Vilfo VPN Router Review: Your Next Router! - Techlore
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Date: 2022-04-15
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Comments and reviews: 5
Biky
LOL! For that amount of money, just get some USFF, low-power consumption PC, like the MintBox Mini 2, which has better specs and is $100 cheaper and install pfSense or OPNSense on that. They probably have the same Celeron J3455 quad-core (atom cores, but 8 GB vs 2 GB of RAM, 120 GB SSD vs 8 GB SSD, only 2x 1 Gbps NICs vs 4x on Vilfo, but still get dual-band WiFi.
I did my own box in a SFF case, so it is using more space, but I got it for way cheaper (around $200 bucks) and still got the Celeron J3455 (ASRock J3455M motherboard, 8 GB of RAM, had an old 80 GB SATA HDD lying around and I have 6x 1 Gbps ports. I spent nothing on the wireless router, but you can get a cheap AP or put an old wireless router in AP mode and call it a day, which is what I did. I am not even using all the ports on my pfSense box (3/6, 1 WAN, 2 LAN, my wireless AP also acts as a switch, in which I have another PC connected to.
And pretty much all VPN providers have OpenVPN support, so you can use pfSense to connect to your VPN provider. You can also set a pfSense kill switch to block all connections when your VPN goes down.
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LOL! For that amount of money, just get some USFF, low-power consumption PC, like the MintBox Mini 2, which has better specs and is $100 cheaper and install pfSense or OPNSense on that. They probably have the same Celeron J3455 quad-core (atom cores, but 8 GB vs 2 GB of RAM, 120 GB SSD vs 8 GB SSD, only 2x 1 Gbps NICs vs 4x on Vilfo, but still get dual-band WiFi.
I did my own box in a SFF case, so it is using more space, but I got it for way cheaper (around $200 bucks) and still got the Celeron J3455 (ASRock J3455M motherboard, 8 GB of RAM, had an old 80 GB SATA HDD lying around and I have 6x 1 Gbps ports. I spent nothing on the wireless router, but you can get a cheap AP or put an old wireless router in AP mode and call it a day, which is what I did. I am not even using all the ports on my pfSense box (3/6, 1 WAN, 2 LAN, my wireless AP also acts as a switch, in which I have another PC connected to.
And pretty much all VPN providers have OpenVPN support, so you can use pfSense to connect to your VPN provider. You can also set a pfSense kill switch to block all connections when your VPN goes down.
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Topher
I like the idea of a VPN router, but in my experience it's been subpar. Hardware is everything, apparently. My router is the ASUS RT-AC66U B1. It isn't top of the line, but it's not a budget router either. I have a 200Mbps connection and on a PC can reach about 100 Mbps using the VPNac app. But running a VPN client on the router my speeds max out at about 13 Mbps. That's on one device. I can't imagine dividing that up on the rest of my network.
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I like the idea of a VPN router, but in my experience it's been subpar. Hardware is everything, apparently. My router is the ASUS RT-AC66U B1. It isn't top of the line, but it's not a budget router either. I have a 200Mbps connection and on a PC can reach about 100 Mbps using the VPNac app. But running a VPN client on the router my speeds max out at about 13 Mbps. That's on one device. I can't imagine dividing that up on the rest of my network.
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Kim
holy crab that is expensive! Sure, I understand that they want monah for their dev hours implementing all the VPN vendors and such. But that is simply too steep, especially considering the apparently mediocre hardware under the hood. I'd have easier times recommending people getting a PCEngine router instead. Not the same 'ease of use'. But most definitely better value4money.
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holy crab that is expensive! Sure, I understand that they want monah for their dev hours implementing all the VPN vendors and such. But that is simply too steep, especially considering the apparently mediocre hardware under the hood. I'd have easier times recommending people getting a PCEngine router instead. Not the same 'ease of use'. But most definitely better value4money.
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Saffy
How do I tell if my ISP is worst than some usa based vpn or some weird cheap vpn's
I mean Nord has a bad reputation their ads are everywhere You don't advertise something that is good
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How do I tell if my ISP is worst than some usa based vpn or some weird cheap vpn's
I mean Nord has a bad reputation their ads are everywhere You don't advertise something that is good
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WireMajik
NordVPN is secure, but the speeds are garbage and if you are using their software, its garbage as well. wish i didnt buy a 2 year plan. after the trial my speeds got cut by 60%.
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NordVPN is secure, but the speeds are garbage and if you are using their software, its garbage as well. wish i didnt buy a 2 year plan. after the trial my speeds got cut by 60%.
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