Does anyone have a walk through of what to buy and how to set up a VPN with a Verizon router? I am not super technical, I have a VPN on my phone/computer but for other home devices to have a VPN I would need a vpn on my router correct?
How can one set this up? Thanks all for the advice.
You can’t install a VPN on the VZ router, you’d install a VPN on each device individually that you want a VPN on.
There are routers that do support VPNs on their firmware, just the VZ router isn’t one of them.
IIRC a VPN could be set up on a raspberry pi & cover the entire network
Yep, I was thinking about doing it myself, already have expressvpn, limit to a license is 5 devices, or set up at router to cover more (they approve of this)
Best way to support passive VPN connections from devices is to have a network is to get a router that supports both VPN and FiOS service. I haven’t done the search to see if those exist, but technically since all routers are hooked in past your Optical Node Terminal, you would be fine setting up a router that supports VPNs between the fios ONT and your FiOS router. You will just need to set up bridge mode first so you don’t double-NAT yourself. After that you could set up the VPN on the bridge router between your FioS router and the FiOS ONT. After that, everything connecting to that bridge router via your fios router should be behind the VPN.
Could you elaborate how you did this? I have the Verizon Fios CR1000A route and I’ve found I’m unable to set up the vpn on the router itself. You have two different routers?
you can homebrew a network VPN, but yes, you’re right, G3100 cannot have a VPN
Thank you, this looks exactly like what I was trying to describe. Huge help.
Those instructions just allow your Pi to connect to ExpressVPN. It doesn’t affect the rest of the network.
Hunt around, there’s versions that goes between wan & lan.
It depends on what you mean by “Set up a VPN with Fios”.
If you want your internal devices to use an external VPN because you trust ExpressVPN with your data more than you trust Verizon, the only way to do it with a Pi is to set up your Pi as a router between your real router and the ONT. If you have a Pi4 and use a USB3 ethernet adapter, you can get okay performance, but you’d be lucky get routing speeds above 400Mbps with a lot of concurrent connections, and because it lacks AES hardware, once you connect to a VPN, your WAN speeds are going to drop below 100Mbps.
If, on the other hand, you want to set up a VPN so that when you’re at the coffee shop you can route all your traffic through your home network, either to prevent snooping from the coffee shop owners or to access LAN resources such as shared files and printers, you can easily set up a Pi on your network with PiVPN and you don’t have to route all your home internet traffic through it.