NinjaMonkeyUK
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Thank you. I am all about security. It all sounds very good and I will definitely be looking at it again (I didn't know you can put your router on VPN, I thought it is only client based). However, as it stands I don't really have any spare megabits to give away. A few posts back I posted my speed test. 4Mb down and 0.5 up with 30+ ping. If I am getting the fibre (minimum guranteed of 52 Mb), then I can throw some of them away. As it stands, if I am uploading something for my client, noone at home have internet for hours. There is really not much to play with at the moment.
Router is Sky Hub 3.0 (I'm with Sky).
VPN is a [host <-> client] based system, so your laptop is the client, and it has to connect back to a host. Some home routers don't allow you to set them up as a VPN host, so you might have to set that up on your NAS instead, and forward a port to the NAS for VPN traffic only.
This is safe and a typical setup for small businesses, as I deal with daily.
When you're away from home and sending data to your NAS, your laptop will actually be using the downstream on your home Internet connection, not the upstream, because you're effectively "downloading" the data to your NAS, i.e. uploading to it from your laptop.