Hi Chris. Great video. I was wondering if there is a step by step to install one of these routers at home and use another of these routers when i travel to connect to my home router. I am currently on comcast which uses a modem/router all in one. This would be used to connect to my isp at home and possibly allow me to use my cable services from anywhere without getting blocked.
Hi thanks for you video very good. Could you sometime do a easy walkthrough for the firewall settings? I've no clue as to which and what settings in there to change add. thanks.
Very cool, I run a Raspberry pi running Pihole with unbound and pivpn, so I am going to point my mini router to that and Ill have add blocking and host my won dns.
Thanks for this video, I have recently watched it and your videos on Wireguard and HomeAssistant. Question, I have set up the Beryl router and have it as a repeater from my home wifi, unfortunately the speed has dropped to less than 2mbps when without it I have routinely between 300-500mbps which is what I pay for. Any ideas why it kills the speed that much? Maybe a setting I am missing?
Almost sounds like a networking issue. Maybe it's making some sort of loop. It could also be a range issue between your router and your local wifi. Have you checked signals and all that kind of thing?
I also noticed a HUGE drop in speed when using the VPN option on this device. When I have my actual VPN client on my PC I don't take much of a hit at all but using the same exact servers as my PC software but on the routers, id hardly get 6-10mbps
It seems like it is almost the same but isn't supported by vanilla openwrt because of it's closed-source hw. With Beryl you can ditch default firmware and use open-source and newer openwrt version.
I have Verizon, S23 ultra. Im receiving the "No internet " msg like you did. I configured the DNS the exact same way but no luck. Do you know of a extra step thats needed?
I am considering this router for travel and would likely encounter captive portals fairly regularly. When accessing internet via a captive portal would I just select the SSID of the network being accessed and then leave the password field blank? And would I then have to open another browser page to access the captive portal site? I'm just not sure of the step-by-step process of using this to establish a private network accessing the internet via a public network using a captive portal. Thanks!
I've used this successfully in hotels with captive portals. You are correct in that you would connect the router to the network and then log in with their captive portal on a computer or phone. Since those portals authenticate at a device level, other devices connecting to the router would just see that as an AP and all traffic would be sent back to the hotel, etc., network coming from the one router device.
Probably. The mesh router would treat it as the upstream router. It would be router and network dependent though so you might get mixed results depending on the hardware you use.
Thanks..I ended up returning it. When I plugged in my cell phone, and had it on tether, the device would never recognize my phone as tether. My phone is an Samsung S21 Ultra so fairly brand new...once that happened I just packed it up and sent it back...Love Amazons easy return policy.
@mostlychris I have one query regarding as I trying to change the Tx Power parameter on a GL-MT1300 router as my requirement is to change the signal strength. I have changed the Tx power parameter value as (low, mid, high) on admin panel but we don't see any change in signal strength. Can you help me with this issue?
Thanks for the video. I would like to connect the VPN router to a computer running the Tails operating system from a USB drive. On Tails, I think you would have to do the router setup on their "unsafe browser", before connecting to the Tor network. You would then have to restart Tails to get on the "safe browser" of Tor. My question is: would the VPN router "remember" your settings after restarting Tails in the safe browser? Thanks again.
@mostlychris Its a very nice review of Beryl but I have got a question that at 7:00 were you able to setup Beryl to connect to home router from a coffee shop wifi? And for this you had not to use any commercial VPN service like NordVPN etc, and you were directly be able to connect and use your home internet IP and bandwidth from a remote coffee location?
I was on a trip last December for a week and had this router connected to the hotel wifi. I did the sign on one time and left it hooked up for the whole week. All of our devices worked great connected to this router, which was connected to the hotel wifi. I had the side switch set to enable/disable the VPN back to my house using WireGuard and it worked great. I didn't use any commercial VPN service, but I was using WireGuard on my home setup so it connected that way.
@@mostlychris That's great! Maybe you have already a CZcams video in place to explain how you could set up your home router as a VPN server and how you can configure your Beryl MT1300 as VPN Client to connect to your home router as a VPN server, or you may consider creating and putting a video on that? Thanks,
How/where did you get the private key generation. Is that private key generated on the glinet........or on the wireguard server on your home network to be connected to?
I like to try this as a tether plugging my iPhone 12 into the back and using the hotspot on the phone while camping. This way my wife and family can at least check emails.
That is an interesting option. You could also use the router to bridge the hotspot. When I go to hotel rooms, I sign up on the router to the hotel wifi and then everything connects to the router. That way all our devices can use the same wifi SSID no matter what hotel we stay at.
