Openvpn Tap-windows6

[Ara Kistner]

Istheir a more definitive or updated instruction on enable Open VPN on a Nighthawk router than what is provided online by Netgear I'm trying to setup on a Nighthawk AX8 with up to date firmware, I say again UP TO DATE FIRMWARE v1.0.5.132 and the instruction I linked to seems either badly written or out of date.

I've installed the 64-bit version of OpenVPN on a Windows 10 tablet and extracted the config files provided in the setup instruction:

A couple of background issues. You cannot test your VPN connection from home while connected to Wi-Fi from the same router where your VPN server is running. Test from some location where you actually go through the internet to get to your router.

On an Android device before importing the profile, you must place the four configuration files in the top level of the memory on the main device. They cannot be located on an SD card or lower level directory on your main device.

On the Android device after you moved the configuration files, you would need to delete and then re-import the profile. Attached is a screen snip of the file structure on my Samsung tablet. The only three stand alone files in the top level are three different ovpn profiles.

I personally have tried to connect through two or three different mobile hotspots, one stand alone device from Verizon and one or two from different iPhones. None were successful. Mobile hotspots and their capabilities are really carrier specific. Yet I have no problems connecting to the vpn through Wi-Fi at a restaurant, park, airport, neighbors house, etc.

For android, to import the VPN config, after configuring it in the router (esetting up DDNS if needed), and setting it to allow internet access if needed, and then enabling it and applying, then download the configuration file for smartphone.

Then using an app like openvpn connect =net.openvpn.openvpn browse to the folder and import the profile, the .ovpn file will read from the other 3 files to get the rest of the info that it needs. To test it, disconnect from WiFi and connect over LTE to see if the VPN server is working.

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