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Router behind T3200M
I have a little bit of a unique situation. My townhouse layout doesn't allow for any type of new wiring. Telus recently installed fiber to my unit. I have the following: TV in basement TV and mu...
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Community Power UserMight you find it better to run an external VPN and file server, or is there a specific need to access a particular device?
- I'm not sure I understand what you mean by an external VPN.
I'd like to remotely be in the network so I can access any device for various tasks such as file access, device WOL, etc.Couple of thoughts:
1. Perhaps having the 86U configured as a PPTP VPN server precludes it from functioning in any other mode - i.e. it is looking for the other end of the VPN connection (another PPTP VPN server) and because it can't find it everything else fails - DNS, NNTP, etc (i.e. it has no path to the internet or the T3200M for that matter).
2. Perhaps in addition to port forwarding on the T3200M you also have to allow PPTP VPN inbound on the T3200M firewall - by default it blocks them inbound.
3. Bridging port 1 on the T3200M won't work for your current physical connection of the MOCA adapters because it in effect creates two different networks, each with it's own WAN IP. You can't create any routes on the T3200M and so you wouldn't have any way to route traffic from the T3200 network to the Bridged Port 1 network - thus you wouldn't be able to connect devices on the 86U to devices on the 87U.
Given the fact that you have only one physical connection to each location (room) because of the coax wiring the only way I can see to make things work is to physically separate your home network (the 86U and the 87U) from the T3200M network. You could try the following:
- connect T3200M Port 1 to the 86U WAN and enable Bridging on the T3200M so you have two different physical networks with two separate WAN IP addresses
- connect the 86U to the 87U via MOCA so the 87U and its connected devices are on the same network as the 86U and its devices
- the other OptikTV boxes would connect to the T3200M via its 5G wifi network (you can turn off the 3200M 2.4G wifi) - you have to do this because the 86U is using the only coax connection at the T3200M location
- configure the 86U as your primary home network router and leave the T3200M in its default state to handle just the OptikTV traffic
This should give you the unfettered ability to configure a PPTP VPN etc and allow remote access to your home network using the 86U. I'm not sure which of the 86U or the 87U is the more powerful device and better suited to be your primary router connected to Port 1 Bridged on the T3200M.
