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Old Oct 13, 2017 | 9:49 am
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Originally Posted by PTravel
That's exactly what I use VPN for (along with VNC). I strongly suggest you look at dd-wrt. The odds are your existing router can be flashed with dd-wrt, the process is easy, and configuration is straight forward. Best of all, dd-wrt is free.
The caveat is that, since it seems the project is dead, it hasn't been getting security updates in a while.

Originally Posted by PTravel
Ubiquiti is new name for me. I'll check it out. I've been using dd-wrt for years because it simply works and works well. Right now, I have no reason to change, but I will check out Ubiquiti.
They focus on WISP and enterprise markets and price about 80% less than the equivalent equipment from Cisco or Juniper. The Unifi line of devices can all be managed from the same controller and are pretty slick.
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