before.

My setup:

Lenovo T500 Laptop

Windows 8 (meh)

Wireless connection to Motorola SBG6580 cable modem

Charter Internet

Yesterday I purchased AirVPN, Installed the client, and began trying to set this up for complete anonymous internet usage, from browsing to P2P. All traffic through the VPN. That is my goal.

I can connect to the Pavonis server. Probably others, but I live in Missouri, so Chicago is the closest o me, and hey, it's the new gigabit server needing some love from what I gather.

I have been trying to set up Comodo to block all traffic not coming through the tunnel, but the closest I ever get is blocking everything. I don't know if it is an issue with my local IP white list or what, but I have run out of my own troubleshooting techniques at this point.

The biggest question I have to start out with is about how to get any traffic to go through the VPN tunnel at all. Maybe I am misunderstanding, but when I look at the AirVPN client and see download and upload consistently at 0kB/sec, it seems like I am doing something fundamentally wrong. SHould hat not be showing traffic if I am pumping packets through it, or do I have the wrong idea?

I am connected to the server. But nothing I do is taking advantage of it as far as I can tell. I am still just online as usual. If I can figure out how to block all other communications besides what is available through my connection to Pavonis, will my traffic automatically start going through the only available connection, or is there something else I need to do to get my data going through AirVPN rather than my stock connection?

I have spent at least 4 hours trying to use Google and the forums to figure this out, but I don't even know what to search for much of the time.

http://imgur.com/a/kBpVX

That link goes to a few screenshots of my settings. The Global Setting to block all traffic after everything in the white list is set to allow currently, because when I change it to block, I can't do anything. My modem itself says I have no connectivity, which leads me to believe the biggest problem I have to fix is letting my PC communicate with my modem, or fixing some conflict with my Modem connecting to Charter, but I really don't know for sure.

If I can provide anything else to help you help me, please let me know. I paid for a year of this, and would like to get it figured out as soon as I can.

Thank you, friends.

Staff

Hello!

Our servers push routes and gw so that your device traffic will be entirely tunneled without any further configuration.

If the client shows "0" traffic but you're exchanging data, something might be wrong. First of all, connect to an Air server, then open a browser and browse to our website. Check that the bottom central box is green and says "Connected!".

If it's red, please send us your client logs (right-click on the Air dock icon and select "Logs", then "Copy to clipboard" and finally paste here) at your convenience.

Kind regards

fosterofdensen

There have been a few times when the box stated I was sonnected, but most of the time is says I am not, and displays my IP. An dexternal check has confirmed as well.

My logs are below. Thank you for such a quick reply.

12/2/2012 - 12:02 PM AirVPN client version: 1.7

12/2/2012 - 12:02 PM Reading options from C:\Users\Arthur\AppData\Roaming\AirVPN\Air\1.0.0.0\AirVPN.xml

12/2/2012 - 12:02 PM OpenVPN bundle version: OpenVPN 2.2.2

12/2/2012 - 12:02 PM OpenVPN current version: OpenVPN 2.2.2

12/2/2012 - 12:02 PM Login...

12/2/2012 - 12:02 PM Login success.

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Contacting service...

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Connecting...

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM OpenVPN 2.2.2 Win32-MSVC++ [sSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Dec 15 2011

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM LZO compression initialized

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Control Channel MTU parms [ L:1558 D:138 EF:38 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Socket Buffers: R=[65536->65536] S=[65536->65536]

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1558 D:1450 EF:58 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Local Options hash (VER=V4): '22188c5b'

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Expected Remote Options hash (VER=V4): 'a8f55717'

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM UDPv4 link local: [undef]

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM UDPv4 link remote: 149.255.33.154:53

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM TLS: Initial packet from 149.255.33.154:53, sid=6e0f74b2 5babbc46

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM VERIFY OK: depth=1, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=airvpn.org_CA/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM VERIFY OK: nsCertType=SERVER

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM VERIFY OK: depth=0, /C=IT/ST=IT/L=Perugia/O=airvpn.org/CN=server/emailAddress=info@airvpn.org

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'AES-256-CBC' initialized with 256 bit key

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 2048 bit RSA

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM [server] Peer Connection Initiated with 149.255.33.154:53

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM SENT CONTROL [server]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,redirect-gateway def1,dhcp-option DNS 10.8.0.1,comp-lzo no,route 10.8.0.1,topology net30,ping 10,ping-restart 60,ifconfig 10.8.0.18 10.8.0.17'

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM OPTIONS IMPORT: LZO parms modified

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM ROUTE default_gateway=192.168.0.1

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection] opened: \\.\Global\{D450DE7A-5AF3-49E7-9040-66C8111D1F16}.tap

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM TAP-Win32 Driver Version 9.9

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM TAP-Win32 MTU=1500

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.8.0.18/255.255.255.252 on interface {D450DE7A-5AF3-49E7-9040-66C8111D1F16} [DHCP-serv: 10.8.0.17, lease-time: 31536000]

12/2/2012 - 12:03 PM Successful ARP Flush on interface [16] {D450DE7A-5AF3-49E7-9040-66C8111D1F16}