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I eventually found out that I could not simply deactivate Blokada in my phone from the app, but I had to go to the VPN Settings in Android to do so. I could still not connect through OpenVPN Connect with the button turning orange for less than one second and nothing else happened. The next step was to create a link for OpenVPN, and I eventually did one for WireGuard too using the default 110 ports.

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So I could successfully install Astrorelay with the commands provided in the Astrorelay dashboard since replacing the link to the ipk package.Īt this point, the AstroRelay dashboard showed my Brume 2 was properly connected. The instructions for the GL-AX1800 router require access to the terminal via SSH and let us install the Astrorelay daemon for a 32-bit Arm Cortex-A7 system, but the Brume 2 is powered by a MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) dual-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A53 processor.īut good news, there’s also a 64-bit Aarch64 page arc_1.0.0-2102_aarch64_cortex-a53.ipkthat will work on your router. So I selected another router running OpenWrt 21.02. I followed some older documentation for Admin Panel 3.x, and created an agent, but I could not find anything for Brume 2 / GL-MT2500 router since it’s too new.

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So I signed up for a free trial account for the service providing 1GB of data. GL.iNet told me that the only solution was to use a reverse proxy, such as the company’s Astrorelay service, to use the router as a VPN server. In other words, I had no public IP address. Then I realize the IP address inside 3BB’s router dashboard was different and my internet connection was inside a VLAN.

I could see what looked like a public IP address, but I was unable to ping it.

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I quickly found out that the IP address provided by the 3BB router through DHCP would change after each reboot, so I just forced it to 192.168.1.8 for the MAC address of the Brume 2’s WAN port. But not so fast, as since the Brume 2 security gateway is behind my 3BB modem router, I also added it to the DMZ zone. In theory, I couldinstall the OpenVPN Connect app on my Android and import the client.opvn file to get started. I also enabled Dynamic DNS in the Applications section of the Admin Panel. The client.ovpn file includes all parameters needed including the required certificates. If we scroll down we can click on Export Client Configuration and select use DDNS domain since most people will have a public IP, just not a fixed public IP. GL.iNet Admin Panel can generate the configuration automatically for the Brume 2 router using port UDP port 1194. What I did try are both the OpenVPN and WireGuard servers. It may just require a bit more effort for the configuration. I’m not subscribed to another VPN service nor do I have setup my own VPN server, so I’ll just quickly just the settings for the OpenVPN Client supporting NordVPN by default,Īnd the WireGuard Client supporting AzireVPN and Mullvad by default.īut you can obviously use any other VPN service with either the OpenVPN or WireGuard client.

… and I got the Microsoft unusual activity…Īnd was even forced to change my password… Browsing anonymously through Tor is great, but it does have its little inconveniences. When visiting websites behind CloudFlare, such as CNX Software, you may see a “checking if the site connection is secure” page before reaching the request page… It’s easy to check whether it works by simply visiting Google, and I was redirected to Google Norway… I’ll start with Tor since it was the easiest to set up in my case as I just had to toggle the Enable slider. There are six sub-menus in the VPN section: the dashboard, OpenVPN client/server, WireGuard client/server, and Tor. There’s still one last step you may want to go through before considering the initial setup complete: Time Zone selection.

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I was then immediately greeted by an “Upgrade Reminder” and went with the OTA firmware upgrade without issues.Īfter that, I had access to the Admin Panel, now version 4.1.1. This will take us through the configuration wizard to select the language and set up the admin password. Let’s now go to the dashboard using the default IP (192.168.8.1). I connected the WAN port of the Brume 2 router to 3BB’s modem router (3BB is an ISP in Thailand), the LAN port to my laptop, and finally the USB-C power supply (power draws is 2.3 Watts at idle).

In a nutshell, it’s super easy to use, unless your ISP causes troubles, which it did in this case. We started the review of GL.inet GL-MT2500A security gateway, aka Brume 2, with an unboxing and teardown, and I’ve now had time to test the router in more detail so I’ll report my experience using the router with OpenVPN and WireGuard VPN, Tor, Adguard Home, and more.