Hello experts,
I have recently purchased nordVPN to secure my most important PC's and mobile phones at home.
Now I'm looking for a solution for my whole household, buying a VPN capable router to protect all of my connected devices form cyber threats and ISP spying.
Please note that I am not from the US or Europe and my current router/modem is Technicolor tg789vac v2 with gigabit optic fiber infrastructure recently installed on our block.
after some digging I found that Asus routers are preferred for people who are not into networking too much as you don't need to flash a custom firmware on them to use VPN efficiently and securely, and that upgrading it for free to AsusWRPMerlin provides even more security and features.
I was pretty close to buying the Asus RT-AC66U B1 until I called my cousin (who works in the field here) to check if it gonna be enough for our house needs, as we have 3 PC's on LAN and 3 PC's, 6 phones and a single PS4 on WiFi (we plan on adding 2 TV streamers to the WiFi to cut the monthly cost of cable).
He said it's gonna be alright as there only rare instances where all of these devices game or stream HD video simultaneously
(hypothetical peak internet use on weekends after the TV streamers are set-up gonna be: 3 LAN PCs game and watch HD youtube/2LAN PCs+PS4, 2 TVs stream HD video, 2 WiFi PCs inuse/watch HD video) this gonna happen once per month tops.
Next he asked me about the current set-up (what he called "topology") and if im sure I wanna order from newEgg and not buy locally so I'd have more support and less risk of the package being stopped by customs (Ministry of Communication is tight on letting people order anything related to networking if the item wasn't approved by the local Standards Institute) after I explained to him that I've seen similar products sold locally for much higher price (they are approved by the Ministery of Communication/standards institute) and that some friends have ordered from newEgg and received the package to their doorstep by FedEx with no problems with customs at all.
We saw the deal breaker, the reason I come here before you humble people of tom'sHardware and write my life's auto biography in this wall of a forum thread
a telephony port on my Technicolor tg789vac v2 is connected and in-use for our home phone number.
I called my ISP immediately to get answers.
they said that my parents set up the telephone over the Internet and if I want to replace the ISP provided TG789 modem/router with another one it has to have the same kind of phone port and I'd have to set it up manually or our home telephone wont work.
our set up at home is as follows:
Optic fiber from wall -> D-link G01LC Media converter-> ethernet cable -> WAN port of the TG789vac v2 -> 4 LAN port (PCs and cable VOD thingy) AND at the leftmost side (the manual calls it just "phone port") single cable going back into a port in the wall labeled "VDSL".
I thought i can use a VPN router for all the LAN and WiFi devices, connect it to the TG789 which would be connected in the same topology as before (wifi disabled) to connect everything to the internet and keep the phone cable still in the TG789.
But the ISP tech support guy said that its not possible and i have to get a router with a telephone port. And as I'm writing this I also think that that's probably a very poor implementation security and performance-wise.
In a perfect world I want to be able to use the gigabit fiber internet connected to our flat to its full extent with as little hardware bottleneck as possible, be able to get a stable connection on all the devices mentioned above and everything being protected by nordVPN which is set-up on the router connecting everything to the Internet.
I know Its a lot of reading and a bit much to take in so a huge "thank you" in advance to anyone who reads this and can help me out!
I have recently purchased nordVPN to secure my most important PC's and mobile phones at home.
Now I'm looking for a solution for my whole household, buying a VPN capable router to protect all of my connected devices form cyber threats and ISP spying.
Please note that I am not from the US or Europe and my current router/modem is Technicolor tg789vac v2 with gigabit optic fiber infrastructure recently installed on our block.
after some digging I found that Asus routers are preferred for people who are not into networking too much as you don't need to flash a custom firmware on them to use VPN efficiently and securely, and that upgrading it for free to AsusWRPMerlin provides even more security and features.
I was pretty close to buying the Asus RT-AC66U B1 until I called my cousin (who works in the field here) to check if it gonna be enough for our house needs, as we have 3 PC's on LAN and 3 PC's, 6 phones and a single PS4 on WiFi (we plan on adding 2 TV streamers to the WiFi to cut the monthly cost of cable).
He said it's gonna be alright as there only rare instances where all of these devices game or stream HD video simultaneously
(hypothetical peak internet use on weekends after the TV streamers are set-up gonna be: 3 LAN PCs game and watch HD youtube/2LAN PCs+PS4, 2 TVs stream HD video, 2 WiFi PCs inuse/watch HD video) this gonna happen once per month tops.
Next he asked me about the current set-up (what he called "topology") and if im sure I wanna order from newEgg and not buy locally so I'd have more support and less risk of the package being stopped by customs (Ministry of Communication is tight on letting people order anything related to networking if the item wasn't approved by the local Standards Institute) after I explained to him that I've seen similar products sold locally for much higher price (they are approved by the Ministery of Communication/standards institute) and that some friends have ordered from newEgg and received the package to their doorstep by FedEx with no problems with customs at all.
We saw the deal breaker, the reason I come here before you humble people of tom'sHardware and write my life's auto biography in this wall of a forum thread
a telephony port on my Technicolor tg789vac v2 is connected and in-use for our home phone number.
I called my ISP immediately to get answers.
they said that my parents set up the telephone over the Internet and if I want to replace the ISP provided TG789 modem/router with another one it has to have the same kind of phone port and I'd have to set it up manually or our home telephone wont work.
our set up at home is as follows:
Optic fiber from wall -> D-link G01LC Media converter-> ethernet cable -> WAN port of the TG789vac v2 -> 4 LAN port (PCs and cable VOD thingy) AND at the leftmost side (the manual calls it just "phone port") single cable going back into a port in the wall labeled "VDSL".
I thought i can use a VPN router for all the LAN and WiFi devices, connect it to the TG789 which would be connected in the same topology as before (wifi disabled) to connect everything to the internet and keep the phone cable still in the TG789.
But the ISP tech support guy said that its not possible and i have to get a router with a telephone port. And as I'm writing this I also think that that's probably a very poor implementation security and performance-wise.
In a perfect world I want to be able to use the gigabit fiber internet connected to our flat to its full extent with as little hardware bottleneck as possible, be able to get a stable connection on all the devices mentioned above and everything being protected by nordVPN which is set-up on the router connecting everything to the Internet.
I know Its a lot of reading and a bit much to take in so a huge "thank you" in advance to anyone who reads this and can help me out!