Forget About Travel Routers and VPNs – Use Your Raspberry Pi as a VPN Router and Get Unbreakable VPN Connectivity with Speedify!
Did you get the latest Raspberry Pi 4? It’s a fine piece of technology and it has all the flexibility to allow you to use it for many interesting scenarios. One of these is a VPN router, which you may find useful when traveling or even in your own home.
Using your Raspberry Pi as a VPN router certainly beats spending all that money on expensive dedicated routers that allow installing VPNs on them. Think of this: you can use that Raspberry Pi for other projects as well, while maintaining its functionality as a VPN router.
So let’s see how you can use your Raspberry Pi as a VPN router. Since this setup is powered by Speedify bonding VPN, you’ll also be able to combine connections as well before you share the bonded connection over WiFi or Ethernet.
Speedify delivers an unbreakable VPN connection by intelligently bonding multiple internet sources - like Starlink, Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G and DSL, ensuring continuous uptime and encrypted protection.
Why Speedify VPN is unbreakable vs. other VPNs
Most VPNs stop working the moment one of your internet connections has a problem. If your Wi-Fi glitches, or your device briefly switches between 4G / 5G and Starlink, you can suddenly lose your VPN connection.
Speedify is built to prevent that. Instead of relying on just one connection, Speedify can use all your available internet connections at the same time: Wi-Fi, Ethernet, 4G / 5G cellular, even Starlink or other satellite. If one connection slows down or drops, Speedify instantly moves your traffic to another internet source so your VPN stays connected and your online activity isn’t interrupted.
In this video, you’ll see how Speedify keeps your internet connection secure, smooth, and reliable by intelligently spreading your encrypted data across the available connections. The result: an unbreakable VPN tunnel.
Combining multiple internet sources like Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, Starlink and wired broadband together makes Speedify VPN unbreakable
Speedify combines Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, Starlink and wired broadband for secure and unbreakable VPN tunnels
No matter how secure your VPN is, if you experience a drop in your Internet connection, either your VPN tunnel will break leaving you unprotected, or you’ll be stuck offline. Speedify is the only VPN that seamlessly combines all of your connections, including Wi-Fi, 4G, 5G, Ethernet, and Starlink, into one unbreakable connection to keep you online and secure.
Speedify will automatically detect any available Internet connections on your device, encrypting and intelligently distributing your online traffic between them for optimal performance. If you need help we have quick start guides available for most common set ups.
Combine personal hotspots for unbreakable and secure uploads and downloads
Speedify's Pair & Share feature enables you to connect to multiple personal hotspots at the same time and wirelessly share LTE, 4G, and 5G cellular connections back and forth between multiple Speedify users on the same local network to create a faster, more reliable connection for everyone.
With Speedify, all of your available internet sources - even shared personal hotspots - are combined inside the secure VPN tunnel with your encrypted traffic intelligently distributed between them, while split tunneling allows blocked sites to bypass. So, if any connection slows down or drops out, the VPN tunnel stays active and the other connections will automatically take over to keep you securely, seamlessly connected.
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Raspberry Pi Bonding VPN Router Step 1: Combine Connections
Bonding Internet Connections on Raspberry Pi: Done! Time to Setup the VPN Router
Two connections are better than one – the more, the merrier, for that matter. And we don’t mean switching between them, but using them simultaneously, to maintain the current session. This comes in handy whenever you need a stable and fast Internet connection. Examples include live streaming, online gaming, traveling, day trading, or reporting from the field.
The technology behind this is called channel bonding / link aggregation. It refers to methods of using multiple Internet connections simultaneously to increase the throughput capacity beyond what a single connection can sustain. When combining connections, another important benefit is getting a reliable connection. If one of the connections should go bad or disconnect, the overall bonded Internet will stay online thanks to the other connections that are still working.
It’s very easy to combine 2 or more Internet connections on your Raspberry Pi using Speedify for Linux:
- Get a Speedify for Linux subscription. Prices start at $8.99 / month or $50 for a whole year. You will get an email with instructions on where to get the Linux (Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi OS) version.
- Install and configure Speedify on Ubuntu or Raspberry Pi OS – just follow the instructions in our knowledge base.
- Add the connections you want to bond. Follow the instructions available in our knowledge base.
As mentioned before, you can easily turn a Raspberry Pi into a VPN router for when you travel or even for home. This is very easily done with Speedify for Linux, which includes scripts to share the bonded VPN connection you created before over Wi-Fi or Ethernet.
- To configure Speedify as a Hotspot, please follow the instructions in our knowledge base. Or watch the video below from the Speedify YouTube channel.
- If you prefer to setup a wired VPN router, configure Speedify as such. See the steps you need to take here.
Why Speedify Is the Best Solution to Power Your Raspberry Pi VPN Router
Unlike other scripts and VPN solutions, Speedify brings to the table 2 features at once:
- the ability to combine 2 or more connections together via channel bonding technology
- secure and private online traffic through VPN-grade encryption.
You’ll be getting all the functionalities of a regular Raspberry Pi VPN router, and more. You’ll actually travel with an advanced VPN router that is very flexible when it comes to accepted internet connections, combining them and setting usage rules.
Plus – by getting a Speedify subscription, you will be able to use it on your other devices. These include computers and mobile devices running Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
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