@@mostlychris thanks for the comment. Something really strange Happened, i had a TP N300 and i would not find the iPhone 12 hotspot. However it did find my old iPhone8 HS. Perhaps it had something to do with the 5ghz? Anyway, we hike a lot and in New Hampshire there are spots that have no WiFi for miles so HS on a phone is the only way to get a signal. Anyway, thanks for posting
I currently use nordvpn but having issues with it working while in China. I bought the GL-A1300-ccc model. what vpn provider would you recommend? how to configure the router to work with the vpn provider?
This is going to be a preference, cost, and coverage decision. I have been using the Verizon Modem for a long time now and it has worked well. I put an external antenna on it for use in the truck but I've used it in hotels, vacation rentals, etc., as well. www.verizon.com/internet-devices/verizon-global-modem-usb730l/
More and more ISP's are going with CG-NAT, so does Home Assistant have a way around that? My router allows setting up a VPN server or site-to-site VPN but not without a public IP address. Also, can you integrate Pi-Hole or other DNS sinkhole into VPN?
Using something like tailscale or some other zero trust networks like Cloudflare might work. You would probably have to have an endpoint inside your network but those can work with CG-NAT.
Hi - possibly dumb question - considering this router as a wifi repeater/extender using an iPhone in hotspot mode as my internet source. I'm thinking I can go directly from the phone to this router using a USB-lightning cable, is this correct? I also assume this router will have broader coverage than the phone. Thanks for the video!
According to the docs, you can do hostless modem tethering. "If your modem works in host-less mode or you want to share the data of your smartphone, you can use Tethering. For host-less modem tethering, plug it into the USB port of GL.iNet router. Then, you should be able to find the device under the Phone Device list. For smartphone tethering, connect it to the USB port of GL.iNet router and click Trust to continue when the message pops up in your smartphone. Then, turn on the personal hotspot of your phone. Finally, choose it from the Phone Device list."
I have not tried that. However, their docs seems to indicate you can: "You can use GL.iNet routers with external storage device such as USB stick, MicroSD card, etc, and some models have big internal storage, thus the contents can be shared among all your connected clients. You can easily read or modify its contents."
Hello, I have a question. Say If I setup everything and connect to wireguard and I need to leave town. When I take my GL.iNet with me do I have to connect to wireguard again in the router page or will it connect when I power up the travel router?
It will automatically connect through Wireguard upon startup, unless you turn it off in the app, or set the side toggle switch to control it and have it turned off.
I haven't played with TOR. If you are running TOR I'm not sure you need the VPN but I"m not an expert in that area. www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/5qmqw4/should_i_be_using_a_vpn_with_tor/
I modify my default TTL on my computers when tethering them through my phone so that it bypasses tethering throttling by my provider. My provider has a 600k cap on tethering which is close to useless. Once I do this it enables me to get speeds exceeding 10Mbps. Any idea how the extra hop through the router would affect that? Is there a way to change the TTL of the router itself in the settings? I have been told that setting the default TTL on Verizon to 65 allows full speed tethering. I have never used Verizon so I can not verify but perhaps it would be useful information for you.
I've never heard of doing this. Since the router runs OpenWRT, there are tons of advanced settings you can play with. You just need to log into the OpenWRT part of the router and play around with it. You can do it with iptables: iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING 1 -j TTL --ttl-set 65
i have a question (as with all gl inet devices that has vpn support) ... can this be augmented with a switch to workaround vpn device-license limitation?
I got an email with your reply but I don't see it here. I wonder if YT deleted it. " say for example, in an openvpn access server setup, the license offers 2 free concurrent connections. i was thinking to workaround with this, by using this device to dial my openvpn-as, and putting a switch onto the LAN port... and have all the computers in the LAN port be pre-connected to the VPN ... bypassing the 2-concurrent connection limit" You'll have to experiment. I didn't know there was a limit. Yuck.
Very good demonstration. Thank you.
Really cool. Using the Slate AX.
Hi Chris. Great video. I was wondering if there is a step by step to install one of these routers at home and use another of these routers when i travel to connect to my home router. I am currently on comcast which uses a modem/router all in one. This would be used to connect to my isp at home and possibly allow me to use my cable services from anywhere without getting blocked.
Hi thanks for you video very good. Could you sometime do a easy walkthrough for the firewall settings? I've no clue as to which and what settings in there to change add. thanks.
Thanks for watching. I'll add your request to my video ideas list.
@@mostlychris This would be super helpful for my printer set up. I want my wife to be able to print without me being a middle man.
Very cool, I run a Raspberry pi running Pihole with unbound and pivpn, so I am going to point my mini router to that and Ill have add blocking and host my won dns.
Excellent!
Thanks for this video, I have recently watched it and your videos on Wireguard and HomeAssistant. Question, I have set up the Beryl router and have it as a repeater from my home wifi, unfortunately the speed has dropped to less than 2mbps when without it I have routinely between 300-500mbps which is what I pay for. Any ideas why it kills the speed that much? Maybe a setting I am missing?
