As the title states, I am considering getting a VPN for my home internet. With PiHole, I can route the DNS of my router (Eero) through the PiHole running on my unpaid server. Is it possible to do something similar to this but with a VPN? My Eero router requires an annual fee on top of the VPN service fee to accomplish something like this so I’d like to avoid that route if possible.
Probably more importantly, do I even need a VPN? Does the average home user gain any important benefits? I have a VPN from my job so I’m not worried about that side of things. I don’t really torrent or anything like that.
What do you plan to gain? There are specific things that VPNs are great for (torrents, region blocking) but beyond that I fail to see what the benefit of routing all your traffic through a VPN would be. The traffic itself should already be securely encrypted assuming you’re accessing things over HTTPS. I guess you could say that you’re hiding the servers that you’re connecting to from your ISP, but you’re really just moving that burden to a different, potentially less trustworthy company.
If you have a router that supports VPNs, you could route all your internet traffic through a VPN.
For instance, TP-Link has a VPN router that will let you connect it to a remote VPN using OpenVPN, then all devices on your network will have their internet connectivity routed to the remote VPN server.
You might be able to setup up a VPN proxy container where you can point all devices to accomplish the same thing. I sort of do this with delugeVPN proxy and a single Firefox container.
Privacy on every internet connected device and IoT. Smart TV’s amazon echos, Google nest, things that you can’t download vpn client software. Hwll even light bulbs data is sold.
By tunneling all of your traffic through a VPN provider, you’re just changing who has access to all the data you’re so paranoid about exposing. Now your VPN provider has it instead of your ISP.
Do you route all traffic down wireguard? I have all my traffic routed down IPSec VPN tunnels but haven’t touched wireguard yet. I know it’ll be faster, I’d just like to route traffic differently based on its source address and haven’t looked into this on wireguard yet
Aha! I’ll give this a go-thanks for the link! Dunno why I’ve had a hard time finding anything that shows me a routed wireguard config, but it’d be nice to get closer to my 1gbps speed instead of the 100-150mb I’m getting over IPSec