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[Pig Vomit]

Hello, All.

I have a DIR-825 B1 2.07NA.  I am about to upgrade my home router to an Asus RT-AC68U, which has a built-in VPN server feature.

I am planning on bringing my DIR-825 down to my house in Mexico, where I want to use it as a client to connect to my home broadband connection.  I want to do this to so that I can overcome non-US content restrictions on my Roku, wifi Blu-Ray player, laptop, etc., and have these devices read as having an USA IP address when they connect to Netflix, Vudu, etc.

After reading up on this for quite some time, and after looking at commercial VPN services like HideMyAss, I'm still not clear on whether I can accomplish this with the stock firmware.  It appears that I might need to flash and use DD-WRT firmware.

Can someone point me in the right direction and answer this hopefully simple question?  If I can't use the stock firmware, why not?

Thanks in advance for all replies.

[FurryNutz]

I doubt changing FW will do anything or maybe 3rd party FW does have some features to avoid media regional use. Routers are not dependent on actual media regional networking or can circumvent any kind of regional media streaming conditions. They pass along what ever is seen on the network between the ISP services and the client devices. It's up to the source media services, ISP services and client side devices to handle any media conditions.

[Pig Vomit]

After my original post, I flashed DD-WRT firmware to my DIR-825.  I then enabled a PPTP VPN server on it, connected it at my main home.

The DD-WRT firmware is great.  Installation was easy, just carefully and patiently follow the instructions.  Router is a *little* warmer than it used to be, but working fine.  Signal seems to be a little stronger, not much, not sure, but small little pockets of poor reception I used to have are less common.

To test the PPTP VPN, I used my Android cell phone (connecting on T-Mobile's data network) to connect to the VPN.  I then went to a website to check the IP address of my phone, and it matched that of my home internet connection.  SUCCESS!  No reason a VPN client wouldn't work the same way in Mexico.

Note: There is no LT2P server included with DD-WRT.  It can be used as a LT2P client, but not as a server.

Now....I also did A LOT more research on my original question.  I'm still not certain of the answer, but I plan to install a *different* stock DIR-825 B1 2.07NA I have at another home nearby, and see if the stock firmware will work as a client.  Because I absolutely HATE searching for questions like this, finding other people with the same question/problem, but no answer posted, I will be sure to post back here so that others can learn.  I'm thinking that the stock firmware will work as a VPN client.

As for whether this will solve all my problems....not sure.  The internet speed on my phone was definitely slower on the VPN than on T-Mobile's network, but I was in a poor coverage area at the time.  Hard to say whether the bandwidth on the VPN (which is limited by my home network's upload speed, and Mexico's download speed) is high enough to do what I want to do, which is to stream HD quality video.  I will try to drop by a public wifi connection tomorrow to do more testing.

I feel like I'm talking to myself.

[FurryNutz]

You'll need to refer to the WRT support site now since you've loaded WRT on your router. Enjoy.