Goal: Have the easiest and most idiot proof residential IP
My theory: Use my current home router. Physically connect it to a travel VPN router via ethernet cable. Setup the travel router so that it is the VPN source. I basically can’t mess with my current home router settings. Last time it messed up all the alexa and other tethered devices and took 4 hours to fix and pissed my parents off.
If the travel VPN router ever stops working, ideally just restart the regular home router and the travel router that is connected via ethernet.
Does anyone have a good youtube tutorial or advice for this type of setup?
I have such setup in two different locations, ispa and type of vpn routers. Works perfectly.
On isp router had to open single port, and on vpn router , apart from vpn I configured ddns.
First, I’d suggest mostly leaving your home router as-is since you’re walking on thin ice after the first attempt. Some services / websites get blocked if using a known VPN endpoint.
What you want to do is connect your travel router input to the Ethernet output of your home router. Let the family stick with that if they’re happy.
Your VPN provider will have good instructions on what settings to put into your router. It should be dead simple to find the right fields in the VPN menu of your travel router and match them up. You’re unlikely to find a nice YouTube tutorial since where you get the settings from and where you put them are going to be VPN and router firmware specific respectively.
Once that’s set up, your family can connect to the travel router for VPN, or your normal home for things like online banking which often doesn’t allow VPNs.
I’d disagree with your option to have a fall-back of the router just serving the internet if the VPN fails. That’s a fail-unsafe. You want a kill-switch script so you know if the internet is working when you’re connected to the travel router then you’re definitely behind your VPN and if it isn’t working, something is wrong, otherwise you’ll never know whether it’s working or not.
VPN server only.
I’m just going to connect to the server from my laptop when I’m outside the US.
Att fiber which I just learned they possibly have anti vpn methods in place. Att offers there own piece of shit vpn service that wouldn’t work for me.