VPN behind a router

[scottiecb19]

Hi All,

I would be most grateful for your advice with this.

I'm looking to set up a VPN at my home, which would allow me to access my SkyQ equipment away from home, as though I was connected to my home network. However, with my subscription, Sky require me to use their modem router as a primary equipment connecting me to the internet, so I need 'hardware' which would connect behind this router. I have attempted to do this with my DNS-345 and a RT66U - the NAS software isn't great and kept blocking my internet connection. The Asus router required it to be connected directly to the main feed into the house, it didn't seem to want to work behind the Sky modem.

Is there any equipment I can buy which would allow me to achieve the above? Also, any handy tutorial links would be greatly appreciated, as I'm a bit of a noob with all of this. Thank you all for your help!!!

 

[bill001g]

It is more complex because of the port forwarding but really vpn is more or less just another form of server you place behind your router. This is especially true if you use openvpn/sslvpn. These try to pretend they are HTTPS. Other vpn like IPSEC or simple PPTP use other protocols. This is different than a port so you can't just do port forwarding to solve this. The good news is almost all routers have the feature that allows for these vpn protocols to run behind the router. Sometime you must turn the feature on but most times it is just a part of the router.

I would set you secondary router to be in the DMZ of the main router. This should make it easier and there is little risk putting a router in the DMZ.

 

[scottiecb19]

Hi, thanks for the response. I've tried again to get the setup working as suggested with my RT66U, but it won't seem to have it being stuck behind another router. Are there any devices I can purchase from Amazon (preferably Amazon UK), which would provide me with VPN capability behind my Sky Router? Many thanks.

 

[bill001g]

It should work but vpn is a little tricky to setup lots of parms that a tiny thing wrong and it does not work. Not sure another box would be a advantage. You could try team viewer if your needs are fairly simplistic...no doing something like streaming video You could also try something like hamahi but it is now some hosted vpn I used to use it when it was a simple vpn software.