Hello, I want to setup a VPN to dial up my home. I’m having trobules with my WRT3200ACM, and other firmwares aren’t working fine for me due to the oddities of this particular router.
Would you recommend me another router? I’d like to setup an OpenVPN or Wireward + some dynamic DNS updater in it.
thanks
I would recommend just using a RaspberryPi and host it yourself. I never had any issues and it was the most reliable way for me
I second this. Pivpn is very easy to setup.
I’m using OpenWRT and liking it so far, find a suitable router and have full control of your network
I can second this. The only issue out of the box from my experience was getting speeds over 100Mbps working over WiFi, takes a bit of configuring (at least it did for my router).
I created mine using “Edgerouter X”. Wireguard VPN. But I don’t use it a lot because I’m currently WFH.
I really liked this router.
Oh I’m going to take a look. Thanks!
Just one clarification. It is not an easy router like D-Link, TP-Link etc. It is more advanced.
And Ubiquiti has updated the firmware since 2015
Do you have any other requirements for the router? Or just to be able to run a VPN? When you say VPN, are you looking just to encrypt your home network (create your own VPN) or to use a paid service? E.g. VPN client or server?
I’m looking to dial in my home to reach some servers I expect to have running there. I could go the raspberry way, but I’d prefer it to be a router. I have some cloud servers for my own development that I’d like to host myself And maybe one of those services would be exposed.
Most decent routers should support that. I personally use a Unifi Dream Machine which I can’t fault. Previously used a Nighthawk router which also supported it.
You can get an old thin client, slap in an extra nic (intel tends to work best), and drop pfSense on it.
Take a look at Tailscale. You can probably do what you want using that and basically any router out there since it’s zero-config in the router, you’re hardware independent.
I use tailscale currently. It’s amazing, but I need just a little bit more
