I have the following at my house:
- PepLink Surf Soho w/Open VPN Client
- Balance 30 Pro. Can’t install Open VPN on Balance 30 Pro (RMA issues).
- Uplink is via USB to LTE hotspot. 4G LTE@10-40 Mbps down.
- Provider is Calyx through T-Mobil (video is throttled, hence VPN)
- VPN is Proton.
At the moment, running surf soho with 3 VLANs: 1) work computers, 2) personal laptops, and 3) IOT/Streaming (associated with OpenVPN WAN).
No hardwired LAN ports (WiFi access only), unless need to hook up laptop for some direct config on the router.
Balance 30 is powered off - as it doesn’t support OpenVPN license due to RMA.
Wondering if there would be any benefit to running the IOT/VPN only on the Surf Soho, and using the B30 Pro to host the other two VLANs which might (my theorizing) - improve Wifi since it’s now distributed over two routers, and maybe slightly improve VPN performance because router processing dedicated solely to VPN WAN (although impacted by an extra hop?).
So:
Would this be a stupid configuration?
If not - and it is feasible, what are the basic steps (excluding VPN setup) to configure this? I assume some sort of service passthrough on the Balance 30?
So - how do I configure Balance 30 LAN port to feed DHCP to Soho WAN?
Any configuration required on SOHO WAN?
What do I have to do with IPSEC NAT-T service for passthrough from B30 to SOHO?
Simply put, how do I get this to work with the least amount of grief?
Thanks!