[SOLVED] Re-routing traffic through remote home network

[6614330]

Could somebody explain how to setup a home network router to act as a vpn and be able to re-route traffic from anywhere.

 

[gggplaya]

You can buy an off the shelf router such as a higher end Asus router which has a VPN server built into it. Then just follow the setup steps for the VPN on the router.

The problem is, VPN requires alot of processing power, many routers can't handle much VPN speed, like 30mbps for most routers. For high end ARM routers, they can hit about 100mbps of VPN traffic. For anything more, it's probably best to build yourself an x86 router and install OpenWRT or DDWRT software on it.

You're limited by your UPLOAD speed on your internet plan. If you have Fiber to the house, you should be fine as they have symmetric download and upload.

 

[6614330]

You can buy an off the shelf router such as a higher end Asus router which has a VPN server built into it. Then just follow the setup steps for the VPN on the router.

The problem is, VPN requires alot of processing power, many routers can't handle much VPN speed, like 30mbps for most routers. For high end ARM routers, they can hit about 100mbps of VPN traffic. For anything more, it's probably best to build yourself an x86 router and install OpenWRT or DDWRT software on it.

You're limited by your UPLOAD speed on your internet plan. If you have Fiber to the house, you should be fine as they have symmetric download and upload.

thx mate

 

[kanewolf]

Could somebody explain how to setup a home network router to act as a vpn and be able to re-route traffic from anywhere.

Do you want to sit at a cafe and VPN to your home and have it act like a VPN server to the rest of the internet? That is not something that a typical home router can handle.

 

[6614330]

Do you want to sit at a cafe and VPN to your home and have it act like a VPN server to the rest of the internet? That is not something that a typical home router can handle.

Yep pretty much, I got a keenetic giga kn-1010, is it sufficient enough to be able to handle such a thing?

 

[bill001g]

It depends on what you plan on doing. Encryption is extremely cpu intensive. The CPU in a router is not even as powerful as in some cell phones and tiny fraction of the power of any actual computer. All that really matters is the clock rate. Most encryption can only run a single core so multicore does not improve the performance. Even though that router has a fancy command set it is still using consumer router cpu. From what I can tell it uses the same cpu as the tpink a10 or a dlink 860l. It is fairly slow CPU.

It is all about how much bandwidth you intend to run. There are too many details to say for sure but you generally will not get over 30mbps on something that does not have a real cpu or some other form of dedicated encryption ability

Stuff like normal web surfing will work fine. Something like 4k netflix is going to be a problem.

As mentioned your internet UPLOAD speed is likely also going to be limiting thing.