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A friend has one of these https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/media/6-powerhub-super-wifi6-family/
(the bigger one) with FTTP.

I cannot get any VPN I have to work through it, not FTTP and not L2TP.
Well, Softether (set up to use entirely port 443) works, as one would
expect.

Someone else I know is about to get one of these and I wonder what can
be done to make it work.

On that site I will also want to set up an inbound VPN of some sort,
whose client is available for win10 (laptop) and an android phone. A
google suggests these boxes do not have any inbound VPN support so I
would probably replace it with a Draytek or similar box.
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Peter wrote:

A friend has one of these https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/media/6-powerhub-super-wifi6-family/ (the bigger one) with FTTP.

I cannot get any VPN I have to work through it, not FTTP and not L2TP.

some VPN providers mention diabling parental control to get VPN client
to work

Well, Softether (set up to use entirely port 443) works, as one would
expect.

Someone else I know is about to get one of these and I wonder what can
be done to make it work.

On that site I will also want to set up an inbound VPN of some sort,

Put the PowerHub in bridge mode and use a second router?

whose client is available for win10 (laptop) and an android phone. A
google suggests these boxes do not have any inbound VPN support so I
would probably replace it with a Draytek or similar box.

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On Wed 28/01/2026 08:43, Andy Burns wrote:

Peter wrote:

A friend has one of these
https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/media/6-powerhub-super-wifi6-
family/
(the bigger one) with FTTP.

I cannot get any VPN I have to work through it, not FTTP and not L2TP.

some VPN providers mention diabling parental control to get VPN client
to work

Well, Softether (set up to use entirely port 443) works, as one would
expect.

Someone else I know is about to get one of these and I wonder what can
be done to make it work.

On that site I will also want to set up an inbound VPN of some sort,

Put the PowerHub in bridge mode and use a second router?

whose client is available for win10 (laptop) and an android phone. A
google suggests these boxes do not have any inbound VPN support so I
would probably replace it with a Draytek or similar box.

Not being familiar with this arena (I use a RPi4B as a VPN interface)
would a Fritz!box do the job?


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On 28/01/2026 08:30, Peter wrote:

A friend has one of these https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/media/6-powerhub-super-wifi6-family/ (the bigger one) with FTTP.

I cannot get any VPN I have to work through it, not FTTP and not L2TP.
Well, Softether (set up to use entirely port 443) works, as one would
expect.

Someone else I know is about to get one of these and I wonder what can
be done to make it work.

On that site I will also want to set up an inbound VPN of some sort,
whose client is available for win10 (laptop) and an android phone. A
google suggests these boxes do not have any inbound VPN support so I
would probably replace it with a Draytek or similar box.

I have been using a Fritz!Box 7530AX as my VPN sever with WireGuard VPN.
Its much faster than my old DrayTek, which although well featured has
poor VPN performance.

Dave
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On 28/01/2026 08:30, Peter wrote:

A friend has one of these https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/media/6-powerhub-super-wifi6-family/ (the bigger one) with FTTP.

I cannot get any VPN I have to work through it, not FTTP and not L2TP.
Well, Softether (set up to use entirely port 443) works, as one would
expect.

Someone else I know is about to get one of these and I wonder what can
be done to make it work.

On that site I will also want to set up an inbound VPN of some sort,
whose client is available for win10 (laptop) and an android phone. A
google suggests these boxes do not have any inbound VPN support so I
would probably replace it with a Draytek or similar box.

if they're not using the phone line (for which you now need the Powerhub
as they wont give out the sip details anymore) then you can use any
compatible router with vodaofne (I use an Asus ET12 and have no issues
with inwards/outwards VPNs)
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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote

some VPN providers mention diabling parental control to get VPN client
to work

I have just sorted this out on a Vodafone Power Hub DSL FTTP router. I
disabled what they call a "firewall".

I checked that disabling this does not disable NAT (which be dumb).

Now VPNs run OK - both L2TP and PPTP.

Previously the only VPN which worked was Softether, configured to use
purely port 443, which as you would expect works everywhere. Somebody
set this up for me 12 years ago, after I had various problems with
SMTP and POP at various hotels etc.
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