I’ve had the slate axt1809 since 2022. Really handy device when traveling. Being in IT for the past 17 years, I’ve been to a ton of conferences. I’ve always bring my own router. lol. Bring it on vacations as well. Great device!!!
I had that same problem, trying to connect NORDVPN. When i stated a server all i got was orange color and after a min or two. My internet disconnected. Never got it connected. Found my fix just yesterday. now works fantastic.
I called my ISP (Optimum) and asked to enable "bridge mode" but keep their modem internet still on. That did the trick. Now my old router works, my new GLinet home router works, and I can VPN to it with my travel GLinet router. I did not need to do "port forwarding".
Maybe should also mention what get routed through the VPN by default? Does all traffic go through or just traffic destined for the remote subnet. With a manual Wireguard config, the AllowedIPs setting determines that, 0.0.0.0/0 means all traffic goes through the tunnel whilst something like 192.168.0.0/24 means only traffic to and from that subnet goes through the tunnel.
Hi! Question at 19:00 you say to ideally connect the Slate AX via an ethernet cable at your hotel room but if that's not possible to connect it over wifi. If you connect the Slate AX over wifi, can that give away your location? Also, how do you connect it to wifi at a hotel room?
I set mine up 2 weeks ago. Got the Flint 2 at home (att fiber) and Beryl AX. Travelled to Dominican Republic. Plugged into router via LAN. Ip showed I was at home. I also went an IPleak site and after 4 hours IPs pointed to my city. I also turned off my wifi, and bluetooth. I connected keyboard and mouse via usb and used ethernet to connect to my beryl router.
Great video!! I do have a question though, I got a yellow light on the VPN dashboard instead of a green… any fixes or steps I need to repeat to get a green light? Thanks
this is a ver helpful video and I was able to follow each steps and set up both my flint 2 and slate ax. However, when I run dns leak test on my slate client, I see that it hits other multiple locations, instead on the ones where my ISP is located in my home network. I have DDNS set up. Could you please suggest how to route traffic through the home ISP locations and prevent dns leaks?
I work at a big tech company. I’m fully remote, but not allowed to travel outside the country. This same method should allow me to connect to my home network so I can be in London for example but my work laptop would be showing im still home in the states right?
Yes indeed. I set mine up 2 weeks ago. Got the Flint 2 at home (att fiber) and Beryl AX. Travelled to Dominican Republic. Plugged into router via LAN. Ip showed I was at home. I also went an IPleak site and after 4 hours IPs pointed to my city. I also turned off my wifi, and bluetooth. I connected keyboard and mouse via usb and used ethernet to connect to my beryl router.
had issues setting my up, luckily my friend work in Networking. He was able to set mines up. After he did it, I noticed how easy it actually is. Let me know if I can help Reply
Do you happen to have any other recommendations for home routers other than the Flint 2? I wanted something with faster speeds and with wireguard enabled as well.
Good question. I'm using this now with Metronet 2GB service on the 2.5Gbps WAN port, and the 2.5gbps LAN port into a 2.5g lan switch. But faster cpu would be nice, but connectivity is high speed.
I use Tailscale on my laptop when I'm away from home to connect to my Synology NAS on my home network. GL.inet has updated my Beryl to be able to install Tailscale. What advantages, if any, are there in installing Tailscale ( or any other VPN ) on the router instead of the laptop.
I have the the GL-A1300 for my traveler, and the GL-AX1800 for the stay at home. I followed everything you said, but I am unable to access any sites on the GL-A1300, both lights are solid on both router, no problems when I connect to the GL-AX1800, I can access everything .The travler GL-A1300 is giving me the problem, Help me out!
How would the setup look if I have two ax1800 slate, One for home another for travel with the goal being to access my home server ? I have a xfinity router as the primary. Checked all videos relating to the ax1800 slate but no resolution so far.
