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New Router or VPN???
Hi
I have today been looking at subscribing to a VPN provider. However, my husband suggested I look at How-To-Geek to see what they say. Having done that, they are suggesting that not everyone needs a VPN - just a new router. But routers as they as used be seem to be going out of fashion and ours is getting on in computing terms (possibly 7-8 years old) and has no firmware update to correct some of the things I am looking for.
Currently I use Avast Internet Security and it reports that I am not keeping things private that should be private. There are two of us here and we spend a lot of time on the internet and currently we are allowing the following to be read/discovered:
* Anyone can see what we are doing online
* Our ISP may well be recording everything we are doing online
* Our location is exposed
* Our IP address is visible
My question is: would a new router hide these things or should I just go for a VPN? If I were to go for a router what would people suggest? If a VPN, I'd be tempted to go for NordVPN or one of the other top rated VPNs out there.
Hoping someone can help out.
Tracey