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Has anyone added the VPN to your router, and what has the experience been like? (self.protonprivacy)
submitted 1 month ago by Reverendender to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I set up ProtonVPN on the router for a few months & the family hated it. HATED IT! They were constantly asking me to disable the VPN so they could log in to a site here, or make a credit card payment there. It was a mess.

Eventually I just disabled it on the router & ran my VPN at the device level. Much better now & the family doesn't hate me! :)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I use the fusion VPN function of my Asus router so new devices and specific devices can only use the VPN. Other devices can access.internet without the VPN.

It's pretty stable. I think I've had the connection ( wireguard ) drop twice so that I had to reconnect it. Not sure if that is related to the VPN on Asus though.

The reason not all devices use the VPN is because there's a bunch of streaming sites ( local ) that claim you're not in the country while the VPN is. Or it just doesn't allow you to play the videos.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've got it on a travel router. it's been good and an easy setup. However, it can sometimes be detected by sites that block VPNs. It works more often than Nord did for that, but it still happens sometimes. Speed has been good.

The downside is that you can't really choose the most available server. You have to pick based on configs, but you can at least add as many configs as you want.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've found that setting the country to Ireland solves the vpn block for me.

[–] jubilationtcornpone 6 points 1 month ago

I've got a Mikrotik that's connected to Proton with Wireguard. It uses routing rules to control which traffic goes through VPN.

It's pretty much "set it and forget it" once you get everything configured the way you want.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use the OpenVPN configuration on mine to get around geoblocks. It works fine but I do need to disable IPv6 to force my client (a Roku) to connect over IPv4.

I have found that after about 45 minutes the bandwidth tanks and my stream looks like potato quality. Maybe because I'm on free tier and am streaming HD content? I did find out that the website only checks my IP address on startup so now I only run the VPN long enough to connect.

[–] Reverendender 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do any of the streaming services whinge about the geolocationing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In my case it's ESPN+ to watch hockey games. ESPN only checks geolocation when you first connect to the stream. So long as you don't turn off the stream you can watch the entire game. So I turn the VPN on for about 10 seconds and then turn it off. Works every time... at least last season it did.

[–] PennyRoyal 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’ve had Mullvad running on a Gli Flint router, and it was perfect until some weird power-cycling issues bricked the router… pita.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was just looking at the GL.iNet Flint 2 (GL-MT6000), since it was recommended in a thread on the OpenWRT forum, and thought about possibly getting that one. Is that the one that bricked, or was it an earlier product of the Flint-series of routers?

[–] PennyRoyal 1 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, mine was the 1800. Can’t really blame the router either, or solar has a weird issue for a while where power flicked on and off repeatedly, and something about that cleaned its clock

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I've used expressvpn on an Asus router, using fusion to split different ip addresses onto different vans and its been sound, no issues. So much easier than I was expecting.