Making A Dedicated VPN Home Router Using A Regular Router TP Link WR940N Private Internet Access PIA

hello everyone Richard here again today

I'm going to show you how to create your

own dedicated VPN router from a standard

router I've done it on a neck ear router

this old basic router I have here this

is a wnr 2000 version 3 and I've done it

on two tp-link routers without any issue

at all all the routers connected to VPN

without a problem so in this video I'm

going to show you how you can do the

same I'm gonna get this question on this

video quite a bit why do I want VPN and

what is VPN anyways alright so let's go

through a quick introduction to how the

internet connects you to all these

wonderful things out there in the world

here we have me I'm the I'm the person

standing here and I'm at home with the

connection to the Internet I have an IP

address this is the IP address let's say

theoretically that's my IP address ok

and the IP address is like your phone

number it basically tells the internet

where you are and how to send data when

they send data to you like say you go to

CNN or let's say Amazon and you ask for

something like I don't know a cat photo

a well they need to know where to send

that and they send it to your IP address

ok so the IP address is like your

identifier on the internet and when you

connect you connect to something called

a service Internet service provider and

that could be like Time Warner or you

know Sprint or whoever you have so you

connect through your internet service

provider and then they connect you to

the internet and then the internet

connects you to whatever you want ok the

the this is basic connectivity to the

Internet the problem with this is this

and I'll show you what happens is that

everything that you do from this IP

address going through this internet

service provider time-warner whoever and

then in out into the into the internet

is traceable in other words if you go to

I don't know FBI dot-com then basically

your internet service provider contract

that you've done that and say you search

for that on Google well Google can track

you and say oh well you know Richard III

well this whoever is at I P address 7-0

four or five one eight to sixteen just

looked for FBI put that in the database

and then they start tracking you right

and then when you go from Google to say

Amazon Amazon goes oh well that person

came from Google and they came from this

Internet service provider provider in

Texas and this is their IP address and

they track all this stuff and eventually

they have a huge database about this

sort of stuff that you like to do on the

internet and then they target your

advertising to you then when you've

wondered how that advertising is so so

well targeted well this is a portion of

it okay there's more to it than that but

this is basically saying the Internet

service provider is tracking every

single thing you're looking at on the

Internet in a log file okay they could

see it they can say oh he searched for

this he searched for that he went here

he went there they can see all of it and

they track it so you know and if the

government shows up and says hey show me

everything that you know Richards gone

looked at in the last two years they go

okay there you go they have it okay so

there is no expectation of privacy in

what you're doing on the Internet at all

zero okay zero like don't think you're

doing anything privately on the Internet

zero it's you know shored up let's say

going to your bank but even then they

know what bank you're going to they

don't know what you're doing in your

bank because that's an encrypted

connection but they know that you let's

say your bank is a Bank of Montreal they

know that your bank is that is that Bank

when you because you are asked to go

there to login so nothing in this

communication chain here between you and

the Internet is private zero okay so

let's go next here's the other thing

let's say you take your laptop and

you're sitting down at your local coffee

shop on the Wi-Fi and you're logging in

and you're typing away blah blah blah

well the same situation happens again

you have to call aughh into the coffee

shop Wi-Fi and then from there you go

through a service provider and then from

there you go out into the internet well

there's one more step here anybody in

this

coffee shop Wi-Fi network can actually

snoop at what you're doing they can they

can look at what you're doing they can

actually try and break into your laptop

and if you're sharing files and and and

data to the internet from your laptop

anybody in this coffee shop Wi-Fi can

look at it too so there's no security

there at all okay so this is where VPN

comes in and the whole reason why I have

VPN is because when I travel and I

connect to a hotel Wi-Fi or a coffee

shop Wi-Fi or an airport Wi-Fi I don't

want you know I don't want to expose

myself to that kind of data breach so

this is what I do this is what VPN does

all right

what VPN does is it establishes a secure

encrypted connection between you and the

Internet okay so this green arrow I'm

gonna is the is the secure connected VPN

connection and it goes through it

connects through the Wi-Fi at the coffee

shop connects through the internet

service provider and then connects to

your private internet access or VPN

service which is Who I use P ia it's

what is called private Internet access

and basically what happens here is it

creates an encrypted tunnel it's so

nobody in the coffee shop nobody in the

Internet service provider nobody until

after you go through your VPN service

can see where you're at you can look at

and say oh this guy's in you know Texas

and he's surfing with Time Warner and no

none of that happens what happens is you

get a private connection all the way to

this point and this point is the the VPN

service provider and the VPN service

provider promises that a they don't log

your IP address B they won't give that

information out to anybody and C they

will they don't like let any data go

past this point so basically what

happens is once you go out from the the

VPN service to the Internet and they try

and trace it back they trace it back to

the VPN service and that's as far as it

goes

it's like hey that person surfing from

the private Internet access

