GOOD NEWS VPN/Router with OpenVPN

[ostridge]

Mine came with the 3.212 version and when I let it do automatic upgrade to the 3.215, the wifi became undependable.

Thanks, but should the auto update accept a beta? Maybe you should raise a ticket.

 

[kenn10]

Thanks, but should the auto update accept a beta? Maybe you should raise a ticket.

I foolishly turned on auto-update and it did it. I had read from previous buyers that the new firmware was buggy but incorrectly thought it would have been corrected by now.

 

[ostridge]

got mine today

 

[krzykat]

got mine today

Let us know your results. Based on further statements about upgrades and such, I've opted not to buy it for now.

 

[kenn10]

Let us know your results. Based on further statements about upgrades and such, I've opted not to buy it for now.

Don't let that bother you. It works perfectly so long as you don't upgrade the firmware. I've had a phone running on it for several days now. No issues. I had it connect to the local wifi and open the VPN. The phone connects to the VPN network flawlessly and has remained registered to the cloud system. I generated the .ovpn file on the main VPN server and it uploaded to the device with no issues and has worked flawlessly. For ~$30, its worth playing with.

I'll be curious to see how others make out. I know @wardmundy has gotten one.

 

[krzykat]

I hear you ... just time is SUCH a constraint for me lately. I LOVE doing R&D and testing and playing, but maybe I can send one to my guy in Egypt and just let him play with it.

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

Keep an eye on them, great products and well built

GL-X300B / Collie

Industrial IoT 4G LTE Gateway, supports DIN Rail installation and offer high performance IoT connection in harsh and hazardous environments.

www.gl-inet.com

wifi router, LAN and WAN rj45's , LTE modem, (GPS if your 'Wardish' and a rs485 if you are even more nerdish)

For $99 it works fine for me with a google-fi data only sim card., I get about 24MBs down a little more up.

Data Cost is $0 as I have Google-fi for my phones

And for us nerds, the front-end is based on bloody OpenWRT so hack away !!!

In my case it acts as a mobile gateway for a bunch of meshtastic lorawan nodes

got any way to connect Lora Meshtastic to voip not for calls don't think it can handle that, just send and receive SMS to the Meshtastic devices and back to voip

 

[dicko]

I haven't but there is this,

luci-app-sms-tool/luci-app-sms-tool/po/pl/sms-tool.po at master · 4IceG/luci-app-sms-tool

Simple user interface to handle SMS / USSD / AT commands via sms_tool application. | OpenWrt =< 19.07 - 4IceG/luci-app-sms-tool

github.com

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

I haven't but there is this,

luci-app-sms-tool/luci-app-sms-tool/po/pl/sms-tool.po at master · 4IceG/luci-app-sms-tool

Simple user interface to handle SMS / USSD / AT commands via sms_tool application. | OpenWrt =< 19.07 - 4IceG/luci-app-sms-tool

github.com

O_O interesting I have a OpenWRT Router, I can test this out - but i don't have sim port

 

[dicko]

No, that is a Luci app to make it easy to talk SMS over an LTE/4G modem from the shell. RooterOS from goldenorb a friendly fork of openwrt has it already built into the GUI

 

[KNERD]

When I got my GL.iNet router, it came with firmware 2.x. After a while I notice the VPN connection would get lagged. I upgraded to the version 3 series of firmware. The lag on the VPN stopped, but then the VPN kept disconnecting over, and over. Seeing there was a version 4.x of the firmware, I upgraded to that. The disconnecting, and the lagging have now both stopped. However, now I am seeing where after a while, all traffic will refuse to pass through the VPN. I think I will be pulling this and going with something else.

 

[Twilight Sparkle]

When I got my GL.iNet router, it came with firmware 2.x. After a while I notice the VPN connection would get lagged. I upgraded to the version 3 series of firmware. The lag on the VPN stopped, but then the VPN kept disconnecting over, and over. Seeing there was a version 4.x of the firmware, I upgraded to that. The disconnecting, and the lagging have now both stopped. However, now I am seeing where after a while, all traffic will refuse to pass through the VPN. I think I will be pulling this and going with something else.

I bought 2 GL.iNet routers for my Netflix for me and a friend to wireguard, 6 months later still no issues. love my GL.iNet routers only issue is YouTube buffers with it on. I do notice issues with wifi and VPN connection sometimes

 

[cawap]

That is correct. It is really designed as a travel router. It also allows remote provisioning if you register it with the manufacturers goodcloud.xyz cloud management tool which looks very much like Grandstream's GDMS tool. It can be a wifi bridge, usb tether, wifi repeater, or router. You could put a small ethernet switch behind it and run several devices but if you aren't using the ethernet WAN port, it can be changed to another LAN port making two available LAN ports. I'm only getting about 17mb throughput when I connect to my own wifi network so I don't think this is a good solution for a larger installation. I'm sure I could hook up a couple of phones and ATAs without issue.

It is running OpenWRT and supports DDNS as well but that isn't needed if you're using the VPN. Not a bad gizmo for $32. This may be my workaround if the HT801/HT802 OpenVPN doesn't work like it should.

The unit is quite small. I left it running for about 24 hours now and it does not heat up at all, for example that alone is a good sign for long-term reliability. I'll update with anything else I find as I experiment.

That sounds like a small travel router/OpenVPN client device (GL.iNet or similar), which is a common choice for exactly this: getting a remote ATA onto a VPN without needing the ATA itself to support VPN client functionality. If you ever run into voice quality issues (latency/jitter), check that your VPN protocol is set to UDP rather than TCP, UDP handles real-time voice traffic much better since it doesn't retransmit/block on packet loss.