Future Consideration Support for Setting Archer MR600 as a VPN Client
Hello,
So i'm having this problem with my Router Archer MR600 which i bought 6 months ago and at first i thought it supported VPN's but when i started configuring it i found out that the router itself can be setup as a OpenVPN/PPTP VPN and not as a VPN Client and this is a really big deal for me because My ISP does not provide a public ip to me and my WAN IP is a private IP and that means i cannot do any port forwarding so a VPN is my only choice but i can still port forward with a VPN thro my PC and it's no problem but the thing is that the VPN has a limited amount of devices to connect to and i want most of my home devices to be connected to a VPN and setting up a VPN on my router would allow me to do that Easily but the Archer MR600 doesn't support that and i'm very disappointed at TP-Link for their Hardware feature supporting, at first i thought the archer MR600 does support VPN's but it doesn't and i spent so much on it that i don't wanna spend more on a new router just for a VPN. and i see no reason it doesn't support being set as a VPN Client and there's no benefit for me if i set this up as a VPN server since i don't go out that much.
this would make TP-Links Routers a much Better service since the popularity of VPN's is increasing Each day and more people want to connect their router's to a VPN cause it's easier and more reliable and secure.
I'm not a Networking Expert so i'm sorry if there's something preventing this to be a option on the router
But if there's a solution please Let me know
And i hope TP-Link would release a New Firmware for VPN support
Please put this at a Top Priority if Possible
Thanks...
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@TP-Link Greetings form I bought this router about half a year ago for 4G use, today I needed to work remotely and I realized that the lack of VPN Client will not give me such an opportunity.
Add in the new firmware support for VPN client for a company like TP link this is a nest of problems
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CGNat and no public IP makes all services that requires an incoming connection to be unavailable. Connection to outside must be established from MR600 (vpn client) to my other home network that uses a a public IPv4.
Without this I can not reach my MR600 network devices.
VPN stack is already on the device, effort to implement OpenVpn client cannot be to complicated.
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@TP-Link Hi, I am also looking forward to implement Archer MR600 as a VPN client device: it's the only way to access my remote device, since my 4G ISP won't let me open ports over cellular. My preference would be L2TP client. Much thanks.
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@jmdv You should try Tailscale. I wanted to access HA remotely and had the same issue. This service solved my problem; it's free for up to 20 nodes.
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I lost access to DDNS because my internet provider is introducing CGNAT. I had a public variable IP, now I have a local IP.
And getting a permanent public IP from them requires running a business. They do not have an offer for private customers.
I can either change my internet provider or MR600.
What do you recommend?
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@radius75 As I mentioned above, trying Tailscale would make sense to me. However, to be completely transparent, it was useful to me in a different situation (accessing Home Assistant remotely through a Deco TP-Link router). I never tried Tailscale on my Archer MR600, which I stopped using a long time ago.
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Hi,
I am not fully qualified to provided an answer that would resolve any potential issues that may arise. However, that said I have been told that some ISP's will provide a static IP address on request. I am unsure which ISP's provide this service and I did not research which might, as I don't even know if we are even on the same continent and thus said information would possibly be useless to you.
Okay, that said have you considered a private static IP address through Surfshark ( surfshark / dedicated-ip ), I don't know if this is helpful, but just an option that might be worth looking into. I hope you manage to resolve your issue and sorry to hear you lost access to DDNS, which is probably going to happen to all of us eventually.
all the best
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