I currently use windows 10 VPN server to connect to my office from home, could someone recommend a router with a built-in VPN server that I could use instead? I find W10 VPN a bit unreliable. I have been recommended a draytek router at around £250, is there anything cheaper around?
Router with VPN server
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What sort of connection (ADSL/VDSL/Cable)?
Do you care which VPN protocol you're using?
Does the router need to handle the wireless side of things?
Do you care which VPN protocol you're using?
Does the router need to handle the wireless side of things?
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Commercial use, so not cheap, but could still be worth it.
Is the OP wanting to replace the router at work or the one at home?
If it's the home router what's it connecting to at the other end?
I'm sorry guys, I thought I'd sub'd to this thread.
Just to add some details -
It's my business, literally one PC I work on at a unit and a few network devices I'd like to be able to log in to.
It's a VDSL router at the unit which I want to replace and setup as a VPN server which I can then log in to using the windows 10 VPN client at my house.
I don't like the lag etc of teamviewer, I do have a logmein account I use on a few customer machines but I don't like working over it as it's nowhere near as quick as RDP.
Router would ideally have wifi, although I could easily put a tp-link access point of something in if it didn't.
What would I use to connect to the VDSL connection if I used this? Also, I tried and failed to setup a microtik router previously so ideally I'd like something with a more noob-friendly UI.
The obviously choice would be a Draytek of some form, but they all seem to be around the £250 mark, I'll spend that if I have to but is there a cheaper alternative? Something running dd-wrt maybe?
Thanks for your help so far.
Just to add some details -
It's my business, literally one PC I work on at a unit and a few network devices I'd like to be able to log in to.
It's a VDSL router at the unit which I want to replace and setup as a VPN server which I can then log in to using the windows 10 VPN client at my house.
I don't like the lag etc of teamviewer, I do have a logmein account I use on a few customer machines but I don't like working over it as it's nowhere near as quick as RDP.
Router would ideally have wifi, although I could easily put a tp-link access point of something in if it didn't.
What would I use to connect to the VDSL connection if I used this? Also, I tried and failed to setup a microtik router previously so ideally I'd like something with a more noob-friendly UI.
The obviously choice would be a Draytek of some form, but they all seem to be around the £250 mark, I'll spend that if I have to but is there a cheaper alternative? Something running dd-wrt maybe?
Thanks for your help so far.
I’ve no experience, but perhaps someone who has could comment on an Asus router with VPN server as a mid price solution? Certainly cheaper than a Draytek and has an easier UI than Mikrotik. If your upload speed at your office is <20Mbps then it should be powerful enough to give a reasonable speed connection I guess.
Not what your asking but a Raspberry PI can be cheap alternative to a whole new router, can easily run openvpn-server although you will be limited by its processing power throughput?Maybe. But it would handle RDP and smallish transfers fine and it maxes out my home upload at 12mbit/s. Plus you can run other applications on it which is handy.
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pfsense on a old pc you can pick up on on fleebay already installed.
That will not even get into 3 figures doing a VPN
I've got 80 down and 20 up each end. I'd rather do it via a router I can buy and just setup but I do enjoy messing with RPi.
I'll have a look into the Asus option and the pi, I might just setup the pi and see how it goes if it isn't too much of a pain.
I'll have a look into the Asus option and the pi, I might just setup the pi and see how it goes if it isn't too much of a pain.
I have an Asus RT-AC3200 and use it with 2 static site to site OpenVPN tunnels. I'm on Virgin 350Mb cable (350/20) and find it more than good enough. The thing people forget with VPN's is the horsepower needed for on the fly encryption on the data travelling down the tunnels when using it direct to a router, hence why I upgraded from an Asus RT-N56U.
The manufacturer specifically states it will, they’ve even gone to the trouble of publishing the results with specific details of which encryption type/settings were used on the product page. Knowing Mikrotik, i’d imagine they aren’t going to do that without making sure it can perform exactly as advertised or they’d get slaughtered by the community. The issue tends to be that you need to use settings that benefit from the hardware acceleration, otherwise it’s just going to perform as well as every other router based on the same SoC.
Source ?
The same router will terminate the pppoe, there is a very steep learning curve with Mikrotik but they are somewhat of a Swiss Army knife.
You are thinking of the r2 version. The r3 (the real hex) has HW offload and will definitely do what is stated.
The community forum I was alight when they released them. They are certainly capable, I appreciate you’ve interpreted the info in a negative way and I won’t try to defend the product any more than you are wrong.
Your grasp of the product goes about as far as your spelling of it.