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Need Router Recommendation for VPN

BeeBoop

Golden Member
I want to watch Netflix content that is only available in certain countries on the living room big screen. What router or device would you recommend I get to setup a VPN for the big screen? I need the ability to switch with ease between my original ip address and foreign IP.
 
Use a software service VPN and set it up on your client! you don't want to route your entire house through those vpn's it would be mighty slow!
 
What do you mean a software service VPN? I don't have a PC connected to my television, so I don't believe any software can be installed unless there is a Samsung TV app. The router will only be connected to the television. I have a separate modem/router for the entire home.
 
I want to watch Netflix content that is only available in certain countries on the living room big screen. What router or device would you recommend I get to setup a VPN for the big screen? I need the ability to switch with ease between my original ip address and foreign IP.

Witopia sells a device that'll do what you want:

https://www.witopia.com/products/

(Look for the "CloakBox," which is the third item down.)
 
Wow, that is expensive. I was thinking something like the link below.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...6-20&linkCode=w32&creative=374929&camp=211189

It looks like a good router, but the "VPN" it offers is not what you're asking about. Many routers, like my ASUS, offer the option to be a VPN server. That is, you can connect to it from anywhere in the world, and web sites will think you're at your home or office or wherever that router is. It doesn't go the other way.

You need a VPN client, which is something different. Computers and smartphones can do this with software, but your television cannot. Thus, you need a device to route your network traffic through a VPN, and that's not something the router you linked above can do, according to its user guide. There may be less expensive options than what I linked; that's just the one I know of.

In any case, since you're trying to spoof your location in a different county, you'll also need to set yourself up with a VPN server that has nodes in that country. There are free ones out there, but I pay Witopia both because they have plenty of bandwidth, and because I know the company and trust that my data will be fairly secure. (With the free ones, I have no idea on the latter.)

If your computer has DVI or HDMI output, another option might simply be to plug it into the big screen when you want to watch that foreign content. In that case, all you'd need is the software VPN service, which is all I have from Witopia.
 
Thanks for the explanation. My television does have HDMI but Netflix 4k only works through the television app, so PC software wouldn't work for me.
 
OKay, I spoke with a rep at PIA and he gave me a website that has a list of routers preset to work with PIA vpn. From my understanding, it's possible to flash these routers. Would anyone have knowledge on how to flash a router to run PIA?

http://www.flashrouters.com/routers...netacess?acc=45c48cce2e2d7fbdea1afc51c7c6ad26

Edit: Found the answer to my question from the rep.

In order to set up our service on a router, it must be compatible with either DD-WRT, Tomato, or Pfsense custom firmwares.

Here is a list of routers compatible with each of the firmware types.

DD-Wrt -- http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Supported_Devices
Tomato -- http://tomatousb.org/doc:build-types
PFSense -- http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=50

Please note that none of these firmware options are created/offered by Private Internet Access, nor do we have a license to support them. Using any of these would be at your own discretion and liability, however
 
Don't buy one of the preconfigured routers. Installing DD-WRT on most modern high powered routers is very simple. I have the Netgear R7000 and it can easily be flashed to the latest Brainslayer or Kong release in one shot. Setting up PIA on DD-WRT is simple and should take you about 1-2 minutes. Policy based routing allows you to pick which ip addresses on your network use the VPN or you can simply allow all traffic to go through it. The R7000 cpu can handle about 45Mbps over the VPN tunnel. Tomato works but at the moment is buggier than DD-WRT and is much more difficult to setup.
 
Thanks for the tip 2pac.

I ran into a problem. Is it possible to access my router (wrt54gs2) through a modem/router combo? The modem router combo was provided by my ISP. I can't seem to log into my router through the modem/router combo. I guess I'll just have to buy a new modem.

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Ethernet from my room goes into the modem/router combo in living room. Modem/router combo is center of everything right now. Maybe I should connect my room straight to the wrt54gs2.

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I know what I can do now. I can just exchange my modem/router combo for a modem only from my ISP.
 
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I'll try and do it this weekend. I hope I don't brick my router. lolz. I went to those forums and noticed that a few people bricked their router.
 
I use Private Internet Access (PIA). It's pretty solid, even for netflix. I recently setup pfsense in a vm and created an interface to push all traffic behind the vm through PIA. Slowly moving devices to it and it keeps up pretty well. Just added my Roku 3 to it a couple days ago, so far there's no difference in speeds. I have Comcast 26/3.

I run an old Linksys E1000 (running DDWRT) as a WAP to get wifi devices traffic all through PIA as well.

There's quite a selection of DDWRT and Tomato supported routers out there. Even the E1000 would be capable of running the constant PIA connection.
 
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I use an Asus RT-N16. It has a fast processor and lots of memory. I installed DD-WRT on it and am very happy. You should check out the DD-WRT site to see the features.
 
I use an Asus RT-N16. It has a fast processor and lots of memory. I installed DD-WRT on it and am very happy. You should check out the DD-WRT site to see the features.


I've had this exact same router for a couple years now. It's been excellent. I installed shibby tomato on it. I can run openvpn client on it when I need to vpn all devices in the house. I usually leave it off though and just run a vpn client on the computer I need it on.

If you have a really fast internet connection these home based routers really cant keep up with the constant decrypting of packets. They need faster CPU's in them to be able to do that. That's why I usually don't try to do VPN over a router unless it's something light.
 
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The cpu on the C8 is good enough for what you are tasking it for, but it is too new and there is no 3rd party firmware history on it. If you are going to drop $130 or more on a router, I would suggest one that is well supported. Netgear R7000, Asus AC68 or n66u are likely going to be your best bet. Also, the Archer C8 has a smaller flash size and less RAM so fewer features are going to be built in to DD-WRT package. You are also a little handcuffed if you decide to run Optware or Entware packages.
 
I'm not too worried about the Antenna range but I'm going to get the Asus ac66u because there's an actual tutorial video online on how to install DD-WRT on it. I couldn't find one for Netgear. The router will sit inside of a cabinet anyway so I won't have to see the ugly thing. lol Thanks for all the help.
 
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