[H]ot PIA VPN Deal

[Cmustang87]

Anyone of you using this from your router directly?

It's doable - but it's incredibly CPU taxing. It's not really going to fair well on commodity home routers.

 

[Dr Tuek]

I have used it on an Asus ac68U and a ac3100 , using the Asus-Wrt and the Merlin firmware. Easy to set up, and the Merlin firmware adds great features, such as the ability to send specific IP addresses (such as SMTP) directly to the WAN, bypassing the VPN.

https://www.vpnuniversity.com/tutorial/how-to-setup-openvpn-asus-routers-asuswrt

https://www.vpnuniversity.com/routers/how-to-setup-openvpn-asuswrt-merlin

https://www.snbforums.com/threads/h...a-and-other-vpn-providers-380-68-09-12.30851/

 

[0ptional]

Thanks both of you. I'm on a Ubiquiti Amplifi HD home mesh wifi system... thing, and one of the upcoming features is vpn support, so I've got my eye out.

 

[SeaWulf]

It's doable - but it's incredibly CPU taxing. It's not really going to fair well on commodity home routers.

Yeah, I'm going to build a pfsense computer since it supports VPN. The downside to PIA is that they are blocked by Netflix and have no interesting in working around that, so that's something to keep in mind.

 

[dpow7]

Just a reminder that PIA is in a five eyes country. That may make a difference to some depending on how privacy conscious you are.

 

[Dr Tuek]

Just a reminder that PIA is in a five eyes country.

And based on this TorrentFreak article, PIA has been subpoenaed by the FBI and had no logs to provide.

https://torrentfreak.com/vpn-providers-no-logging-claims-tested-in-fbi-case-160312/

 

[Deleted member 278999]

Just a reminder that PIA is in a five eyes country. That may make a difference to some depending on how privacy conscious you are.

Yes, but there are so many avenues that one could be surveyed by. At that, I reeeeally don't think they give a shit about what we're up to for the most in H. Now GenMay, that's a whole 'nother story. That CaptNumbNutz guy for example.

 

[CaptNumbNutz]

Yes, but there are so many avenues that one could be surveyed by. At that, I reeeeally don't think they give a shit about what we're up to for the most in H. Now GenMay, that's a whole 'nother story. That CaptNumbNutz guy for example.

 

[doox00]

I have used PIA for a couple years now, been very happy with it, the speeds are very good.

This is connected to the VPN, I have gigabit down and 100mb up fiber connection, I get 950+ down and ~98 up without vpn connection. I do get youtube buffering all the time when NOT connected to the VPN, almost never when connected.