About Vpn Access To Your Network Or Internet Service At Your Office Or Home [Router Mode] - NETGEAR WAX204 User Manual

WiFi 6 AX1800 Dual Band Wireless Access Point WAX204
If the access point does not use a static WAN IP address, you can use a DDNS service
for the access point and register for an account with a host name (also referred to as a
domain name). A remote client such as a computer or mobile device can use that host
name to connect with the access point and access the network over a VPN connection.
For more information, see About Dynamic DNS [router mode] on page 168.
About VPN access to your network or
Internet service at your office or home [router
mode]
When you are away from your office or home and you access the Internet, you usually
use a local Internet service provider. For example, at a coffee shop you might be given
a code that lets you use the coffee shop's Internet service account to surf the web.
The access point lets you use a VPN connection to access your own Internet service
when you are away from your office or home. You might want to do this if you travel to
a geographic location that does not support all the Internet services that you use at your
office or home. For example, your Netflix account might work at home but not in a
different country.
For information about the types of VPN client connections that the access point supports,
see Enable and configure OpenVPN and VPN client access on the access point [router
mode] on page 178. In addition to access to your office or home network, you can either
allow or block VPN client Internet access through your office or home network.
For the VPN tunnel to work, the LAN where your VPN client computer is connected must
use a different LAN IP address scheme from that of the LAN of the access point at your
office or home. If both networks use the same LAN IP address scheme, when the VPN
tunnel is established, you cannot access the access point network at your office or home
with the OpenVPN software.
The default LAN IP address scheme for the access point is 192.168.1.x. The most common
IP schemes are 192.x.x.x, 172.x.x.x, and 10.x.x.x. If you experience a conflict while you
are not at your office or home, consider asking someone else at your office or home to
change the access point IP address scheme for your office or home network (see LAN
IP address settings [router mode] on page 109).
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