I am trying to figure out what is the easiest way to setup up a VPN between two homes that I own in 2 different cities.
Most of the major cable TV operators allow to watch all Live TV channels on any device inside your home - once you leave, you only get a subset of channels. I want the second home to connect back to the primary residence so that it appears I’m still inside my home so that I can view all the live channels (I don’t have cable in the second home) - this currently works from my phone using unsecure PPTP to my primary residence with DDWRT.
I could use DD-WRT and configure with OpenVPN in both locations, but then I need to purchase and install DD-WRT for my second home and make a bunch of configurations, etc. Since I’m a pretty busy guy, is there any type of small device or appliance that I can purchase for both locations and plug the spare Ethernet ports and configure a VPN tunnel with minimal effort?
Using two routers that have IPsec, and preferably the home you link to has a static IP address or a DNS setup. (otherwise you’ll be updating the IPSec information on the 2nd home often to connect)
I’m afraid Guide To Set Up & Configure OpenVPN Client/Server VPN | OpenVPN is your best bet. Notice you will be upstream limited, since you will be pushing out video through the upstream of the second residence through the tunnel, while you have also allow some 10% for the incoming video acks (unless it’s streaming via UDP).
Also, you should make sure your hardware has enough OpenVPN tunnel throughput to handle these few Mbit/s of video streaming.
Thanks for this… I think after doing a little further reading and research, I will stick with DDWRT and OpenVPN. Here is what I want to do and hopefully someone can direct me to the right tutorial:
(Primary Home Network) <===> (Internet) <===> (Vacation Home)
I want a specific LAN device (i.e. MAC address) in the ‘vacation home’ network to appear that it is coming from the ‘Primary Home Network’ - whether this mean it receives a DHCP address from the Primary Home Network, etc. The rest of the LAN clients in the Vacation Home do not need to connect back to the Primary Home Network - they just receive their DHCP address as normal.
