Home VPN Solution

liamcrane · 30 Dec 2014 at 16:19

Hi All

Just wondered what people use as there home VPN solution if indeed you use one of course

I am looking at setting one up mainly for when i am out and about in public places and need to jump on and check private bits and bobs. I have tried openvpn but i can never get it to work and its a pain to setup. Currently using a pptp server on my pi although i know pptp is not really that secure this day and age.

Looking to run the server inside a hyper v vm if possible as well

Hope you can help

Thanks all

Andre · 30 Dec 2014 at 16:42

I use Neorouter
both for home and work access - seems to work reasonably well. I host my own VPN "server" on my HP Microserver, so all connections come initially through my network

xdcx · 30 Dec 2014 at 16:48

I just ended up using TeamViewer to be honest.
Unattended client on all my boxes including box running 3 VM's in HyperV.
Full client on my main laptop I have out and about and I can jump on anything instantly.

Even got the app on my Android phone, can connect exactly same on that, full windows desktops and all on Android, can't knock it.

2 years now, never had a problem, just so easy, and free.

memyselfandi · 30 Dec 2014 at 17:27

My QNAP NASes have an option to act as VPN servers (both OpenVPN and basic PPTP) with external addressing via myQnapCloud so I just use that and have my mobile devices set up to connect to it if I need to do something requiring more security or needing to indicate I'm in the UK.

Skeeter · 30 Dec 2014 at 18:12

I juat use the standard VPN server in Server 2003 (WHS).

AzZ · 31 Dec 2014 at 03:19

What router do you have? I have OpenVPN running on my N66U with Merlin firmware. Works great.

liamcrane · 31 Dec 2014 at 08:22

Thanks for the input guys, I have used Teamviewer quite a few times and it really is a great piece of software i just wanted to cut out the 'middle' man and connect directly into my home network which is why i was looking for an alternate.

The router i have is a 7800n so it can act as a vpn server but only via pptp

lsg1r · 31 Dec 2014 at 13:46

not sure if you've read this thread about using the 7800n for vpn, I have been intending to set mine up just never got round to it. It won't let you browse the web via your home ip address though iirc.

Not 100% on this but I'm pretty sure you can just set up windows to access the vpn via the built in software (start search for vpn), I know I've used it to access to vpn's if the hardware supports it. I'm on a fixed ip so it does make it a little easier than using dyndns or the likes though.

You can get software that runs on your pc or you could use a synology/qnap etc nas which supports vpn.

edit: there's a support page showing instructions for vpn here, it's not for the 7800n but it's basically the same.