for the purpose of this question, my “main router” is the router that I have always used to connect to the internet, the router that’s connected to my modem. any website that I visit from this router sees my real ip.
I recently discovered there is a device called the Gl iNet travel router and need to make sure it’s the right device for me before I buy it. I am looking for a device that works like this: The device has multiple ethernet ports. I want to connect this device to my main router by ethernet cable. so now this device has internet incoming from my isp with my real ip address. the other ethernet ports on this device are outgoing and have vpnized internet. if I connect anything to these outgoing ethernet ports, whether it’s a laptop, google onn, xbox, and visit any website using the laptop, google onn, xbox, that website will not see my real ip address, they will see the vpn ip address. my isp doesn’t know what websites I am visiting from the laptop, google onn, xbox that’s connected to the outgoing ethernet ports on this device. there needs to be a kill switch and leaks should be impossible. this device should not interfere in any way with my main router. meaning I am not going to mess with my main router’s setting. my main router should continue working the way it always has. is GL inet router right for me?
thank you. I am surprised that I don’t have to mess with my main router. when I was searching for a solution, before I discovered GL inet routers, I came across dual router setups (let’s say 2 asus or 2 tp-link) and the reason I always gave up on these solutions is because they required me to mess with my main router which I did not feel comfortable with.
I don’t know if you include it into “mess with your main router” but you will have to set port forwarding on your main router for the VPN to be able to work
yes I consider that messing with my main router. I will have to study 1) how to do that 2) how that affects everything. I don’t like messing with something that already works and I have never understood the idea of port (let alone port forwarding) and why it matters.
chatgpt is telling me the first 2 have kill switch, but the third one doesn’t. but then after I asked the question again it said all 3 have kill switch.
I recommend AXT1800. I have 2 of them. I travel to airbnbs/hotels and just plug my travel router to the airbnb/hotel’s router via Ethernert or WiFi.
I have the GL-SFT1200 and it also supports the Kill Switch but the speeds are slow. The AXT1800 has the best speeds of those 3. But how many Ethernet Ports do you need? You only get 2 on the AXT1800. You may be more interested in the Flint Router.