Windows PPTP/L2TP Redial

This article will guide you on how to setup your existing L2TP or PPTP VPN connection to launch automatically when your computer starts.

Before going any further, you should already have a working L2TP or PPTP connection set up on your computer and you should be able to connect to our service using this without any problems.

If you haven’t set it up yet, please refer to our Get Started instructions. 

Note: We’ve tested this on Windows 10, 8.1, and 8. Versions of Windows prior to Windows 8 do not need this script for redialing PPTP/L2TP.

Getting Started

You would need to run Windows PowerShell once and enable the PowerShell to load scripts so that we can run our redial program. 

To do this, please press on the Windows key + Q on your keyboard and search for PowerShell. Once that PowerShell is shown, please right click on it and select Run As Administrator.

Once you’ve done so, you will see a window as below:

In order to enable scripts to be executed in Windows PowerShell, you would have to key in the line below and press Enter:

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

Once this is done, you should see a prompt as below. Key in Y and then Enter.

Obtaining the script

You can download our script file in which you would need to set up later.

VPN Auto Redial Script File Download

Note: You would have to Right Click and click on Save Link As / Save As to download.

Alternatively, you can create the PowerShell script without downloading anything else. (Skip this and proceed to Editing the script if you’ve already downloaded our PowerShell script above)

First, open up Notepad, and then copy and paste the contents below to the Notepad:

for ($i = 1; $i -le 2; $i++) # Runs this program over and over until your VPN fails to connect
{
    $vpn_status = rasdial.exe "MPN GBR" "Your MPN Username" "Your MPN Password" # connects to the VPN connection with your username and password

    # If your VPN name is set to MPN only or any other name, please change MPN USA to the respective VPN name that you've used, keeping all the quotes intact
    # Replace Your VPN Username and Your VPN Password to your username and password, keeping all the quotes intact

    if ($vpn_status -like '*successfully*') # This line checks if the connection is successful
    {
	$time = 30 # By default, your VPN will try and check the connection after after 30 seconds, change the value to alter the time

        Write-Host "You've connected to our VPN successfully"
        $i = 1;
        Start-Sleep -s $time
    }

    else
    {
        if ($vpn_status -like '*error*') # Checks if the connection is NOT successful and stops the script
        {
            Write-Host "Error connecting, please copy the error message that you've got below and email us: `n" -ForegroundColor Yellow

            $vpn_status

            $host.ui.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown") # Puts a pause to the program instead of auto-exiting it so you can copy and paste the error message
        }
    }
}

Then, you would have to refer to the next step (Editing the script) to edit the content according to the VPN connection that you’re trying to connect and your VPN username and password with us. 

When it’s done, you would have to click on File > Save As and select All Files under the Save As Type drop down menu

Set the file name to VPN AutoRedial.ps1 or other file name (it needs to end with .ps1) and then click on Save.

Editing the script

for ($i = 1; $i -le 2; $i++) # Runs this program over and over until your VPN fails to connect
{
    $vpn_status = rasdial.exe "MPN GBR" "Your MPN Username" "Your MPN Password" # connects to the VPN connection with your username and password

    # If your VPN name is set to MPN only or any other name, please change MPN USA to the respective VPN name that you've used, keeping all the quotes intact
    # Replace Your VPN Username and Your VPN Password to your username and password, keeping all the quotes intact

    if ($vpn_status -like '*successfully*') # This line checks if the connection is successful
    {
	$time = 30 # By default, your VPN will try and check the connection after after 30 seconds, change the value to alter the time

        Write-Host "You've connected to our VPN successfully"
        $i = 1;
        Start-Sleep -s $time
    }

    else
    {
        if ($vpn_status -like '*error*') # Checks if the connection is NOT successful and stops the script
        {
            Write-Host "Error connecting, please copy the error message that you've got below and email us: `n" -ForegroundColor Yellow

            $vpn_status

            $host.ui.RawUI.ReadKey("NoEcho,IncludeKeyDown") # Puts a pause to the program instead of auto-exiting it so you can copy and paste the error message
        }
    }
}