Hello everybody,
And hey Linus, this would make a great video.
Lets start:
Backstory:
As my previous and only post 3 months (January) ago suggests, I need a new Laptop, at least I thought so, but I realised, I don't.
What I really need and want is a powerful system to game with. I already have this system. At home with a Ryzen 1700X and a gtx1060.
Ok it is not THE most powerful system, but it is more than enough for me.
So I already have a laptop. It is an old Pavilion g6 with a core i5, a radeon 7000M graphics and I added a 64gb ssd (had it lying around
and didn't want to buy a new one). Since then it boots fast and office stuff, surfing etc is possible without a problem.
Back to december 2018. That was the first time, I tried to connect my steam libary to my laptop. This works great with the Steam integrated
streaming option but only if you are connected in the same Network.
Then I found remotr, which is basically what I want since you log in with your main pc and than your receiving device and voilá it actually works but
that would be too easy, a lot of different networks at work or at the campus blocked this and even with some open networks and bad routers you can run into issues.
So what I tried next was to use my main-pc as a VPN with port forwarding. However, this f**ked my system up (exactly on 24th of decemeber) and windows decided that
my account needs a totally new password. I was unable to figure out a solution so I just saved all the data on a different setup and reinstalled Windows.
Nevermind, now I know better.
I am searching for a laptop since then, but honestly I don't want to spend roughly 600 bucks on a cheap one if I already have the hardware (and the
internet connection) to do what I wanted to do in the first place:
Build my own streaming platform.
My main-pc should be connected to my laptop and than stream games to it.
The easiest way to work around seem to be using hamachi and moonlight, however, since I hate networking, I can't get it running.
Here is what I tried:
The main pc is connected to my router. But, thanks to the shit cable connection in my house, this router is a sim router which has
a simcard right in it. (huawei b528s-23a) I don't know if you ever worked with one of these but I always have problems with my NAT type and so on.
(However the internet connection is great with a ping in cs:go always at around 15-20 and download speeds in steam at roughly 5-7MB/s.)
I connected the laptop on the same type of router, with a different sim card, and then connected both devices in hamachi.
This gives me a relayed tunnel connection. So I of course googled the situation and there are many different solutions (I didn't tried out yet)
BUT I found out, that even if I would be able to get hamachi running on this exact setup with those routers, this won't prob. work any longer when I switch to
other internet connections like the one on my campus (which seem to have very strict preferences, I can't even access steam itself. It uses, like
many universities, the eduroam network). I am not entirely sure if this is actually true, maybe theres a workaround?
So I got back to my original thought of just setting up a VPN network for my router that I can connect to with my laptop.
In theory I would use my router as a gateway(?) / VPN(?) for my laptop wherever I am. Then I would be(?) in the same network as my main-pc therefore
I would be able to even use the build in stream option by steam(?).
And I have no freaking idea how to do this. Last time (as you maybe read in the background) I f**ked up my main-pc, by trying to use the pc itself as the VPN
connection, which lead to windows giving my administrator a new password, that I couldn't figure out.
This time I would just like to use the router itself to work as a VPN, but I am not sure if this is possible with this kind of router (since the router itself
would have to support VPN options).
Yeah that are my thoughts so far. At the end all I need is a direct connection from my laptop to my network that my main-pc is in.
If you have different ideas or approaches to get to this goal they would be highly appreciated!
