Anyone know anything about VPN routers?

[pRICE cUBE]

Looking for information on a VPN router to be used in China and Asia in future travels. Any info would be great since I don't trust these online reviews.

[Chakravartin]

You're gonna be staying in hotels? And you want to connect securely to your home or small office network?

You probably won't know in advance which ports are blocked then... So you'll want a VPN that does SSL.

'Might go for a Watchguard as the cheapest entry of reasonable quality. There's a decent support-community for it and a few different clients you can connect with.

[space-time]

"to be used in China and Asia in future travels"

I thought China was in Asia... isn't it?

So you want to take the router on the road with you, or the router will be at home and you plan to connect from China and Asia to your home/office network?

[pRICE cUBE]

space-time wrote:
"to be used in China and Asia in future travels"

I thought China was in Asia... isn't it?

So you want to take the router on the road with you, or the router will be at home and you plan to connect from China and Asia to your home/office network?

I wanted to emphasize China since they clamp down big time on the internet.

I want to take a router so multiple devices can use it without putting VPN on all devices.

Currently looking at this http://strongvpn.com/routers.shtml
Slowly making my way through the specs.

[John B.]

I'm working my way through issues with putting a Netgear FVS318 VPN router behind another shared router to connect to a remote office. Lots of people say you can't do it, Netgear says you can, but I'm waiting on the proof. In any case, with a hardware-based device, they really like to have either a static IP address on each side or a fully qualified domain name (FQDN) aka DynDNS (and some router manufacturers are pretty picky about who they partner with for DNS services).

Just pointing out some obstacles to be overcome, you will certainly want to test your potential environment in as close to a remote environment as you can before you go overseas. Client (software) based VPN clients seem to be more forgiving, but as you note, you would need one for each device, unless you can work it out that one device has the VPN client on it and all of the network sharing happens through that device. Again...test, test, test.

[kj4btkljv]

Feel like getting nerdy? If your router can support it, there's a version of DD-WRT firmware that features VPN services.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/VPN

Jeff

[C(-)ris]

It really would be easier to put the client on all the machines. It really isn't that much work as it is built into the OS.

Then you setup your VPN router wherever your internet access is to connect to it. The real question is, will they figure it out and just block the public IP of your router.

[IronMac]

How many devices are you bringing?

[Chakravartin]

C(-)ris wrote:
It really would be easier to put the client on all the machines.

That's how it's typically done.

[Monster]

Chakravartin wrote:
[quote=C(-)ris]
It really would be easier to put the client on all the machines.

That's how it's typically done.
agreed