Device in USA, needs UK IP address, how?

[road hazard]

I'm in the US and have a certain device attached to a cheap DLink access point which is plugged into a cheap DLink router. All the wireless devices in my house use the DLink access point.

What I want to do is make it so when only this "certain device" goes out on the internet, its traffic will flow through some VLAN on a magical access point that will route this device out over OpenVPN (this is what PIA uses I guess?) or make it so this "certain device's" traffic can use my Socks5 proxy from PIA...... all so the it can appear to be in the UK.

From poking around on the internet, seems I need a small business type access point that will let me create a VLAN for the "device" and another VLAN for all the other junk on my access point and configure the "devices's" VLAN to use a proxy/VPN.

This magical access point needs to be stupid proof because I'm not a networking expert. I mean, I know a little bit but configuring scripts to run, bridging.....eyes.........glazing...... over. I can read so if you all recommend an access point that can do this and has VERY detailed instructions online or a thriving support forum, I'll direct my questions there.

I don't have a lot of money to spend on this. If I can accomplish my goal via some old, used Cisco or Sonicwall access point from ebay, that's fine by me! I'd also like to avoid custom firmwares like Tomato, HyperWRT, etc because I bricked 2 routers a few years ago (not related to what I'm trying to do now) and would prefer sticking with stock firmwares. Or, if what I'm trying to do isn't possible without spending $1,500 on some networking gear, I guess I'll call it a day.

 

[John Connor]

Well, I was going to mention DD-WRT. It has Vlan support. You most likely can't do what you want on a cheap stock router.

Maybe you could make use of this software. http://old.r1ch.net/stuff/forcebindip/

 

[snoturtle]

What type of device are you speaking of?
pc based?
android?
set top box?

Would something like hola.org work?
Or a vps in the UK and setup openvpn

 

[Mushkins]

Maybe put a proxy box between your mystery device and your router, and run a VPN to a server in the UK from that box to get around your device not supporting running VPN software directly? Doesn't need to be fancy, any old XP box could do it.

It'd be a lot easier to work out a solution if you detailed the devices and precisely what you're trying to accomplish.

 

[road hazard]

Originally, I had what my mystery box is in the post. I asked a similar question on 2 other forums and the mod's freaked out and deleted my post saying that I was breaking some DMCA noise by trying to bypass restrictions placed on my box by the manufacturer. So.....not wanting to repeat that mistake, I quickly edited my post to remove the name of the mystery box.

The mystery box is locked down and is of the network streaming media type. You can't make any changes to the network settings at all.

For ease of use, I'd rather not put a PC between it and the interwebz and would rather look for some sort of networking gear to accomplish my goal.

Unfortunately, the more I read the more I come across references to DD-WRT. Can somebody recommend a super awesome DD-WRT friendly router/access point? I think my local Microcenter had some TP-Link (or Tenda) wireless routers for $35. Maybe I'll get one of those and make it pull access point duty and if I brick it, I'm only out $35.

 

[Red Squirrel]

The way I would do it is buy a VPS in the UK and setup openvpn or other VPN solution. At home setup a managed switch and pfsense router. Have a vlan for your normal internet and a vlan for "UK traffic". Set the default gateway to a VPN client that is always connected to the VPN and routes all traffic through it. I'm not sure 100% how to do that last part but pretty sure it would be possible.

The special device would then reside on that vlan along with the vpn client VM.


Edit: I was bored so I made a diagram, hope this makes sense:



The "internet" cloud represents going out to the internet, and not a specific network, so on the diagram it looks like you're "going back" but it's not the case.