About Setting Up The Access Point As A Vpn Client [Router Mode].173 - NETGEAR WAX204 User Manual

WiFi 6 AX1800 Dual Band Wireless Access Point WAX204
About setting up the access point as a VPN
client [router mode]
In addition to using a virtual private network (VPN) to securely access your own network
over the Internet when you are not home (see VPN Server and Service with OpenVPN
[Router Mode] on page 177), you can also set up the access point as a VPN client to let
devices on the access point's network securely access an external network, while
protecting your own network identity and preventing a distributed denial-of-service
(DDoS) attack. An external network can be a business network behind a firewall or an
Internet service that might not be accessible from your geographical location without
using a VPN server in another country.
Similar to using the access point as a VPN server, this type of VPN access is also called
a client-to-gateway tunnel, but in this situation the access point functions as the client
and an external gateway (that is not on the access point's network) functions as the VPN
server.
A VPN creates a secure, encrypted tunnel over the Internet between your access point
and a VPN server. The VPN client on the access point redirects the Internet connection
so that the access point first connects to a VPN server (which could be in another country)
and then to the Internet. All devices that are connected to your access point are assigned
new IP addresses from the VPN server, which hides the actual location of your access
point and the devices that are connected to it. After the VPN connection is established,
you use your web browser and any apps as you would normally do.
Note: The access point comes with a predefined commercial VPN service provider
called PureVPN. To use the VPN client feature in the access point, you need a license
from this provider. However, if you want to use a free VPN service on a device on your
access point's network, you can download the service's VPN client on your device and
establish a connection to the free VPN server. Such a connection serves only that
individual device, not all devices on theaccess point's network.
To use the VPN client feature, the access point must be in router mode and you must
log in to the access point, enable the access point's VPN client, and establish a connection
to an external VPN server (see Enable the VPN client in the access point and connect
to a VPN server [router mode] on page 174).
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