Good solution TL-WR710N

Usually the instructions given by the VPN providers are tailored to some special firmwares called DD-WRT, Tomato, Open-WRT and so on which have to be installed onto your router. I have done that with many routers, works fine, is okay.

But the much easier way is to just use a router, fresh from the shelf, cheap, easy to set up and no fuzzing around with your existing model. Maybe it's just a rental and you void warranty if you start installing diffrent firmwares on the router. Maybe there is no DDWRT or Tomato or whatever for the model which is sitting in your home.

So my advice, don't fuzz around with your existing setup/router. Get a seperate "VPN-router". Why? Well, you can still use your normal internet without VPN by just switching the the wifi network back to your "normal" one or plugging the LAN cable back to the old router which has been there all the time. Maybe VPN servers are down, your subscription is over or you just want that little extra of speed again back (using VPN connection often introduces a bottleneck which reduces your internet speeds). And if you mess up the configuration of the VPN router, you can always fall back to the good old normal router with just perfectly fine working internet.

So what model should you get as VPN router? Well you could buy expensive enterprise equipment. They often advert with features like "VPN ready" etc... But that's a bit of an overkill. maybe with an normal soho router like the one you already have, maybe just another model which has DD-WRT OpenWRT Tomato Support? Yeah, that would be a solution. I have done that a lot. But there are tons of "how-to"s for that everywhere else but here. The even simpler solution:

TL-WR710N by TP-Link

Before anybody says anything. You can use any other router, it just needs to support L2TP or PPTP on the WAN-side. That's all. I am sure there are many other devices as well which can do this. I know many D-Link can as well.

The WR710N is very versatile and thus the ideal router for this purpose. It support many VPN-providers out-of-the box, no special firmware needed, small, light and nice. Next Post settings.

This post for settings: http://notsoeverydaytechproblems.blogspot.de/2014/02/tl-wr710n-vpn-settings.html