What I Want
In brainstorming for things that need to be done in the new house, I’ve run into a problem I currently don’t have enough time to fully research. Hopefully someone that reads this will have a solution.
We’re planning on putting the office in the upstairs loft. That would most likely be where the router and most of the cabling will be. That’s simple, no big deal.
The problem comes downstairs in the family room. I have a hacked series 1 Tivo. There’s a network cable that pokes out of a hole in the bottom of the Tivo. It needs network access. Since the house is 2-stories, it isn’t easy to run cable from the office to the family room without either a lot of work or ugly cables hanging all over the house. What I want to do is have a wireless bridge from the loft to the family room.
Here’s the problem. I want to have all wireless access to the network and my internet go through VPN. So, my ideal router would allow wired connections to work normally but wireless connections only through VPN. I also want to have the bridge in the family room to automatically authenticate with the VPN and tunnel/bridge the Tivo and any other devices in the family room through the VPN to the network in the Loft. Most importantly, I want to do this cheap.
Any Suggestions?
