

RELATED: How to Find Your Private and Public IP Addresses To ensure you can always connect to the VPN server, you also may want to set up a dynamic DNS service like DynDNS on your router. RELATED: What Is Dynamic DNS (DDNS), and How Do You Set It Up? You can also consider using a router or firewall to only allow incoming connections from specific IP addresses. This will allow you to connect to the VPN server using port 23243, and will protect you from malicious programs that scan and attempt to automatically connect to VPN servers running on the default port. RELATED: How to Access Your Router If You Forget the Passwordįor maximum security, you may want to create a port forwarding rule that forwards a random “external port”-such as 23243-to “internal port” 1723 on your computer. For more instructions, check out our guide on how to forward ports on your router. Log into your router’s setup page and forward port 1723 to the IP address of the computer where you set up the VPN server. If you’re connecting to your new VPN server over the Internet, you’ll need to set up port forwarding so that your router knows to send traffic of that type to the right PC. In the “Network Connections” window, press the Alt key to show the full menus, open the “File” menu, and then select the “New Incoming Connection” option.

The quickest way to do this is to hit Start, type “ncpa.cpl,” and then click the result (or hit Enter). To create a VPN server in Windows, you’ll first need to open the “Network Connections” window. RELATED: How to Use LogMeIn Hamachi to Access Your Files Anywhere Creating a VPN Server

Most people will probably be better off with a more complete software package like those offer.
