VPN on Verizon Internet Gateway ASK-NCQ1338FA?

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Being a Comcast conscript, I was immediately intrigued by Verizon’s LTE ISP offer that arrived in the mail. Not 5G speeds, but I live close to the tower in a low density area so service is always good.

However, Verizon makes it abundantly clear that they collect data “such as…websites visited,” etc etc etc so the only way that’s going to work is with a VPN at the router level. The manual to the ASK-NCQ1338FA mentions VPNs casually in the ALG section but no specific instructions and I couldn’t find anywhere to put them in the admin settings.

Verizon’s “Privacy” policy summary: verizon pretend privacy policy — Postimages

Anyone had luck adding a VPN to the ASK-NCQ1338FA?

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I use a VPN for work and it’s been fine

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I use a 3rd party vpn service and also a company vpn with Verizon 5g home internet.

As far as I know, the router does not have settings to connect to a vpn service itself. Gotta be done on the connected device.

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I don’t think Verizon included a OpenVPN client in their Gateway’s management software. If you want to hide your data from them then you will have to install a VPN client on each of your clients or use another device (like a third party router or a Firewalla) as a hardware VPN.

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I would want to be able to plug in my own router/firewall/VPN device and have the Verizon device passthrough the public IP address to it - any indication as to whether this is possible?

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I’m confused—- what’s Verizon going to do? Be nosy about your website history? I don’t think it’s that serious…

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I’m not sure if you’ve ever figured this out, but if you have please let me know. I currently use this, and I’m not having any luck connecting my VPN to the network. I can use it on my device obviously but would love a way to use it for the whole network.

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They unit they installed yesterday does support Bridge mode, so you can hook it up via Ethernet to a router of your choice.

IPv4 only, no IPv6
Tech support has no idea how bridge mode works, can’t support you
See https://www.reddit.com/r/verizonisp/comments/wxoi1r/return_to_the_dialup_modem_days_with_verizon_5g/ for a full writeup.

In short, don’t go there unless you have no other choices.

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Are you saying you wouldn’t care if Verizon or another corporation is able to look at literally anything you do online (for example, financial or health related), and sell that information to interested parties?

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I never did, I returned it, they claimed for over a month that they didn’t receive the return when of course I had the tracking number showing it had. Verizon doesn’t care about customers.

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You are saying that individual network devices will connect using your router’s wireless capability, but the provider’s device acts as DHCP server? Where can I read more about this kind of architecture (home network + wireless router +VPN) i also want to put up a pi-hole device

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I’m sure most of your information is already on the dark web my boy.

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yep, privacy is a thing of the past for most things now a days

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Um…#1, that’s not really how the dark web works; #2, how much is Verizon paying you to shill for them?

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I’m not concerned about NSA monitoring for criminal activities, but rather Verizon’s uniquely bad privacy policy. It’s unacceptable and was a deal breaker on principle.