GL-AR300M16 Mini

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

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

GL iNet keeps building and selling bigger, heavier, and more power hungry routers. I no longer consider them true travel routers, and I am currently refusing to buy anything new from them until they release something like a Mango 2. That said, their hardware is usually solid, and I am still using mu

Remote hardware debugging is a pain. If it does need replaced and if you are only using it as a Wireguard server, you could use a GL iNet Brume, or about any small PC running Linux. Wireguard does not need a fast Linux server, as it is very low overhead. I am using a couple cheap, very low power, GL

Glad to help! Yes, you can also install Tailscale on your GL.iNET router so that the two are connected. You can also install the tailscale client on your phone or laptop as well. Once you advertise subnets on the UDR7 Tailscale, that will ensure that your clients are all operating as if they're on t