let's say Virginia that's what I think

this is what no I think this is

Washington anyway doesn't matter it

basically stops there and doesn't go

back to you so that gives you that makes

you a private that gives you privacy and

it makes you private in other words

these guys can't trace you back anymore

right now it's not a hundred percent

because there's vulnerabilities and so

on and so forth but that's what VPN does

it secures your your privacy and your in

and your data connection to the internet

against people who could use it in

nefarious ways okay that's why I like it

that's why I use it and what we're gonna

do today and okay just to back this up a

little bit on my laptop I have a little

client a little connection piece of

software that connects me to the VPN

service from wherever I am so I connect

to Wi-Fi then I open up that my client

and I connect the VPN and I disappear

from those networks altogether because

I'm encrypted all the way to the VPN

service provider okay but what I'm gonna

do here is show you how to create that

connection in a router all by itself so

anything that connects to that router

will be automatically connected to the

VPN service and surfing privately

through the Internet

that's the whole point of having a

dedicated VPN router now what you can do

with that router is plug it into your

current network and then anybody that

logs into that will be protected from

you know any snooping or prior to have

privacy and a lot more security that's

why we're why I'm showing you how to do

this okay so I'll show you how to do

this on a standard router in a simple

way well in a simple way but I'll walk

you through all the steps and why I'm

doing it and how it works and the whole

point will be to have a 24/7 connected

router to your VPN service there's a lot

of pluses to this number one like for

instance private Internet access only

allows five connections right and

and by the way this is not a free

service this private VPN service costs

money I pay like 3 dollars and 30 cents

a month to have the service more than

happy to pay that money to have the

service because it gives me a great deal

of security and peace of mind when I'm

traveling in anymore and I'm at home but

I do have a dedicated VPN router it is

my Wi-Fi router which makes it even more

secure for me and it allows me to you

know browse the internet privately which

I like now basically it is a paid for

service I use private Internet access

that's who's who they're called one of

the big I think they're the biggest VPN

service out there but you know you do

your own research on that so that's what

VPN is that's how it works and that's

what we're gonna do in this video all

right I want to reiterate this for

everybody who's watching this video

because it's very important that none of

this will work without this one thing

you need a VPN account ok now I use

private Internet access and you can see

it here on the screen and it's it's a

paid for count it's very cheap for me

I'm using the service that costs three

dollars and 33 cents a month you can go

for whatever you want here's the pricing

this is the web page and you can see up

here it tells me my IP address my ISP

and that I'm protected by PIAA so

basically this is really not my IP

address this is really not my ISP but it

I'm currently connected to VPN through

my VPN router here right so and you see

that it's dd-wrt again it doesn't have

to be the third-party firmware that I'm

using you can use whatever you'd like

actually you can use the stock firmware

in your router and that's what I'm gonna

show you how to do I may do a further

video on putting that third-party dd-wrt

firmware in your router and using that

instead but right now we're sticking

with the stock stuff so just a plain

off-the-shelf router how to configure

that to be a dedicated VPN router but

once again you need a paid-for

our VPN service now you can go with

private Internet access or you can go

with several others I just find that

these guys are the best

so that's who I went with and if you

look at the bottom you see that all the

VPN features you get right but the key

feature you're gonna get from them is an

account you need the username for that

account and you need the password for

that account in order to configure this

router to do what it's going to do ok so

let's move on to that before we start

configuring the router we need to find

out a little bit about your network and

this is why because we need to know

where your current router is at in other

words one that we're going to connect

this router to we need to know what its

IP address is so that we can set up this

rat the VPN router that we're going to

connect to it on a different network

we're going to have two separate

networks we're going to have your home

network which is what you currently have

right now then we're going to have your

VPN router network which is going to be

connected through your home network but

not part of your home network now the

reason for that is number one privacy

right it's going to be a separate

Network for VPN traffic only number one

number two when you're on this if you

made both routers part of the same

network what would happen is if the VPN

connection to the VPN router dropped

then you wouldn't know it it would just

keep you it would just take the traffic

and go okay well we're not going through

a VPN anymore we'll just go through your

home network and you would be connected

to a VPN router thinking that you're on

VPN and you're not ok so what I'm going

to do is set up the VPN router as a

separate network that goes through your

home network that way when you connect

to the VPN router you know you're

connected to the VPN and if that

connection drops for any reason

whatsoever and you're connected to the

VPN router you will no longer surf and

you'll know when that happens that oh I

must have lost my VPN connection for

some reason ok so and then you

troubleshoot that but basically what I

wanted to do is isolate the VPN

network by itself so that a you get that

privacy and security number one number

two when you if it ever drops you'll

know because it will no longer connect

you to the internet so let's go get the

information about your home network

right now so that we can set the

secondary VPN router dedicated VPN

