pfSense in shared WiFi rooming house security question.
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Is there an pfSense option where with my 'Dell G5000 desktop computer' using 'Windows10 Home' that I can I get pfSense software to dounload and use it's security and encryption firewall & any other security with 'Surfshark VPN' for a shared Wi-Fi in a rooming house which I don't own the router for?-as in I don't have admin to the rooming house's landlord's Wi-Fi router, but I just have a user's free Wi-Fi password to use it's Wi-Fi. And do I need to instal another Wi-Fi card in my desktop to do it?
Or is pfSense ONLY a hardware router product that is a physical router box that is needed to buy, aside from just dounloading pfSense only for my case?
Please help or suggest anything
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"pfSense" is an OS with extended firewall capabilities, that has to be installed on a device like a PC with at least two network interfaces.
pfSense can be installed on a dedicated device, like your PC (remove your Windows, add a NIC), or it in a virtual machine (you still need to add a NIC). Windows 10 Pro has a free Hyper a VM host.I advise you strongly to stay away from Wifi dongles or other USB devices? FreeBSD (pfSense is based on FreeBSD) support for wifi devices isn't great.
But why do you think you need pfSense ?
A VPN, maybe, and mostly for commercial reasons ("They" made you think you need a VPN, and now you think it is the case).
As you know already, the Wifi connection is probably encrypted.
All mail/web/whatever traffic is also TLS encrypted. There are no 'http' sites any more.
You could set up your DNS in your Windows PC to use "DNS over TLS". Most web browser already have this option. At that moment even DNS requests are encrypted. No more 'visible' traffic. No need to pay for a VPN.Btw : a VPN can still be useful. If you visit sites that propose "illegal content", the only IP known at that moment is the IP of your LandLord - his router attached to his ISP. He will will not be very happy when the local law enforcement takes down the front door, to shrink wrap him up for 'questioning'.
Very soon afterwards, the will come for you, because he will 'talk'.
A VPN changes 'your' WAN IP - and your LandLord will not get bothered any more.
It has been told that VPN suppliers don't know who you are - where you are - have not connection to you ... ;) -
Technically you could do it by running pfSense as a virtual machine in Windows using hyper-V or VBox etc. But pfSense is a complete operating system, it cannot run as an application on your desktop. It expects to be running on it's own dedicated hardware but running virtualised can also work.
Steve
