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).
If I remember correctly, the OpenWRT website has a huge chart of router models and the versions/builds of OpenWRT that work with them. All so notes about features and performance on the various models.
It should be relatively easy to find a router model available in your market that works well with OpenWRT and has the features that you want.
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.
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
Why do you need a VPN and not a reverse proxy and dyndns?
My setup uses some docker containers to:
- Update my WAN IP with cloudflare every 60s
- Nginx proxy manager to map URLs to services running on my host server
- Port forwarding to route traffic to the correct container
- Cloudflare zero trust or baked in app authentication
Looking forward to use some services that cannot be routed through nginx
