Use YOUR Raspberry PI as a TRAVEL ROUTER for SECURE web browsing WHEREVER you are!!

Whenever you're travelling, you frequently end up in a situation where you'll be using an Internet service provided by a hotel, a self-catering accomodation such as AirBNB or you'll be using your cellphone for Internet access.

As well as being restrictive on the number of devices you can connect under some of those circumstances, you are also vulnerable to poor security and Internet safety being applied to those connections.

I find that it is very useful to take a travel router with me that I can hook into whatever Internet service is provided and then use that to secure my online presence using a VPN that all connected devices then route through.

Using this, I can have access to my home network (using an OpenVPN connection back to a self-hosted VPN) or a third party VPN provider such as NordVPN.

Especially with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up where a lot of people will be travelling to be with family, I thought it'd be useful to show you how you can build a small travel router using a Raspberry PI and the RaspAP software.

Useful info:
Raspberry PI 4: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/ra...
Raspberry PI Imager: https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/
RaspAP: https://raspap.com/

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:02 - Titles
01:09 - Like / Subscribe / Notify / Comment
01:42 - Why use a travel router?
03:25 - Install Raspberry PI OS
04:24 - Install external USB WiFi drivers
05:30 - Install RaspAP
07:46 - Set up external USB WiFi as hotspot
09:05 - Connect phone and demo basic connectivity
09:36 - Using OpenVPN connection
11:13 - Using NordVPN connection
12:14 - Outro
13:17 - Closing titles

Equipment used:
Canon M100 camera with 13-55mm kit lens
Shure MV7 mic
Elgato collapsable green screen
Neewer GL1 Pro keylight
Nanlite Pavotube 30C lights
Original video capture using OBS
All video editing using Kdenlive
All image editing using GIMP