Category Archives: Router

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  pcWRT VPN Router for Business: Set Up a Site-to-Site WireGuard VPN in Minutes

  Posted on August 5, 2026 by pcwrt in Router, VPN.

  Every small business with more than one location eventually hits the same wall: how do you securely connect two offices so employees can share files, access the company server, or use the same point‑of‑sale system — without an IT department? The answer used to be expensive enterprise gear or a managed VPN service. The pcWRT […]

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  How to Set Up a Router-to-Router WireGuard VPN Behind CGNAT (pcWRT Guide)

  Posted on August 3, 2026 by pcwrt in Router, VPN.

  Setting up a WireGuard VPN behind CGNAT is a common headache for home networkers and small businesses. Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) means your ISP hides your router behind a shared public IP, making it impossible for external clients to initiate a traditional inbound connection. Most tutorials tell you to pay for a static IP or use […]

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  How to set up a second pcWRT router as an Access Point with VLAN support

  Posted on December 7, 2024 by pcwrt in How To, Router, WiFi.

  The pcWRT routers allows you to create multiple WiFi SSIDs and assign each to a different VLAN, which improves your network security by segregating different devices to different VLANs. By following the steps shown here, you can set up a secondary pcWRT router as a WiFi Access Point (AP) to extend the WiFi range, with […]

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  How to create your SSH key and use it on the router

  Posted on March 3, 2024 by pcwrt in How To, Router.

  Generate your key pair Open a command line window and enter: ssh-keygen -b 4096 -t rsa A pair of private/public keys will be generated under the .ssh folder. By default the file names are id_rsa and id_rsa.pub. You can optionally enter a passphrase for your private key. View your public key On Linux or MacOS: […]

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  How to reset router password by email

  Posted on August 29, 2023 by pcwrt in How To, Router.

  When you lose your router password, you can no longer log in to the router admin interface. The usual way to regain access to the router is to reset the router to factory defaults. However, that also means that you lose all of your configurations and have to reconfigure the router from the very beginning. […]

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  Do You Have a Public IP Address from Your ISP?

  Posted on December 10, 2021 by pcwrt in How To, Router.

  If you want to host a server at home (for example, VPN server, Plex server or game server, etc.), you need a public IP address. Nowadays, more and more Internet Service Providers (ISPs) move their customers behind Carrier Grade NATs (CGNATs) due to the increasing scarcity of IPv4 addresses. Normal ways to set up a […]

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  Set Up Multiple NextDNS Configurations for Encrypted DNS on the pcWRT Router

  Posted on November 17, 2021 by pcwrt in How To, Router, Security.

  You can set up multiple configurations in NextDNS, each with different block lists. These configurations map neatly to the Access Control profiles on the pcWRT router. As a result, you can apply different NextDNS filtering configurations to different devices on your network directly from the router, without the need to set up NextDNS on each […]

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  Use OpenDNS for Ad Blocking?

  Posted on January 29, 2021 by pcwrt in Router, Security.

  A lot of people use OpenDNS on their home networks to block contents that might be harmful to children. Some were asking whether OpenDNS can add a filtering category to block unwanted ads. The answer from OpenDNS was no, and for good reason. As a result, if you want to use a DNS service to […]

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  3 Ways to Block Snapchat on Router

  Posted on January 20, 2021 by pcwrt in Parental Control, Router.

  Configure your router to use OpenDNS When you block the Social Networking category on OpenDNS, Snapchat will be blocked. In order to make this work, you’ll need to sign up for OpenDNS Home, and configure your router to use OpenDNS. Here are the steps: Create an OpenDNS account. Enter the OpenDNS addresses, 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220, […]

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  How to bypass VPN for certain web sites or apps

  Posted on January 4, 2021 by pcwrt in How To, Router, VPN.

  There are situations where you want to bypass your VPN for certain web sites or apps. For example, you might want to pass all traffic from some devices through VPN, except for when those devices visit streaming web sites such as Netflix, Hulu etc. Some VPN clients give you the ability to choose which apps […]

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