What I have:
NordVPN, Pi-hole running through a Pi 3B+, personal PC, Unraid server running DelugeVPN, router is an ASUS RT-AX88U.
The problem:
I’m having issues with Pi-hole no longer protecting my phone and PC while they are using the VPN. I’m not sure if I need to connect the VPN to the router, the Pi-hole, both, or run the VPN on every device individually.
What I hope to accomplish:
Masking my public IP on every device on my LAN, having ads filtered through the Pi-hole, and being able to manage my Pi-Hole and Unraid server remotely.
What would be the best way to accomplish this? Many thanks in advance.
Don’t waste your time with NordVPN. You are not hiding from anyone with that, they will sell you out at the drop of a hat.
I’m sure there is a way to set this up like you want (idk though). But if it were me, I’d just turn VPN off for everything but torrenting, place shifting or remote access. What do you care who gets your public IP? Is it a privacy concern? VPNs are not about privacy.
For remote access try tailscale or Zerotier on the devices you need remote access too.
I am happy with Windscribe as a VPN provider.
I run a Wireguard VPN on my router (Netgear R9000/DD-WRT). To protect your whole network, the VPN needs to be on the router.
For remote access, look at Tailscale.
Okay, that’s fine. I’m still within the 30-day refund period. My question still stands.
That being said, what VPN would you recommend? Mullvad?
What are VPNs for then? I thought it was mostly privacy/internet safety. I dont have vpn but did just get the Asus RX88pro and noticed in the settings it has a tab to activate 4 different VPN kinds and thought about turning it on but not sure what they are exactly compared to other online VPNs
Honestly, all of those commercial VPNs of that type are garbage. To protect your entire network you are going to need to establish the VPN on your router/firewall. I don’t know if any routers that support that.
I guess you could spin up a VPS somewhere in the cloud and use wireguard or something that like and use a router that supports it. But again your traffic would be funneled through that VPS and any of the big cloud providers would release any information if asked for it.
VPN is a connectivity solution for the ways that I originally described.
It does encrypt, but your already encrypted (thru HTTPS), so it offers no additional security. (Security and Privacy are 2 separate things.) Use it for torrenting - hide your torrenting from the world. Place shifting - for Netflix or when governments block certain sites. Remote access, usually to connect to a device from/to home/work.
A VPN service CAN collect your surfing data and sell it, (they say they don’t but…idk), IMO the “free” VPN services may be more likely to do that. Recently there was a huge data breach at SuperVPN - “These records contained tons of personal information, including email addresses, original IP addresses, geolocation records, unique user identifiers, references to visited websites and more.” They were collecting many things (including “references to visited websites”), hmm, makes one wonder why they were collecting that info…maybe they all don’t do that but how do you know.
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