router to a set to a different IP

address okay and I will put links for

this stuff in the video description

below for you know the hardware and and

and so on and also the configuration

that I use to make this happen because

there's a bunch of numbers and stuff

that you need to remember I'll put it

all in a video description below also if

you wish to leave me a comment a

question or you know even a suggestion

again you need to put them in the

comment section below the video alright

so let's go get the information we need

so over here you see my network icon and

then right-click it now I'm hardwired

you may be Wi-Fi connected it doesn't

matter just right-click it choose open

network and internet settings scroll

down to network and sharing center click

on that then click on change adapter

settings over here and then you'll see

that you know I got Wi-Fi but I'm not

connected to anything I'm connected

through Ethernet now it doesn't matter

which one you're connected to whichever

one you're connected to your home

network through just right-click it and

choose status okay and then go to

details here alright and in the details

what you're looking for is your default

gateway the default gateway is tells you

two things number one it tells you where

your home router is number one number

two it tells you what network you're on

so in my case is 192.168.0.1 so I'm

going to take notepad and put that in

there

it's one nine two one six eight dot zero

of dot one okay that's you know not I

can't even just put it and you can save

this information you want home router

helps if I spell it right here

IP

okay so that's the home routers IP

address 192.168.1.1 our VPN router to be

part of that Network now you can

definitely you know not go your own way

and configure it the way you want but

I'm telling you the way I think is best

so you know take that with a grain of

salt now so now I know what my home

address is my home IP address and my

home I outers IP address I'm gonna set

my VPN dedicated VPN router to something

outside of that network right I told you

the reasons why because hey you know if

the VPN drops or whatever it's part of a

separate network and you'll know it all

right number one number two people can't

go from the VPN router to the home

network or from the home network to the

VPN router it's separate okay and that's

normal by the way so let's go here to

what we're gonna set the VPN router now

the VPN the the network portion of the

IP address is the first three octets or

the first set of three numbers on this

list okay now this applies to this

network it's changes on different

networks but trust me on this the first

three numbers is the network number okay

so by changing the 192 168 0 2.1 I put

it I put the IP address of the VPN

router on a different network ok so

we're gonna call this VPN router now

here's the thing the reason I'm doing

this is because let's say you have a

different IP address let's say your your

main IP address was was you know

192.168.1.1 quite possible ok then you

would have to use something other than 1

0 or 2 would do just fine just basically

whatever your third number is or

whatever the net

name number is you need to change it to

be something different than the one

you're on or else you're gonna be on the

same network and you're gonna have a

whole bunch of vulnerabilities don't do

it okay so in my case it's 0.1 so the

VPN router is gonna be one not one if

yours was what if your home router was

on one not one and it would say well

then just choose 22.1 right and then

it's on a different network it could be

three could be for it could be 54 it

doesn't matter that just as long as that

number is not the same as the home

routers a network name now our number

sorry so now we've got this information

let's go physically I'm gonna show you

how to physically connect this router to

your to your computer or how I'm gonna

do it it's up to you actually yeah we're

gonna physically connect it I'll show

you how you should connect it to avoid

any trouble with your home network since

I'm configuring a tp-link router in this

video I'm going to show you the tp-link

router of course and what I'm gonna do

is use just the patch cable and this

patch cable is a LAN cable that came

with the actual router itself and we're

gonna plug it in and physically connect

it to my laptop so what the port's we're

going to use to connect to our any of

the orange ports or the LAN ports or

Ethernet ports as they call them and

pick the one you want it doesn't matter

which one you pick just as long as it's

in the orange ports then the other side

of the cable we're going to plug into

the LAN port on this laptop if you have

a computer you choose the the LAN port

on the computer either way you're going

to physically connect to the router this

way so again cable to the LAN ports and

on the LAN port on your computer so

we've got our VPN account we've got a

username and we've got a password

perfect we've got we're ready to go to

the next step now in order to set this

up we need to know the IP address of the

server that the VPN account is on so

what we're going to do here at the PIAA

private Internet access web page and now

if you're using somebody else I don't

know where you would need to go to find

this information but

PIAA is simple you go to network all

right and for me it's best to choose a

server in the country that you want to

appear to be surfing from so if you will

if you for some reason want to look like

you're surfing from the UK then you

choose the UK and and would go there if

you want to choose like your if you want

to look like you're surfing from United

States for whatever reason then you go

to the United States Canada so on and so

forth all the way through like all these

countries they have a hundred and thirty

three to pick from so or sorry they have

33 to pick from so you choose the one

you wish I'm gonna go back to the

country I'm in which is the United

States and here it's up to you which one

you choose there's you know 14 locations

to choose from

usually the closest one is better but

not always I'm gonna choose I could

choose Texas but I don't want to do that

because I want to appear to be in a

different state than I'm currently in

primarily to show you guys that it's you

