Home-IP anchoring

Take your home IP anywhere in the world.

Every device you travel with browses from your real home connection — the same public IP, network and region you have on the couch. Not a shared datacenter address. An encrypted wire only you control.

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🏠Appearing from home · Austin, TX

73.162.44.118

✓ residential

Why not a normal VPN

A datacenter IP screams "not home". Yours doesn't.

Commercial VPNs drop you onto an address shared by thousands of strangers — the exact fingerprint banks, streaming libraries and fraud systems are trained to distrust. VirtualWire routes you out of your own front door instead.

Shared datacenter VPN

An address the internet already flags

✕ Known VPN range — login challenges, "unusual activity", hard blocks
✕ Wrong region for your bank, broker or home streaming library
✕ Shared with strangers; their abuse becomes your captcha
✕ The provider sees every packet you send

VirtualWire

Your own residential line, wherever you are

✓ A real home IP with a clean reputation and history
✓ Correct home region — services behave like you never left
✓ Yours alone; nobody else egresses through your line
✓ Peer-to-peer tunnel — traffic leaves from home, never through us

How it works

Three moves. Then you forget it's there.

One always-on device at home becomes your anchor. Everything you travel with rides an encrypted wire back to it and exits onto the open internet as home.

01 / ANCHOR

Pin your home line

Turn any always-on box — a mini PC, a Raspberry Pi, your desktop — into your exit node with one command. No static IP, no port forwarding, works behind CGNAT.

02 / ENROLL

Add your devices

Scan a one-time code on your phone, laptop, tablet, even a travel router for the gear that can't run a client. Devices that shouldn't route are kept as clients automatically.

03 / TRAVEL

Leave. Stay home.

From a café in Lisbon or a hotel in Tokyo, your traffic surfaces from your home IP. Flip split-tunnel to send only the apps that need it, or route everything with a kill-switch.

What you get

Built on WireGuard. Bent to your rules.

A private mesh with the controls power users actually want — and none of the middleman.

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Your real residential IP

Exit onto the internet from your own home line — clean reputation, correct region, recognised by the services that matter.

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You own the data plane

Tunnels are direct, device-to-home WireGuard. Our servers only introduce peers and relay when a direct path fails — they can't read your traffic.

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Every device, one mesh

iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux and Apple TV as clients. Can't install a client? Put the gear behind a travel router and tunnel the whole room.

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Split-tunnel & per-app routing

Send your bank and streaming home while everything else takes the fast local path. Route by app, destination or geo.

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Kill-switch

If the wire drops, blocked-until-reconnected means nothing leaks out the local network. On by default for full-tunnel devices.

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Self-host or don't

Run the whole control plane yourself on open components, or let us operate the relays. Your anchor, your keys, your call — no lock-in.

Know your roles

Not every device can be the anchor — so we won't let it try.

Forwarding other devices' traffic needs an OS that can route and masquerade. VirtualWire enforces this at enrollment, so a phone never gets handed a job it can't do.

Device	Home anchor	Travel router	Client
Linux / Raspberry Pimini-server, always-on	✓ ideal	✓ ideal	✓
Windowsdesktop / mini-PC	✓	✓	✓
macOSMac mini, laptop	✓	✓	✓
OpenWrt routerthe whole home behind it	✓	✓	✓
iOS / Androidphone, tablet	— client only	— can't forward	✓
Apple TV / smart TVcan't install? use a travel router	—	—	✓ via router

Pricing

Start free. Grow when your fleet does.

Anchor

For one traveller and a couple of devices.

✓ 3 devices, 1 home anchor
✓ Full-tunnel + kill-switch
✓ Community relays
✓ Self-host the control plane

Get started free

The things people actually ask.

Can you see my traffic?

No. Your devices build direct WireGuard tunnels to your own home anchor, and your traffic exits onto the internet from there. Our infrastructure introduces peers and relays encrypted packets only when a direct connection can't be made — it never holds the keys to read what's inside.

What if my home internet goes down?

Your anchor goes offline and your travelling devices notice immediately. You choose the behaviour per device: fall back to the local connection, or hold everything with the kill-switch until the wire is back.

My home is behind CGNAT with no port forwarding. Does it still work?

Yes — that's the normal case. Peers find each other through our relays and NAT-traversal, so you need no static IP, no open inbound ports, and no cooperation from your ISP's router.

Which devices can be the anchor?

Anything that can route and masquerade: Linux, a Raspberry Pi, Windows, macOS or an OpenWrt router. Phones and tablets join as clients — they can't forward other devices' traffic, so VirtualWire won't let you assign them a routing role by mistake. See the table above.

Is this just another Tailscale?

The mesh underneath is the same open WireGuard lineage. VirtualWire is the layer on top built for one job — anchoring your home IP: opinionated exit-node setup, zero-touch enrollment, split-tunnel and geo rules, and a control plane you can run yourself. It's a product, not a toolbox.

Can I self-host the whole thing?

Completely. The control plane, relays and clients are built on open components. Run them on your own VPS and your data never touches our servers — the hosted plans just save you the ops work.