How it works

We have noticed many inquiries about how KeepYourHomeIP operates. Let's go through the entire KeepYourHomeIP system, tracing its operation from the ground up (while skipping a few detours). This walkthrough will provide you with a comprehensive understanding of KeepYourHomeIP VPN.

KeepYourHomeIP is the perfect solution for seamless corporate VPN and machine connectivity. With KeepYourHomeIP, you can connect to any corporate VPN and corporate machine without any issues, and access corporate resources and virtual machines, while maintaining your home IP address, just as if you were at home. This includes connecting to your corporate VPN, accessing internal applications, and using corporate devices without any disruptions.

With KeepYourHomeIP you can work remotely and still appear to be working from home, ensuring that your Internet access is secure and private. Unlike traditional VPN providers, KeepYourHomeIP is designed to offer both protection and a connection to your home network. This means that your traffic cannot be identified as originating from a VPN service, ensuring that your Internet access is secure and private.

Conceal Your True Location: KeepYourHomeIP helps safeguard your privacy by masking your actual location, ensuring that your online presence appears as if you are accessing the Internet from your home, no matter where you are in the world.

Secure Access to Home Network and Smart Devices: Enjoy secure connectivity to your home network and smart devices, even when you're away. This means you can access files, control smart home devices, and use other network resources as if you were at home.

Bypass Geolocation Restrictions for Streaming: Seamlessly access online streaming content by overcoming geolocation restrictions. This allows you to watch your favorite shows and movies from streaming services that may be restricted in your current location.

Banking: KeepYourHomeIP enhances online banking security by ensuring that your connections to banking websites appear to originate from your home IP address. This reduces the likelihood of triggering security flags that can occur when accessing bank accounts from different locations. By maintaining a consistent IP address, you minimize the risk of account lockouts and unnecessary security checks.

Gambling: For those who participate in online gambling, KeepYourHomeIP provides the advantage of bypassing geolocation restrictions. Many online gambling platforms restrict access based on the user’s location. With KeepYourHomeIP, you can appear to be accessing the Internet from your home address, allowing you to access gambling sites that might otherwise be restricted in your current location. Additionally, maintaining your home IP address can help ensure compliance with the terms of service of many gambling platforms, which often require users to access their services from specific regions.

Eliminate Online Price Discrimination: Shop online without the worry of price discrimination. By masking your location, you can ensure that you are getting the best deals available.

Host a Private Game Server: Set up a private game server for an exclusive gaming experience with friends.

Our base layer is the increasingly popular and excellent open-source WireGuard package. WireGuard is a registered trademark, and it belongs to Jason A. Donenfeld. WireGuard creates an extremely lightweight encrypted tunnel between your VPN routers (which WireGuard calls an “endpoint”). It connects and reconnects quickly, even when you’re roaming across networks, and stays connected in situations where other VPN protocols would falter. Other VPN protocols sometimes feel brittle or clunky by comparison. WireGuard, on the other hand, chooses smart, modern cryptographic primitives with secure defaults. Additionally, it’s very small and simple compared to older protocols, making it much easier for security researchers to audit. WireGuard uses fast cryptography code, and its low-level component resides within the Linux kernel, resulting in faster performance than userspace VPNs.

This solution is built around the concept of using two or more OpenWrt-based routers—our Capri and Maui models—to create a personal VPN network that users can rely on for secure, home-based internet access anywhere in the world. At its core, KYHIP uses the highly secure WireGuard protocol, known for its efficiency and strong encryption.

The KYHIP VPN setup includes several critical components:

• Two or More VPN Routers: These are the backbone of your home VPN infrastructure. The primary router acts as a VPN server at your home, while additional routers serve as travel routers, providing secure remote access to your home network.
• Geographically Distributed KYHIP Relay Servers: These servers assist in establishing a direct peer-to-peer connection between your routers, even when NAT traversal is required. In cases where a direct connection isn’t possible, these relay servers securely route traffic between your travel router and home VPN server.
• KYHIP Account Portal: This portal is your control center, allowing you to manage, monitor, and configure your entire VPN setup.
• KYHIP VPN Auto-Configuration Servers (ACS): These servers enable zero-touch provisioning, making the initial setup process smooth and accessible even for non-technical users.

A New Standard in VPN Security:

• KYHIP’s VPN solution stands out because it gives you complete control over your VPN infrastructure. By using your home IP address rather than relying on public VPN servers, you enhance your online security and privacy. This personal VPN setup ensures that all your internet traffic is encrypted and routed through your home network, no matter where you are, eliminating the risks associated with public VPNs.

When you purchase a KYHIP VPN router package, it comes with a mandatory subscription plan. Once you receive your routers, you’ll need to enter specific information—such as the MAC address, Serial number, and Device ID—into your KYHIP account portal. During this process, you’ll assign roles to each router: one as the home VPN server and the others as travel routers.