know that it works so I'm gonna choose

Washington now you see here that they

say run tests on all of these okay so

you can choose run a test on any one you

want and see how fast it is and then

choose that one okay and you can change

this any time you want using the same

procedure I'm going to show you right

now so what we're looking for here is

the VPN server IP address you can see

that they have a domain name address

here right at qdn that's what it's

called and we don't want that we want

the IP address so here we're gonna hit

run test I'm gonna use Washington US

Washington DC and if you want to run the

test just hit the start button you can

do that I'll do that but what I what's

really important is that you copy this

information the US if this lets me do it

I don't know why it doesn't chase lovely

let's try this again

run the test and yeah okay some reason

now I can highlight copy it's a

right-click it

highlight it all right click it copy it

if you want to run the test just hit the

run test and if it will go through and

it tells you the kind of connections

that you can have here and the speed and

so on and so forth the ping speed

you know download speed so when you're

connecting through a VPN server there

your internet service provider and VPN

is encrypted and therefore it's a slight

it's slower than regular Internet

traffic so this is this performance that

you're going to get from this server not

bad I'm just gonna minimize this out of

the way so again what's really important

here is knowing how to choose and number

two getting that that fqdn address of

the server where it's at I don't know

why they don't put the IP address up

there probably because it changes but it

doesn't matter what you need is that so

we copied that then go over here to type

into your search box and just in here

we're just going to type in CMD and

enter that brings you to a command

prompt okay and here we're going to type

in ping and we're going to paste that

right click on this CMD box you don't

get the option to paste when you

right-click it just paste it and then

we're gonna hit that and then you can

see an IP address okay so the IP address

of the US Washington private blah blah

blah is seven zero three two zero one

thirty six so this is the IP address we

were looking for okay so you know

highlight that right-click it I know it

didn't say anything but when you

highlight and right-click it it copies

it so back to our notepad here here we

go

and you can see that I already have that

IP address here so again that's how you

get the IP address for that server and

that applies to any server in the world

any-any if you want to know where Google

is you can do the same thing you know

it'll tell you the IP address the reason

we need the IP address is because the

router requires it number one to set up

this configuration so we've got the IP

address of the DC

VPN server you know Washington DC so

let's just close the command window here

close this up so part of the information

required for us to set up the router is

knowing an IP address of one of the

server's we're going to use and like I

said you can change this use whichever

one you want from wherever in the world

you're gonna plug this into okay you

choose you know how to choose now

so let's minimize this so we're still on

the internet obviously we're connected

because we were just surfing so we want

to undo that you've connected the router

the way I told you to do it so okay I'm

going to just click on the Wi-Fi button

which disables Wi-Fi takes me off the

internet I'm going to turn on the router

and we're gonna go find out where the

router is now your router may be in a

different IP address than the one I have

but I'll show you how to find out what

IP address it's at so right now it's

booting you can see that the icon is

changing back and forth that's because

I've just turned on the router so

right-click it choose open and network

internet open network and Internet

settings I go up here to start scroll

down to network and sharing center

change adapter settings and then here

you'll see that you know Wi-Fi is on but

it's not connected to anything because I

shut it off and you can see that the

Ethernet port were the the router is

connected he's identifying a network

because I just turned it on so I'll let

that happen

okay there it's identified it so right

click it

choose status and then details and you

can see that the the default gateway is

192.168.0.1 which is you know the same

as our primary router so we're going to

need to change that but right now all

you need to know is that 192.168.0.1 is

where the router currently is because

that's the default gateway you're

connected to and you're only connected

to the router so we know 192.168.0.1 is

our router IP address so we're gonna go

back to our browser here and

open up a new tab type in that IP

address 192.168.0.1 and hit return ok

and here we're at the default login web

page for the tp-link router I've reset

this router to the factory default so

the factory default username and

password are going to be on here so

let's do that in the case of a most DP

link routers I believe it's the same

username is admin all lowercase it and

the password is admin again all

lowercase and this is the first thing

we're gonna change because you don't

want to keep the router on the default

username and password it makes it super

easy to hack anybody can hack it just by

googling what's the default password for

a tp-link router so we're gonna log in

and because I've logged in after

resetting the router to the factory

defaults we get the quick setup screen

from tp-link we're gonna click exit on

that first thing we're gonna do I'm

gonna show you how to do the factory

reset on your router in case you don't

know so that you can be you know follow

step by step and have the router in the

same configuration as I have it in which

is a factory default reason being we

want to start with a clean router

without old configurations in it or

anything else when you do the factory

resets it wipes it to the day you took

it out of the box and you start again

now if you want to save your

configuration files as opposed to you

know if you want to save the

configuration your router prior to

