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Good for a no hassle VPN,
January 22, 2012 Charles G. Bennett "UAV Geek" (Athens, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: NetGear WNR3500L Rangemax Wireless-N Gigabit Router with Tomato VPN firmware (Refurbished) (Electronics)
So you want your own VPN? Great. You can re-task a couple of old PCs to run openvpn or just get a couple of those routers.
When you flash a router with new firmware you always run a risk of 'bricking' the router and making it useless unless you have the means to recover it.
This involves opening the case and wiring up a serial port to the internal pins. Not hard for a tech guy, but why go through the hassle?
I bought two of these routers for about what you would pay anywhere else, but they were already flashed with tomato vpn/usb
Tomato is a variant of the firmware that makes setting up the vpn a lot easier via a gui. The added bonus of the USB module is that you can attach a USB drive directly to the router and the share it via samba, ftp or even http file sharing
(EXT2/3 NTFS and FAT no Mac formatted drives)
All in all, this is the fastest way I can think of to get a VPN up with a minimum about of hardware and...Read more
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