About RouteHaven

RouteHaven covers one thing well: running a VPN on network hardware — routers, and the devices behind them that can't run a VPN app of their own, like a Fire TV Stick, a smart TV, a games console or a NAS. If you have ever wondered how to protect a PS5 or a Roku, this is the site for that.

How we research

Every factual claim here carries a read-date and a source, and we re-check as things change — 2026 alone brought a shift in ExpressVPN's router app and a new Fire TV Stick operating system. We write from providers' and firmware projects' own documentation and from reputable, dated reviews. We do not run staged speed tests and then quote a number as if we measured it; where we cite a throughput figure, we say whose it is.

Our honesty rules

• A VPN shifts your trust to the provider. It is not anonymity, and we never say "untraceable" or "total privacy."
• "No-logs" only means something with an independent audit and a date — we treat unaudited claims as marketing.
• Prices change by region and term, so we say "check current price" rather than freeze a number.
• We recommend free, unpaid tools (like Mullvad) where they are genuinely the best answer, even though they pay us nothing.

How we make money

Some outbound links to VPN providers are affiliate links, marked as such, and explained in full on our affiliate disclosure page. A commission never changes a recommendation or a ranking. If the honest answer is a tool with no affiliate program, that is the answer you get.

What we don't do

We do not cover phone-only VPN setup, operating-system software installs, or generic "best VPN" rankings — other guides do those. We stay in our lane: the router and the hardware behind it. Start with what a VPN router is and how to set one up, or browse all our guides.