Very clear and informative, even for a network noob like myself, thank you! I do have a question, though...if I'm understanding this Wireguard VPN connection correctly, it is a secure way to access the LAN devices on your home network, from the remote location, but if one is sitting in a hotel , say, overseas, and one wants to connect to the Internet through a VPN like Proton VPN, do you then setup the Proton VPN client on the Home router (in your case, the Flint 2) and would all internet traffic from your remote overseas location then flow back home and out to the Internet through your home VPN Client to Proton servers, OR.....would it be better to simply setup the Proton VPN client on the remote (Beryl) router, assuming one does not need anything on your home LAN? I'd think the latter would be much faster with less latency, assuming I'm talking any sense at all! :) Hope my question is clear!
It would definitely be better to have a VPN closer to your actual location if you can. The main reason people set up their own VPN at home is either to access devices on their home network (as you said), or make it look like they're working from home as normal to their employer.
@@David-gn6rt: People who don’t make an effort to answer questions don’t get a thumbs up from me. I know he can’t answer all the questions, but when you see the same issue multiple times….c’mon dude!
I have the flint 2 with me but I already have the beryl GL.iNet GL-MT3000 in a different state where I need to have it, my question is do I need to have with me in the house to have it configure?
Can I setup flint 2 in home and access the Same network though travel router from different country. ? If I connect my laptop to travel router which IP will come ( I need to connect my Clint VPN in laptop office work )
I currently have the inseego 3000 mifi pro with the unlimited T-Mobile tablet data plan can I pair the device with the Ethernet ports then ttl then device in the glitnet settings? For maximum use
"If I follow the same steps and work remotely from abroad, will my employer be able to tell that I am working from a different location, or will my work laptop display the same IP address as if I were still at home? I would greatly appreciate your response, as this question is very important to me."
I have a PiVPN running on my raspberry pi4, I tried to use my beryl ax as a client and it did not work. I tried it with the mobile app then uploading the config file and it still did not work. Is it only compatible with another GLi hardware?
Im just gonna leave a comment to say how insane these routers really are, 100$ on amazon and you have a built in vpn router thats great, ive been using it to work remotely for 7 months now with 0 issues.
I'm really confused. Can I use my existing home router or do I need a second one? I already bought a travel router. I tried looking everywhere on the internet and asked around :(
@syyamnoor9792 hi! So you do need your OG home router, the Flint to be plugged into your home router AND the travel router. I hired 3 people and they couldn't figure out how to set it up. I finally found someone that set it up perfectly. Let me know if you want their contact info. I tried so many times to follow youtube tutorials that make it look so easy, but you really need someone specialized in this particular equipment.
Great Idea to use Flint to provide Wireguard server. I have a problem in that my internet provider also provides my TV service and that means the primary router is theirs, and my flint is a secondary router that provides my original "old network ID 192.168.2.0". So how do I set up my DDS go thru to my secondary flint router. Doug
@Crosstalk Solutions, thank you so much for your guide. However I am still unable to get my client vpn travel router to come on. I am submitted a request to your team and hope to hear from them. I am trying to set up site-to-site vpn connection between my home router(Flint2) and my travel router(Beryl AX MT3000). I am not able to get the vpn client to connect(light still orange). My ISP is COX and I think there is an issue with port forwarding.
This is how some people are working overseas without their companies knowing it by having a vpn making it appear they are working at home. I don’t recommend doing that but that is how it is done. Great video.
@@peterhuang1431 I haven’t tried it but i have seen videos where people say that it still works even with a company laptop that has their own vpn as well. However if a company uses gps tracking on their devices they can tell where that device is always unless it is disabled which they most likely would only have access to.
I have few questions on this. I am trying to route all my traffic through my home ip. My ofc laptop uses netskope and F5 vpn for connection. 1. Can they detect my geo location using the above setup? 2. In case of my vpn connection disconnects on my travel router does it connect to hotel wifi leaking my geo location? 3.I am hoping by using above connection i can retain my home ip (either static or dynamic).
