In general this is a bad idea for shopping/banking/PayPal etc.
If you want near line speeds and have a reasonably fast connection then basically you need the fastest router you can get CPU wise, D7000 is dual 1ghz the older Asus AC56/68 stuff is dual 800mhz, if you don't need more than a few mbit for streaming then the older single core stuff can usually cope, but it's better to set up on each device rather than the router or have a dedicated encrypted router for devices that need it.
If you want near line speeds and have a reasonably fast connection then basically you need the fastest router you can get CPU wise, D7000 is dual 1ghz the older Asus AC56/68 stuff is dual 800mhz, if you don't need more than a few mbit for streaming then the older single core stuff can usually cope, but it's better to set up on each device rather than the router or have a dedicated encrypted router for devices that need it.
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You will cripple your internet doing this. Any reasonable speed you have with VM will be thrown away as soon as the VPN comes up.
What about sitting an additional router behind the super hub to connect to only when you want VPN use? I've just purchased a MT for exactly this purpose (only not for PIA but for my own work VPN)
What about sitting an additional router behind the super hub to connect to only when you want VPN use? I've just purchased a MT for exactly this purpose (only not for PIA but for my own work VPN)
I can only speak from personal experience, so my 'suggestions' may not exactly fit your needs. I use PIA, the app is great for Win/OSX, I manually configure for the likes of my OpenElec box and have an old Tomato based router if I need VPN wifi for other devices, my idevices run OpenVPN so no issues with them as PIA will allow multiple connections and it's rare i'd need more than 2.
Consumer routers (even the R7000) have FPU emulation and lack hardware encryption, they're great routers, but they just can't handle an encrypted VPN with the encryption types used at todays speeds. 200mbit for example on cable just isn't going to happen on a router without hardware support for the encryption standards used and the OpenVPN client lacks multi threaded support so it'll only max one core. If that changed then the newer routers with dual core could in theory double throughput, but even that wouldn't max cables 200mbit and as soon as BT starts to roll anything faster 200mit will be upped to match.
The cheap and fast option if you have a dedicated VM host is shove a router VM on, or the community built PIA VM looked interesting. Other than that the PIA app's are where i'd be looking assuming they are available for your OS.
Something like the Ubiquiti Edgerouter lite can do this.
It has 3x ethernet ports, one for in, and you can have 2x DHCP servers running on the other two on seperate LANs, so you could create a network that only connects through said VPN.
It has 3x ethernet ports, one for in, and you can have 2x DHCP servers running on the other two on seperate LANs, so you could create a network that only connects through said VPN.
