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R7000 V1.0.6.28_1.1.8 "OpenVPN connection timeout"
Bought this router with support for VPN a week ago (Jan 12, 2016) after lots of researches, believing that would be one of the best choices for someone who wants to setup VPN at home. VPN was the mai...
I had the same problem, and of course I also could not figure out the problem. until now.....
The problem was a factory reset. My R7000 is connected to the router of my ISP, on that ISP-router I configured a port-redirect to a specific IP adress (that of my R7000). Due to this factory reset, my R7000's IP adress changed, so the solution was quite simple, change the redirect to the new IP adress and it worked again.
I hope this information helps.
Hi everyone again,
I have now managed to connect but without DDNS. This shows everything else is correctly configured but DDNS. This is not ideal because whenever my ISP changes my IP address I will have to reconfigure to use VPN again. Does anyone know whether there is still an issue with NETGEAR Nighthawk R7000 router in relation to Dynamic DNS settings, and how to go around the issue if possible?
Thanks