VPN Router - Need some advice.

sprite- · 18 Jul 2017 at 10:31

Hi All.

I have Sky Fibre with the Sky Hub but i'm looking to put our internet behind a VPN, i'm going to use PIA.

I believe i need to find a router which can run DD-WRT?

I'm trying to keep cost low, i've got no specialist requirements for a router. Just need 802.11ac, dual band, gig ports and at least 4 plus the WAN port.

Any recommendations on what router i should buy and what to flash it wish? I've just assumed DD-WRT and dont know if there is something new i should use.

sprite- · 18 Jul 2017 at 10:50

ChrisD. said:
Define low? There's multiple ways to achieve this.

Around £40 max for a router, dont mind going second hand. So if you know of any that pop up often or ones which are more expensive but i can hunt for on ebay etc.

sprite- · 18 Jul 2017 at 11:16

ChrisD. said:
Maybe look out for a second hand RT-N56U.

One thing i forgot to mention is i have a 4K TV and watch 4K content online.

Considering that, i'd need something which can deliver 100mb of stable download via VPN. Perhaps my budget just isnt realistic?

sprite- · 18 Jul 2017 at 14:18

bremen1874 said:
How are you going to get 100Mbps over a Sky FTTC connection?

Planning on Sky Fibre Max. So perhaps 80-90Mb to be safe. I like to have wiggle room incase of changes in the future

sprite- · 18 Jul 2017 at 16:39

Thanks chaps, think its out of my price range with what i want to do.

I'll just use the apps.

sprite- · 19 Jul 2017 at 08:03

Avalon said:
You don't seem to know what you want, or why and the budget isn't going to work easily. If you can afford an 80/20 connection and to pay the money PIA are asking, you can surely up the budget to something more realistic?

Firstly no consumer router (and nothing in the prosumer/commercial end of things) without hardware acceleration will cope with 80mbit using anything that would count as meaningful encryption, the high end stuff is ARM based but lacks a hardware FPU so has to emulate floating point operations, guess what's used for encryption? Your £40 budget will buy you something horrible from a DDWRT perspective, that will translate to a stupidly slow connection which is pointless when you are paying for 80/20.

Secondly putting all your traffic behind a VPN has potential issues - some sites will have issues, everything will be slower, it's generally not a good idea.

If the issue is making sure your 'Linux ISO' downloads are kept private look to a virtualised environment, you can add Sabz (or something decent) and Deluge/QB/rT or whatever you prefer as well, connection drops, so does all traffic via Privoxy in a docker and connect other devices to it if you need to, this removes the device overhead encryption from the router and onto something that will have a fighting chance at getting near line speed. Other than that look at building a pfsense box, the learning curve is a lot steeper than my docker suggestion, but it can possibly be done in budget or you may already have hardware that is suitable.

I've already conceded in a post above that my budget is not realistic for what i want to do. Everything you've taken the time to write is almost entirely redundant, well done you

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sprite- · 19 Jul 2017 at 10:13

Steveocee said:
One of these can do up to 450Mb over VPN
https://routerboard.com/RB750Gr3

Granted there is no built in wifi but it's nearly in budget.

Thanks for that mate. Will take a look.