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Hi All.
First post, I would like to commend everyone here for help and useful information on this forum, I wish I had discovered it a month ago. New to the forum, so please take it easy on me if my question has already been answered, I did some research but mindful of making the same mistake twice.
So about a month ago, I got myself an Asus 882, I have EE broadband, although there is DSL coverage on the road, I have not explored this option. I have just been using ADSL, this might change as my bandwidth requirement increased (streaming, cloud backup etc). When I got the router, I setup NordVPN on it, and it connected but whenrver it did, I cant use the internet, its something to do with DNS but I didnt have the expertise to fix it, so I returned the router. On reading some info on this forum, there is talk of changing the DNS to 8.8.8.8 which I did, but still didnt work, the firmware on the router was stock one, again not sure if this makes any difference.
Here is my setup at home, got the EE router which works well 27mb download or so, fibre just got cabled on the street so not sure when we will be able to get faster speeds. I have an outbuilding at the bottom of the garden about 25m away from the centre of the house under the stairs where the EE router is, one of the reasons I got the Asus was its wifi coverage, I thought i can use a single wifi 25m away, with 2 walls in between, a stud wall and a solid wall leading onto the garden, when I tested the Asus, wifi coverage was not getting into the outbuilidng which also serves as my office. so I had a cheap old router from EE at home, so I just piggy backed off the main router in the house, this was done via a Cat 6 cable which runs from the house to the outbuilding, and then the other router in the outbuilding serves the devices connected to it.
I am looking to get another Asus router, and below are my requirements.
First post, I would like to commend everyone here for help and useful information on this forum, I wish I had discovered it a month ago. New to the forum, so please take it easy on me if my question has already been answered, I did some research but mindful of making the same mistake twice.
So about a month ago, I got myself an Asus 882, I have EE broadband, although there is DSL coverage on the road, I have not explored this option. I have just been using ADSL, this might change as my bandwidth requirement increased (streaming, cloud backup etc). When I got the router, I setup NordVPN on it, and it connected but whenrver it did, I cant use the internet, its something to do with DNS but I didnt have the expertise to fix it, so I returned the router. On reading some info on this forum, there is talk of changing the DNS to 8.8.8.8 which I did, but still didnt work, the firmware on the router was stock one, again not sure if this makes any difference.
Here is my setup at home, got the EE router which works well 27mb download or so, fibre just got cabled on the street so not sure when we will be able to get faster speeds. I have an outbuilding at the bottom of the garden about 25m away from the centre of the house under the stairs where the EE router is, one of the reasons I got the Asus was its wifi coverage, I thought i can use a single wifi 25m away, with 2 walls in between, a stud wall and a solid wall leading onto the garden, when I tested the Asus, wifi coverage was not getting into the outbuilidng which also serves as my office. so I had a cheap old router from EE at home, so I just piggy backed off the main router in the house, this was done via a Cat 6 cable which runs from the house to the outbuilding, and then the other router in the outbuilding serves the devices connected to it.
I am looking to get another Asus router, and below are my requirements.
- I need Open VPN to work on it, so that if I want certain devices to connect via a VPN connection, they can use that router. This avoids the need to have VPN on several devices eg for streaming content.
- I want to be able to connect to my network whilst away from home.
- Single router that extends wifi to the outbuilding (not essential but just a nice to have, saves wires dangling everywhere)
- Excellent network performance, I have a 16 port switch hanging off the router, this is for any device on the network that wants to connect.
- Quad core performance as I will need the VPN on most of the time, and dont want to slow down the download speed unnecessarily. I know I may need 2 different networks in the one, VPN and non-VPN to counter this.