To ensure the highest security standards, we’ve implemented multi- factor authentication (MFA). Before your routers can connect to the KYHIP Auto-Configuration Servers (ACS) for the first time, you must unlock the ACS via your account portal. This step ensures that only authorized users can configure and reset their routers. You can also configure a static relay server during the initial setup. If you prefer, this setting can be auto-assigned, connecting your home VPN server to the nearest KYHIP relay server. After configuring your routers in the portal, simply unlock the ACS, connect your routers to the internet, and they’ll handle the rest.

Once connected to the internet, the routers will automatically download their configuration from the ACS, set up according to their assigned roles, and connect to the designated KYHIP relay server.

The entire process is managed through your KYHIP account portal, giving you real-time visibility into each device’s status and ensuring a smooth setup experience.

After your home VPN server is online and connected, you can proceed with setting up your travel routers. These routers will also connect to the ACS, retrieve their configuration, and establish a connection with the same relay server as your home VPN server. The travel routers will then route all internet traffic through the home VPN server, ensuring that your online activity is always secure and private.

KYHIP's VPN solution leverages a globally distributed network of relay servers. These relay servers act as intermediaries, facilitating efficient VPN connections no matter where you are. By distributing the servers geographically, KYHIP ensures that users can always connect to a relay server that is closest to their physical location, minimizing latency and optimizing performance. This global reach is key to providing reliable and high-speed connections for all users.

Once a travel router is online and connected to a relay server, it will directly reach the home VPN server via the encrypted Wireguard VPN tunnel and exchange STUN information and instruct the server to try direct peer-to-peer connection. If a peer-to-peer connection between the travel router and the home VPN server is possible, the routers will use STUN and other UDP NAT traversal techniques to establish a direct VPN tunnel. If NAT traversal fails, the traffic will continue to flow through the relay server, ensuring uninterrupted service without any noticeable impact on the user experience.

KYHIP’s VPN solution harnesses the power of plain WireGuard to achieve NAT traversal, providing users with an incredibly fast and smooth VPN experience. WireGuard is renowned for its simplicity, security, and high performance, making it an ideal choice for modern VPN implementations. By leveraging WireGuard's efficient protocol, KYHIP ensures that the process of NAT traversal is not only effective but also optimized for speed.

This results in rapid connection setups, minimal latency, and a user experience that feels as if you're directly connected to your home network, no matter where you are. Whether the connection is established via relay servers or through direct peer-to-peer tunnels, the use of WireGuard guarantees that KYHIP’s VPN solution delivers outstanding performance and an undetectable VPN experience that is second to none.

No matter what part of the world you are located in, whenever you connect your VPN client router to the Internet, it will automatically contact your server at home and establish a VPN tunnel.

While you are connected to the client router (via Wi-Fi / LAN cable), all your Internet traffic will be routed through this tunnel, to the server at home. And from there, it will continue its journey to the desired Internet destination. The reverse traffic travels similarly, from the Internet application or a website to your home VPN server and only then back to you.

This way, you do not need any application or software to be installed on your device to run a VPN. Our system supports and pushes all the traffic through the virtual tunnel, including other VPN connections you may run on your device on top of it. This means that wherever you are – you will keep your IP address the same.

When choosing any of the VPN packages mentioned below, you will receive two routers as part of the standard package: one home VPN server router and one VPN client travel router. One month of free subscription is included with the VPN package, along with a free 30-day trial available for new users.

For added convenience and flexibility, you also have the option to add a second VPN client travel router from our shop page if you need two. With two VPN client travel routers, you enjoy multiple benefits! You and a partner, relative, or friend can each use your KYHIP travel router in separate locations while staying connected to your home VPN server, keeping your home IP address. This is especially useful for those who travel frequently or have family members who live in different locations. Furthermore, an extra travel router also serves as a handy backup.

Economy Light: This package is our best seller and recommended for globetrotters. With its state-of-the-art hardware packed in only 40 grams, it provides a perfect portable VPN router solution. It keeps your Internet connection secure on any public hotspot, blocks ads, change geolocation online and enables safe remote working. Speed: Routers in this package support up to 50 Mbps of VPN speed. WiFi: 2.4 GHz.

Business: This package provides Ultra-high-speed VPN solution for anyone with high-speed fiber Internet connection at home. Excellent for content streaming, gaming, home server hosting and connecting all your home devices safely. It keeps your Internet connection secure, blocks ads, changes online geolocation and enables safe remote working. With up to 170 Mbps it is a first-class solution for your home VPN. Speed: Routers in this package support up to 170 Mbps of VPN speed. WiFi: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz.

For any custom VPN setup requirements, please contact us at support@keepyourhomeip.com.

At KeepYourHomeIP, we offer three subscription plans: one-month, six-month, and annual options. To ensure your VPN setup functions, an active subscription is required. Each VPN package—Economy, Light, and Business—includes one month of free subscription, as well as a 30-day free trial for new users.

