Access point VPN questions

spoony77 · 15 Mar 2018 at 19:37

Hi people
I'm looking at buying a second hand router and installing dd-wrt on it and running it as an access point in my home network alongside my Virgin media superhub.

I was wondering if it's possible to run a VPN service on this router/access point and if I was to do so could I have a Nas running directly off it and if so would I be able to access the Nas from outside the lan or would I need to have the Nas connected to my superhub for remote access?
Is it as simple as the VPN access point will have a separate IP address and I use this IP for remote access?
*Confused*

Cheers

mrbazmondo · 15 Mar 2018 at 23:57

Unless you're planning on paying for an extra static IP address you would set your superhub to port forward the VPN ports to the dd-wrt.
You should be able to use dyndns with the dd-wrt. It will then tell dyndns what your IP is, and you can use a your hostname on the dyndns domain to access the vpn so you don't need to know the IP, which may change.

spoony77 · 16 Mar 2018 at 08:52

Brill that makes sense, thank you.
Are there any sub £100 routers that will run a vpn without crippling it's speeds too much?
I was thinking of using ipvanish or nordvpn...

mrbazmondo · 16 Mar 2018 at 09:25

Sorry, can't help you there. I'm using PCs or Virtual machines, not physical routers.

BigT · 16 Mar 2018 at 10:42

spoony77 said:
Brill that makes sense, thank you.
Are there any sub £100 routers that will run a vpn without crippling it's speeds too much?
I was thinking of using ipvanish or nordvpn...

So you wish your router to act as a VPN client to provide network wide protection via NordVPN or ipVanish and your original request means you also want it to act as a VPN server to access your NAS from the internet? I don't think there's going to be a £100 router that will have the horsepower to do both of those things at speed other than Mikrotik devices which I know little about but hear good things. You'd not be using DD-WRT on those though.