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Nighthawk ax12 rax200 and VPN installation
Hi there, have an existing ExpressVPN subscription and would like to install it on my router. Can it be done for this parricular router? Thanks
No, Netgear doesn’t allow third party VPN profile installation on the Nighthawk routers. I created a suggestion asking for this very feature, you can vote for it and maybe they’ll listen if enough people ask.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
avtella wrote:
No, Netgear doesn’t allow third party VPN profile installation on the Nighthawk routers. I created a suggestion asking for this very feature, you can vote for it and maybe they’ll listen if enough people ask.
https://community.netgear.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-For-Home/idb-p/idea-exchange-for-home
Yeah. Just to provide clarity incase anyone else looks at this, Netgear does support OpenVPN in the sense that they can run an OpenVPN server on the router, but that is for clients connecting to the Router, not the Router joining/connecting to another network which is what you and the original poster are describing.
At this point time to look elsewhere for that functionality unless Netgear adds it...
maybe a cheap Fortigate 60E will suffice for what you're trying to do? Not a Netgear product obviously :)
^^ The Fortigate reference would be for IPSec for ExpressVPN, I've not used ExpressVPN but they apparently support standard configurations...