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A few months ago I bought a Netgear Nighthawk router (D7000v2), largely because I wanted a router that supported Open VPN so that I could connect up and use Remote Desktop etc when away from my office. I had previously set up something similar by using the Windows VPN server, but wanted something safer and more robust.
It all works pretty well out of the box, but there have been some interesting glitches.
Although I work mostly from home, I rent a hot desk at a local business centre, and take my laptop in there to work on a couple of times a week just for a change of scene and because I get a large discount in their cafe. I often need to connect to my home network while I’m there, and I’ve been doing it by having a remote desktop port open on the router. This is far from ideal, and so I decided to set up a VPN. Both the home PC and the laptop are running Windows 7 Ultimate, which has VPN built in, so it should have been a 10 minute job, but it wasn’t. It just took me all morning to get it working. Continue reading “Setting up a simple Windows 7 VPN”