Almost sounds like a networking issue. Maybe it's making some sort of loop. It could also be a range issue between your router and your local wifi. Have you checked signals and all that kind of thing?
I also noticed a HUGE drop in speed when using the VPN option on this device. When I have my actual VPN client on my PC I don't take much of a hit at all but using the same exact servers as my PC software but on the routers, id hardly get 6-10mbps
Check out the Opal, seems to be identical for half the price.
I'll give it a look.
It seems like it is almost the same but isn't supported by vanilla openwrt because of it's closed-source hw. With Beryl you can ditch default firmware and use open-source and newer openwrt version.
I have Verizon, S23 ultra. Im receiving the "No internet " msg like you did. I configured the DNS the exact same way but no luck. Do you know of a extra step thats needed?
I am considering this router for travel and would likely encounter captive portals fairly regularly. When accessing internet via a captive portal would I just select the SSID of the network being accessed and then leave the password field blank? And would I then have to open another browser page to access the captive portal site? I'm just not sure of the step-by-step process of using this to establish a private network accessing the internet via a public network using a captive portal. Thanks!
I'm also interested in the answer to your question!
I've used this successfully in hotels with captive portals. You are correct in that you would connect the router to the network and then log in with their captive portal on a computer or phone. Since those portals authenticate at a device level, other devices connecting to the router would just see that as an AP and all traffic would be sent back to the hotel, etc., network coming from the one router device.
@@mostlychris Great - thanks for the confirmation!
@@williamoday573 You bet!
Can you do a LAN out of this BERYL into a mesh router fo greater coverage?
Probably. The mesh router would treat it as the upstream router. It would be router and network dependent though so you might get mixed results depending on the hardware you use.
Thanks..I ended up returning it. When I plugged in my cell phone, and had it on tether, the device would never recognize my phone as tether. My phone is an Samsung S21 Ultra so fairly brand new...once that happened I just packed it up and sent it back...Love Amazons easy return policy.
Thanks
Sure thing.
@mostlychris I have one query regarding as I trying to change the Tx Power parameter on a GL-MT1300 router as my requirement is to change the signal strength. I have changed the Tx power parameter value as (low, mid, high) on admin panel but we don't see any change in signal strength. Can you help me with this issue?
Thanks for the video. I would like to connect the VPN router to a computer running the Tails operating system from a USB drive. On Tails, I think you would have to do the router setup on their "unsafe browser", before connecting to the Tor network. You would then have to restart Tails to get on the "safe browser" of Tor. My question is: would the VPN router "remember" your settings after restarting Tails in the safe browser? Thanks again.
Having never played with either Tor or Tails I can't give an answer. Maybe someone else has some info...
@@mostlychris Thank you.
@mostlychris Its a very nice review of Beryl but I have got a question that at 7:00 were you able to setup Beryl to connect to home router from a coffee shop wifi? And for this you had not to use any commercial VPN service like NordVPN etc, and you were directly be able to connect and use your home internet IP and bandwidth from a remote coffee location?
I was on a trip last December for a week and had this router connected to the hotel wifi. I did the sign on one time and left it hooked up for the whole week. All of our devices worked great connected to this router, which was connected to the hotel wifi. I had the side switch set to enable/disable the VPN back to my house using WireGuard and it worked great. I didn't use any commercial VPN service, but I was using WireGuard on my home setup so it connected that way.
@@mostlychris That's great! Maybe you have already a CZcams video in place to explain how you could set up your home router as a VPN server and how you can configure your Beryl MT1300 as VPN Client to connect to your home router as a VPN server, or you may consider creating and putting a video on that? Thanks,
I have VPN videos where I connect remotely. All you would do is specify your home VPN in the beryl. Wireguard is what I have used.
could i one home Router GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) or GL-A1300 (Slate Plus) Pocket VPN Travel Router
How/where did you get the private key generation. Is that private key generated on the glinet........or on the wireguard server on your home network to be connected to?
It's all done in Wireguard. You need to have the config from Wireguard to set it up on the router.
I like to try this as a tether plugging my iPhone 12 into the back and using the hotspot on the phone while camping. This way my wife and family can at least check emails.
That is an interesting option. You could also use the router to bridge the hotspot. When I go to hotel rooms, I sign up on the router to the hotel wifi and then everything connects to the router. That way all our devices can use the same wifi SSID no matter what hotel we stay at.
@@mostlychris thanks for the comment. Something really strange Happened, i had a TP N300 and i would not find the iPhone 12 hotspot. However it did find my old iPhone8 HS. Perhaps it had something to do with the 5ghz? Anyway, we hike a lot and in New Hampshire there are spots that have no WiFi for miles so HS on a phone is the only way to get a signal. Anyway, thanks for posting
I currently use nordvpn but having issues with it working while in China. I bought the GL-A1300-ccc model. what vpn provider would you recommend? how to configure the router to work with the vpn provider?
