GL-AR300M16 Mini

I'm hoping this will spur Gl-inet to refresh their mini-routers like the GL-MT300N-V2 Mango or GL-AR300M16. They're getting pretty long in the tooth now and lacking things like the built in Adblocker and NAS functionality compared to the currently supported models

I see that you bought a Flint 2, but you have not fixed your real problem. What you need for travel is redundancy and to get rid of any single point of failure, like having only 1 remote router. Remember that any single device or location can fail or go offline. Having multiple routers at multiple s

I have friends and family who let me put VPN servers in their houses/Apt. I pay for the routers, I manage them, and give them accounts on them, so they can also remotely use their home IP address when traveling. Most of them are GL iNet AR300M routers, running OpenWrt. Not fast, but cheap and depend

If you are looking for cheap and reliable, go with a pair of AR300M16. Unlike the Opel, it has great support for OpenWrt, so you will have an option for firmware with security fixes after GL iNet drops their support, and it's a bit faster than the Mango, at around the same price. Set it up with Wire

I purchased my first GL iNet router in 2019. Firmware inconsistency across their line of routers, along with poor QA, has been the norm for me with their products. I have basically given up on using their stock firmware. Hardware-wise, though, they have been great. My first device, an AR300M, is sti

Why has GL iNet turned it back on small inexpensive travel routers? Routers like the USB150, AR300M, and even the Original Slate were small and light. Size, weight and power are very important for people who are using your routers for travel.

If you look at the specs the AR300M16 is slightly faster and supports EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol). The MT300N-V2 uses a proprietary WIFI driver and does not support EAP. I own multiple AR300M routers, and I would not buy an MT300N V2 because there is no real reason to choose a slower an

I just took a look. Great work. Thank you for doing this! As there are issues with 4.x in some of the older routers like the AR300M, AR750, AR750s, and MT300N-V2, is there any chance of adding in the Legacy 3.x code, at least the versions that GL iNet has on their site, so they are not lost to futur

Before spending money on a new router to use as a VPN server, check your uplink speed. Your uplink speed at the VPN server will be your maximum downlink speed to your remote router. Some cable and 5G home internet providers have great download speeds but poor upload speeds, like 500 Mbps down and 35

You need your Wireguard UDP packets to fit inside the Ethernet packet, or the UDP packets fragment, and depending on the network, can be dropped on the floor. On the AR300M, try dropping your MTU in your Wireguard config file down to 1280. If that works, you can try stepping it up, but I normally ju