Any recommendations for portible routers?

sharker

I need a router that would work with a prepaid SIM and would be able to run ProtonVPN so everyone that connects to it are using ProtonVPN.

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sharker
Can you buy a sim card w/o ID? Will you not have on you other devices with sim card carrying your "privacy router"? Will you change for instance IMEI on your router?

;)

abcZ

What you should do, is find something that is supported by OpenWRT https://openwrt.org/toh/start

OpenWRT supports OpenVPN, which an be used to connect to your VPN service, so anything from that list with reasonable capabilities will do what you need.

Don't consider yourself strictly limited to using devices that have an integrated cell radio. You can also use a USB cell radio, which will work just fine with anything running OpenWRT, as long as it has a USB port, which I believe most do. Its been a long time since I've seen a router without a USB port!

sharker

abcZ Is it possible to filter them based on if they're portable or not? Because there are a lot of supported routers.

abcZ

sharker I doubt it. I'm not even sure how you would defined it as "portable".

sharker

abcZ Basically, I want to be able to connect to it everywhere. Portable = it has battery.

Crystal

sharker i dont know of any router like that out of the box. this would be likely very overkill for what you want but you could take some inspiration from it and tailor it and probably even downsize it to your needs https://youtu.be/OLRldZjty_s

Crystal

wonder75

Crystal https://youtu.be/OLRldZjty_s

that was the point of this. do you know anything smaller smace thats suitable for 4g modem with sim tray?

sharker

Basically, I would like to have something like this with ability to use my own prepaid SIM cards for internet.
https://calyxinstitute.org/membership/internet

Graphite

Would be nice if tethering an Android passed the traffic through the VPN. But that was a Google decision. Not sure if GrapheneOS could do anything about it.

Crystal

Graphite they technically could. lineage os does offer this feature[or at least did]

BluishHumility

I purchased one of these recently, which I am seriously under-utilizing as an AP in my home right now: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-sft1200/

I works great, never skips a beat. It runs on OpenWRT and can launch a proper LuCI web interface and everything. ProtonVPN is listed as supported out of the box on the website I linked; I'm pretty sure you can set it up right in the GUI. When I bought it, it was only like thirty bucks.

Crystal

BluishHumility but that would need to be paired with something like this https://eu.protectli.com/product/idg450/

BluishHumility

Crystal Yes, it would need to be paired with a modem and a portable power bank for OP's use case.

Volen

Guys, what about dsl? Is there a good dsl router that supports OpenWRT with easy installation (without a need to disassembly the unit)?

wonder75

If you don't mind to build it yourself, a Raspberry Pi with 4G-addon-card would work.
Can be powered by USB. You can create the wifi hotspot with hostapd for your clients. On the 4G interface use openVPN client to connect to your VPN provider. Glue it together with routing. 100% your control, 100% open source software.

evalda

Can second GL.iNet routers with the caveat, flash vanilla OpenWRT (or your favorite OS) instead of just trusting their stock firmware

wonder75

Crystal There are several manufactures for 4g modems for raspberry pi. they are tiny in size.
without the battery you will endup with something a bit larger size than of a pack of cigarettes.

https://jfrog.com/connect/post/whats-the-best-raspberry-pi-4g-modem-heres-a-comparison/