Unorthodox VPN situation

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Long story short, my router (ASUS RT-1750B1), is not capable of processing over 20D/50U Mbps over OpenVPN and my VPN provider (NordVPN), does not support L2TP or PPTP - cheers guys! So I was thinking about a way to curb OpenVPN'ing on the router and I came up with this setup:

- Install Ubuntu on my old laptop
- Connect it to the router
- Install a PPTP/L2TP server on the laptop (which I will then connect to via a local IP over L2TP or PPTP)
- Feed the PPTP/L2TP server a connection through the OpenVPN client which will also run on the laptop
- Connect the router VPN back to the laptop via PPTP/L2TP: this stage could be problematic

Is this feasible or would you suggest another way of going about it?

 

[Xentrk]

Long story short, my router (ASUS RT-1750B1), is not capable of processing over 20D/50U Mbps over OpenVPN and my VPN provider (NordVPN), does not support L2TP or PPTP - cheers guys! So I was thinking about a way to curb OpenVPN'ing on the router and I came up with this setup:

- Install Ubuntu on my old laptop
- Connect it to the router
- Install a PPTP/L2TP server on the laptop (which I will then connect to via a local IP over L2TP or PPTP)
- Feed the PPTP/L2TP server a connection through the OpenVPN client which will also run on the laptop
- Connect the router VPN back to the laptop via PPTP/L2TP: this stage could be problematic

Is this feasible or would you suggest another way of going about it?

I converted an old PC to a pfSense router and use an Asus RT-AC68U as the Access Point to improve performance. You can read my journey on OpenVPN Performance here. Or, purchase an Asus RT-AC86U or RT-AX88U. The CPUs on these routers support accelerated OpenVPN performance.

 

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I converted an old PC to a pfSense router and use an Asus RT-AC68U as the Access Point to improve performance. You can read my journey on OpenVPN Performance here. Or, purchase an Asus RT-AC86U or RT-AX88U. The CPUs on these routers support accelerated OpenVPN performance.

Good read. In my case, since it's a laptop I'll have to use a USB->RJ45 converter. Thankfully the CPU does support AES though. Might give it a shot.

 

[Xentrk]

Good read. In my case, since it's a laptop I'll have to use a USB->RJ45 converter. Thankfully the CPU does support AES though. Might give it a shot.

I found some other laptop configurations options doing a quick search. The downside may be keeping the laptop cool. The smaller form factor computers like Qotom are also an option. But many forum members report improved OpenVPN performance with the Asus HND CPU models when compared to the ARM CPU routers.