Hi guys
I hope this is the right place to ask this
I’ve been looking at the MSI RadiX AX6600 & AXE6600 recently. I’m happy to spend upto about £300 on a solid router for the next 5+ years (which is why I looked at the AXE600 for the Wifi6e band).
The main issue is that some of the small print states that the VPN feature wouldn’t cover every device on the network.
Right now I have a GL-Convexa B router & then I have a few different wireguard configurations from my VPN service (Windscribe) which I setup on the router.
That little device obviously covers any device that connects to it, so if my VPN is set to new York, any device connected will show as New York location wise.
The only problem I have with this router is the pathetic cpu performance (quad core about .8 GHz iirc)
I want to upgrade to a more powerful chip, with better cooling (my router runs pretty hot), & then I figure depending on the devices I don’t mind looking for extra bands, or bells/whistles too.
Are there any obvious choices for “better versions of the GL-1300B/Convexa B?”
Are the MSI RadiX even appropriate?
Thanks for any help in advance.
Take a look at Asus AX86U router. It has solid VPN features, a powerful CPU and great capabilities overall. A very solid router and highly recommended.
Usually most VPNs on routers work in a way, that they set the default gateway route through the tunnel. So unless you have a full control access to the router, you cant really change that. The better way probably is, to setup a small PC, it could be RPi or anything similar miniPC what can run VPNs. Then you set your devices default gateway to that RPi, and it will direct traffic through the VPN. For the devices you want to use direct connection, you just set the default route to your router without the VPN.
This allows you also to selectively do routing - you can find out the networks belonging to netflix for example Netflix - Domains, IPs and App Information, then route all those networks to VPN, but the rest will go direct. Or the reverse, or any other combination.
Some advanced routers or routers with open source firmware like openwrt allows you do this directly on the router without need of additional device, but most consumer grade routers dont allow such fine grained control from my experience. They usually just route everything through the VPN and thats it…
But in either case you will probably have to learn about routing a bit…
Thanks, will take a look!
What’s your thoughts on the MSI AXE6600/AX6600
Don’t know much about it, but never saw it on top routers lists. Asus AX86U is consistently one of top choices for gaming routers.