Setting up private VPN to home router - Asus

Hi - I'm going to set up a VPN tunnel from my laptop (Win 11) to my home router - Asus RT-AX86S - But it has a bewildering array of choices. Any pointers?

I'm tech savvy - just not done a VPN in years and no idea which to go for. Dont' mind native Win 11 client support, or having to use an app.

I just want to VPN in globally and be able to print at home (workshop). My router offers DDNS but I have a fixed external IP so no real need there.

Little update: I setup Open VPN as a test and have the client on my laptop. It works fine. At one stage I exported an open vpn config file from the router, which I used on my client PC to set that end up. I am interested to know:

- is the username and password all that is needed to access my VPN, or, did the VPN config file contain a certificate of some sort?
- if it did, great, if it didn't, what's all the mentioning of certs on the asus router in the OpenVPN section?
- if it is simnply username and password, how can I lock it down harder? can i limit it to the one laptop only?

Having the VPN on is making me twitchy - I need to be secure.

Whats on the end of the VPN and at risk at home?

Windows pptp is the eaisest to configure but if you are storing bank records etc I wouldn't use it. New Apple phones no longer support it

For OpenVPN - once switched on will allow you to download the client files - usually a *.onvf file.

Download the OpenVPN windows client (you may need to change the name of the virtaul interface on the windows PC to 'ASUS' or similar) - check the documenation/help for the router.

Then it's just a case of pointing the OpenVPN client to the config files you downloaded from the router and entering your name/password to connect