DreamBliss
Limp Gawd
- Joined
- Aug 28, 2005
- Messages
- 205
I'm about to go looking around NewEgg and Amazon. What I want is simple to describe. I want to hide my IP and my internet activities from my ISP. Why? None of your business, same as it's none of their business what I'm doing. So no need for arguments here. If you just want to argue go elsewhere, if you want to help please post.
I did a little searching earlier and it looks as if some routers have a VPN built in. My current router is a Linksys WRT160Nv3 Wireless N router hooked to a standard Comcast cable modem box. I have looked through its options and nothing sticks out to me as a VPN setup area. I have static IPs for two laptops hooked to our wireless network, one laptop is Windows Vista the other is Windows XP.
I am not stuck on VPN. ANY hardware solution, with exceptionally easy to understand instructions or just as easy to understand setup options in its interface will work. So a hardware proxy, VPN, or just some sort of encryption. I don't care. I just want something, hardware, not software - I REPEAT, NO SOFTWARE, NO WEB SERVICES I HAVE TO PAY FOR,, that will make mt internet activities completely anonymous, unable to be throttled, unable to be detected, beyond of course usage of the internet in general. In other words they can see that I'm doing something, but can get no details. I hope I have made that clear enough.
What I use has to be compatible with Comcast obviously, as they are my ISP and I have no other I can use in this area. It must also not have throttling and blocking features built in that I can not disable or turn off. In other words, it has to work with P2P or anything else I want to use it for. Trying to get away from throttling and blocking here, so a router that just does what my ISP does is useless.
So your suggestions would be appreciated as to any hardware based solutions that will meet my needs. Also any Idiot's or Dummy's like guides to help me understand any of this stuff would be appreciated. Especially if, for example, you tell me that I can't have what I want. I will want to know why, and I will want to have whatever it is that makes what you say true explained and illustrated to me so I can understand it. I'm smart, but I am not an IT guy or a networking professional.
Links to recommended devices also appreciated. Try to keep it $100.00 or less if at all possible. If not go ahead and share it anyway. Just trying to stay in the range of an amount I might someday be able to afford. If you come in here with a $5,000 dream device what good would it be to an unemployed, broke person like me?
Well I'll leave you folks to it and I appreciate your help -
- Deathbliss
I did a little searching earlier and it looks as if some routers have a VPN built in. My current router is a Linksys WRT160Nv3 Wireless N router hooked to a standard Comcast cable modem box. I have looked through its options and nothing sticks out to me as a VPN setup area. I have static IPs for two laptops hooked to our wireless network, one laptop is Windows Vista the other is Windows XP.
I am not stuck on VPN. ANY hardware solution, with exceptionally easy to understand instructions or just as easy to understand setup options in its interface will work. So a hardware proxy, VPN, or just some sort of encryption. I don't care. I just want something, hardware, not software - I REPEAT, NO SOFTWARE, NO WEB SERVICES I HAVE TO PAY FOR,, that will make mt internet activities completely anonymous, unable to be throttled, unable to be detected, beyond of course usage of the internet in general. In other words they can see that I'm doing something, but can get no details. I hope I have made that clear enough.
What I use has to be compatible with Comcast obviously, as they are my ISP and I have no other I can use in this area. It must also not have throttling and blocking features built in that I can not disable or turn off. In other words, it has to work with P2P or anything else I want to use it for. Trying to get away from throttling and blocking here, so a router that just does what my ISP does is useless.
So your suggestions would be appreciated as to any hardware based solutions that will meet my needs. Also any Idiot's or Dummy's like guides to help me understand any of this stuff would be appreciated. Especially if, for example, you tell me that I can't have what I want. I will want to know why, and I will want to have whatever it is that makes what you say true explained and illustrated to me so I can understand it. I'm smart, but I am not an IT guy or a networking professional.
Links to recommended devices also appreciated. Try to keep it $100.00 or less if at all possible. If not go ahead and share it anyway. Just trying to stay in the range of an amount I might someday be able to afford. If you come in here with a $5,000 dream device what good would it be to an unemployed, broke person like me?
Well I'll leave you folks to it and I appreciate your help -
- Deathbliss