VPN options

RockLobster · 26 Aug 2017 at 19:45

I'm currently have fibre with Zen and I'm using a TP-Link AC1900 router. At the time I purchased this I didn't realise it didn't support DD-WRT. What are my options for having all my devices go through a VPN? I've seen some people talk about using a Raspberry Pi although I'm unsure whether it is powerful enough. I was hoping I would signup to one of the VPN providers buy a dedicated device and pop in the VPN details into the device. Anything available?

RockLobster · 27 Aug 2017 at 15:50

Rainmaker said:
simple pfSense or IPFire box

I assume I would need to buy a small PC to run pfSense?

Steveocee said:
Mikrotik RB750Gr3

Had a look at these although some people are reporting poor throughput. What are your experiences?

Avalon said:
If you want cheap/easy why not look at a pre-built docker

What's a prebuilt docker?

RockLobster · 27 Aug 2017 at 21:06

Steveocee said:
Make sure the review and reports you are reading are definitely the r3 version not the r2, the r2 was pretty urine poor and was only a very basic SOHO router however the r3 is a monster. Quoted figure for VPN throughput are 450Mb, and it can quite happily NAT gigabit. It's a quad core CPU in those things. Price for performance is phenomenal!

I've had one on my bench at work and whilst I didn't push VPN throughput to the full, they are extremely brilliant and consider this as a challenge, find me a bad online review of one!

Okay you've sold it. Any guides you have handy? I'm open to learning but I'm no networking guru.

RockLobster · 28 Aug 2017 at 22:29

Steveocee said:
I can't think of a guide to hand as such as I'm quite familiar with routerOS but youtube was a great help for me (and still is) when I need to learn a new feature, also the mikrotik user forum is absolutely packed with multiple ways of doing things.

Thank you.