manufacturers of home routers like ASUS or AVMhave been incorporating VPN servers and clients into their routers to get the most out of connections, either using the OpenVPN protocol as well WireGuard, the latter is the fastest and most secure that you can currently use. If you plan to buy a new router, it is important that it not only have a VPN server to connect remotely to your home, but also have a VPN client to go online in other countries and even to avoid Netflix restrictions if you share an account with your friends. relatives. Do you want to know all the uses that you can give to the VPN client of your router?
VPN Client Uses on a Home Router
When we have a home router with a VPN client, we have the possibility of connect this router to an Internet VPN serverand that all the traffic of different wired or wireless clients go out on the internet through this VPN server to which the router has connected. It is very important that the router incorporate configuration options so that we can choose which wired or WiFi clients go out to the Internet directly, or go out to the Internet first through the VPN server to which we have connected.
If our router does not have enough options, all the traffic from all the devices will have a higher latency and a lower real speed, since all the connections will previously go through the server where it has been connected. The main uses that we can give to the VPN client are the following.
Connect to the server of another home router
Can we connect to the VPN server of another home router, to “interconnect” the two networks via the Internet. We have the possibility of accessing only the local home network between both networks, or redirecting the Internet from site A to site B or vice versa, depending on what we are interested in doing, we will have to configure it one way or another. This is very useful for the following:
- If we want to access the resources of both networks without the need to connect With each of the devices, we can do it as if we were in the local network, since the router will be in charge of routing the traffic through the VPN tunnel when necessary.
- if we want “Breaking” Netflix’s Account Sharing Restriction, we can make site B access the Internet through site A, using its same public IP address, to simulate that we are in the same house, and that we do not have problems sharing an account with Netflix between family members. A very important detail about this is that routers normally allow us to choose which wired or WiFi devices connect through the VPN tunnel, in this way we could choose that only smart TVs or TV Boxes connect to the Internet by going through site A as we have said before.
As you can see, the advantages of having a VPN server and client on home routers is quite interesting.
Going online using VPN services
If our home router incorporates a VPN client, we have the possibility of connect to services like Surfshark, NordVPN, PureVPN and many others, without the need for our device to have the VPN, all through the router. This is especially interesting for devices that do not allow you to install VPN software, such as Smart TVs and other devices.
Thanks to this, we will be able to go to the Internet from other countries to avoid regional blocks, we can also add a very important layer of security and privacy, to browse as anonymously as possible, in addition, this can only be done for certain devices or for all traffic Internet, perfect for protecting all your devices.
As you have seen, having a VPN client on our wireless router brings many advantages. Nowadays, one of the brands that has the most complete firmware in this regard is ASUS with its Fusion VPN, although AVM also allows us to make this type of connection. quite advanced form.