I have the flint 2, somehow I can't access my LAN remotely. They've said wireguard is much simpler to setup than tailscale...I'm experiencing the opposite. Tailscale allows acces to lan but wireguard wont. What gives?
I had the same issue but luckily my friend is a Network Architect and he came over and set it up for me. It's actually not that difficult. We set mine up 2 weeks ago. Got the Flint 2 at home (att fiber) and Beryl AX. Travelled to Dominican Republic. Plugged into router via LAN. Ip showed I was at home. I also went an IPleak site and after 4 hours IPs pointed to my city. I also turned off my wifi, and bluetooth. I connected keyboard and mouse via usb and used ethernet to connect to my beryl ax travel router. Ping me if you need assistance
Currently the gl.inet stable firmware does not. May 24th gl.inet published a blog post stating that the feature would be added to their products over the next 3 months and gave the order in which products would receive the feature. The blog post also gave directions for steps to take in the meantime to help mitigate BSSID tracking. I have a Beryl AX router which is among the 1st batch of devices which is supposed to receive the feature. The current beta firmware for my device, released June 6th, does have randomized BSSID support.
It has to be green. Did you generate the config file? If you did you probably need to enabled DDNS if the client can’t resolve the DDNS name of the server.
The 2.4 GHz gives you more range and passes better through walls and other physical obstructions. Also older devices or cheaper devices don't have 5GHz connectivity.
Im from India, and next week travelling to oman country but my office VPN Forti Client will allow only from India. But out of the country they have restricted. Can you give me a solution ?
Unfortunately Fortinet blocks Wireguard very well. Even Tailscale won't work (which uses Wireguard underneath but has extra fancy techniques). Sorry man.
dumb question and sorry but im not super tech savvy but I just bought a GLinet router the beryl MT3000 ax do i need to subscribe to a VPN service like NordVPN or ExpressVPN? are there any free ones or better yet does the router I bought give a free one?
@@goodcitizen4587That is no good for work. They use tools like intune which flag public VPNs ! Make a VM in azure or some cheaper cloud and set the VM in the region you need it thevon. This a step forward. Only the most secure jobs will detect that. Its best to use reditential home IP though.
It depends on where your WAN IP lives - if it's on the Flint 2 directly, then you don't need to open anything up...it's done automatically. But if you are double-NATting through another router (like your ISP's equipment), then you may have to port forward. Though, to me it would be a better use of time to contact your ISP and have them put their equipment into bridge mode.
I had the same issue but luckily my friend is a Network Architect and he came over and set it up for me. It's actually not that difficult. We set mine up 2 weeks ago. Got the Flint 2 at home (att fiber) and Beryl AX. Travelled to Dominican Republic. Plugged into router via LAN. Ip showed I was at home. I also went an IPleak site and after 4 hours IPs pointed to my city. I also turned off my wifi, and bluetooth. I connected keyboard and mouse via usb and used ethernet to connect to my beryl ax travel router. Ping me if you need assistance
DID NOT WORK for me, light never turned green, did everything exactly tried DDNS (off / on) on config file, turned dynamic on the slate ax and still nothing
same here, i guess its cos i used same internet connection at home, i didnt have another internet, but that shouldnt affect it, i duno, someone should help
What amazing luck that you just posted this video! I've been trying to figure this out all day. I have one quick question if thats alright :,) in your video at 9:06 once I establish my wireguard server...I lose internet access. once I turn it off I get that internet access back. I've followed your steps as closely as possible but it seems no matter what I do, my internet access gets cut off a few moments after I establish my wireguard server. Any idea why? or how to fix this? Thanks!!
@@tama47_ Everything seems to be as is in the video...except once I turn on my wireguard server...I lose internet access after about 15-20 seconds every time. Do you have any idea why this might be? what do you mean handshake?
@@rendezvu175 Better yet, put the ISP gateway into bridge mode, so that its routing functions are disabled, but the modem portion is still active. This way, port forwarding from the ISP gateway will not be necessary and double-NAT will not exist.
THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT VIDEO ! ♥ can you please answer to a simple question ? : if my internet provider give me a permanent adress ip who dont change the adress like i start the internet box and when i look on the web sit : what is my ip it show me always the same public IP Adress, even 6 months later. in that case on the settings of the server router who stay in my home i should set on Ethernet settings a Static IP adress or i dont need to touch this area i let by default who is DHC ? this when i worrk from another country and use a direct vpn to my home. You are great thank you ^^
Almost identical except the Slate AX is slightly bigger. The Beryl AX has a 2.5Gbps WAN port + 1Gbps LAN port; the Slate AX has 1Gbps WAN port and 2x1Gbps LAN ports.
Slate AX has more CPU power so decrypting VPN traffic will be better performing. The prices are almost the same, I dont really know why anyone would buy a Beryl over a Slate at this point. Maybe someone can enlighten me?
@@mattbradley1716 When will you ever get the advertised 550 Mbps over a WireGuard connection on a travel router? I’ll gladly save anywhere between $30-$40 on a travel router that I wouldn't use that often anyway. Also the Beryl AX has newer CPU, 2.5Gbps WAN, smaller form factor, and is just a more modern product in general.
@@tama47_ Thankyou. According to Tailscales's web site : " Tailscale assigns every one of your nodes a private IPv4 address. We do this from the CGNAT range, which is typically used by ISPs that have run out of public IPv4 addresses. Starting today, you have control over what IP address from that range is assigned to your nodes. This gives you the ability to decide what subset of the CGNAT range your tailnet uses to avoid conflicts with other applications. "
@@CrosstalkSolutions I think you misunderstood. I have to pay some 80 CZK for unshielding my IP from my ISP's firewall (which provides me static IP, btw), otherwise, I'd be firewalled and wouldn't be able to receive any new connections on my equipment, only established/related ones.
Ok… so he must be talking to those of us who aren’t behind CGNAT, not you. Plus, I think there are fixes available to get around CGNAT if you really need to… granted they’re subscription based solutions, but they do exist.
To secure you network with China band router? 🤔 How secure you are!!!??? Why not introduce how to use Ubiquiti Unifi Express as travel router? I'm happy with Unifi Express as my travel router 👍
@@CrosstalkSolutions I was thinking about the menu with tailscale that it shows in the router. perhaps it can help people with the "server" behind cgnat :)
I second the request to cover Tailscale. The initial Tailscale connection is quite easy from the standard UI. However, I was unable to set up the exit node directly from the dashboard. I had to manually set up the firewall rules and I’m not sure exactly what risks I’ve opened by doing this. Specifically, I wanted to set up a Tailscale exit node on my home internet connection and then route all travel router traffic thru that exit node. I’m using the Beryl-AX (MT-3000) router.
I had the same issue but luckily my friend is a Network Architect and he came over and set it up for me. It's actually not that difficult. We set mine up 2 weeks ago. Got the Flint 2 at home (att fiber) and Beryl AX. Travelled to Dominican Republic. Plugged into router via LAN. Ip showed I was at home. I also went an IPleak site and after 4 hours IPs pointed to my city. I also turned off my wifi, and bluetooth. I connected keyboard and mouse via usb and used ethernet to connect to my beryl ax travel router.
@@saiynbrosxxyeahxx2258 Can you or your friend help me please? If you can just walk me through how to fix it, that would be really helpful for me and others who have the same issue. I just came back from Dominican too haha, i bought the device for that vacation, but unfortunately it didn't work. I was thinking of returning it but if i can find help, i would keep it cos it will be useful again some day.
Good tutorial but vpn client dint work.. This was due to port forwarding step which was missing. If you have a router provided by your ISP, then you need to setup port forwarding on your ISP router .. i followed this video for that .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-07U2108taK8.htmlsi=s_aVOGpgGXBeIqgY
I love their products, the only thing better than their VPN support is their support for zerotier. I love that service and I have access to all my systems while on the road without having to open up a single inbound port to support it.
