Openelec eircom router on vpn

homewardbound11

Hi,
I need to set up my openelec xbmc on vpn. What is the best way to do this.
Can it be done on the standard non fibre eircom router or done through openelec or add ons.
I would appreciate any pms on this set up as I have seen on one of the openelec forums that the easiest way to do this is to have 2 routers and set the openelec xbmcto the router set to the vpn.
Has anyone done this, as help would is very much appreciated.

Stuxnet

Are you rolling your own VPN for privacy, or using a provider to overcome geo restrictions, your not very clear.

A solution will depend on what you are trying to achieve.

homewardbound11

Stuxnet wrote: »

Are you rolling your own VPN for privacy, or using a provider to overcome geo restrictions, your not very clear.

A solution will depend on what you are trying to achieve.

Privacy 1 and geo restrictions a bonus

White Heart Loon

For geo restrictions just use a smart dns service, less messy.

homewardbound11

Bump.
Anyone any thoughts. On VPN or VPN router for this setup. Openelec xbmc

White Heart Loon

homewardbound11 wrote: »

Bump.
Anyone any thoughts. On VPN or VPN router for this setup. Openelec xbmc

A router, just buy a Mikrotik RB750 and setup the VPN on that.
http://www.interprojekt.com.pl/mikrotik-routerboard-rb750level-32mb-5xlan-p-560.html

homewardbound11

White Heart Loon wrote: »

A router, just buy a Mikrotik RB750 and setup the VPN on that.
http://www.interprojekt.com.pl/mikrotik-routerboard-rb750level-32mb-5xlan-p-560.html

Thanks.
A cheap router. Is it difficult to setup and piggyback on to a d1000 sitcom router. Also any good VPN services for this.

White Heart Loon

homewardbound11 wrote: »

Thanks.
A cheap router. Is it difficult to setup and piggyback on to a d1000 sitcom router. Also any good VPN services for this.

Yeah, Mikrotiks are very advanced, but if it's just for VPN I can give you the code to paste into it to get that going.
Check out overplay VPN, they also do smart DNS.
https://www.overplay.net/

homewardbound11

Anyone tried VPN service on openelec. There isn't much info other than butchered options.attached is a screen capture of the openelec config I just saw.

homewardbound11

White Heart Loon wrote: »

Yeah, Mikrotiks are very advanced, but if it's just for VPN I can give you the code to paste into it to get that going.
Check out overplay VPN, they also do smart DNS.
https://www.overplay.net/

Just sent on a pm. I ordered the box mentioned. Hopefully you can send on the code to access VPN services.

homewardbound11

Ah we'll.
foolish purchase. You'd need to be an it professional to setup this router.
Impossible for the home user to setup. Not sure where it's market is when once you buy it and look off support on VPN , you are told ithat you need to be an expert to set it up,
Anyone looking for a router?

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White Heart Loon

homewardbound11 wrote: »

Ah we'll.
foolish purchase. You'd need to be an it professional to setup this router.
Impossible for the home user to setup. Not sure where it's market is when once you buy it and look off support on VPN , you are told ithat you need to be an expert to set it up,
Anyone looking for a router?

Yes, Mikrotik are not at all for beginners, they're en enterprise router with many, many options. ISP's use them. Those in the Mikrotik thread in nets and comms all have good basics, even then a Mikrotik is a huge learning curve. I could give you a working config if you pm me the details, but you'd need to be capable of resetting it to default, logging in, refusing the default config and pasting the code into a terminal. Do you think you'd be able to do that?

homewardbound11

thanks for this offer,

I am able to reset this device as Ive done it several times over the 2 days . I have done the manual setup as per their website and the posting of the config both into a new terminal in winbox and also as the website suggests into a new script and running it.
Unfortunately every time it seems to connect to a server and I check my IP it still reverts back to my isp. I know I am close but I would struggle for one line replies that is currently taking me days in retries.
I don't want to sound ungracious . I will get an it professional to show me how to do this. A few euros spent now will save me a week or two.

homewardbound11

White Heart Loon wrote: »

Yes, Mikrotik are not at all for beginners, they're en enterprise router with many, many options. ISP's use them. Those in the Mikrotik thread in nets and comms all have good basics, even then a Mikrotik is a huge learning curve. I could give you a working config if you pm me the details, but you'd need to be capable of resetting it to default, logging in, refusing the default config and pasting the code into a terminal. Do you think you'd be able to do that?

Thank you so much. I am a bit overwhelmed at whiteheartloons time and efforts.

White Heart Loon

homewardbound11 wrote: »

Thank you so much. I am a bit overwhelmed at whiteheartloons time and efforts.

Working ok? Did you sign up for a full blown vpn subscription?

homewardbound11

Working good . Took a 30 day and it expired just there back. Haven't had a chance to look further into it with other things going.
Cons were reliable but us VPN was slow.