Our KYHIP subscription plans provide access to a network of geographically distributed KYHIP Relay Servers. These servers enable a direct peer-to-peer connection between your routers. When a direct connection isn't possible, the relay servers securely route traffic between your travel router and home VPN server. Additionally, all plans come with comprehensive support services, help center access and fast ticket response times.

1 month Flexi subscription plan: Ideal for globetrotters who occasionally travel a few times a year.
6 months Secure subscription plan: An excellent option for remote workers who like to travel and work.
12 months Ultimate subscription plan: Perfect for digital nomads who do not compromise on the security.

For more information, please visit our subscription page using this link.

To support KYHIP VPN, you will need an Internet service provider (ISP) router at your home, where the VPN server needs to be set up. Additionally, your home Internet connection's upload speed is an important factor to consider when using KeepYourHomeIP VPN. We recommend a minimum upload speed of 30Mbps for optimal performance. This is because your VPN download speed will be limited by your home connection's upload speed. Although some customers may experience satisfactory performance with less than 30Mbps upload speed, we recommend a minimum of 30Mbps for a better user experience.

If you are unsure of your current upload speed, you can test it using an online speed test tool. If your upload speed is below 30Mbps, we recommend contacting your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to request an upgrade. Upgrading your home upload speed is usually a simple process and can greatly improve your VPN performance.

When purchasing from KeepYourHomeIP, you can select from two VPN packages: Economy Light, or Business. Each package includes one VPN server router and one VPN client travel router. If you want to add a second VPN client travel router, you can select that option on the shop page when choosing your VPN package. This will provide you with one VPN server router and two VPN client travel routers.

You can choose from our subscription plans—Flexi, Secure, or Ultimate—each tailored to suit your specific needs. These plans offer varying durations, including monthly, semi-annual, and annual options.

If you are unsure of your current upload speed, you can test it using an online speed test tool. If your upload speed is below 30Mbps, we recommend contacting your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to request an upgrade. Upgrading your home upload speed is usually a simple process and can greatly improve your VPN performance.

After the routers are shipped, you will receive an email with clear instructions on how to autoconfigure them through your account page on our website, keepyourhomeip.com. You will have the flexibility to decide which router will be set up as the VPN server and which one as the VPN travel router. Once configured, the routers will be ready to use.

For your convenience, we will also provide a detailed user guide and a video tutorial on how to use your VPN travel router. No technical knowledge is required, as the VPN travel router is designed to be user-friendly and simple to operate.

Your VPN server is hosted at your home and is, always powered on, and connected to your home ISP router with an Ethernet cable. No matter what part of the world you are located in, whenever you connect your VPN client router to the Internet, it will automatically contact your VPN server at home and establish a VPN tunnel. This tunnel encrypts all your Internet traffic and routes it through your home VPN server, ensuring that your data is secure and private.

While you are connected to the client router (via Wi-Fi / LAN cable), all your Internet traffic will be routed through this tunnel, to the VPN server at home. From there, it will continue its journey to the desired Internet destination. The reverse traffic travels, similarly, from the Internet application or a website to your home VPN server and only then back to you. This setup allows you to keep your home IP address and access geo-restricted content, as well as secure your Internet connection when using public Wi-Fi networks.

Our VPN solution offers a unique advantage: you do not need to install any application or software on your device to run a VPN. Instead, our system supports and pushes all the traffic through the virtual tunnel, including other VPN connections you may run on your device on top of it. The upload speed of your home Internet connection, where the VPN server is set up, is crucial. We recommend a minimum upload speed of 30 Mbps for optimal performance. This is important because your VPN download speed will be limited by your home connection's upload speed.

The VPN client travel router is designed for portability, allowing you to take it with you wherever you go. Here’s how to use it:

Power Up: The first step is to connect the VPN client travel router to a power source.

Connect to the Internet: You have two options to connect the router to your current location's Internet:

Wi-Fi Connection: Open the admin panel of the VPN travel router from any device, such as a phone or laptop. From the admin panel, simply scan the nearby networks and connect the router to the local Wi-Fi network.

Wired Ethernet Connection: Alternatively, connect the router via an Ethernet cable. Plug one end of the cable into the WAN port on the VPN client travel router and the other end into an Ethernet port on the ISP router at your location.

Automatic VPN Connection: Once connected to the Internet, the VPN client travel router will automatically establish a secure VPN tunnel to your home network. It contacts your home VPN server, creating a secure and encrypted connection.

Secure Access: This setup allows secure access to your home network from any location. While connected to the VPN client travel router, all Internet traffic is routed through the secure VPN tunnel to your home network. This setup maintains your home IP address, allowing you access to geolocation-specific services as if you were at home. Additionally, it provides secure browsing experience on public or untrusted networks, protecting your data from hackers and other cyber threats.