Using my home connection (proxy?) when abroad

gumbald · 21 May 2014 at 14:56

Just scoping out what people's instinct to do here - when in another country with work, it would be good to get UK versions of some sites. I have FTTH at home and I figure there's two main options, VPN or proxy.

My hardware is a WNDR3800 running OpenWRT and a Synology DS214Play NAS - I did start to look at VPN on each of these, but thought this was a lot of overkill for what I wanted. Therefor I've started to look at just using it as a proxy... Has anyone done similar and got any recommendations here...?

I've started to read about using Squid and configuring caches and such - I just want a pure passthrough in a sense, am I simplifying this too much?

BattFink · 21 May 2014 at 15:19

Personally I'd use a full VPN over a proxy server (especially if connecting for a untrusted network). I've got a small VM running Windows 2012 server on my home network, using DirectAccess to give my laptop access to my home network & a UK based IP presence (handy for lottery, gambling sites etc..)

Nymins · 21 May 2014 at 15:23

Synology should support PPTP, OpenVPN and L2TP/IPSec for VPN. PPTP is the easiest to setup and use (personally), so you could use the NAS as a VPN Server.

http://www.synology.com/en-uk/support/tutorials/459

KIA · 21 May 2014 at 15:37

PPTP is broken. Use OpenVPN

gumbald · 21 May 2014 at 15:52

My quick and dirty hack was SSH to my router and SOCKS5 using PuTTY - but think VPN on my NAS would be the better way going forward... Will have a go at that when I get another break. Who thought FTTH would be this useful?!