In March, the Congress decided that your personal internet traffic is not safeguarding the privacy and Internet service provider (ISP) has allowed you to sell your data, which includes your browsing habits, does not look good. If you are not in it, continue reading and I'll tell you how to encrypt your traffic by sending it to a Virtual Private Network (VPN) connection.
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First things first There are two things that are going to cost you a few bucks: a good router and VPN service If you do not have a separate router from your ISP's modem, then you will need one of them. There will be a lot of work in it, but for VPN, especially with many computers, you want some powerful router. Those old blue lucky routers are great, but maybe it will not be deducted for encrypted VPN.
I picked up a decent Asus Router (RT-AC68U) a few years ago, which is working fine for the need to make our home on the Internet. (Read: Video streaming on multiple computers simultaneously, one-hour video conference, Torrent downloads etc) There is no problem. If you want one of the new super high-throttle router for gaming, then you probably have to spend $ 100- $ 150. In reality, though, the router's WiFi app is probably more advanced than the ones you are using to connect, so the midregion router is fine and you probably have a better match for your current device. Feel free to make free, but you would want to do something with at least 128 MB RAM, will also be recommended inside a dual core processor.
After this, you will need to get the VPN service. I use private internet access, this is only $ 40 for the year, basically the equivalent of one coffee per month. There are some free VPN services, but they are generally not good and there are some scams too. So it is worth putting a few dollars for peace of mind. Feel free to search around for a different service according to your needs, but I did a little research and private internet access is one of the better solutions available.
Now when you have a router and a VPN service, we will need to flash your router with some third-party firmware. It is quite similar to setting up a separate operating system, while the stock router firmware is getting better and better, third-party solutions are actually good, in the cost of the consumer router, you end up with enterprise-level functionality Again, there are some solutions, but the DD-WRT is the most up to date and easy to install, so we are going with it.
Unless you throw the firmware update and firmware assumes that your router is fully compatible with the hardware and functional, then it should work with the purpose of terminating it. I have established DD-WRT on a group of routers over the years. And I have not had any problems.
Now we string all of us together. I'm going to use my installation as an example if you have a different make / model or VPN service, then you can simply search for that search.
Plug in the router and install the DD-WRT firmware.
Configure VPN
let's enjoy!
One step in configuring VPN was a bit different for me. I had to use port 1198 and CASC encryption of AES-128. The reference document may be a little late or the site I was connecting may be configured differently. I am also on the older version of DD-WRT. Current version of DD-WRT, in which the bug fixes and / or newer Features may include, here you can find. Click on a date then find your router in the list and follow the instructions at # 1.
take this. You are basically redirecting your internet traffic to an encrypted connection at another physical location. You can see some things differently on the work of the Internet. For example, you will not see location-based ads for your actual geographic location. And for some IP localized services - such as weather forecasts - you will see information targeted at VPN's public IP address.
But most importantly, your browsing details and online connections will no longer be visible to your ISP. All of those available will be a stream of your VPN address and encrypted data.