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Travelling to the US - precautions?
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Bring your own router. Don’t plug things directly into the ethernet jacks in hotel rooms. Plug your router into there and connect to it instead. If you can then VPN into your home network, even better.
DD-WRT is fairly easy to set up and has VPN support. I recommend using Wireguard as opposed to OpenVPN due to efficiency, ESPECIALLY WITH CHEAP WEAK ROUTERS.
I mean, it's a huge difference from my tests. With OpenVPN I hit 100% CPU usage on my Cisco Linksys WRT160NL at just 5Mbps. With Wireguard I was doing 25Mbps with just around 20% CPU usage (reported by
top, not webUI).