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Old Aug 17, 2012 | 6:38 am
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Originally Posted by richarddd
DD-WRT is very negative about PPTP due to its lack of security. "It should be noted that PPTP has some security flaws and is considered deprecated." See http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php..._Configuration They recommend OpenVPN.
It's not just DD-WRT. PPTP is an insecure protocol. But, unless you think a government is after you, it's fine. If all you want VPN for is to show a US IP address for streaming media, it's fine. The biggest thing is to pick long, random usernames and passwords to make it hard for would-be hackers to get in to your network. My PPTP server, for example, has 25 character random username and password.

The advantage to PPTP is that every device supports it.


Originally Posted by mikelat
Find an inexpensive Synology Diskstation. They have a built-in VPN server. I had mine setup in about 1hour including driving to starbucks to use external WiFi to test it
FWIW, the Synology DiskStations also run either PPTP or OpenVPN for their VPN server.
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