DrayTek Vigor 2862 Triple-WAN Wired Router for ADSL, VDSL and Ethernet-Based Broadband with 3G/4G LTE Support

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This needs to be configured as a Dial-Out VPN connection to initiate the connection with the London router. While the Vigor2862Lac has plenty of support available, it's geared towards those who already have some networking knowledge. It has loads of business focused features that allow plenty of flexibility and expansion in the future. The Vigor 2862 allows you to have up to 32 simultaneous VPN tunnels to remote offices or teleworkers. It supports all common industry standard protocols, encryption types and authentication methods (see specification tab for full support list). Teleworkers can authenticate directly with your LDAP server if preferred. A Mesh node which is connected to Ethernet and allows Wireless Clients or Other Mesh nodes to connect to it. The 4G antennas use standard FME connectors, making it easy to add 3rd party high gain antennas for use in areas of very low signal. Advanced management & VPN features

Port forwarding (Port Redirection, Open Ports) to remote clients connected via an IPsec LAN to LAN VPN VigorAPs set up as Mesh Nodes do not need to be configured, they're managed by the Mesh Root once they've been 'adopted' into the Mesh network. The 2862Lac is a fairly high-end option, and won’t suit all applications. But compared to basic hotspots, the router is equipped with a lot of business-orientated features as previously discussed. It also comes with dual antennas to help improve reception quality, and can easily be upgraded to even higher-gain antennas. The port that will be opened to the Internet, this can be the same as the End Port if opening a single port entry i.e. 443 to 443 opens port 443 onlyEnsure that the Local Network IP details are correct, these are pre-set and should not need changing generally but if the local router has multiple subnets, this could be changed to the subnet that will be used for the VPN tunnel

The Source IP can be left as "Any" to open the port to the Internet, or set to the specified IP Object to limit access to only that Single IP / Range of IPs / Subnet of IPs Hardware Accelerated sessions are not counted by the Traffic Graph, in the [Diagnostics] > [Traffic Graph] menu, for the WAN interfaces that are using Hardware Acceleration. Traffic Graph will still work for WAN interfaces the Hardware Acceleration does not apply to, such as a connected USB 3G/4G modem. Setting Recommendation of "Available" For most Fibre networks in the UK & Ireland, no VLAN tag is required for Internet connecitivity on the Vigor 2927 router. For example with the Openreach Fibre network. If VLAN tags are used by the ISP, they are usually handled automatically by the ISP supplied ONT. The Vigor 2862ac supports simultaneous operation of the newer 5Ghz band as well as the more common 2.4Ghz band. The 5Ghz band is far less congested so if your PCs or other devices support the 5Ghz band, you can use that. The Vigor 2862ac operate both bands at the same time, so your devices can use either. New in the Vigor 2862ac operating 802.11ac is support for MU-MIMO, TX Beam Forming, 1733Mb/s Link Rate and up to 4 spatial streams.The Vigor 2860 Series 'n' models feature 802.11n wireless LAN specification and has been certified by the WiFi alliance for cross compatibility and WiFi compliance (including WPA/WPA2 and WMM). The Vigor 2860n and Vn models includes a hardware co-processor for WiFi to ensure best performance and encryption processing. In the sections following the table, each of these settings is explained in detail, demonstrating how to optimise these where needed. On DrayTek's latest router models, the Hardware Acceleration featureset is further improved to provide Quality of Service, WAN Budget, Bandwidth Limits and the Data Flow Monitor. On older models, Hardware Acceleration up to over 900mbps upstream & downstream is still possible, with some limitations on the features that are available when using the Hardware Accelerator. IPsec acceleration is available on DrayTek's SME routers such as the Vigor 2865, Vigor 2866 and Vigor 2927. It can be enabled to improve LAN to LAN IPsec VPN performance.