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I tested this secure router and the bundled year of VPN service feels mostly like a marketing exercise
Mar 12, 2025
A router with a year of VPN service bundled
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Privacy Hero II: 30-second review
Flashrouters is a Canadian business specialising in wireless routers with enhanced security features.
The Privacy Hero 2 (or II) is the second in a series of entry-level wireless routers built to provide easy-to-deploy VPN technology out of the box. It comes with a free year of Privacy Hero Wireguard VPN subscription ($9.99 a month after), but it can also offer a year of NordVPN Basic VPN and an additional subscription discount.
It can be used with any Wireguard-compliant VPN, enabling a simple point-to-point VPN between locations.
However, this isn’t specifically a business product. The wireless part of this equation is only Wi-Fi 6 (not 6e or 7), it doesn’t support Enterprise level security, or Mesh technology, and there is no means to collectively cloud-manage these devices.
The main things the Privacy Hero 2 has going for it are that for about $180, it’s not excessively expensive, and for a non-technical person, VPN or regional spoofing can be up and running quickly.
However, it’s unlikely to be seen as a strategic purchase by professional IT people, and as a wireless router, it’s unlikely to make our best business router collection.
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