resetting the router which will race all

your configurations you can do that as

well so let me show you both things here

first we'll go to system tools I hit

exit on that you know a quick set up and

go to system tools we're gonna go to

backup and restore and here you can

backup the configuration you've recurred

router now this is a good thing to know

because after you're done configuring

this for VPN and it all works you may

want to backup your configuration and

say that so that you know in case it

ever gets messed up or anything you can

always restore it and come back to the

day that you set it up which is right

now I actually do that every time I do a

new configuration I save it

and you know in a place where it's I

know where it is and then I keep going

so in case that my configuration doesn't

work out for me so you know hey

yesterday's configuration is better than

today's let's restore back to that day

and get what we need okay so here you if

you backup your configuration simple you

hit the backup button you get a file the

files config bin you save it to wherever

you wish now you can rename it as well

but I just keep it the same and and save

it and then you've got a configuration

backup of your if your router I don't

have to do that because right now it's

reset to factory defaults there's no

need to retune to do that but it if you

wanted to save yours you click on this

and then you go afterwards browse to

where the file was saved and hit restore

and that restores your configuration to

the original configuration so if you're

worried about your configuration if your

router prior to doing any of this then

definitely do a backup of the config

file and save it somewhere where you

know it's going to be and then you can

always restore it but after you're done

if you want to go back to prior to this

configuration so that's step one step

two is going to the factory default so

we're going to go here to the tab under

system tools factory defaults then we

just click on restore it asks you if you

want to do it you say ok and then it

goes through the process of doing it

which is okay we're starting it's going

to go through the process of you know

basically resetting the router and

rebooting it it doesn't take very long

but you know there's a little bit and

then after this what we're gonna do is

come back in here after we just after we

set the factory defaults we know that

it's using the factory default password

which is admitted min your site username

and password admin and men we're gonna

reset that first thing off as soon as we

come back in so that we don't have that

vulnerability to the Internet right off

the bat and we don't forget to do it

through it first to get that

vulnerability out of the way and you

know then we move on from there and I

can't suggest I can't recommend strongly

enough to change that default username

and password right off the bat unless

you want somebody hacking

router okay so wait for this to reboot

there we go

and it takes us right back to this home

screen here again default password admin

although our case default sorry default

username I've been all over case

password the same all lowercase of men

login and again we get the wizard that

it wants to go through we're gonna hit

exit here I'm gonna go to system tools

and here we're gonna go to password

we're gonna change this okay here we're

going to enter the old username and

password which of course is the default

one that you get when you restore the

router which is admin this that's the

username and the password again will be

admin as that is the default is where as

well here you can enter in whatever

username you want all enter and that and

continue on here and a special password

to avert people from coming in with the

default password okay and when you do

that boom and knocks you back out it

says okay now I need to log back in

again

so here we're gonna log in with the

password we just put in a forward stuff

there we go and we're at the Status page

now at this point were I want to point

something out to you right here you can

see right here

we're on 192.168.0.1 now if that is not

the default gateway of your primary

network then everything is cool you

could leave it there but in my case it

is so I need to change that from

192.168.1.100 land

and here well I thought I hit LAN LAN

there we go

and here we're gonna change this from

192.168.0.1 to 1.1 and this is going to

require a reboot so let's do that save

it and modification of LAN settings

would result in a reboot so I'll reboot

it and pick it up after the reboot and

it may or may not bring you back to the

default web page so if it does not just

type in the IP address you put in there

whether it's 0.1 or 1.1 or 3.1 whatever

it was choose that IP address put it

into the address bar up here hit enter

and you'll end up back here so we're

gonna lock in and login again and that's

going to be under whatever username you

used and whatever password you changed

it to to secure the router and now we're

at 1.1 which is what we need right so

the next part we're going to go to is

back to network again and here we're

going to start configuring this for VPN

so here we're out of all these choices

you're going to choose l2tp or russia

l2tp same thing either way l2tp stands

for layer 2 tunneling protocol it's it's

more secure than any other option on

here and it's actually the only one that

works anyway so at least with private

Internet access so I'm going to choose

that here we're gonna have to put a

username and password and confirm the

password I'll show you what that should

be under P ia or private Internet access

VPN and the the username will be a seven

digit number with an X on the front of

it that X at least as far as I know is

on every username that me that P I uses

so it'll be the lowercase X and then a

seven digit number of some kind I'm not

putting mine in here because I don't

need to edit that out you know it's not

something I want to put on video so

there's a bogus one for you

let's go back to this again then the

password will be a ten digit character

string like this and it's case sensitive

so there's a uppercase H in there or J

or a lowercase K or D it all has to be

exactly the same so I'm just going to

copy it you can do the same with yours

