Hey everyone, with all this spying and privacy and PRISM and all that other nonsense going on, I had been tossing around the idea of using a VPN. I have a weird case here.
I want to use the VPN at home only (I don't need it anywhere else). I had been looking at creating an OpenVPN server on my router (which is running OpenWRT), but due to hardware limitations of my router, I'd be looking at getting about 20-25Mbps of bandwidth, when my connection is 60-65Mbps, so I don't particularly want to lose that much speed, and the main reason for losing that speed is due to the limited processing power of my router (it's a Buffalo WZR-600DHP for anyone who wants to know, and it has a 680MHz Atheros AR7161 CPU, so not "underpowered" for a router).
So, what I had been thinking about, was using one of my old computers lying around to do something similar. Put Linux on it, and use it solely as a VPN server. Obviously a P4 2.8GHz has more oomph than the router would.
But then, how would this work? My brain is trying to make sense of it all. I would want my computers to connect to the "server" computer, which would essentially be a passthrough to the internet. Could that work? Would I need to wire the desktops to the server computer, and the server computer into the router? Or could I just toss the server computer onto the network and do a weird roundabout from desktop to router to server to router to internet.
Maybe I'm making it way to damn complicated, but that's, of course, why I'm posting here. Help, suggestions, comments, anything would be appreciated here. I know I could just buy a VPN service (something like HideMyAss, Tor, ProXPN, etc) but from what I've heard, those are pretty slow too.
I want to use the VPN at home only (I don't need it anywhere else). I had been looking at creating an OpenVPN server on my router (which is running OpenWRT), but due to hardware limitations of my router, I'd be looking at getting about 20-25Mbps of bandwidth, when my connection is 60-65Mbps, so I don't particularly want to lose that much speed, and the main reason for losing that speed is due to the limited processing power of my router (it's a Buffalo WZR-600DHP for anyone who wants to know, and it has a 680MHz Atheros AR7161 CPU, so not "underpowered" for a router).
So, what I had been thinking about, was using one of my old computers lying around to do something similar. Put Linux on it, and use it solely as a VPN server. Obviously a P4 2.8GHz has more oomph than the router would.
But then, how would this work? My brain is trying to make sense of it all. I would want my computers to connect to the "server" computer, which would essentially be a passthrough to the internet. Could that work? Would I need to wire the desktops to the server computer, and the server computer into the router? Or could I just toss the server computer onto the network and do a weird roundabout from desktop to router to server to router to internet.
Maybe I'm making it way to damn complicated, but that's, of course, why I'm posting here. Help, suggestions, comments, anything would be appreciated here. I know I could just buy a VPN service (something like HideMyAss, Tor, ProXPN, etc) but from what I've heard, those are pretty slow too.