Looking for the right VPN for me

[Moonzy]

I never looked much into VPN and they all look the same to me

 

What I'm looking for is something I can use on my computers and my phone, basically

 

Is it possible to configure my router so everyone on my network is using a VPN when they connect?? Or there are other ways to go about this

[LIGISTX]

Just now, Moonzy said:

I never looked much into VPN and they all look the same to me

 

What I'm looking for is something I can use on my computers and my phone, basically

 

Is it possible to configure my router so everyone on my network is using a VPN when they connect?? Or there are other ways to go about this

Depending on the router, yes. But the real question here is why do you think you need one?

 

With all of the YouTube adds, a lot of people feel like they need to get one, but honestly most people really don’t; especially not a full network VPN as that just slows all of your devices down as VPN’s add overheat and latency. 

[Moonzy]

37 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

But the real question here is why do you think you need one?

Censorship of my country is so bad that I can't even access the folding profile linked by my badge

 

I might setup a remote NAS soon for remote backup, so that's my secondary reason.

I heard you can connect to it like you would connect a local network NAS if you use a VPN or something (?)

 

I'm not doing anything latency sensitive so it might be okay

[LIGISTX]

12 hours ago, Moonzy said:

Censorship of my country is so bad that I can't even access the folding profile linked by my badge

 

I might setup a remote NAS soon for remote backup, so that's my secondary reason.

I heard you can connect to it like you would connect a local network NAS if you use a VPN or something (?)

 

I'm not doing anything latency sensitive so it might be okay

Ah, well, thats a pretty good reason...

 

If you do get yourself a little server, you can VPN through that and depending on how you set it up, yes you could access the remote files as if they were local. But there is a lot involved in that from a routing perspective. Its totally possible, and many ways to go about it, one would be a site to site VPN, or just a open VPN server set up on the remote server and use a router (or build a pfsense router) at your house that would put everything on the VPN and would let you use everything as if it was on one network (things would be on different subnets, but the router would know what was were and route correctly).

 

There is a lot to this though, its not hard, but the setup takes a bit of thought.

[Moonzy]

12 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

Ah, well, thats a pretty good reason...

 

If you do get yourself a little server, you can VPN through that and depending on how you set it up, yes you could access the remote files as if they were local. But there is a lot involved in that from a routing perspective. Its totally possible, and many ways to go about it, one would be a site to site VPN, or just a open VPN server set up on the remote server and use a router (or build a pfsense router) at your house that would put everything on the VPN and would let you use everything as if it was on one network (things would be on different subnets, but the router would know what was were and route correctly).

 

There is a lot to this though, its not hard, but the setup takes a bit of thought.

any idea what service would be great?

 

PIA? nord? etc etc

 

i need it on my phone as well

[LIGISTX]

24 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

any idea what service would be great?

 

PIA? nord? etc etc

 

i need it on my phone as well

I don't. I don't use any of them so i don't know. But you can always roll your own like I said as well. 

[Moonzy]

20 minutes ago, LIGISTX said:

I don't. I don't use any of them so i don't know. But you can always roll your own like I said as well. 

I know literally 0 about these kinda stuff, thus the question

I don't expect myself to know how to set my own VPN up tbh @-@

and that probably doesn't help with censorship

[LIGISTX]

1 hour ago, Moonzy said:

I know literally 0 about these kinda stuff, thus the question

I don't expect myself to know how to set my own VPN up tbh @-@

and that probably doesn't help with censorship

There are LOTS of youtube videos that show you how to get a cheap little server instance and how to set up your own VPN on it, this would work as your "offsite nas" as well. Also, it would work very well for censorship, honestly likely better than a normal VPN since it wouldn't be flagged as a "vpn providers IP".

[Letgomyleghoe]

just get a 100up or an ovh and set up open vpn or pritunl. there's hundreds of videos online with included firewalls and IPtables to load on.