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I'm on wifi anyway so I'm already taking a hit on my max bandwidth (maybe 80Mbit) and I don't really use high bandwidth stuff (no games, rarely torrent, etc) so I'd rather have the security and birdie-flipping "fuck you, Theresa May" benefit than an extra 10Mb or whatever.
Depending on the router you're probably able to configure it to do whatever you want - VPN or not. I know there were a few options for doing stuff like not allowing any connectivity if the VPN was down (so you're always encrypted) and not running local addresses through the VPN as well as stuff like being able to create rules to not VPN certain sites, say streaming locations.
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I think I might have a go at DD-WRT'ing an old router over the next week (I think I've got a basic TP-Link somewhere sent to me by Sam Knows).
And if that works ok I might buy a Netgear R6400 and flash that (as my current router doesn't appear to be particularly well supported).
By the time all that is sorted Theresa May will have all my ICRs safely stored somewhere.
boristrump
Interesting. I will assess the speeds of my VPN (relative to the ISP bandwidth), and if it looks fast enough and suitably consistent, I will give it a go.
Maybe a dumb question but presumably if you connected a device via ethernet to the flashed router it would still use the VPN connection?