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Router becoming unreachable
Main issues I've been having is when I set up a vpn on the router and have it enabled, after a while the router becomes unreachable as in I can't get onto it anymore and the vpn breaks. I still get I...
Sumiteru_Adachi wrote:
Main issues I've been having is when I set up a vpn on the router and have it enabled, after a while the router becomes unreachable as in I can't get onto it anymore and the vpn breaks.
Which VPN is this? OpenVPN? Something else?
What Netgear device do you have?
What modem/gateway/ONT sits between the router and the Internet?
OpenVPN which iirc is on the advanced set up mnu
RAX 40
I think the answer would be Openreach? michaelkenward
Sumiteru_Adachi wrote:
I think the answer would be Openreach?
Answer to what?
That's the company that provides the Internet network in the UK.
Oh I think you mean if I have a seperate modem? No - the RAX40 does everything
Sumiteru_Adachi wrote:
Oh I think you mean if I have a seperate modem? No - the RAX40 does everything
Unlikely. On its own, a router is mostly useless.
How does the Internet get to you?
It needs to plug into a RJ45 socket that connects to the outside world.
This is often a modem that connects to the Internet through a DSL or cable service. These often use the copper cables that were installed to connect us to the telephone network.that
Newer Internet networks may have an optical network termination (ONT), a box that connects to a fibre-optic cable and turns a light signal into something that can feed an electronic signal to that RJ45 port.
Another option is a satellite network with a dish that also has a box with an RJ45 outlet, or an adapter that connects to the RJ45.
In a very few cases there's a building wide, or campus, network that has an RJ45 socket in the wall that tracks back to some fancy network kit somewhere.
So,what is on the other end of the wire that plugs into the WAN port on your router?