and just paste it in there so let's

control V you can't right click here and

paste you but you can do control V and

here we're going to go to the next step

and here we're going to change this from

dynamic to static IP okay so that's

where it has to be next we're going to

put in the server IP address or name

that is the Washington DC server that I

got earlier by pinging it on the command

line so let's go back to that over here

and where did I save that in here

somewhere I'll hear this

so it's 70 3201 32 so I'm just gonna

copy it ctrl V it over here there we go

and next it's asking for an IP address

the IP address you're going to put in

here is 1 on your network so in my case

my main network is 192.168.0.1 is the

network name but here it's we're going

to put in 0 dot let's say 85 any number

other than your default gateway on your

main router will do usually just fine

now if you're if you know what you're

doing with networking and you know where

your DHCP server addresses start and end

you can put 1 choose an IP address

outside of that but regardless if you

just choose a random number

usually you'll be ok I'm choosing 85

that should be ok so 192 that wants to

say that 0.85 so that's an IP address on

my home network not my VPN network so

that's what I'm doing here so yours

should be the same this should not be a

1 in here it should be well it depends

if your home network is on 0 then it

should be a 0 number if your home

networks on 1 it should be a 1 number so

and now for that so to the subnet mask

subnet mask will be the

same 255 255 255 0 and the Gateway will

be the same gate where you use on your

home network okay so this establishes

the connection to VPN and in order to do

that it's got to be on it on your home

network so that's happening there once

you get connected it disappears from

your home network so DNS this is

important the domain name service

there's our server is something that you

need to be careful about now you could

use Google's domain name servers or you

could use whatever your ISP is using for

a domain name server but those servers

track your activity on the Internet so I

it out of that I what I'm gonna use is

something called DNS watch it's a it's a

company that is free this anybody can

use these IP addresses these DNS servers

and they're there so they're more secure

they don't log anything they're private

and they don't censor anything either so

use this IP address for your DNS

searches or your DNS server and I

strongly recommend you do that and I'll

put all the all this information that I

have here on the screen in the video

description below so I'm gonna use this

number okay and then just don't think

dumping it in here so right so I right

clicked it over there and copied it here

we're gonna and there's the primary the

secondary would be 69 80 on the last two

digits but doesn't matter just use that

trust me on this the whole point here is

to be private so after you know that's

why I'm using that DNS server because it

ensures privacy it's fast it works great

no problems so hit save and I may do a

video on that as well so I'm gonna hit

save here and it will more than likely

try and connect this I'm gonna hit save

one more time there just to make sure

there we go okay and I'm going to go to

let's go

status see what happens all right so

under status the land address has got

nothing I P address is 192 168 exactly

what it should be when when when we

connect right when we connect you'll

have me see house that has the option to

connect here it will display data here

but right now it doesn't that's cool

because we're not connected so back to

network you can see that it kept my

settings hallelujah

next thing we're going to do is okay so

and that is the configuration that I use

to on my current VPN router which is

using dd-wrt firmware third-party

firmware but it'll work the same way on

this stock firmware from tp-link and I

may do a video on that as well so here

we're going to go down to well we've got

the land portion and the land portion of

this setup okay and it says disconnected

because there's no way we haven't

connected it to the main network yet so

here we're gonna go to wireless next

thing you're gonna want your gonna want

wireless access to this router right you

know you want to be able to connect to

it with just not just with the hardwired

but also through Wi-Fi so let's call

this something that makes sense VPN

router alright and leave the right left

left

the rest alone hit save okay I'm gonna

assume that took so I could go to

wireless security and come back here and

it took it right now it's called the

SSID or the VPN the wireless network

name is now VPN router perfect now under

wireless security we're gonna change the

wireless password to something that

makes sense to you whatever you want it

to be you know that that can be anything

so I like using wpa wpa2 do not use WEP

not secure don't use this at all they

shouldn't even include this anymore but

if you you know whatever you do don't

use this as security you don't have wpa

wpa2 enterprise access at least most

people don't at home so and definitely

don't disable it always have some sort

of security here put in a wire

password call it whatever we want I

don't know some number you choose what

you want and you know I'm not going to

keep this here I don't know okay so I

chose that you choose whatever you want

here we're gonna hit save and now your

Wi-Fi is set up to connect so the VPN

router will connect to the internet no

problem and once it's connected you can

hardwire into it with a LAN cable into

the back of the LAN ports till before

those for online maybe there's different

ones on yours and then not only can you

connect hardwire it through a LAN cable

you can connect through Wi-Fi so you

know if you want to secure VPN Wi-Fi

connection all you need to do is connect

to this router and that router will

connect you to the VPN through Wi-Fi so

at this point I'm going to stop here I'm

going to move on to connecting this

physically to the main router and show

you that next and then we'll test that

now that we have the router configured

for VPN it's time to test it and in

order to test that the we need to

connect it to our main router and what

we're going to do is disconnect the

