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Is the idea of a travel router for the purpose of making sure there are no leaks while using a VPN on a publicly accessible AP? Client devices -> “travel route
by xyst 2y ago
Is the idea of a travel router for the purpose of making sure there are no leaks while using a VPN on a publicly accessible AP?
Client devices -> “travel router” with WG -> public AP
My preferred way is to enable WG on-demand for devices and immediately detect if WiFi or Ethernet is not my home internet.
Client devices (phone, laptop) with WG -> public AP
Or is there some other purpose?
- ssl-3 2y agoOne advantage of a travel router, to me, is convenience. It's pretty great to have my own (portable!) LAN while out and about. I just show up at the hotel and get my router online. After configuring that singular device, my other stuff all works together: My Chromecast, my laptop, my smart speaker, whatever gaming system I may have, some ESP32 project or other that I've been tinkering with, or whatever -- I just turn stuff on and it simply works. With a travel router that additionally uses VPN to tie my travel LAN to my home LAN, then: Whatever other network services I have at home are also available to me on the road. It can be very transparent. And that all conspires to mean that I can spend more time doing whatever it is that I feel like doing instead of futzing around with networking.