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So will this work with tethering tmobile lte network to laptop ?
What USB stick for 4G would you suggest getting to use with this? It's a much better deal than any of the ones I'm looking at from Netgear.
This is going to be a preference, cost, and coverage decision. I have been using the Verizon Modem for a long time now and it has worked well. I put an external antenna on it for use in the truck but I've used it in hotels, vacation rentals, etc., as well. www.verizon.com/internet-devices/verizon-global-modem-usb730l/
More and more ISP's are going with CG-NAT, so does Home Assistant have a way around that? My router allows setting up a VPN server or site-to-site VPN but not without a public IP address. Also, can you integrate Pi-Hole or other DNS sinkhole into VPN?
Using something like tailscale or some other zero trust networks like Cloudflare might work. You would probably have to have an endpoint inside your network but those can work with CG-NAT.
Hi - possibly dumb question - considering this router as a wifi repeater/extender using an iPhone in hotspot mode as my internet source. I'm thinking I can go directly from the phone to this router using a USB-lightning cable, is this correct? I also assume this router will have broader coverage than the phone. Thanks for the video!
According to the docs, you can do hostless modem tethering.
"If your modem works in host-less mode or you want to share the data of your smartphone, you can use Tethering.
For host-less modem tethering, plug it into the USB port of GL.iNet router. Then, you should be able to find the device under the Phone Device list.
For smartphone tethering, connect it to the USB port of GL.iNet router and click Trust to continue when the message pops up in your smartphone. Then, turn on the personal hotspot of your phone. Finally, choose it from the Phone Device list."
Hello, looks nice. Can you plug in a SSD Drive to the USB port and share the SSD Drive like a NAS (Network Attached Storage)
I have not tried that. However, their docs seems to indicate you can:
"You can use GL.iNet routers with external storage device such as USB stick, MicroSD card, etc, and some models have big internal storage, thus the contents can be shared among all your connected clients. You can easily read or modify its contents."
Hello, I have a question. Say If I setup everything and connect to wireguard and I need to leave town. When I take my GL.iNet with me do I have to connect to wireguard again in the router page or will it connect when I power up the travel router?
It will automatically connect through Wireguard upon startup, unless you turn it off in the app, or set the side toggle switch to control it and have it turned off.
What happened to ad guard
I see that you can run Tor from this VPN router. Could you combine Tor *and* the VPN? Or is it just one or the other? Thanks.
I haven't played with TOR. If you are running TOR I'm not sure you need the VPN but I"m not an expert in that area. www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/5qmqw4/should_i_be_using_a_vpn_with_tor/
@@mostlychris Thank you.
Hi, I'm planning to travel abroad but I need my work laptop to show that I am in my home country... is this possible with this router?
Can anyone answer this question?
I modify my default TTL on my computers when tethering them through my phone so that it bypasses tethering throttling by my provider. My provider has a 600k cap on tethering which is close to useless. Once I do this it enables me to get speeds exceeding 10Mbps. Any idea how the extra hop through the router would affect that? Is there a way to change the TTL of the router itself in the settings? I have been told that setting the default TTL on Verizon to 65 allows full speed tethering. I have never used Verizon so I can not verify but perhaps it would be useful information for you.
I've never heard of doing this. Since the router runs OpenWRT, there are tons of advanced settings you can play with. You just need to log into the OpenWRT part of the router and play around with it. You can do it with iptables:
iptables -t mangle -I POSTROUTING 1 -j TTL --ttl-set 65
Did WiFi work with enterprise authentication? e.g. wpa2-enterprise?
If you are trying to connect the router to wpa2 enterprise I believe you will need to go into advanced settings and modify the openWRT system.
i have a question (as with all gl inet devices that has vpn support) ... can this be augmented with a switch to workaround vpn device-license limitation?
I'm not familiar with a device-license limitation. Can you point me to some info on that?
I got an email with your reply but I don't see it here. I wonder if YT deleted it.
" say for example, in an openvpn access server setup, the license offers 2 free concurrent connections. i was thinking to workaround with this, by using this device to dial my openvpn-as, and putting a switch onto the LAN port... and have all the computers in the LAN port be pre-connected to the VPN ... bypassing the 2-concurrent connection limit"
You'll have to experiment. I didn't know there was a limit. Yuck.
@@mostlychris yes my response was with a link to openvpn's free 2-concurrent connection limit
@@mostlychris and i think same goes for other commercial VPN apps.
I'm going to have to play with that. I have only ever used one at a time.
Can it be powered by a USB (type A or C) port on a laptop or does it need to be plugged into the wall?
Can be powered by USB. I don't know about the laptop part. That depends on the power output of the laptop.