patch cable from the laptop and from the

Ethernet ports or the LAN ports on the

back of that router and we're going to

connect to the internet or LAN port on

this router so like so it's plugged in

to that and now this other end of this

the other end of that cable is going to

go into any of the LAN ports on the in

on your main router so I'm assuming that

I'm just pretending that this is my main

router here so the main router would

take it would go from the the LAN or

Internet port or the blue port on the

VPN router into one of the LAN ports or

Ethernet ports orange ports on your main

router okay like so so then we've got

two routers connected like this this is

a VPN router that's the internet port

the blue one and then from there into

one of the LAN ports

on the main router now that we're

physically connected to the main network

using a LAN cable from the LAN port of

the router then it can easily now

connect to l2 VPN now I put my username

and password in there at this point so

that you know basically you don't see

that and it's a valid VPN username and

password so at this point I'm back to

the Status page also I'm still hardwired

connected to the router the VPN router

so I still have a LAN cable going from

my network card on my laptop to the LAN

port on the router I connected another

patch cable from the the LAN port to my

main router LAN ports without any issue

at all

and the reason I did that is number one

so that you can see this thing

connecting and number two I'm going to

show we're going to connect to it

through Wi-Fi next but right now I just

want to show you what happens when you

do that it will connect right like this

so I'm gonna hit connect

alright and now I'm connected it says

I'm connected if you go to status back

to status you see that I have an IP

address and it's not anything that we

put in there so right at this point I'm

gonna go and disconnect the cable from

the back from the LAN port and see what

happens

and it should disconnect when I hit

refresh on the status because it's no it

can't any longer be connect it see there

it is so you know again I'm disconnected

so I'm going to plug the LAN port or the

internet port back cable back into the

internet port on the VPN router and it

should automatically connect you'll see

dah dah dah just as it should so now

it's reconnected again okay so next

we're going to connect to this through

Wi-Fi so I'm going to disconnect the LAN

cable from the laptop and in

the VPN router and then connect to it

through Wi-Fi at this point we have a

VPN configured router should be

connected through VPN currently we've

disconnected the LAN cable from the

computer that configured it so now the

only cable connected to that router is

the one from the internet port or LAN

port to our home network on the LAN side

of the router so this router is

currently connected to the Internet

through VPN next what we're gonna do is

connect to it using Wi-Fi since we're no

longer connected through a hard cable we

want to be able to connect to it through

Wi-Fi so let's go down to our network

icon down here and there's I'm gonna

tell it to forget that just in case

okay there's VPN router it's a brand new

connection to me obviously connected to

it before but I'm pretending it's brand

new and automatically wants to connect

automatically I'm gonna choose not to do

that I want to be able to pick when I go

on to that Wi-Fi VPN router and you know

pick and choose so I'm gonna say not to

connect automatically if you want to

connect automatically every time the

computer sees it then keep that

checkmark there here we're gonna keep

hit connect and here we're going to type

in the SS ID password which I remember

there we go

hopefully you remember what you put into

those Wi-Fi parameters and we'll let it

connect and says you're connected now

you want to verify that you're connected

just hit the connection go to properties

and the IP address should be on the

192.168.1 network and it is as you can

see and the second way to verify is to

go to the home routers web page so we'll

do that that is 192.168.1.1 there we go

let's login to it and with the username

and password we put in bang it says

we're connected well it doesn't say

we're connected but you can tell we're

connected because you have

disconnect button not a connect button

so that's cool let's go over here to

well actually we're done with this we're

on Wi-Fi we're connected to it so that

means we're cool next thing we want to

do is test this out a little bit this is

where it gets fun and I'll show you why

so let's go to pi/8 which is private

Internet access my my VPN route my VPN

server or service and you can see that

I'm connected and the nice thing about

this is it tells you your IP address

right there right and it tells you your

ISP which is P ia and you were protected

by PA so it knows we're connected to it

right now right I should because we are

now this IP address is not our Pia our

IP address that's this is not where I am

at so I'm gonna hit copy on that let's

see if we can what we get when we go to

that IP address nothing perfect right

this is your IP address this is what

happens nothing so that's kind of cool

but that's not the test let's go here to

let's do some VPN testing so first thing

we're going to test for is it goes

something called a DNS leak so here I'm

going to type in DNS and leak and you're

gonna get the DNS leak test here DNS

leak test comm and it gives us the same

IP address which is not mine it says

it's an Ashburn so I live in Temple

Texas so you know this proves that I'm

not using my IP address I'm using P I

ASP address IP address now what a DNS

leak is is that it says okay you may be

VPN protected but if you're using a

tracking DNS server then you're not so

protected you're sort of protected but

you're not fully protected so here

standard test

uh-oh what's all this right we've got

one two three four five six

Google IP addresses for DNS so somehow

my computer has managed to hook up to

DNS servers from Google how did I do

that

let me show you how that happened

this is something I didn't show you

initially when we set up the network

card but here we go I'll show you now so

right click the network icon choose open

network and Internet settings ok so

click on that so this is a some special

