I'm looking to set up a home VPN that I can log into while traveling - mainly to stream from a streaming app.
I currently have 300 down 50 up - which connects into an eero router.
Can you tell me if the following is possible:
Buy a gl.inet router and connect by Ethernet to the eero. I will continue to use the eero router for home internet and the gl.inet router will be for hosting the VPN server.
If the above is correct - will I need a second travel router? Can I just download the wireguard app for windows/android and log in through the app? Or will I need to use two routers?
If everything above is correct and doable l, which router (or routers) will I need to go for? I was thinking about a beryl as the VPN server router - or would I need a flint?
Thanks in advance, and sorry if these questions have been answered - I did try search but there was a mass of results that were not specific to me!
Yes this is possible, you need to verify two things.
you are not using ipv6 only, while it may works it will complicate steps.
you have to make sure you are not behind a great firewall like the one from china or behind a cgnat where your public ip is shared with other consumers.
And you need to portforward from the eero
Both is possible, although i'd recommend using a travel router for easing up the experience also Windows is not always that great in following the right network adapter some programs choose the wrong one, one of the usefull features of a travel router is: if you host a jellyfin stack as example, you can use dns names and use domain names like: jellyfin.lan only from inside the vpn, that is what i currently do since i also use radarr and a bunch of other containers, with these travel routers it is as easy as plug and play.
Yeah the MT3000 is fine too, minimum i'd recommend a dual core, you likely still are able to max speed on it anyway, wireguard is a bit slower but that is normal due to the encryption and overhead.
If the device is just for hosting a VPN server, then at home the GL-MT2500/Brume 2 would also work. That would well exceed the speed of your internet (50 mbit/s upload will be the bottleneck!) and it can do 355mbit/s over wireguard.
I do prefer to do VPN on a travel router. In my experience Mobile devices may drain their batteries quicker when they need to keep the VPN connection going.
