VPN between the lines - questions within
I've read enough about VPN in the last several days to choke a librarian but still I have apparently basic questions. Seems most tutorial websites explain the same general idea and they do it well enough, but it's as if they are so close to the info that they don't realize what they left out from saying to someone like me who is hitting this cold. I wonder what is being said "between the lines" that I am not grasping.
I have an idea in mind for what I think I ultimately want to do, but I have to take this in stages, such are the many holes in my newly acquired knowledge.
Before I ask my first question to fill in some holes, here's what I *think* I understand:
• There is a choice of two configurations for setting up a "remote-access VPN" in your house:
A) Your router contains the VPN software that establishes the tunnel connection to the distant server IP address. With such a router, any device in your house (PC, laptop, smartphone) connected to this router by either ethernet cable or by wi-fi will have no choice but to access the internet from that distant server IP address. Any such connected device in your house does NOT need to have installed in it any VPN software because it is the router that has that software.
Your router does NOT contain any VPN software, therefore a device in your house (PC, laptop, or smartphone) that is connected to this router must have the VPN software installed in it to be able to access that distant server IP address as a VPN tunnel. Further, you will need to check the specs of your router to determine if the router is able to "pass-through" any VPN protocols and, if so, which ones, so that you will not select a VPN provider (i.e. NordVPN) who does not offer that protocol.
If I understand the above correctly, here's where I first stumble:
Question #1) Let's say I have both a desktop PC and a laptop connected to my router for 100 mbps HSI, served by a local server IP address. Let's say I want to add a VPN. If my router indicates that it is a "pass-through", can I install VPN software (of the right protocol, of course) in my PC but NOT in my laptop, set up the VPN to my PC, have *both* my PC and my laptop connected to this router at the same time over the same 100 mbps line, such that my PC will tunnel to the distant server IP address while, at the same time, my laptop will connect to my local server IP address, such that I can operate both PC and laptop, each to a different server in this way? Will this work? In other words, can I have VPN and non-VPN over the same line at the same time? No website tutorial that I have encountered thus far will actually speak specifically to this idea, yes or no.
Maybe I misunderstand. Depending on what the correct answer is to this, is what forms my next question(s).
Thank you for your help.
I have an idea in mind for what I think I ultimately want to do, but I have to take this in stages, such are the many holes in my newly acquired knowledge.
Before I ask my first question to fill in some holes, here's what I *think* I understand:
• There is a choice of two configurations for setting up a "remote-access VPN" in your house:
A) Your router contains the VPN software that establishes the tunnel connection to the distant server IP address. With such a router, any device in your house (PC, laptop, smartphone) connected to this router by either ethernet cable or by wi-fi will have no choice but to access the internet from that distant server IP address. Any such connected device in your house does NOT need to have installed in it any VPN software because it is the router that has that software.
Your router does NOT contain any VPN software, therefore a device in your house (PC, laptop, or smartphone) that is connected to this router must have the VPN software installed in it to be able to access that distant server IP address as a VPN tunnel. Further, you will need to check the specs of your router to determine if the router is able to "pass-through" any VPN protocols and, if so, which ones, so that you will not select a VPN provider (i.e. NordVPN) who does not offer that protocol.If I understand the above correctly, here's where I first stumble:
Question #1) Let's say I have both a desktop PC and a laptop connected to my router for 100 mbps HSI, served by a local server IP address. Let's say I want to add a VPN. If my router indicates that it is a "pass-through", can I install VPN software (of the right protocol, of course) in my PC but NOT in my laptop, set up the VPN to my PC, have *both* my PC and my laptop connected to this router at the same time over the same 100 mbps line, such that my PC will tunnel to the distant server IP address while, at the same time, my laptop will connect to my local server IP address, such that I can operate both PC and laptop, each to a different server in this way? Will this work? In other words, can I have VPN and non-VPN over the same line at the same time? No website tutorial that I have encountered thus far will actually speak specifically to this idea, yes or no.
Maybe I misunderstand. Depending on what the correct answer is to this, is what forms my next question(s).
Thank you for your help.
Comments
Thank you for your thought full question and explanation, to answer your question if you want to connect your PC to the VPN and not your Laptop and have them both connected to your router. What you will need to do is install our VPN client directly on to your PC this will encrypt all information from your computer to the Server that you are connected to and pass through your router. As the other laptop will still run through your ISP and will be seen.