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Originally Posted by masraum
VPN setup on your router would probably not do what you want. It's probably to allow you to connect back to your home network when you aren't at home. It could also be for you to setup VPN to someplace (like if you could connect to VPN at work). It's probably not for VPN to mask your public IP.
The type of VPN that SM was talking about is a bit different. That VPN involves you connecting to someone else's public IP. THen an encrypted tunnel is created from your public IP to their public IP. All of your traffic is routed through that tunnel, and then when it pops out onto the Internet, it looks like it's coming from their public IP.
Even with VPN, people on the Internet will constantly be scanning your ISP's network to find unprotected hosts. Folks may not know "AG is behind IP address x.x.x.x", but it will be common knowledge that ATT home internet is using ip addresses x.x.x.x through y.y.y.y and Comcast is using w.w.w.w through z.z.z.z and ....
Even if you use a VPN to browse the Internet, your public IP will always be visible and always be public, just like you can't hide the fact that your home is at 123 Main St because it's sitting there in between your neighbors homes and is a matter of public record. All the VPN does is hide your public IP from the websites that you browse to while you're using it.
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Yes, VPN on your router is to provide access into YOUR network.
And yes on all the rest.
Well yes and no on this
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The type of VPN that SM was talking about is a bit different. That VPN involves you connecting to someone else's public IP. THen an encrypted tunnel is created from your public IP to their public IP. All of your traffic is routed through that tunnel, and then when it pops out onto the Internet, it looks like it's coming from their public IP.
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It's the same thing, what makes it not is the origin. Let's say Steve needed to hide his IP. AG being a nice guy says "I'll enable VPN on my router so you can tunnel through there and look like you are in VA" Thats all VPN's are, access to someone else's network. Used in business all the time for remote workers to access resources as if they were in the physical building, servers, printers, etc...
OP, you are worrying about something that you really can't do anything about and really should not be giving a second thought because it's simply the way it works and the billions of people connected to the internet are all in the same boat.
This is sorta like when folk post pics of their car and blur the plate but drive around every day where everyone can see it.
If you do want to hide from sites you visit use Opera browser, has a built in VPN you can enable. Never used it myself so have no opinion, I just know it's there.