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Noughtboy said:
Hello there hoping for some technical advice or corrections on my current thoughts.
In this hypothetical situation if I have a child who will be away from home 7 days every 14 days and he wished to make use of a streaming service that we subscribe to (lets say Netflix and Prime) whilst out of the house on a TV is this the setup to use?

Buy him a travel router similar to the GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 (Opal).

Onto this, I can load the login details for a VPN. This is where it gets more complex. I would assume, in this hypothetical scenario, that if he was to use one of those streaming services via a VPN whilst whilst travelling and we were at home on our usual VM IP address, it would flag something up?

If I am overthinking it, great and I can stop at the travel router and VPN.

However, I am thinking that I would need to buy another router for home, put the HUB 5 into modem mode and then install a VPN "tunnel" onto the new router. All of our home devices (phones, PC etc) would connect to this new wireless router using the VPN server and he would also have to log into (or connect to) that router, sort of as a default gateway, with his router whilst on the road so that we all use the same AP or possibly IP to connect to the streaming service.

Which is the option most likely?

TIA and apologies if I have mangled any technical terms.

NB
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If they're only away for 7 days at a time then most streaming apps aren't going to care. Unless they need a UK ip for their content.

Nordvpn lets you tunnel to another device very easily, even without paying. I know there are other ways but I could leave my laptop drawing 20w with software already installed, to get a normal consumer UK IP when abroad so it worked well for me.
 
MarkeR said:
Netflix allows you to go travelling and have people watch at home as normal, as long as the device reconnects to the "home" internet within 30 days all will be good. Repeat as needed.

No idea about Prime, sorry.

I use my unifi USG to create a vpn that I can login into from anywhere, i'm sure other routers wil do the same job.
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Ok. That is a good start. Thanks for the feedback
Disco_P said:
If they're only away for 7 days at a time then most streaming apps aren't going to care. Unless they need a UK ip for their content.

Nordvpn lets you tunnel to another device very easily, even without paying. I know there are other ways but I could leave my laptop drawing 20w with software already installed, to get a normal consumer UK IP when abroad so it worked well for me.
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Yeh. It is this tunnelling thing that has me a little confused.

I know I cannot install VPN software directly onto my VM Hub 5. That means I need to buy a new router, set the VM router to modem mode and connect a new router (looking at this TP-Link Archer AX53 AX3000Mbps WiFi 6 Router).

Is that router sufficient and at least as good (and hopefully better than the Hub5? Can I install VPN software onto it?
If so, I should be able to install the VPN DNS stuff onto that which means all my devices into the home are automatically connected via the VPN. I think I have got that correct.

My son, hypothetically, could then buy that travel router I mentioned above and somehow he routes all his traffic through our router (and therefore VPN) so we are all "at home". I am sure that I read somewhere that NordVPN has a certain connection that goes through one server and then out another and the IP that uses is less likely to trigger any alarms with Netflix and possibly Prime.

However, using this method I think prevents me from setting some traffic to avoid the VPN entirely (because it is on the router not my desktop) which may cause some latency issues with some trading software I use but it may be the price I have to pay. Am I correct or have I misunderstood?

Thank you again for your help as this is not my area of expertise.

NB
 
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As the saying goes, if it's free, you're the product.

I read another post not long ago about how free VPN providers use your PC to route traffic/sites for region spoofing, so people doing ticket scalping, etc. will pay the VPN provider and they'll basically use their bot network.
 
@Noughtboy I think you are overcomplicating it. You're proposing: Son's device > new travel router > new home router > nordvpn server when your son can just install nordvpn on his device and do the exact same thing with 2 less devices.

But that assumes that a nordvpn server will let you watch content when abroad which isn't agiven as the streaming services try to block this.

I wouldn't recommend routing all your traffic through a VPN as you'll constantly be filling out "are you a bot?" captchas and some sites don't work.

If he's only gone for a week or two, he could just download content in advance. Or do the nordpvn tunnel into your home network like I suggested earlier.
 
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