But doing selective tunneling is another thing entirely, and typically only possible with much more advanced routers targeted for the enterprise segment. It’s one thing for a router to support OpenVPN - the open source firmware DD-WRT is a very decent way to do that, and there are many routers that can be flashed with that firmware. Now, with most consumer-oriented routers this is not possible to do. So you want to have your router tunnel only your Apple TV through the NordVPN connection back to the US, but you want everything else on your network to access the Internet via your local ISP. Also, tunneling everything to the US might restrict you from accessing some things locally in the country where you are currently living.

But tunneling your whole network through VPN to the US is impractical it introduces latency and restricts bandwidth also for all the things you don’t need the VPN for. You do have a NordVPN account, so the obvious occurs to you: why not VPN to your home country to solve the problem?īut the Apple TV does not have any VPN functionality, so you need to have your Internet router do the VPN tunneling. The majority of those streaming services geo-restrict content to the US, so you can’t access them from where you are. You want to be able to watch your favorite US-based streaming services on your Apple TV device. Your home is in the United States, but you are temporarily living abroad. But to give just one concrete example, consider the following hypothetical scenario: There are many reasons why you might want to do this, especially considering how generally I’ve phrased it. In this article I will show you, step by step, how to use an EdgeRouter to selectively tunnel some devices on your LAN through a NordVPN connection to a country and server of your choosing- using the WireGuard protocol - while having any other devices on your LAN connect directly to the Internet as normal via your local ISP. How to selectively tunnel an Apple TV (or whatever) via NordVPN over WireGuard using an EdgeRouter Introduction

Adding nordvpn to router