Econ
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Has anyone done the hard work and research which/what is the best VPN?
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somnusolle19
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There are a lot of great VPN services available online.
Ninsapagas12
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The most important aspect of using a VPN is securing your online business. When left unprotected, your private data (for example, bank account information and credit card numbers) may fall into the hands of criminals. A good VPN encrypts your data, so your private data is guaranteed to be protected. Even if you connect to a public Wi-Fi network, your private data is guaranteed to be protected. The monthly price usually varies depending on the duration of the chosen subscription. At bestvpnprovider.co, you can find the best VPN provider to watch UFC and MMA freely.
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LilRed
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My ASUS home router allows me to create my own vpn host, great for public wifi, when I need (and remember to actually use it)
I like torguard. Been good for me, and it supports wireguard.
There are some free ones out there for sure, but you have to look at what speeds you would like to achieve.
Except it doesn't provide any privacy for any outbound or inbound traffic at home.
Groomporter
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Any info on how that works? Is it just thought he router somehow, or is your internet provider involved?
It's a setup in most slightly higher priced routers. You won't find it in most sub 100 routers (GLI.net routers excluded) . Also if you do have a router that does have the capability, make sure the VPN throughput is adequate for your needs. OpenVPN has a pretty high overhead, and benefits from routers which have an Aes-ni built in.
I don't think it's worth securing your connection to home unless you have data at home you need
jmkay1
2004 Fleetwood/Coleman Utah
Something my dad found out with his VPN some websites refuse to work for him until he gets off the VPN. I don't know the technical stuff about it or why that's the case. Just know that is a downside at least on his.
davido
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Nord or Proton are good, though there are many others that are also good. You're going to have to pay for bandwidth. Free plans are always very slow.
A GL.Inet travel router that can connect to Nord or Proton or some other VPN using OpenVPN or Wireguard is a very good idea. Then your devices just connect to your travel router. The travel router connects to the campground WIFI, and sets up a VPN tunnel between the travel router and the VPN service, making traffic opaque to the campground network. Using DNS over HTTPS is also a very good idea, as that encrypts all nameserver lookups of domain names (DNS resolution) so that the men-in-the-middle don't know the names of the sites you're browsing.
However, GL.Inet routers run DD-WRT/Lucy with a GL.Inet user interface layered over it. It's not necessarily dead simple for end users who have never set up a VPN before. But the products are very good. And travel routers have other benefits, too. There are other travel routers that support VPNs, made by the major manufacturers. GL.Inet are just very good value. But if you're more novice, go with a TPLink, or Netgear travel router, for example, and be sure to verify it supports the flavor of VPN that you intend to use.
Travel router benefits:
A GL.Inet travel router that can connect to Nord or Proton or some other VPN using OpenVPN or Wireguard is a very good idea. Then your devices just connect to your travel router. The travel router connects to the campground WIFI, and sets up a VPN tunnel between the travel router and the VPN service, making traffic opaque to the campground network. Using DNS over HTTPS is also a very good idea, as that encrypts all nameserver lookups of domain names (DNS resolution) so that the men-in-the-middle don't know the names of the sites you're browsing.
However, GL.Inet routers run DD-WRT/Lucy with a GL.Inet user interface layered over it. It's not necessarily dead simple for end users who have never set up a VPN before. But the products are very good. And travel routers have other benefits, too. There are other travel routers that support VPNs, made by the major manufacturers. GL.Inet are just very good value. But if you're more novice, go with a TPLink, or Netgear travel router, for example, and be sure to verify it supports the flavor of VPN that you intend to use.
Travel router benefits:
- Often better antennas than your phone and laptop have built in, so they can connect to the campground WIFI with a stronger connection.
- Along the same lines, I can position my travel router high in the trailer, at whichever end of the trailer is closest to the campground WIFI antenna. That way I don't have to fiddle with trying to position each device perfectly to draw in more signal from that distant antenna.
- VPN tunnel
- All your devices only need to remember the travel router. You connect the router to the CG WIFI once, and all your devices will benefit without doing additional per-device connections, after first-time setup. I really like this. I can connect my travel router in a hotel, do the captive portal thing, and then all my other devices just start working because I already connected them to the travel router from the comfort of home when I first set it up. Then I can go somewhere else, and the same thing happens; connect the travel router, and all the other devices just start working.
- Sharing the WIFI connection means you bypass device limits. Many hotels limit you to one or two devices unless you pay extra. If you only connect the travel router to the hotel, and all your devices connect to the router, the hotel only sees a single device.
LilRed
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Spoiler alert - I am a bit of a networking guy, so my setup is probably more complex and pricey then most would want. But, I have been eyeing some built in 'easy button' for friends who want to dabble with using their home connection as the VPN host and a decent asus router. Asus VPN software supports OpenVPN, IPSec, and (sadly) PPTP. I trust my connection from my home ISP to be 'secure', but there is always a MitM potential. I don't have lightning fast ISP, but it's got at least 30Mbps upload which is the limiting factor if tunneling from the insecure public interweb of a coffee shop or airport back onto the net; and yes it does also allow me access to my firewalled NAS/other LAN only items. VPN also worked well with precovid international travels and using N*tflix streaming in the past.
Asus Instaguard app seems like a really quick way to link to a home host for a network noob. And, if you're looking to take a second router on the road, you can pre-build a VPN client (and in MOST reasonable routers) into the box for full automatic protection, even in a repeater mode.
30mbps upload is more than enough if your running OpenVPN on non dedicated VPN hardware, especially on a multi function router/wifi/VPN combo. The Asus rt86 some say can get 200... But I don't know if that's 200/up or 200 down. I have I gbps, but I actually run a separate hardware VPN and just have the port forward to it. This way the router only handles router stuff. I segment the networks.
Wireguard is much leaner and meaner (though lack some routing stuff). It's also not an accepted standard yet. So some stuff I will still use open VPN but I'm fairly happy with wireguard.
I'm less thrilled with wifi security.
However wireguard does run really well with the gli mini routers, and have great throughout speeds.
Campground wifi is a hit or miss. But so is my cell service.
Wireguard is much leaner and meaner (though lack some routing stuff). It's also not an accepted standard yet. So some stuff I will still use open VPN but I'm fairly happy with wireguard.
I'm less thrilled with wifi security.
However wireguard does run really well with the gli mini routers, and have great throughout speeds.
Campground wifi is a hit or miss. But so is my cell service.
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