This Instructable covers how to encrypt all outgoing network traffic on your home network, and is geared towards people in the United States. Encryption is an important step towards keeping your browsing and other internet activity out of the hands of corporations and governments. This is particularly pertinent since on 3/27/17 the US regulation that prevented internet service providers (ISPs) from selling all of your personal data was repealed.

The best way to ensure that what you do on the internet in your own home is not sold is to prevent it from being seen in the first place. The ISPs can't sell what they can't see. For this, virtual private networks (VPNs) are the best tool. VPNs effectively create a secure tunnel between you and the endpoint where the VPN spits out the traffic. Your home ISP therefore sees encrypted traffic only.

But, there are some challenges. For one, choosing the right VPN provider can be tough. How do you know who you can really trust with your data? Further, connecting each individual device on your home network can be difficult. Maybe, like me, you've got many devices (Apple TV, Amazon Echo, Android Wear, a phone, a tablet, a Raspberry Pi, etc), some of which can support VPNs directly and some that can't - plus VPN providers often limit the number of connected devices. Not to mention a shared network with housemates or neighbors who're either unwilling or unable to muck with connecting each device to a VPN.

To make matters even more complicated, Netflix goes to extreme lengths to block traffic that comes from VPN and proxies. This is due to pressure from content providers to prevent viewers from using these technologies to circumvent geography based content restrictions. For most people this means you can either use a VPN to encrypt your traffic, or you can watch Netflix, but not both.

In this guide we'll cover how to solve these problems. With a little investment, you can have encrypted traffic and still watch Netflix. Don't need Netflix? Well then things are even simpler, we'll cover that too.