Recently I've been trying to get more educated on VPNs and encryption. I've had a VPN service for quite some time now (Private Internet Access) and have been quite happy with it.
I had also signed up for a DNS proxy for my smart TVs for Netflix region switching.
Now I've put my focus on letting my router do all the work (and not paying for a vpn AND dns proxy). I've recently went out and bought an inexpensive router (Asus RT-N16) and flashed it with dd-wrt. I've pieced together a config from reading forums and setup guides. Everything worked great, the IP got changed and the router was very stable, until I turned on the OpenVPN client.
I neglected to educate myself on the amount of processing power bulk encrypting everything requires (did I mention our main source of entertainment is 1 or 2 tvs streaming HD Netflix or Hulu?)
The poor RT-n16 didn't stand a chance.
What I'm looking for right now is a consumer router that will flash to DD-wrt and have the processing power to bulk encrypt everything going out. It's difficult to find this info as most home routers tout their throughput, which is more a measure of how good their radio controller is, or how much ram they have. Obviously my application will require brute CPU power, which they tend not to list.
What information I do find is difficult to determine how relevant it is, does OpenVPN support dual and quad processors that some of the higher level consumer routers have now?
While I do have some experience with commercial routers (typically I use Cisco ASAs) I'm not too interested in getting into a too technically complex project.
I would also be interested in a straight up vpn appliance build that won't be taxed or bothered to run wireless (I could just use my RT-N16 for that).
Anyone have any suggestions on what may work for me? Budget is in the high consumer range (~$250), I could go higher, but this is a personal interest/pet project and inevitably subject to wife approval (she has a set of messed up priorities that don't involve bulk data encryption).
I had also signed up for a DNS proxy for my smart TVs for Netflix region switching.
Now I've put my focus on letting my router do all the work (and not paying for a vpn AND dns proxy). I've recently went out and bought an inexpensive router (Asus RT-N16) and flashed it with dd-wrt. I've pieced together a config from reading forums and setup guides. Everything worked great, the IP got changed and the router was very stable, until I turned on the OpenVPN client.
I neglected to educate myself on the amount of processing power bulk encrypting everything requires (did I mention our main source of entertainment is 1 or 2 tvs streaming HD Netflix or Hulu?)
The poor RT-n16 didn't stand a chance.
What I'm looking for right now is a consumer router that will flash to DD-wrt and have the processing power to bulk encrypt everything going out. It's difficult to find this info as most home routers tout their throughput, which is more a measure of how good their radio controller is, or how much ram they have. Obviously my application will require brute CPU power, which they tend not to list.
What information I do find is difficult to determine how relevant it is, does OpenVPN support dual and quad processors that some of the higher level consumer routers have now?
While I do have some experience with commercial routers (typically I use Cisco ASAs) I'm not too interested in getting into a too technically complex project.
I would also be interested in a straight up vpn appliance build that won't be taxed or bothered to run wireless (I could just use my RT-N16 for that).
Anyone have any suggestions on what may work for me? Budget is in the high consumer range (~$250), I could go higher, but this is a personal interest/pet project and inevitably subject to wife approval (she has a set of messed up priorities that don't involve bulk data encryption).
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