VPN Service with UTM recommendations?

Question

With the recent House/Senate votes to allow ISPs to sell users web traffic, and the increased interest in VPN services, I'm wondering if anyone has already stood up a VPN router or is trying out the various services on their computers? 
 I have been using Tunnelbear on my phone sparingly at coffee shops, etc., but have always had trouble with it connecting when on my home wifi. I never gave it much mind before, but am curious if something in the UTM is blocking it...and if I would encounter the same thing with other VPN services. 
 Anyone tried NordVPN, ExpressVPN, IPVanish...etc.? 
 Thanks,

BAlfson · Accepted Answer

What Louis said. 
 If there are multiple IPs associated to a single FQDN, create a DNS Group definition instead of a DNS Host - I would be surprised if NordVPN did that though. 
 Probably, your best bet is to allow the port you're using for NordVPN to "Any" or "Internet" instead of individual servers. 
 Cheers - Bob

BAlfson · Answer

Hi, and welcome to the UTM Community! 
 No, it's not possible for the UTM to be a client. In the 10 years I've been active here, not one person has done this successfully. See the post from Louis-M above. I have some clients that do this with site-to-site tunnels. 
 Cheers - Bob

maverhick · Answer

BAlfson Thanks for the kind reply. I have a spare Netgear Router that I could flash with DDWRT. I've read that DDWRT does support OpenVPN and so connecting to an external VPN can be setup. So now, I have a couple of questions 
 1) I put up a UTM box upfront. Let it handle the routing etc. Do I place the DDWRT flashed router in front or after the UTM box? 2) Does this setup solve for both UTM and external VPN connection? Are there any discussions/how-tos I could read that could help me get this right. Thanks