GL-AR300M16 Mini

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

I travel fulltime and do development work. For years I regularly use a Shadow (AR300M) that pre-dates the Opal, as my VPN server, at a family members house who only has around 35 mbps upload speed over a home 5G internet connection. The Shadow is rated at 50 mbps over Wireguard by GL iNet. As long a

I have 300 up 300 down connection in LA. I have a feeling I'm being bottlenecked by the weak gl I net hardware. I'll order brume 2 and beryl ax and try that. 50 Mbps is good enough for me but now I'm only getting 0.2-2mbps with ar300m and opal

GL.iNet: Travel Routers, can be configured as repeater and are powered via USB. So they can be easily used with a Powerbank. 2.4 GHz is enough, as it has best range. But with 2.4 GHz only you will end up with 20 - 40 MBit. old and cheap:MANGO GL-MT300N-V2 (<2W, so ideally for battery power)GL-AR300M