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New Router suggestions please

John456

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Hi everyone, please can someone advise as I am not very technical just basic.
I have community fibre broadband with Linksys SPNMX56 router and all working well. I wish to buy a new router so that I can install VPN to use at home. I do not want to do any changes to the community fibre modem that has been installed. Therefore by replacing this modem with a new modem and then installing VPN on the new router.
I will appreciate your suggestions.
Thanking you.
John
 
My advice is that don’t do a VPN on a router. It’s much harder to setup. Have a look at Tailscale or Zerotier. Both have free tiers and don’t any routers or even port forward. You can run them on any computer inside your network and you can connect to it from anywhere.
 
My advice is that don’t do a VPN on a router. It’s much harder to setup. Have a look at Tailscale or Zerotier. Both have free tiers and don’t any routers or even port forward. You can run them on any computer inside your network and you can connect to it from anywhere.
Thank you GreenLantern22 for you reply. I appreciate your advise.
The reason I am looking for VPN is that I need to watch IPTV on my Sony TV. Is there any solution to keep this IPTV private. Thanks.
 
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A low budget solution could be using a raspberry pi 4 and setting up a VPN kill switch that prevents traffic egressing outside the VPN tunnel. Then you setup specific devices to use the raspberry pi as a default gateway.


You could also be more sophisticated and use a GL.inet router and connect this behind the existing CF router and broadcast a VPN protected WiFi SSID.

 
Both Tailscale and Zerotier are very secure overlay networks and only authorised users can access them. Furthermore they support work like a proxy allowing you to route all your traffic and exit on a specific node in your Tailscale network.
 
Tail scale is to setup and use. I use it on my phone as a hotspot when i go on holiday. Then at home I have Tail scale setup as a exit node on a thin client. Loads of stuff on you tube on how to set it up. Its literally 10 minutes and its up and working. Free as well for i think its 3 users or less ?
 
I use an ASUS router, this gives Dynamic DNS (so you can find your home IP address) VPN server (so you can access your home network from outside), VPN client (so you don't need a VPN client on every device in your home) I found it easy to set up.

The thing to remember is when you use your own router you have to contact CF support and ask them to "Reset the MAC address" for your account.

I have tried mac address spoofing on the router, but calling the CF Support team is less hassle overall
 
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I use an ASUS router, this gives Dynamic DNS (so you can find your home IP address) VPN server (so you can access your home network from outside), VPN client (so you don't need a VPN client on every device in your home) I found it easy to set up.

The thing to remember is when you use your own router you have to contact CF support and ask them to "Reset the MAC address" for your account.

I have tried mac address spoofing on the router, but calling the CF Support team is less hassle overall
I'm with CF and have a GL.iNet MT-6000 as my router and never had to clone or ask CS for a MAC reset. The supplied router is a parent node along with a number of child nodes, it's working well.

I also have Tailscale setup on the router, IIRC it's already there as is ZeroTier.

YMMV
 
I used to use Zerotier and thought very highly of it. However the ease of use of Tailscale and the ability to use a tailscale device as an exit node is fantastic. Perfect when using wifi that doesn't belong to you. You can also try Netbird however i have no experience using it (something i'll try out eventually)
 
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Thank you GreenLantern22 for you reply. I appreciate your advise.
The reason I am looking for VPN is that I need to watch IPTV on my Sony TV. Is there any solution to keep this IPTV private. Thanks.
others talked about GL iNet devices. in my case I did the same as you but with a veru small and cheap glinet directly behind the TV. giving me a VPN gateway out of the house with no "link" to the rest of the network of the house.
 
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interesting, so which cheap glinet did you get then?
at the time mango was 20 quid or something. any that supports your VPN provider will do (i assume openvpn?)
 
Asus routers are amazing and can be flashed with asuswrt-merlin to get even more features but the stock firmware is still good. asus routers support practically every router feature you would need. I am looking to upgrade to one from my current isp given linksys router, looking at the dns logs, the current routers make a lot of dns requests back home and I would prefer to just have a different router with open source firmware

The rt-ax86u is a great router and has a 2.5gb port incase you have the new white ont given by community fibre to make use of that extra 100mbps they give
 
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