stuff for you guys so you know like I

said I like to add value and I'll show

you where I am where I'm gonna add value

here ok and this is this is big because

I'll tell you right here in a second so

so back to this we went to network and

sharing center then we went to change

the dafter settings and there's our VPN

router Wi-Fi connection ok

I'm gonna right click that and we're

gonna choose properties alright and in

here you'll see all our networking

properties so the only one we're really

concerned about is right here Internet

Protocol version 4

now I disabled 6 because I don't use it

so it's up to you whether you do or not

but this is where we're going double

click on that and you see that

everything is set to obtain oh pete IP

address automatically well somehow you

know obtaining the IP address

automatically it obtained Google's DNS

servers automatically so in order to

avoid that ever happening in the future

you need to change it ok and I change

all of these on these connections autumn

from automatic to the DNS watch IP

address on every computer I have in

every device I have because

automatically for some reason you always

end up at Google so let's change that to

the IP address is from DNS watch which

are 84 whoops 274 T for the primary the

secondary is 84 200 hello let's do that

right so it's 84 dot 200 dot 6 9 dot

eight-zero and here we're just gonna hit

apply notice that the IP address is

still automatic we'll leave that alone

we want that to be automatic but the DNS

server will always be the DNS watch

private or privacy DNS server okay so

we're gonna hit OK on that then we're

gonna hit OK again

that will reset that connection and

maybe you notice that when I showed you

the connection properties for the

Ethernet cable and I'll show you this

here again you saw that TCP IP 6 is

disabled but see there it is already

right I automatically do that to all

that all the network connect

configurations just to make sure that

whether I'm on VPN or not this works

anyway so this gives me a set a bit of

prep more privacy even when I'm not on

VPN ok because I'm still using the DNS

watch server for DNS okay so hit OK and

you can like I said Google DNS watch and

see what they're all about I love it

works great they're fast ok no problems

so now we've got that set so remember

back to this right go to properties

tcp/ip 4 put those numbers in again I'll

put those numbers in the video

description below as well for DNS watch

and then save it and you'll be fine

ok so let's do this test again close

this all up the way notice all the

Google servers right this is what we're

trying to avoid we're trying to avoid

this we're trying to get private here ok

so let's go back let's do a refresh here

and yeah that should do it it's going to

do the standard test oh look at that

look at the only IP address we get now

the only one we get is the DNS watch IP

address right so that confirms that VPN

is working for us it's using a privacy

protected DNS server and everything's

cool right I know some people who are

more security conscious will boot

you say well what about web web RTC RTC

alright now this is getting into more

crazy security stuff it's a little

higher level but what what this is is

something that's built into your browser

that can actually reveal your IP address

even if you're on VPN okay so let's do

the web RTC leak let's go here and see

what they say about VPN and web RTC like

I said this is high level you don't

really need to worry about it I'm just

showing it to you so let's click on that

go to it and see what it says right so

it's capable right it's capable of

showing my internal IP address and what

web RTC is is something between this

webpage and this computer that are

connecting and and sharing data it's not

it's part of the browser it's not part

of the network so it shows here nolleke

right then it says public ipv4 this IP

address well that we know is P is

Washington DC server okay

so we don't have any leak so this thus

proves that we've got a very secure VPN

connection to the Internet it's private

it's not leaking any information and if

you configure your router the way I

showed you to configure your router

that's if it's a tp-link router this is

what you're gonna get for a result so at

this point we have private Internet

hooked up to our own dedicated VPN

router it can have as many clients as it

wants just all you do is connect to it

it has Wi-Fi enabled on it and VPN

through that Wi-Fi as well so at this

point if you want to connect your phone

to it let's say your smartphone to this

Wi-Fi router they will be protected by

DPN once again on your phone I would

strongly suggest that you change

the DNS IP addresses from automatic to

DNS watches so this is the company that

does that private DNS I privacy protect

the DNS and you can come here to DNS

watch /y and it'll tell you the you know

everything that they do and why they do

it and you might want to contribute in

these guys if you use them and again the

IP this is a totally free service works

great all right

it's anonymous so there you go outside

of this that's all the setup that I have

for this router I'm a do a follow up

video on the net gear because the net

gear has a totally different user

interface for the internet than this so

sorry then the tp-link so I may do a

video on that so that's the lowdown on

connecting and creating your own

dedicated VPN router using a tp-link

router this is the WR 940 and by the way

this is a version 3 but it'll work with

most tp-link routers alright I wanted to

put a disclaimer out there there's

nothing that can guarantee you 100%

privacy and certainly not me I'm just

saying this is a good setup for a

dedicated VPN router using a cheap

router this tp-link router is under $30

on Amazon and I'll put links for all

that stuff in the video description

below so you can get it where I got it

from but again for under $30 it's a

fairly decent solution especially if

you're using VPN and if you're using VPN

at home now you have a dedicated VPN

router again is there any guarantees

certainly not from me all I can say is

it works for me and this is what I use

that's it for my video on how to create

a dedicated VPN router from a standard

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