Business Class Security for Home Networks

VLAN · VPN · Ad Block · Access Control & Monitoring · DNS over HTTPS

VLAN

It is well known that many IoT devices lack built-in security. Once compromised, IoT devices can be used as stepstones to more valuable assets on your network. Security experts have long advised that IoT devices should be put on their own network separate from your most important systems.

In an enterprise environment, the network segregation is usually achieved by creating a dedicated VLAN for the IoT devices. In a home network, this solution has not been feasible due to the lack of VLAN support on typical consumer network routers. As such Steve Gibson of GRC (ShieldsUP!) proposed the now famous "Three Dumb Routers" setup to mitigate the risk.

With the pcWRT router, we bring VLAN technology to the home users so that you can use one router to achieve the purpose and have more control than the three router setup.

To make things easy, the router comes with 5 preconfigured VLANs so that all you need to to is to assign your Ethernet ports or WiFi SSIDs to specified VLANs.

VPN

The pcWRT router provides the most comprehensive VPN support you can find on a router.

It supports three modern, high-security VPN protocols: WireGuard, IPsec IKEv2 and OpenVPN.

You can configure multiple connections to multiple VPN servers from different VPN providers. Stop/start a connection from the UI and set a connection to auto-start on router boot-up. You can also configure multiple WiFi SSIDs and specify which one(s) to use the VPN connection, In effect, you can turn VPN on/off on a device by connecting it to a different SSID.

You can also set up a VPN server at home, which can make it look like you are home when you're traveling around the world. It can also enable you to access your home network or use your network-wide ad blocker at home when you're outside. You can mark some users as guests, which allows them to access the Internet through your connection but blocks them from accessing your local network (to share your Netflix account, for example).

Ad Block

An ad blocker not only blocks the annoying ads from showing up, it also blocks the hidden cookies from following you all over the Internet, thus improving your privacy.

On the pcWRT router, you can enable network-wide ad blocking with a single click. Compared with browser plugin ad blockers, the router's ad blocker not only blocks ads in browsers, but also blocks them in apps.

Combined with a VPN server on the router, you can bring ad blocking to your mobile devices while you are away from home or on mobile network.

However, there are times when a site simply won't work with ad blocking enabled, or when you do want to follow an ad. For such scenarios, the pcWRT router provides the unique feature to suspend ad-blocking with a single click.

Access Control and Monitoring

Content filtering with OpenDNS, CleanBrowsing Family Filter, Cloudflare Family or any other DNS service you choose.

Enable safe search for multiple search engines with a single click. Enforce kids friendly videos on YouTube with YouTube Restricted or Moderate Restricted mode.

Augment DNS filtering with highly configurable local block and allow lists. You can block by domain names or partial domain names, protocols, ports or port ranges,  IP addresses or IP address ranges. You can even enter regular expressions (if you so prefer).

Pause the Internet. Schedule access with one or multiple calendars that may be user and website specific.

Control when and where your IoT devices can send data to.

See all Internet traffic from monitored devices: domains, protocols, ports. Monitor how much bandwidth is consumed by each device, and to what destinations.

DNS over HTTPS

DNS over HTTPS (DoH) hides your online activities by encrypting the DNS name resolution traffic. Since the DNS requests and responses are encrypted, your DNS traffic cannot be hijacked by a third party and cannot be snooped by your ISP.

You can choose any of the major DoH providers on the pcWRT router: OpenDNS, Quad9, Cloudflare, AdGuard, Google or CleanBrowsing. And you can enter your own configurations. For example, NextDNS.

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