Your home is your VPN. Anywhere.
Route your phone, laptop, and tablets through your own house — on any Wi-Fi, anywhere. Plus ads and trackers blocked on every device at home.
We come to your home, install a small box on your network, and configure everything in about 90 minutes. From then on, your phone can route through your house from anywhere — hotel, airport, coffee shop, a friend's house — instead of through a commercial VPN company you have to trust. The same box also blocks ads and trackers on every device on your home Wi-Fi, and your family-safe DNS rules travel with the VPN. No apps to manage. No subscriptions to surveillance companies. One flat fee.
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Two decades of network & software experience · Open-source — no mystery hardware
Three things, delivered the day we leave.
Your home is your VPN — anywhere
One toggle on your phone, and traffic routes through your own house. Hotel Wi-Fi, the airport, a coffee shop, a relative's house — your traffic is encrypted to home and exits from your home internet. No commercial VPN company sees it. Just you and your home. Leave it on at work, in the car, anywhere off home Wi-Fi if you want.
Ad & tracker blocking, network-wide
Smart TVs, Rokus, Fire Sticks, phones, tablets, game consoles — anything connecting to your Wi-Fi. The box blocks ads and trackers at the DNS level, so even devices that can't run an ad blocker get cleaner traffic. It won't catch every ad — ads served from the same domain as the content (YouTube is the prime example) and some in-app ads still get through — but most of the web gets dramatically quieter, pages load faster, and apps phone home far less.
Kids protected — even at a friend's house
Block adult content, gambling, and scam categories at the network level — including on game consoles, kids' tablets, and smart toys where parental controls are weak or missing. And because the same rules ride along with the home VPN, your kid's phone is filtered the same way at a friend's house, on school Wi-Fi, or at the library. Parental controls that follow the kid — not just the device.
What "your home is your VPN" actually means.
A home VPN works differently than a commercial one. It's worth understanding the difference, because it's the whole reason this exists.
Commercial VPNs (Mullvad, NordVPN, etc.)
Your phone connects to a server in a data center owned by the VPN company. Your traffic exits onto the public internet from their IP. They can see what's flowing through. You have to trust their "no-logs" claim.
Your home VPN
Your phone connects directly to your house. Traffic exits onto the public internet from your home internet — not a stranger's data center. There's no VPN company in the middle to log anything, because there is no middle. Just you and your home.
The practical effects:
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On any public Wi-Fi — hotel, airport, coffee shop, car dealership service waiting room — the network sees only encrypted traffic to your home IP. Not what you're browsing, not what apps you're using.
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Your home's ad blocking and family DNS rules travel with your phone. Same protections, anywhere the VPN is on. Trackers are blocked on coffee-shop Wi-Fi the same way they're blocked at home.
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Kids' devices on outside Wi-Fi — a friend's house, school Wi-Fi, the library — get the same content filters you set up at home. Adult content categories blocked, scam sites blocked, social media blocked during whatever hours you've configured.
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No commercial VPN logs to trust. There's no "no-logs policy" to take on faith because there's no third party. Your traffic goes phone → home → internet, and the only "company" that touches it is your existing ISP — which sees the same traffic it'd see if you were home.
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Always-on if you want it. "VPN when you travel" was an oversimplification. Some clients leave it on all the time when away from home — at work, in the car, anywhere. Battery cost is small; the privacy upside is constant.
Who's coming to your house.
A small Denver-area technology company.
We're Howarth Tech Solutions. We've spent the last two decades building web applications, networking gear, and the kind of in-home tooling that hobbyists love — and that most people don't have time to build for themselves. This service exists because too many friends asked us to set up a Pi-hole at their place, and we realized the actual ask was: "I trust this team, can they just handle it?"
We're happy to provide references from past clients. If you'd rather meet at a coffee shop before letting us into your home, we'll buy the coffee.
Three steps. About 90 minutes in your house.
Tell us about your setup
A 10-minute form covers your internet, router, and what devices you have. We use it to make sure we can actually serve you well — and to give you a firm quote, not a guess.
We come to your house
About 90 minutes door-to-door. We plug in the box, configure your router, and walk you through the phone setup. We don't leave until everything works.
You forget about it
Ad blocking just runs. Toggle the home-VPN on your phone when you want it. If anything breaks, you call us — that's what the optional maintenance plan is for.
What's actually in the box.
We're not selling you mystery hardware. The box is a Raspberry Pi 5 in a custom case, running open-source software that thousands of hobbyists have audited.
- Pi-hole — for network-wide ad and tracker blocking
- Tailscale — for the secure home-VPN feature: lets your phone, laptop, or any other device route through your home network from anywhere in the world
- Unbound — for private DNS resolution that doesn't depend on Google or Cloudflare
We didn't invent any of this. We just made it easy. If you want, we'll show you exactly what's running on your box — it's your hardware.
One flat fee. Optional monthly. No asterisks.
Home install
Includes the hardware, the installation, all configuration, and 30 days of free follow-up support.
Optional maintenance
Software updates, online monitoring, and one free service visit per year if something breaks. Cancel anytime; the box keeps working.
Small offices
Privacy-sensitive professions. Typically $1,500–$3,000 install plus monthly maintenance. We'll quote per call.
