Sharing VPN Connection via WiFi: TP-LINK TDW8901G Router, Windows 10 Laptop, HotSpot Setup

Hello,
I have a TP-LINK TDW8901G router at home and a VPN software installed on my laptop with windows 10. I wanted to provide a VPN over WiFi (access point made in laptop) so I could connect to another laptop or smartphone with a VPN installed on that laptop. Can you make a HotSpot with a VPN?

Depends on the VPN, mine creates a virtual network card with an address pool, and I came up with the idea of a bridge connection, and you can configure it nicely.
I did that virtualbox bridgje a real network card and on virtual os I have real ip and on vpn computer, I just started to work out a proxy server and there are patents by the way ...

kalin24 wrote:

Hello,
I have a TP-LINK TDW8901G router at home and a VPN software installed on my laptop with windows 10. I wanted to provide a VPN over WiFi (access point made in laptop) so I could connect to another laptop or smartphone with a VPN installed on that laptop. Can you make a HotSpot with a VPN?

And where is the other laptop or cell you want to set up a VPN with?
Or else, describe what you want to achieve because I don't get the idea of all the fun too much.

m.jastrzebski wrote:

kalin24 wrote:

Hello,
I have a TP-LINK TDW8901G router at home and a VPN software installed on my laptop with windows 10. I wanted to provide a VPN over WiFi (access point made in laptop) so I could connect to another laptop or smartphone with a VPN installed on that laptop. Can you make a HotSpot with a VPN?

And where is the other laptop or cell you want to set up a VPN with?
Or else, describe what you want to achieve because I don't get the idea of all the fun too much.

The other devices I want to connect to the VPN are at home.

The general idea is to secure your internet connection by having one software on your computer (CyberGhost) that creates the VPN (creates a virtual network card). The computer on which the software is installed is secured, and now I want to create an access point (hotspot) on the laptop for other devices to connect to the internet via a VPN, not through my real network.

I have already done so that I installed the Connectify program that creates HotSpot, I created a new WiFi network through which I made this virtual network card that CyberGhost created, but after connecting to this created network, the message "Connected but no internet" appears

Maybe cyberghost does not allow work on the router? (because in this configuration your computer is a router), i.e. it only protects connections from this computer and not from other computers.

Added after 2 [minutes]:

kalin24 wrote:

"Connected but no internet"

No VPN connection, show me

ping 8.8.8.8
tracert -d 8.8.8.8
route print
ipconfig / all

now connect the VPN and show the above-mentioned commands again, paste the results into the "spoiler" section

The Internet suggests that this CyberGhost is a VPN service. You run it on your computer and come out into the world from their VPN server. This is not related to any security but "anonymity" or bypassing regional restrictions.

If you want an access point and devices like a cell on the same computer to connect to this access point and then fall into a VPN, you have to teach the computer to route such traffic. I recommend that you read the ROUTE command.

kalin24 wrote:

The general idea is to secure your internet connection by having one software on your computer (CyberGhost) that creates the VPN (creates a virtual network card).

And it's not easier to run such a VPN on the router?

bogiebog wrote:

Maybe cyberghost does not allow work on the router? (because in this configuration your computer is a router), i.e. it only protects connections from this computer and not from other computers.
Added after 2 [minutes]:

kalin24 wrote:

"Connected but no internet"

No VPN connection, show me

ping 8.8.8.8
tracert -d 8.8.8.8
route print
ipconfig / all

now connect the VPN and show the above-mentioned commands again, paste the results into the "spoiler" section

Tomorrow I will try to check these commands

KOCUREK1970 wrote:

kalin24 wrote:

The general idea is to secure your internet connection by having one software on your computer (CyberGhost) that creates the VPN (creates a virtual network card).

And it's not easier to run such a VPN on the router?

Yes, indeed that would be the best solution, I wouldn't have to use a laptop for WiFi sharing, maybe someone has already set up a VPN on the router and would suggest how to do it? I do not know if this can be done on my router, I have to check.

kalin24 wrote:

I don't know if this can be done on my router

It should (maybe not exactly the same models, but I suspect the same configuration principle):
http://www.tp-link.com.pl/faq-244.html
http://www.tp-link.com.pl/faq-411.html
http://www.tp-link.com/no/FAQ-558.html

KOCUREK1970 wrote:

kalin24 wrote:

I don't know if this can be done on my router

It should (maybe not exactly the same models, but I suspect the same configuration principle):
http://www.tp-link.com.pl/faq-244.html
http://www.tp-link.com.pl/faq-411.html
http://www.tp-link.com/no/FAQ-558.html

In the TP-LINK TDW8901G router I did not find any options for VPN configuration, this is an older model.
I got a newer router and configured myself to tunnel in the settings.
Indeed, setting up a VPN on your router is the best and easiest way.
If someone wants to configure such a connection, I recommend choosing a protocol other than PPTP, because from what I read it is not completely secure.

kalin24 wrote:

Indeed, setting up a VPN on your router is the best and easiest way.
If someone wants to configure such a connection, I recommend choosing a protocol other than PPTP, because from what I read it is not completely secure.

This is not entirely true. PPTP encryption is breakable. But if something well secured is traveling through the tunnel, decoding PPTP will not help anyone because it will collide with the wall anyway.

If you do something reckless, e.g. you log into the FTP server without encryption, the password is flying in plain text. If it's a piece through a hyper-secure tunnel and then a piece of public internet, then where's the safety? Someone will "overhear" this password in the public part as much as possible.

Using strong VPNs makes sense when you connect 2 locations (e.g. two branches of the company) and some unsecured data will travel through this tunnel.
If you use a VPN to go out to the public internet elsewhere, it doesn't matter what protocol you use, because you will leave the "secure" tunnel anyway.

I use a VPN service to get a "public" IP address and be able to enter my home network. And I use PPTP on purpose.