Configuring Orbi 753 for Open VPN

Kdepot wrote:

Any suggestions on VPN services that folks have had hands on experience with?

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Probably would help to describe the reason for using a VPN.

• OpenVPN host capability is included in residential routers for the purpose of allowing owners access to resources on the local LAN when they are away.
• Many VPN products route everything through the VPN when it is active, which leads to the option to allow access to the internet through the VPN.
• This is clearly less efficient and lower performance because every packet has to make the round trip to the residential router two times.
  (from client through VPN to router. from router to internet resource. from internet to router. through VPN to client.)
• Using a commercial VPN product avoids that round trip, but also has no way to access resources on the local LAN.
• Some users use the OpenVPN host capability to mask their location.  For example, they may live somewhere that does not allow streaming something, but have access to another system located where that stream is allowed.  "See. I'm at home streaming my Netflix. Not in France."
• The conventional reasons for using VPN when away from home are much less relevant than they were before almost every web site got encrypted.

If the goal is not access to local resources or to mask location, but only to avoid paying $5/month for VPN, I tend to agree that the effort is not worth it.