Best consumer wifi router for VPN use

Hey guys!

My friend is trying to use a VPN to watch Disney+ Europe (We are in canada) on his chromecast, his VPN works great on firefox but not on Chromecast.

I was thinking of getting him a router with VPN support and then set his whole network on the VPN so he can use those services.

He narrowed it down to these models so far:

Asus RT-AX92U Archer AX6000 Archer AX11000 Netgear AX11000 (RAX200) ASUS ROG AX11000

BUt now we are wondering which one to choose!

Thanks a a lot for reading.

You want the one with the best CPU for the VPN to process. So I say the RAX120 is the best bet if money is no option. If you just want the ones listed I would go with the Asus AX11000.

“Asus RT-AX92U” uses Dual-core 1.8Ghz CPU, 512 MB RAM

“Archer AX6000” uses 1.8GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM

“Archer AX11000” uses 1.8GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM

“Netgear RAX200” uses 1.8GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM

“Asus AX11000” uses 1.8GHz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM

Adding: “Netgear RAX120” uses 2.2Ghz quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM.

use this router: http://flashedrouter.com/

Prices are so sick, is there something cheaper? This is ridiculous… 500$ for router :slight_smile:

Sometimes they may have dedicated hardware for acceleration or some implementation in software. So CPU speed alone may not be the biggest factor.

All of those are overkill for a single VPN session. I would go with https://mikrotik.com/product/hap_ac2 or even cheaper. It has IPsec acceleration and supports WireGuard, although I would stick with IPsec for television.

Ideally, it would be VPN provider agnostic. as we might change that once one VPN gets blocked from the services

I was just going by what the OP gave as choices.