NETGEAR Nighthawk RS600 - Use VPN to Access Your Internet Service at Home; Allow VPN Client Internet Access in the Router

For more information about the VPN configuration for the router, see Enable
OpenVPN service on the router on page 158.
7. Click the For Smart Phone button to download the router’s OpenVPN configuration
file to your computer or Android device.
If you download the configuration file to your Android device, unzip the file. If you
download the configuration files to your computer, unzip the files, and send them
to your Android device.
8. On your Android device, open the OpenVPN Connect app and import the .ovpn
file.
You can now open a VPN tunnel to the router.
For more information about using OpenVPN on your Android device, visit
https://www.vpngate.net/en/howto_openvpn.aspx#android.
Use VPN to access your Internet
service at home
When you’re away from home and you access the Internet, you usually use a local Internet
service provider. For example, at a coffee shop you might be given a code that lets you
use the coffee shop’s Internet service account to surf the web.
Your router lets you use a VPN connection to access your own Internet service when
you’re away from home. You might want to do this to encrypt the data to and from your
device so that any data intercepted by a third party cannot read the data. You might
also want to use a VPN connection if you travel to a geographic location that doesn’t
support all the Internet services that you use at home. For example, your Netflix account
might work at home but not in a different country.
NOTE: The data sent between your device and your router is encrypted by the
VPN, but the data exchanged between your router and the public Internet is not
protected by the VPN service.
Allow VPN client Internet access in the router
By default, the router is set up to allow VPN connections only to your home network,
but you can change the settings to allow Internet access. Accessing the Internet remotely
through a VPN might be slower than accessing the Internet directly.
User Manual164Use OpenVPN to Access Your
Network
Nighthawk WiFi 7 Tri-Band Router Model RS600