If you’re using a wireless connection, click on the Network Manager icon on your top desktop bar. This icon can be in the shape of 2 arrows or a signal meter. If you’re using a wired connection, click on the Ethernet icon on your top desktop bar.
- Download and Install required packages
- Configure SSTP protocol
Step 1: Download and Install required packages.
- Open the Terminal Window and run the following commands step by step:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eivnaes/network-manager-sstp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install network-manager-sstp sstp-client.
- Make sure you have downloaded the following packages:
For 64-bit:
- network-manager-sstp-gnome_1.2.6-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
sstp-client_1.0.13-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
libsstp-api-0-dev_1.0.13-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb.
For 32-bit:
- network-manager-sstp-gnome_1.2.6-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
libsstp-api-0_1.0.13-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
sstp-client_1.0.13-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
* After installing packages. Reboot your system..
Step 2: Configure SSTP protocol
- Click the Network Connections Icon
- Select the VPN Connections and click Configure VPN…
- Click the drop-down menu and select Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP). Then, click on the Create button.
- Select the Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) and click on the Create button.
- Enter the following information:
- Enter Connection Name PureVPN SSTP
- Insert the desired server: Please use one of the servers provided below:
- Germany: de1.pointtoserver.com
- Netherlands: nl1.pointtoserver.com
- United Kingdom: ukl1.pointtoserver.com
- United States: usil1.pointtoserver.com
- United States: ustx1.pointtoserver.com
- United States: usca1.pointtoserver.com
- United States: usfl1.pointtoserver.com
- United States: usny1.pointtoserver.com
- United States: uswdc1.pointtoserver.com
- Australia: au-sd1.pointtoserver.com
- Enter your PureVPN credentials. Here is how you can 👉find your VPN credentials.
- Check Ignore certificate warnings
- Click on the Advanced
- Do the following:
- Uncheck Use Point-to-Point encryption (MPPE)
- Check the following options:
- Allow BSD Data compression
- Allow Deflate data compression
- Use TCP header compression
- Send PPP echo packets
- Click OK
- Click Ok to Save these changes and close the Network connections window.
- To connect to the SSTP VPN, open the Network Manager and select VPN Connections. Click on the newly setup option PureVPN SSTP connection.
- After a few moments, the VPN should display a Connection successful message.
- To Disconnect from the VPN.
- Click the Network Connections Icon
- Select the VPN Connections and click Disconnect VPN