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teluswifi
5 years agoNeighbour
vpn server on second router with Telus wifi hub
Hi, looking for a bit of help in setting up a second router with a Telus wifi hub. I recently bought a tp-link archer a10 to use together with the Telus wifi hub. I connected the a10 router to po...
sevan
4 years agoNeighbour
This is an old post so likely you resolved it or moved on. But I was mulling a similar setup so thought I would chime in.
If you use bridge mode, then I believe your 2nd router is effectively treated as any other device on the WAN. It won't have any access to the other devices that are using your hub. I think the correct way to do this is to not use bridged mode, have the 2nd router as a regular client device connecting to the hub. Then use port forwarding on your WiFi hub to send the necessary VPN traffic ports to your 2nd router (give it a static IP address).