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KngDa
Aspirant
Nov 10, 2025

OpenVPN connects to router when clients on Ethernet but not on Wifi

I am having difficulty getting OpenVPN to work to connect to my RS300 router with my Windows 11 computers. I have a Dell XPS 16 9640 and a Microsoft Surface Pro 2103 both running Windows 11 Pro. Both...
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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 10, 2025
KngDa wrote:

I want to connect to the RS300 "remote" LAN via the VPN tunnel and the internet through the local LAN at the client location. This works perfectly as long as the client computers are connected to their local LAN via a hardwired Ethernet connection. If the client computers are connected with a WI-fi connection (which works perfectly without the VPN) on the same local network, there are issues.

Are you saying that the you are trying to connect a PC to your router using OpenVPN while the same PC is already connected to the same router over WiFi?