VPN R7900 Connected to home, but no internet

hello,

I was able to connect to my VPN home router in the USA. I have the R7900 Nighthawk. I followed the instructions from netgear and set up the client on my laptop abroad. I successfully connected to my router, at least by seeing the OpenVPN GUI showing green when I connect to my home router, so I assume that means I am connected via my VPN.

After connecting via the VPN, I can't seem to connect to the internet via the VPN on any browser: Chrome, Firefox, Edge and I even tried Internet Explorer 11. I tried a combination of port triggering on 12974 and allowing from 500 to 1294? Just a shot in the dark. I don't know what I'm exactly doing, just trying anything.

I am in Thailand now. I am trying to connect to my home VPN primarily to watch Netflix. Is this possible once I can connect to the internet after connecting the VPN?

Thank you.

nodaicrag
Apr 02, 2017
Thank you. I tried uninstalling, reinstalling and making sure all networks selected. I opened status page, if it helps it says something like "us=165694 Recursive routing detected, drop tun packet to [AF_INET]myipaddress:12974

Any other ideas? thank you

5 Replies

nodaicrag
Aspirant
Mar 28, 2017
Just to add more info to my post. I realized I had just uninstalled ExpressVPN. Would the prior installation of a VPN on my PC be affecting my VPN connection to my home router?
- JamesGL
  Master
  Mar 31, 2017
  Hi nodaicrag,
  
  Unistall and reinstall the OpenVPN client on your computer. Also during the generating of the certificate make sure you have selected the "All sites on the Internet and Home network".
  - nodaicrag
    Aspirant
    Apr 02, 2017
    Thank you. I tried uninstalling, reinstalling and making sure all networks selected. I opened status page, if it helps it says something like "us=165694 Recursive routing detected, drop tun packet to [AF_INET]myipaddress:12974
    
    Any other ideas? thank you

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VPN R7900 Connected to home, but no internet