Most VPN Companies (especially the big ones) have device Limits or Device caps. This determines how many devices you can have connected to one account at the same time. While this is a necessary feature in order to keep web traffic and spammers to a minimum. It can be annoying if you have more devices than they allow. This is something that might weigh heavily in your decision on choosing a VPN Provider. However there is no challenge that we cant over come and find a work around for. One of the simplest ways to get around this is by connecting your Router to the VPN Network. What this does is create a VPN Tunnel going from your Router to the VPN Server, instead of creating it on your device. Then any Internet Traffic that is sent from the Router to the Internet is sent though the Encrypted Tunnel by the Router. When you connect a Router to a VPN Server it only counts as having one device connected to the network. Now you can connect as many device’s as you like to the Router and it will still only count as one device. This is a very useful feature that any reputable VPN Provider will offer. The reason being is that when you connect a router to a VPN Network, you will be using a program called OpenVPN. This is a Cross Platform Program that you can install and use on any device. It is a very trusted VPN Software that offers very strong encryption algorithms and is used by many people in the PrivSec community. This is why any good VPN Provider will offer OpenVPN Functionality and since it’s cross platform we can use it on our Router. However connecting multiple devices to a VPN Network isn’t the only benefit of this Feature. Since your device isn’t physically connecting to the VPN Network it puts much less strain on each of your devices. It will also make connecting and disconnecting from the VPN Network much easier. All you have to do is connect or disconnect your device from the Router that’s connected to the VPN Network. Sadly nothing comes without it’s draw backs. One of the big ones for this set up is once your Router is connected to the VPN Network then all of it’s Internet Traffic is sent through the Encrypted Tunnel. This might not be to big a deal until you need to do something on the Internet that requires you to not be connected to a VPN or if you want to surf the web without being connected to the VPN Network. The best way to do this is to get a separate router that you will connect to the VPN Network. Then connect that Router to the one you already have installed. This is the best way to setup your home network with a VPN Router, because it will allow you to quickly and easily connect and disconnect from the VPN Network and is great for any trouble shooting. Another draw back with this setup is that once you connect your Router to a server. You have to go into your Router and manually change it if you want to switch servers. I’m not going to lie this can be a very tedious process and there is no way around it. For most people you will just need to connect to the closest Server and never have to touch it again. However for anyone that switches servers often this could be a problem. In any case this is still one of the best ways to connect to a VPN Network and I personally think that everyone should have at least one Router connected to a VPN Provider.
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