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Orbi VPN Client
I think this is a needed feature in Orbi line up is the ability to do VPN CLIENT. Given that Rep have sold us out to ISP. A VPN client on router is prefer. Orbi already have a VPN server why not p...
LarryM404 wrote:Wait, when you're talking about SoC's are you referring to smart home devices? If so, I'm still not getting the problem they'd present to an Orbi based VPN. I don't think they present anything of a realistic load, a couple packets now and then. And I can't imagine them having any real time demands for data - they get a packet with a "Turn off the light" command, they send an "Okay" back.
As far as Raspberry Pi's - I have two of them running Kodi and they run OpenVPN just fine (for their own data streams).
As far as the VPN appliance - I think you're expecting a LOT more Internet traffic than I am -and- a lot better base speed by the ISP (out here if very rural TN I feel lucky to have 3Mb).
I still think there is, or will be, a demand for a whole-house VPN connection. Orbi is the logical spot to provide that. It already provides a VPN server, so a lot of the code for encryption is already there. Somebody is going to see it and fill that consumer need. There's already a Open Media Vault for a home network storage, there Kodi providing an open media player. Somebody is going to slap together a whole home VPN. I'd like to think that Netgear has the expertice, they have a top end product that already supports the protocol....
I agree with this.
There have been a lot of chatter in my office due to the recent political climate and one key topic that kept on discussed is:
"How to have my WHOLE home Internet connected to the VPN instead of per device?".
This even came from people who are not so technical (non-Engineer).
By SoC, I'm talking about the processor inside the Orbi - powerful enough for routing, very weak for broadband encryption.
I don't doubt at all the need and market for whole-house VPN - I just don't think there is a product in-market powerful -and- affordable enough right now for general consumers. I feel for you with your ISP connection, but I can tell you that FiOS customers pushing 300+Mbit and Google Fiber at 1Gbit are going to feel VERY constrained by any sort of VPN connection (client or server) that the Orbi's hardware is capable of delivering.
Rodney