Simple VPN Device for Connecting to Home Network
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I spoke with someone techie about this, who was willing to setup my Raspberry Pi VPN - but he said the video quality would suffer given it is being piped through the VPN between LA and Florida - so the end result would be video that is no better than the Slingbox I have sitting there now that sends the data as UDP right over the Internet without a tunnel, and that video is often pretty bad.
In order to 'trick' the Xfinity app, I apparently need to be able to spoof the IP of my Xfinity router which is what the app uses to check to see if I am home or outside - and that might be a harder techie thing to pull off on an iPad or Android tablet unless there is a way to do that given I am on wifi behind a ATT Uverse router.
In order to 'trick' the Xfinity app, I apparently need to be able to spoof the IP of my Xfinity router which is what the app uses to check to see if I am home or outside - and that might be a harder techie thing to pull off on an iPad or Android tablet unless there is a way to do that given I am on wifi behind a ATT Uverse router.
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I spoke with someone techie about this, who was willing to setup my Raspberry Pi VPN - but he said the video quality would suffer given it is being piped through the VPN between LA and Florida - so the end result would be video that is no better than the Slingbox I have sitting there now that sends the data as UDP right over the Internet without a tunnel, and that video is often pretty bad.
In order to 'trick' the Xfinity app, I apparently need to be able to spoof the IP of my Xfinity router which is what the app uses to check to see if I am home or outside - and that might be a harder techie thing to pull off on an iPad or Android tablet unless there is a way to do that given I am on wifi behind a ATT Uverse router.
In order to 'trick' the Xfinity app, I apparently need to be able to spoof the IP of my Xfinity router which is what the app uses to check to see if I am home or outside - and that might be a harder techie thing to pull off on an iPad or Android tablet unless there is a way to do that given I am on wifi behind a ATT Uverse router.
As for video, I'm not sure how Slingbox is encoding video but it's possible that the Xfinity app uses better encoding that allows the same video to be transmitted with less bandwidth. It's worth a shot anyway if you already have the Pi.
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I spoke with someone techie about this, who was willing to setup my Raspberry Pi VPN - but he said the video quality would suffer given it is being piped through the VPN between LA and Florida - so the end result would be video that is no better than the Slingbox I have sitting there now that sends the data as UDP right over the Internet without a tunnel, and that video is often pretty bad.
In order to 'trick' the Xfinity app, I apparently need to be able to spoof the IP of my Xfinity router which is what the app uses to check to see if I am home or outside - and that might be a harder techie thing to pull off on an iPad or Android tablet unless there is a way to do that given I am on wifi behind a ATT Uverse router.
In order to 'trick' the Xfinity app, I apparently need to be able to spoof the IP of my Xfinity router which is what the app uses to check to see if I am home or outside - and that might be a harder techie thing to pull off on an iPad or Android tablet unless there is a way to do that given I am on wifi behind a ATT Uverse router.
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I don't really think you'll notice. Even going in and out of your home network, you'll still not saturate the upstream or downstream connection to your florida location. I think the bigger impact could be for people back home on the LAN if the upstream/downstream pipe is constantly sending video traffic outbound.
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that's odd. the slingbox really only needs a 1mb upload bandwidth to get a full HD resolution, if not the full HD image. The shape is right, but the quality is lowered. With 1.5-2mb its pretty darn sweet. What upload do you have at home and what download do you have at the florida location? I do this all the time around the globe and video quality from the slingbox is very good with just 1mb on both ends.
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that's odd. the slingbox really only needs a 1mb upload bandwidth to get a full HD resolution, if not the full HD image. The shape is right, but the quality is lowered. With 1.5-2mb its pretty darn sweet. What upload do you have at home and what download do you have at the florida location? I do this all the time around the globe and video quality from the slingbox is very good with just 1mb on both ends.
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that's odd. the slingbox really only needs a 1mb upload bandwidth to get a full HD resolution, if not the full HD image. The shape is right, but the quality is lowered. With 1.5-2mb its pretty darn sweet. What upload do you have at home and what download do you have at the florida location? I do this all the time around the globe and video quality from the slingbox is very good with just 1mb on both ends.
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As an aside, those using a Raspberry Pi for PiVPN, also check out Pi-Hole, very good ad-blocker.
But would I miss the useful ads on FT this way?
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One cool thing about using the Pi-hole is when you VPN into your home network, you effectively remove ads while on a public connection too.
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As I've reported already, I don't see these problems pretty much anywhere I am in the world with decent incoming bandwidth. Even on a PLANE..and that's for the most part either doing VPN to the home or VPN to a USA destination first.
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Hi,
you may want to have a look at this : OpenWRT, USB powered, dual band multi RJ45 travel router
As part of the last update you can use one of the hardware button to activate the OpenVPN/PPTP/LT2S VPN back home.
Regards,
Martin
you may want to have a look at this : OpenWRT, USB powered, dual band multi RJ45 travel router
As part of the last update you can use one of the hardware button to activate the OpenVPN/PPTP/LT2S VPN back home.
Regards,
Martin
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Hi,
you may want to have a look at this : OpenWRT, USB powered, dual band multi RJ45 travel router
As part of the last update you can use one of the hardware button to activate the OpenVPN/PPTP/LT2S VPN back home.
Regards,
Martin
you may want to have a look at this : OpenWRT, USB powered, dual band multi RJ45 travel router
As part of the last update you can use one of the hardware button to activate the OpenVPN/PPTP/LT2S VPN back home.
Regards,
Martin
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Thank you - I think the easiest answer is Slingbox, which I've figured out is going to be dependent on my download speed, which a VPN is likely going to be worse. I think if I can get Slingbox working on my iPad and can stream it to my regular TV in HD quality, that will be the perfect arrangement.
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Slingbox works great. I've been using it for ~10(?) years. A bit laggy, but unless you're switching channels you'll never notice. I have mine set up at a location which has both Comcast & DirecTV and no trouble controlling both.
Although... I think I'd still recommend going with a regular consumer router and ditch the Comcast crappy router. Anything even remotely decent has VPN built in. Asus, TP-Link. I'm sure Netgear & Linksys do as well. I have multiple Asus routers around happily acting as VPN servers for me, no issues.
Although... I think I'd still recommend going with a regular consumer router and ditch the Comcast crappy router. Anything even remotely decent has VPN built in. Asus, TP-Link. I'm sure Netgear & Linksys do as well. I have multiple Asus routers around happily acting as VPN servers for me, no issues.