Hi, I am having some issues. Wireguard won’t start on the client travel router. I have static IP address from Virgin media business in the UK. I have put the ISP router (Hitron) on bridge mode. Could it be a problem with GLi Net Opal as my travel router?
Can I use the Flint 2 in addition to my current mesh router setup? Google Fiber internet > Orbi Mesh router > Flint 2 (where the Flint 2 is connected to the main Orbi via ethernet)
If someone has an issue not connecting and has yellow light on the client side - you might need to do port forwarding. This video helped me figure it out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LXbDg1v65Qs.html
@Crosstalk Solution - I am having issue connecting from client to server, followed step by step process with the same device. it's showing connecting from client SLate Router, it's unable to make a successful connection to server (Flinr2). Please help.
Hello, I followed all the instructions (which were terrific) for my GL AX-1800 Slate 1 and the GL-A1300 Slate Plus (travel router). I'm using Wireguard and have green lights on both sides, yet, on the travel router I have no internet while on the VPN. Upon disabling the VPN on the travel router I have interent. Any guidance appreciated. Tx.
had issues setting my up, luckily my friend work in Networking. He was able to set mines up. After he did it, I noticed how easy it actually is. Let me know if I can help
@@saiynbrosxxyeahxx2258 hey there, I had a bit of an issue on the last step: at the 16:45 mark he clicks on “start” which is to turn on the VPN and he waits for it to turn green. For me I hit start but it never turns green and it actually cuts the internet access at that moment. The travel router goes in and our but not consistent
Great Video. Do you also have made a separate video about the other vpn direction? I mean how to connect to a local LAN port at home if the GL.iNet Router at home is not configured as a VPN-Server, but as a VPN-Client connecting to a VPN Service Provider or even better connecting to a second GL.iNet at LAN behind an office router on external locatioin (e.g. company office with fixed ip and dedicated office router and port forwarding).
my ethernet is always amber, not green light...cant connect a simple eth cable to the new marble router by GLiNet to my modem and to my pc...nothing....no access, nothing?? and wifi...wow...cant find the ssid on any device...
So your flint 2 router is connected to power; and then you have a wpa cable connected to your laptop? Is your home server connected to wifi? Or how does that work?
Hi, trying to follow along and set this up! I have an Xfinity Gateway XB8 router modem at home (and Xfinity Comcast internet). At 2:43 you say to plug the internet connection into the WAN port of the Flint 2 and plug the laptop into a LAN port on the Flint 2. How do I set up the Flint 2 with a Gateway XB8? Can you please provide instructions? Thank you!
Thanks for the video. I have a question regarding this pair of models. Did you test this setup with the Flint 2 connected to the T-Mobile Home Internet? From what I've read, it is possible to connect another router to the T-Mobile gateway with an extra NAT layer, but I'm wondering what that setup is like and how bad the speed reduction is. Thanks
Will the GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) work instead of the GL.iNet GL-A1300 (Slate Plus), along with the FLint 2 ? Please reply as I need to order them ?
I have a question. Do I need to get the GL-MT6000(Flint 2) to set up the home VPN server or can I achieve the same thing with 2 GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) one being used for the VPN server and the other as the client?
Great content. I've been using travel routers since the TP-Link TL-WR703N in 2012. Have you tested DNS leaks with or without the AD Guard? Some TV streaming services will block you if they notice DNS leaks in a foreign country, which I have encountered with my GL-MT1300 after a firmware upgrade.
Great vid! In Daytona Beach FL area Metronet 2GB service ($75/mo) on the Flint2 2.5Gbps WAN port. I use the 2.5Gbps LAN port into a 5 port 2.5Gbps LAN switch for all my clients. Also has 4 1GB ports, I use one of those for my cheapo 8 port 1GB switch for my many non 2.5Gb devices.
