Is connecting only through my travel router enough?

VPN
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I’ll start by saying my main goal is to mask my actual geolocation. I am not super tech-savvy but I can do enough to meet my goal. I don’t need to show that I am at my home IP specifically but I do need to show that I am in the continental US.

I have been using the AR300M16 with NordVPN, I had it set up as an OpenVPN and put the travel router in repeater mode, and then connected the router to wifi wherever I am. I have two MacBooks, 1 with the NordVPN app installed and one that it cannot be installed on. I make sure my NordVPN is set to the proper server (Miami, NYC, etc.) and then connect directly to the travel router on any of my other devices. This worked fine so far - a bit slow at times but it did the job.

I recently upgraded to the MT3000 hoping to get a little more speed and reliability as I’ll be traveling for a longer period of time. I set it up similarly to my previous router except I also set up the Wireguard capability using AzireVPN.

I’m seeing a lot of folks talking about setups with one router at home and one router with them on the go and port forwarding and a lot of other words I don’t understand (lol).

My question: Is my current setup enough if my main goal is to just show I am anywhere in the United States?

Additionally: I know Wireguard is faster, but should I use Wireguard over OpenVPN? Does it matter when I just want to show I am in the US?

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What you are doing should be fine if all you need to show is you have a US located IP address. Some sites may be blocked using a comercial VPN provider. The best test I have found is to see if I can access ticketmaster.com, as they seem to have very good VPN detection. Only my home based VPN can get to their site.

Wireguard is faster than OpenVPN on GL iNet routers, and both will hide your remove IP address. Wireguard on your AR300M16 may have been fast enough that you didn’t need to buy the MT3000.

I use a AR300M as a VPN server, running multiple VPN protocols, along with several cloud based VPN servers I manage, and a AR750S as my travel router, mostly running Wireguard, and I see no reason to upgrade.

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The biggest issue here is likely your IP being flagged as that belonging to a known VPN service provider.

The IT systems businesses use typically have the capacity to natively detect this since such IP ranges tend to be generally known. This is why folks typically build their own residential VPNs

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If you are using Microsoft RDP then you are out of luck no matter what you do. It sends approximate location and time zone

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If you’re that worried, set a VPN up between travel router and home and route all traffic via the home router.

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This was also a thought but it has yet to be flagged to me. And also, I’m prepared to let inquiring minds know I use a VPN for extra security.

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With NordVPN you can talk to customer support to get a good IP that isn’t flagged as a VPN. I’ve had to do it many times but it works.

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Apologies, can you elaborate on what Microsoft RDP is?

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Is this also the case if you’re using a residential VPN setup? If so, is there no way to circumvent this ?

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Do you recommend a site that can give me the dummies version on how to do this?

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Sounds like you don’t need to worry. “Remote Desktop “ similar to VNC.

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Not that i have found, and I’ve done a deep dive. You can test it by seeing if the Remote Desktop updates its time zone rather than using the server’s TZ

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If you go to VPN > WireGuard server, it tells you what to do mate. Am sure there will be tutorials showing step by step too.

Am assuming both routers are GLInet and fairly modern ones?

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Yes they are both GLInet and newer ones.