I have 2 locations with linksys RV042's. 1 with cable internet at WAN1 and 192.168.1.1 at LAN. 2nd location has DSL at WAN1 and 192.168.2.1 at LAN port. The VPN traffic is too much for my internet connections. I now have a wireless bridge between locations. I have set both RV042 as Dual Lan with WAN2's with the extra static IPs from my DSL line and was able to VPN from WAN2 to WAN2 over wireless bridge, but I am not seeing the throughput I can get just testing over the bridge. I have opened the bandwidth management to max and bound protocols like 25,80 to only use WAN1's.
Throughput numbers from IXIA Qcheck; VPN Internet -WAN1: 0.4Mbps VPN Wireless-WAN2: 2.4Mbps Wireless bridge only: 5.4Mbps security is WPA-PSK(AES)
I wander if the RV042 is not able to calculate VPN as fast as my wireless network. I have tried the WAN2's as DMZ (192.168.10.*) and VPN between locations, but I could not figure out how to use a static route instead of VPN?
I next tried location 1 as single WAN/DMZ, with no DMZ(0.0.0.0). I plugged location 1 wireless bridge to the LAN traffic (192.168.1.0). At location 2 I plugged wireless bridge into WAN2. The RV042 at location is set to dual WAN,Load balance. WAN1 is DSL, WAN2 is
192.168.1.92 255.255.255.0 and LAN is 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0. Location 2 could get to Location 1, but Location 1 could not get to Location2! I tried ROUTE on location 1, 192.168.2.0 255.255.255.0 ->GW 192.168.1.92
I was able to use the RV042 Diagnose Ping tool- I could ping any address from either location but a ping from a pc on either side would not work. The log shows as connection accepted, but ping still timed out.
I am not sure the RV042 is going to work for me. Anyone ever use a RV042 for this? What other cheap equipment can I look into that:
1 I can have Internet local to each network. I do not wont to send http junk across my wireless bridge! 2 I can have 192.168.1.0 network work with the 192.168.2.0 network over my wireless lan.