International VPN to bypass 'local' restrictions

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Django-Re-chained

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Hello one and all.

I am in the process of relocating to France from the UK. I will however be keeping my apartment in the UK. I have internet access in the UK at the moment and I will be setting up internet access in my new apartment in France soon. I have two queries:

1 - In the UK I have a NAS setup on my home network. At my new apartment in france a want a second NAS but I also want to be able to access/share/synchronise across both. Is this possible?

2 - Can I 'tunnel' from my French router directly to my UK router so that I from France I am connecting to the web from my UK router allowing me to access UK-based on demand TV services etc?

I am fairly computer savvy but rather ignorant when it comes to VPNs and advanced networking. I would be very grateful for any suggestions you may have.

Thank you all in advance for your time.

CF
 
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bill001g

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Both work as you say. VPN will allow both access between your local network as well as the ability to route the traffic out either internet connection.

You first need to decide what you want to do since you must tell the vpn. For example do you want all your web surfing to have to go all the way to your UK or do you want some to go to the UK and some to use your internet in france directly. The first obvious is much simpler to setup the second you must key specify which networks you want to go which ways.

You have 2 choices you can either use routers that already have VPN software in them (you can load dd-wrt on some that do not) or you can use a server on each end and tunnel it though the routers. You will need to research both and decide which is more cost effective and simple to operate.

The software that most people use and what many routers have running is called openvpn. It is a open source vpn that runs on most OS.

Like most these things you need to just start playing with it to learn it. The documentation seems confusing when you have never seen it but it is pretty simple. There are youtube videos on openvpn if you really want I guess.
 
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