Future Consideration Support for Setting Archer MR600 as a VPN Client

Hello,
So i'm having this problem with my Router Archer MR600 which i bought 6 months ago and at first i thought it supported VPN's but when i started configuring it i found out that the router itself can be setup as a OpenVPN/PPTP VPN and not as a VPN Client and this is a really big deal for me because My ISP does not provide a public ip to me and my WAN IP is a private IP and that means i cannot do any port forwarding so a VPN is my only choice but i can still port forward with a VPN thro my PC and it's no problem but the thing is that the VPN has a limited amount of devices to connect to and i want most of my home devices to be connected to a VPN and setting up a VPN on my router would allow me to do that Easily but the Archer MR600 doesn't support that and i'm very disappointed at TP-Link for their Hardware feature supporting, at first i thought the archer MR600 does support VPN's but it doesn't and i spent so much on it that i don't wanna spend more on a new router just for a VPN. and i see no reason it doesn't support being set as a VPN Client and there's no benefit for me if i set this up as a VPN server since i don't go out that much.
this would make TP-Links Routers a much Better service since the popularity of VPN's is increasing Each day and more people want to connect their router's to a VPN cause it's easier and more reliable and secure.
I'm not a Networking Expert so i'm sorry if there's something preventing this to be a option on the router
But if there's a solution please Let me know
And i hope TP-Link would release a New Firmware for VPN support
Please put this at a Top Priority if Possible
Thanks...
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This is a joke. One buys a product because it advertises VPN feature, only to find the VPN is a server. Not a client!!! What is the chance someone needs a VPN server over a 4g connection. There's another post in this forum with 32.000 views. This has been an ongoing topic for four years!!
TPLink already got our money, already made their business, why would they hear us out. I guess it'd be very difficult for any of the 32K people who have seen these topics to buy this products ever again.
My last chance was trying to install an alternative firmware like OpenWRT but unfortunately there's no version for MR600 v3.
So I guess now I have a fancy paperweight with antennas.
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Totally agree. Let's change it...
Any one can propose an alternative with VPN capabilities?
jmdv wrote
This is a joke. One buys a product because it advertises VPN feature, only to find the VPN is a server. Not a client!!! What is the chance someone needs a VPN server over a 4g connection. There's another post in this forum with 32.000 views. This has been an ongoing topic for four years!!
TPLink already got our money, already made their business, why would they hear us out. I guess it'd be very difficult for any of the 32K people who have seen these topics to buy this products ever again.
My last chance was trying to install an alternative firmware like OpenWRT but unfortunately there's no version for MR600 v3.
So I guess now I have a fancy paperweight with antennas.
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Hello @guib , can you comment more on how you use your setup with Archer MR600 and Home Assistant? Thank you!
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