Routers Home VPN - Which Router

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Got a sub for a football streaming site which is blocked in my work as our network is located in mainland Europe, although I'm physically in the UK. Been using a trial of TunnelBear and it bypasses the corporate security and I can stream. However, I've been told that I can use a router at home with VPN capabilities and install a client on my machine to access at home.

Anyone suggest a router than can do this and also a decent client?
 
Got a sub for a football streaming site which is blocked in my work as our network is located in mainland Europe, although I'm physically in the UK. Been using a trial of TunnelBear and it bypasses the corporate security and I can stream. However, I've been told that I can use a router at home with VPN capabilities and install a client on my machine to access at home.

Anyone suggest a router than can do this and also a decent client?

Most drayteks will do this, but they're expensive.
 
Got a sub for a football streaming site which is blocked in my work as our network is located in mainland Europe, although I'm physically in the UK. Been using a trial of TunnelBear and it bypasses the corporate security and I can stream. However, I've been told that I can use a router at home with VPN capabilities and install a client on my machine to access at home.

Anyone suggest a router than can do this and also a decent client?

Depending on what program you use to watch, and if it can be configured to use a proxy (which would be localhost in this case), you can tunnel using OpenSSH server on a machine at home and the PuTTY client at the watching end.

This can be used to create a SSH tunnel and you can move this to a custom port :).
 
Asus routers do have a VPN server on board. PPTP as well as OpenVpn


As the mate says, all asus router has VPN server capabilities (and other premium routers as linksys or netgear). And maybe, if you have some old router, you can install dd-wrt or tomato on it, and do your own vpn server (tomato, dd-wrt, openwrt, gargoyle have vpn capabilities)

Personally I have netgear r7000 and it supports vpn server and client. But before you buy one, you have to know if you like a neutral router or adsl router
 
I just deployed pfsense on a old desktop and configured openvpn and works flawlessly. Might be an option
 
Most Asus routers have built in vpn as old as the N66U which you can probably pick up for less than £50 for a used one.

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Ubiquiti USG routers will handle pretty much any VPN you go with and you're getting enterprise-grade routing for consumer prices. Their console takes a bit of learning but there are plenty of forums and other guides to assist with that.
 
I was looking to get a VPN router for home and checked out the Linksys WRT 1900AC. This router is supposed to have a built in Openvpn client and Openvpn server, does this mean that you could only use the Openvpn service or can you go with any Vpn sevice provider?
 
I use a TP-LINK WR842ND router flashed with DDWRT, my VPN provider gives step by step instructions on how to set it up with OpenVPN, pretty straight forward.
I need a UK IP address here in Spain and it works flawlessly.
 
What download speeds are you lot getting via your routers ?

Not sure many routers could use VPN at broadband providers full speeds.
 
My Asus N66U only gets about 15Mbps I read more newer versions max out around 30Mbps

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My Asus N66U only gets about 15Mbps I read more newer versions max out around 30Mbps

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Thanks mate, tead that VPN is not the bottle neck its the cpu speed and amount of ram in the routers that is.

Thinking of building my own pfsence router to avoid those limitations.
 
Thanks mate, tead that VPN is not the bottle neck its the cpu speed and amount of ram in the routers that is.

Thinking of building my own pfsence router to avoid those limitations.

as I did, as you states the hardware of these routers cant really handle VPN traffic, building a dedicated pfsense box would be ideal.
 
I have very slow speed here in Spain it is via WIMAX, and is normally around 6-7 Mbps, through the VPN drops very slightly still normally 5-6 Mbps though.
 
Ubiquiti is great, plus tie in your UniFi AP and you have a pretty sweet solution at home or the office
 
as I did, as you states the hardware of these routers cant really handle VPN traffic, building a dedicated pfsense box would be ideal.
Any info on the speeds your getting and the spec of the PC you used, i want to keep it as small as possible .

Any limitations a standard router wouldnt have ?
 
A friend of mine signed up with Nord and his speed went down to third but after speaking to their support he said his speed went back to normal. @Ferret if you are building your own VPN configuration then a step by step guide would be very helpful to others who might be interested in doing the same. As someone has already suggested this topic could do with its own thread.
 
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A friend of mine signed up with Nord and his speed went down to third but after speaking to their support he said his speed went back to normal. @Ferret if you are building your own VPN configuration then a step by step guide would be very helpful to others who might be interested in doing the same. As someone has already suggested this topic could do with its own thread.

There are loads of guides on the net for pfsence make no sence :proud: me repeating them lol
 
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