The things you don't have to worry about.
Privacy services live and die on what they don't do. Here's our short list.
We won't see your traffic
The home VPN routes your devices through your house — not through any server we run. There's no "no-logs policy" to take on faith because we're not in the path. Just you, your home, and the internet.
We won't sell your data
We collect three things about your box: that it's online, what version it's running, and a count of blocked queries. Not which sites, not who's connected, not when. By design — so a subpoena couldn't reveal browsing history we don't have.
We won't hold your hardware hostage
The box is yours. The software is open source. If you cancel maintenance — or we vanish tomorrow — the box keeps blocking ads and the home VPN keeps working. We publish the exact configuration so anyone competent can take over.
We won't auto-charge or hard-sell
Maintenance is opt-in and cancel-anytime; the install is one flat fee. If your setup isn't a fit, we'll tell you — usually within a day — and won't try to upsell you out of it.
Where we work.
We currently serve Denver, Colorado and within 30 miles. If you're outside that zone, get in touch — we may know someone in your area, and for small offices it's sometimes worth the drive.
Honest answer: it depends on your router and your internet provider.
Some setups are easy. Some are workable. A small number aren't a fit, and we'd rather tell you that than waste your afternoon. The 10-minute intake form is how we figure out which one you are.
Check my setupFrequently asked.
It uses the same kind of technology, but the routing is fundamentally different. Commercial VPNs send your traffic through their own data center servers — they can see what's flowing through, and you have to trust their no-logs claim. A home VPN routes traffic through your own house instead. There's no third party in the middle. We don't see your traffic. No VPN company sees it. Just you, your home, and the internet.
No — "travel" was shorthand. You can leave the VPN on whenever you're not at home: at work, in your car, at a relative's house, on any public Wi-Fi. Some clients run it always-on whenever they're off home Wi-Fi. The privacy benefit is constant; the battery cost is small.
All of them are covered. Game consoles, kids' tablets, smart toys, school-issued laptops on your home Wi-Fi — anything connecting to your network gets the same DNS-level filtering as your phone. We can block adult content categories, gambling, scam domains, and social media during homework hours if that's something you want. And when their phone is on the home VPN at a friend's house or on school Wi-Fi, those same rules apply there. Parental controls that actually follow the kid, not just the device.
It's capped by your home's upload speed. If your home internet is 30 Mbps up, that's roughly the ceiling for browsing on the VPN. It's good for web, email, social, work apps, light video — fine for everyday use. It's not great for large downloads or 4K streaming, so most clients leave the VPN on for normal browsing and toggle it off only when they actually need the bandwidth. We'll tell you what to expect for your specific connection during the intake.
No noticeable slowdown for normal use. Ad blocking actually makes pages load faster because ads and trackers aren't downloading.
Occasionally. There's a "pause blocking for 5 minutes" button on the box's local admin page when that happens. Most sites — including all banking, government, and shopping sites we've tested — work fine.
No — and we'd rather be straight with you about that. The box blocks ads and trackers at the DNS level, which stops the large majority of web ads, pop-ups, and tracking across every device on your network. But it works by blocking known ad domains — so it can't stop ads that are served from the same domain as the content you actually want. YouTube ads are the most common example: they come down the same connection as the video, so DNS blocking can't separate the two. Some in-app ads on phones and streaming sticks slip through for the same reason. What you will notice is a dramatically cleaner web, faster page loads, and far less tracking — but not a 100% ad-free internet. If anyone promises you a single box that blocks every ad everywhere, be skeptical.
Ad blocking covers those too, as long as your router lets us configure it. Most routers do. If yours doesn't, we'll tell you during intake — sometimes the answer is a small router upgrade for an extra $150.
Phone, text, or email us — we'll get back to you the next day, and often the same day. Nothing leaves you stranded overnight, though: if something's genuinely wrong, your network reverts to exactly how it worked before the install, so you still have working internet while you wait to hear from us.
Whether your box is online, what software version it's running, and a count of blocked queries (just a number). Not which sites you visit. Not what you click. Not who's connected. We chose what to collect specifically so a subpoena couldn't reveal browsing history we don't have. The full details are on our privacy page.
Yes. The software is open source, and we publish exactly what we run on every box. You're welcome to log in and look around — it's your hardware.
No. Maintenance is optional. If you don't want it, the box keeps blocking ads and the home-VPN keeps working. You just don't get software updates or our support beyond the first 30 days.
The box keeps working. We'd publish instructions so you can take over the maintenance yourself or hand it to anyone competent. We're not building a hostage situation.
Absolutely — the software is free, open source, and the projects publish solid guides. The two pieces to read up on are Pi-hole for network-wide ad & tracker blocking — its documentation also covers pairing it with Unbound for private DNS — and Tailscale for the home-VPN piece. Have a look: if it reads like a fun weekend project, go for it. Some of our customers tried that route first and decided their weekend was worth more than $400.
Ready to make your home your VPN?
Tell us about your setup. We'll come back to you the next day — often the same day — with whether we're a fit and a firm quote, including ad and tracker blocking on every device in the house.
Prefer to talk? (303) 414-9704