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john.weland
I watched a video about setting up VPNs on your computer and its been something I've been meaning to do for a long time. I don't want to have to install a bunch of stuff on all of my PCs  I rather install it on my router and have everything on my router pass though and be on a VPN, so PCs, game systems TVs everything on the router would make use of the VPN. I'm lost on this

 

I've got an old Linksys e2000 with DD-WRT on it.   I know my router is old, but well I'm broke. 

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Probably not worth it. A basic router  like that gets slowed down if you ask it to manage the VPN for you, it's not a very powerful device; and this is not considering the other problems you might have with performance/latency impacts of running a VPN on all your devices.

 

I don't think its a worthwhile endeavor unless you want to upgrade to a dual-core router _minimum_. Your current one will probably top out at 3-4mbit or something while routing VPN traffic ( Estimation based on googling someone's e4200 being 6mbps)

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I have taken a quick look at the docs online for that router that you have listed and I cant even see that VPNs are supported.

 

May be worth just doing a quick google on that first.

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there is, but it still complicated

http://www.howtogeek.com/51772/how-to-setup-a-vpn-server-using-a-dd-wrt-router/

 

what you want is automatic connection from 1 VPN server to whole devices

 

you can do that, but you need computer

ie: Install VPN on 1 computer, and enable Internet Sharing from VPN connection, and set IP address/gateway manually to that computer.

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there is, but it still complicated

http://www.howtogeek.com/51772/how-to-setup-a-vpn-server-using-a-dd-wrt-router/

 

what you want is automatic connection from 1 VPN server to whole devices

 

you can do that, but you need computer

ie: Install VPN on 1 computer, and enable Internet Sharing from VPN connection, and set IP address/gateway manually to that computer.

 

That Article that you have posted is the router acting as a PPTP VPN server, not the client that was the original question, you would really want an SSL or IPSEC VPN provider that connects to the router and then supplies that connection to the users, this should be transparent to the end users.

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