Android box + VPN?

Goose

Goose

Goose

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My brother moved to belgium recently and I gave him my rooted FireTV but sideloaded VPN apps are a bit of a pain in the bum. Are there any other decent alternative boxes for Kodi/iPlayer/Youtube that dont need rooting and work well with all (or at least most) apps from the Play Store?

Cheers.
 
Goose said:
My brother moved to belgium recently and I gave him my rooted FireTV but sideloaded VPN apps are a bit of a pain in the bum. Are there any other decent alternative boxes for Kodi/iPlayer/Youtube that dont need rooting and work well with all (or at least most) apps from the Play Store?

Cheers.
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No need to rooting. First you have to reset your FireTV & setup your VPN on the Router. After setup you just need to connect the desired location via VPN & your FireTV will start working.

I have applied this formula on my devices. I'd setup it on my DD-WRT router with my android vpn app.
 
Same, I bought an Asus Nighthawk and installed DD WRT firmware on it, setup your VPN, job done.
 
I did suggest running the VPN on the router but he doesn't actually want every device in the house to run through the VPN (i dont know why), just the FireTV.
 
That can be done with decent routers. Setting the VPN in the router doesn't necessarily mean all the outbound traffic has to be pushed to the VPN. With DD-WRT you can configure policy based routing, and explicitly list the IPs you want to reach through the VPN.
 
Zefan said:
That can be done with decent routers. Setting the VPN in the router doesn't necessarily mean all the outbound traffic has to be pushed to the VPN. With DD-WRT you can configure policy based routing, and explicitly list the IPs you want to reach through the VPN.
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I dont suppose you know of any guides on how to do this as i'm not too familiar with DD-WRT?
 
Goose said:
I did suggest running the VPN on the router but he doesn't actually want every device in the house to run through the VPN (i dont know why), just the FireTV.
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Don't need to, just run the VPN router after the wireless modem. Connect to the VPN router with the FireTV and connect everything else via the wireless modem.

That's what I do, I run the Nighthawk (VPN) cabled from my Virgin wireless router, connect the FireTV to the 5G channel and the fire stick to the 2G channel on the Nighthawk and everything else connects to the Virgin router. That way someone surfing doesn't interfere with any Tv being streamed.
 
Just configure your router to work with the VPN. That should do the trick. I configured Ivacy VPN over my Roku router the same way. Took some help fro support but it did work out in the end. remember, router is the key
 
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