Remote access to my home network in a collage room

[9colai]

Hi all!

My first thread here btw

I have a problem, and i have been struggling with this problem on and off for a month now.

I have a NAS (synology ds214play), it is connected to my home network, and i want to be able to access it remotely, from my laptop onver the internet.

The problem is, that i can't get any connection to my home network, when i use the internet outside the college that i live in.

Im not sure, but i think the problem occurs because i live in a college. I checked my routers internet lan IP, which is different from my WAN IP. I enabled remote management in the router (Netgear WNDR3700). And tried to connect to my subnetwork, with the internet IP from the router (not the local 192.168.x.xxx, but the 10.21.xx.xxx), on the college from my girlfriends room, and it works! NMAP can also scan the open ports succesfully.

But when im outside the college, i cant get access to my network with any of the IP's (WAN or routers internet IP). I tried NMAP, and the result are "All ports are filtered".

I'm not sure, but i think maybe it's because i have a subnetwork, within a subnetwork (My home network within the colleges network). So when i try to connect to my network from my girlfriends room, i can connect to mine from the whole college network. But when i try remotely from the internet outside the college, maybe i can't pass the colleges switch or something like that? Or meybe there is a problem as my reouter assign the remote acces to the college network and not the internet?

Note that i have my one unique WAN adress, as i tested it, and my girlfriends WAN is differend from mine.

Can anybody recognize my problem? Is there a solution? Any help would be highly appreciated

-Nicolai

 

[L&LD]

You are not an a WAN IP address with a 10.21.x.x address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

This is still a private IP address and that's why you can't see anything from the real 'outside' world.

 

[9colai]

You are not an a WAN IP address with a 10.21.x.x address.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network

This is still a private IP address and that's why you can't see anything from the real 'outside' world.

Yes i know, so the college network, makes it impossible for me to gain remote acces?

 

[L&LD]

Yes i know, so the college network, makes it impossible for me to gain remote acces?

Exactly...

 

[9colai]

Exactly...

Okay, thats's sad news. I guess i have to live with the slow quickconnect connection then. At least i did learn alot about home networking while trying...

 

[L&LD]

You can try to make a case with the college of a very good reason for them to provide you access to their network from the outside, but I have my doubts that they would make an exception for anyone.

 

[9colai]

You can try to make a case with the college of a very good reason for them to provide you access to their network from the outside, but I have my doubts that they would make an exception for anyone.

Hehe, i don't even wanna try... I just have to wait to i'm done with my education in about a year...

 

[azazel1024]

You might be able to tunnel the connection using a VPN provider for outside access.

Beyond that, no luck. You've got double NAT going on and no control over the college's router(s) to setup port forwarding rules to forward your traffic to your router inside their network.

 

[9colai]

You might be able to tunnel the connection using a VPN provider for outside access.

Beyond that, no luck. You've got double NAT going on and no control over the college's router(s) to setup port forwarding rules to forward your traffic to your router inside their network.

Is it defficult to setup a connection trough VPN? And can i find a free VPN provider?

 

[azazel1024]

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=free+vpn

It generally isn't that hard to setup a VPN connect, especially as most of the free ones have a downloadable client to install on your machine, or both machines if tunneling. The later might be a few extra steps, but depending on the provider they might have instructions on their page/with their client on how to set it up.

Just don't expect much. A lot of the free providers you are probably only looking at low single digit Mbps connection speeds at best.

 

[9colai]

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=free+vpn

It generally isn't that hard to setup a VPN connect, especially as most of the free ones have a downloadable client to install on your machine, or both machines if tunneling. The later might be a few extra steps, but depending on the provider they might have instructions on their page/with their client on how to set it up.

Just don't expect much. A lot of the free providers you are probably only looking at low single digit Mbps connection speeds at best.

Well, the free providers, gives me an opportunity to check out the method. After that, i can consider a paid faster connectino, if it manage to get it working . Thanks for the help!

Is there some kind of "Solved button" or "point button to the best help on this forum?