ANSWERED Question regarding router equiptment and Tomato+ airVPN

[Royee 10]

Hi I have a netgear adsl router currently using BT broadband connection,  I was wondering if I buy a Asus RT-N16 Cable Router,    can I still install tomato on it and Air VPN on it like many have done so and still get connected this way ?

 

So essentially I will be connecting my netgear adsl router which gets my broadband to my Asus RT-N16 cable router and then my Asus RT-N16 cable router to my PC getting the AirVPN support ?

 

Not sure if this is possible...

 

[Baraka 32]

Why would you even need to connect your Netgear router to the Asus one? Please describe your network setup.

[Royee 10]

Hi its since the netgear adsl modem router I have has a modem built in to get my BT broadband.

 

I could get a ADSL modem and get tomatoe support etc but,  I would rather just get a asus modem router which may work will work with cable broadband companies or fiber later on down the road.

 

So that is why I was thinking perhaps I can bridge the netgear adsl modem to the asus modem router just to use a vpn from the asus router instead.

[Royee 10]

I guess everyone with airVPN/OpenVPN are all on Cable broadband providers.

 

Can anyone else please confirm they may have setup a ADSL/DSL (broadband) Modem router and connected it to there normal

router(cable broadband like an Asus RT-N16) and got it to work ?

 

I googled tomato ADSL routers,  and it does not seem to exist... so I assume my above theory must work otherwise what about UK millions of  ADSL/DSL customers !

[Baraka 32]

Try it out in a bridge config and get back to us here. That's the only way to know for sure.

[Royee 10]

thanks yeah I think that is the only way possible,   I think since nearly every tomatoe/wrt firmware based router has been just a Router and not designed for ADSL/DSL broadband connections only way to find out is the hard and expensive way !

 

Only issue is the NT-16 asus routers the best one but its the most trickest one to locate and buy at a good price.

 

This will take some time,  I almost brought a Asus N55 diamond router yesterday... then ran a quick google and found out it was not tomatoe supported !

[Royee 10]

By the way anyone wondering just in case,  you can use a ADSL modem and set to bridge mode or modem only mode,  and connect to a tomato router and VPN works fine.

 

So its not just limited to cable broadband,  but works fine on ADSL broadband also.