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.
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Should you have a backup 4G, 5G, Starlink, or cable internet connection?
Yes — every internet connection goes down, including Starlink, which drops for ~34 minutes a day on average. A backup connection from a different provider means one outage never takes you fully offline. The most common options are a 4G/5G cellular hotspot, a cable or DSL line, or a second satellite dish.
4G/5G cellular
Works anywhere. Just a SIM or hotspot — no installation needed.
Learn more →Cable / DSL
Best for fixed locations. Different network, so outages rarely overlap.
Learn more →Second Starlink
Adds redundancy and throughput for remote sites or heavy usage.
Learn more →Speedify bonds any two connections into one — automatic failover, more speed, no dropped calls.
Try free →Speedify makes your uploads and downloads faster, more reliable, and more secure with VPN grade encryption.
Speedify combines 5G, 4G, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Starlink and other satellite into one secure and unbreakable VPN tunnel
Speedify is the only VPN app that seamlessly combines Wi-Fi, 4G / 5G cellular, Ethernet, Starlink and other satellite internet into one unbreakable internet connection. You get faster upload and download speeds while no one can spy on what you do online. Speedify allows you to unblock restricted content by connecting to one of the VPN servers distributed across 6 continents in 50+ cities.
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.
Speedify gets you faster uploads and downloads from the devices around you
Speedify's Pair & Share feature lets you and the devices around you pair up and share 4G/5G cellular both ways, so every paired device gets faster uploads, faster downloads, and a steadier internet connection. All sides share and use each other's cellular at once, unlike a personal hotspot, where one device gives and the rest take.
Speedify's Pair & Share feature runs over the local network between devices already running Speedify, with no extra hardware and no new data plans. Speedify creates an encrypted pool of shared 4G/5G cellular connections across all paired devices. Each device taps into that shared pool of combined connections for faster upload and download speeds and a more reliable internet connection.
See how you can use Speedify to combine available Internet connections:
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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