![]() ![]() The only catch is with Chromecast your mobile device also has to be over the VPN or you won’t be able to see the geo-restricted content. Give every device you want to route over the VPN a static DHCP lease (i.e their IP doesn’t change) and then use the Policy Based Routing field to tell the router to route internet traffic over OpenVPN. So I scrapped that idea and moved onto the next. Issues I ran into went from not being able to access the other local subnets (which I wanted to for things like Plex) and just generally getting it to play nice. I’m sure there is a way to do this, but I couldn’t get it working with my limited knowledge of dd-wrt and iptables and the like. That way you could choose to go over the VPN just by switching networks. My first idea was to have a separate WLAN (Wireless LAN) with it’s own subnet and DHCP and route all connections through the VPN. Another option is choosing a VPN provider (or setting up your own) that enables you to use weaker encryption – the idea being that it doesn’t really matter that the NSA can snoop on your netflix, it’s up to you. I forked out for an R7000 which is probably overkill. You want to be getting minimum 5Mbps with a recommended 10 for this to be usable. ![]() Encryption uses processing power which most routers lack. If you want to do this, make sure your router is up to scratch. ![]() Media devices like Smart TVs and Chromecasts can’t run OpenVPN so it has to be done on the router. It’s worth noting that before this year you could just use some fancy DNS tricks to route only traffics from a certain domain over your VPN, but I found this failed on devices with hard-coded DNS (like the chromecast or the Android Netflix app). I didn’t want everything to go through the VPN because that would slow down my connection for things I didn’t need it for. I decided I wanted to be able to route certain devices on my network over a VPN connection for reasons that I am sure you can use your imagination (geo-restrictions etc). ![]()
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