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Sinister6

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Forgive me for being a n00b, havent touch any networking at all since 1997, but i need some suggestions pretty quick as this suddently become an issue.

my company is going to put me in China for min 1 year starting 2011.
now i have been there early this year and experienced the internet environment is simply a disaster until a colleague (now quitted) let me use his VPN, which he told me is simply link the laptop to his home computer back in FL and access the internet from there.(somehow like a proxy??) and can access and map his folders from his NAS as home.

this is exactly what I am looking for, but after search for some time i still have no clue beside I must get a new router, something like this?

http://www.zyxel.com/web/product_fa...yGroupNo=8ADD6099-7BDD-45D1-9D3A-4F9FD6A32ADE

can someone enlight me with some directions? i have heard IPSec is painful to setup, and PPTP maybe a better solution.

thanks!
BzT
 
IPSec is fine router to router, PPTP is good if you simply want to dial in. I would say get a Draytek 2820 they are very good for both IPsec and PPTP
 
In this situation I would personally go with something like an SSL VPN. I think all the Cisco ASA firewalls come with at least a 2 user license for the feature now.
 
Are you just hoping to VPN to your home? Or to the office?
If just to access your home LAN and ISPs services.....hey if you have the budget to go enterprise grade and get a Cisco or Juniper....it's your wallet.

But plenty of low cost alternatives out there, even free...like Hamachi.

Quite a few little SOHO/small biz grade routers that have built in VPN server. Even on a super budget, get a router that supports 3rd party firmware like DD-WRT. Or build a *nix router.
 
a friend of mine is over in Chengdu, and he has the same compaints about the internet. i set up a hamachi link for him initially, so he can get past the firewalls and get to some basic sites that are blocked. but eventually we setup an OpenVPN connection which is much faster (slow-DSL type speeds) and allows for file transfers (with hamachi he could only get 10's of kb/sec usually). hamachi had some very flakey service from over there, which seemed to be from chinas filters not playing nice with IPSec or something.

be careful though, as chineese authorities dont like you circumventing their protection, and the legal system is... not as robust as ours, lets say. assume that all messages passing over their network are read, and dont discuss anything that could be taken as illegal. i suggest making a list of extra crypto keys and leaving a copy here, and taking one with you on a (encrypted) thumb drive or something. that way if you have to ditch keys, you can tell whoever has access to the US side of your VPN link to "use key #5" instead of "use key '1DB2172B436DA153256F40CAA447C7AEBF919FD'", which could be intercepted.
 
thanks for all the inputs,

basically i just want to access to a un-restricted web, in China even block yahoo, youtube and facebook!! at home i have a synology 209 NAS which runs cam, video, music and mails which is also a plus if i could run it in VPN to organize the stuffs in there.

been reading a lot of articles yesterday, well since the ISP contract at home cant terminate anyway...and i certainly dont want to turn on my rig 7/24/365, seems to me to buy a compatiable router and flash it with DD-WRT might be a cheaper solution over an expensive Cisco RV042.

however will that be easy enough for a n00b (me!) to have it setup?

thanks.
 
Sinister6 said:
thanks for all the inputs,

basically i just want to access to a un-restricted web, in China even block yahoo, youtube and facebook!! at home i have a synology 209 NAS which runs cam, video, music and mails which is also a plus if i could run it in VPN to organize the stuffs in there.

been reading a lot of articles yesterday, well since the ISP contract at home cant terminate anyway...and i certainly dont want to turn on my rig 7/24/365, seems to me to buy a compatiable router and flash it with DD-WRT might be a cheaper solution over an expensive Cisco RV042.

however will that be easy enough for a n00b (me!) to have it setup?

thanks.
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Yes ;)

you found this forum full of helpful people to help you along.
 
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