XR500 Custom VPN?

I downlaoded this last week and it's still not a custom VPN.  It's a VPN for two providers which was increased from one.  Seriously?  What a waste of a feature since it does nothign to support custom VPN settings.    There's a myriad of open source VPN clients you could have integrated into your build.  Why has this still not been completed?

You should be ashamed of dragging everyone on this thread out for so long and then releasing a half-baked solution.  Unbelievable!

What's everyone else using now instead of this highly overpriced, feature lacking router?

Please read the guide carefully. Hybrid VPN supports all OpenVPN providers, of which most providers are (as you say). You just need to click the advanced option.

while its the sadest implementation of something i have seen in a long while, to be fair it is there....

when you click the advanced button there will also be a larger open text field at the bottom. you have to actually get the .opvn file from your VPN provider (many will provide you one) or you have to take it from your openVPN client. Then you open it in a test editor and then copy the contents from the .opvn file into the open text field...

yea.. i know.. we have all said it or thought it.. but it 'technically' works. 

Yes, definitely clunky but i'll give that a shot.  If it works then that's all I care about.  :-)

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Alaric55 wrote:
Example, I would like to assign a network as 192.168.3.x to VPN while 192.168.1.x is bypassing the VPN.

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Does the XR500 support configuring multiple (V)LANs with different IP subnetworks at all?

No that's not possible currently

TeamRocket  ... I'm a little bit confused what you want to achieve. To establish a VPN connection to the router - beyond of the requirement that the router must be exposed to the Internet (no carrier grade NAT, no ISP side firewall rules - unless properly configured for the OpenVPN config, ...) - obviously the router must have a pubic accessible IP address, either resolvable by a DDNS service (as the IP can and will change over time), or the "business" class approach would be paying for a fix assigned IP address (what most IT people tend to combine with a domain and a DNS entries - as FQDNs are easier than ip addresses). This DNS name, or DDNS name, or as last resort the static IP of your router Internet connection, must be used for the OpenVPN config for the "calling home" VPN. Wild guess this is what your new router does try to explain you - but it's unclear if the last post does talk of the router or the Windows system. The very same applies to any router. Just like your phone provider does assign phone numbers to your fixed line and your mobile phone, IP addresses are required to be reached. No number - so nowhere to call.

To establish a OpenVPN connection from your Windows system to your router, there is no VPN provider required - you generate the OpenVPN config on the router, and set it in place on your Windows (or whatever other) OpenVPN client. 

If you on the other hand establish some VPN connection from the router to some hide-my-a**-type VPN provider - for example for all LAN IP addresses - all traffic from the LAN and the router will use that VPN provider default gateway. When establishing a VPN connection from your Windows system, it is possible the return traffic does not come back to the Windows system, instead it will flow to the VPN provider, and (of course) the VPN client on the WIndows system would fail.

TeamRocket As per a previous reply in this thread from a bout 23 January 2019 https://community.netgear.com/t5/Nighthawk-Pro-Gaming-Routers/XR500-Custom-VPN/m-p/1694701/highlight/true#M7596 Custom VPN is available on all firmware (starting from about 2.3.2.40).

There is a guide DumaOS Optimal Settings Guide: Hybrid VPN - This guide will help you setup Hybrid VPN on your DumaOS powered router. describing the ability to import virtually any typical VPN service provider OpenVPN configuration. 

Nothing that stops you from hiding your a** from the ISP P2P or whatever monitoring. 

Per location ... talking of different VPN providers? 

Not an active XRnnn user ... I guess only one can be loaded at a time. And I don't know of there is a killswitch function available stopping any other communication of the VPN provider is not workable.

Netduma-Fraser Netduma_Jack Netduma_Luke  please.

Are you travelling with your router? Otherwise choose the provider location with the best location for your home/office location. Amazing these providers are still working on technology from stone-age Internet - nowadays it should not be difficult to provide the best IP address(es) based on the location the requests are coming from nowadays, and also based on the load of these VPN concentrator locations.

We can dispute that say you are located in France that using a French (or even any other EU based) location might be that smart from the legal prospective. Not every difficult to seizure a VPN providers infrastructure - where most are used to hide suspect criminal activities in a certain area anyway - and investigate. Without any user notifiying. (France was just a wild guess btw.)