VPN and access to local reasources (Steam in house streaming)

[PaulKemp]

Hi!

I'm running the RT-N66U on firmware 3.0.0.4.376_1071 and are having some isses with access to resources on my LAN when i connect with the VPN. This could be me not understanding how VPN works though. I am not at work, connected trough my VPN, this is confirmed by whatsmyip.com.

So; I'm successfully connected to my LAN with VPN. I can access the router at 10.0.0.1. I can ping my main pc on its ip. But I can not get Steam one pc to the other. Am I missing something here? Everything else but Steam in house streaming is working through vpn. Thanks!

 

[System Error Message]

do you mean steam or stream? If you mean steam gaming platform it has issues working on non standard layer 3 or higher connections but relating to streaming the N66U doesnt likely have enough CPU to support the bandwidth required for VPN for streams especially if they're going to be high quality and you are encrypting your VPN with very deep encryption. If you are watching a stream remotely your upload speed must be high enough to support it and the target hardware must also have enough CPU and GPU power to encode the stream (if you have ever streamed games to online sites 1080P streaming requires a lot of CPU or GPU acceleration just to work properly). I believe steam's stream relies on CPU based encoding, they may have GPU hardware encoding but im not sure because there are intel, nvidia and AMD all have their own API and i havent yet seen any stream software that covers all 3. Ofcourse some older GPUs do have dedicated media units that can keep up but GPU manufacturers do not support them anymore. so none of the stream softwares actually include them.

check your router's CPU usage while you stream to see if it is the problem, if it is i have numerous threads where i explain the capabilities of different CPUs in relation to VPN speeds.

 

[PaulKemp]

do you mean steam or stream? If you mean steam gaming platform it has issues working on non standard layer 3 or higher connections but relating to streaming the N66U doesnt likely have enough CPU to support the bandwidth required for VPN.

Thank you. Yes, I do mean Steam and stream. I actually want to use "Steam In house streaming" over my VPN.

Will all clients on my local network, all Steam clients detects each other, no problems what so ever. If I go to my workplace, and connect to my home network via VPN, the Steam clients does not detect each other. In my head, when I use VPN, the clients are on the same network and subnet. Just like I am plugged in at home, but there is something blocking that communication.