I know – I wrote about this router model some time in the past BUT There’s Much more – Browse ON… Whilst I was about in the Uk at Christmas (in which my very first GL-iNET AX1800 Flint router remains, operational), my Convexa-S right here in Spain fell off the wall – and – wait for it, hit the floor and the electric power direct arrived out… don’t inquire how – but someway it ended up with the erroneous electrical power supply connected – 24v instead of 12v – and not remarkably, that was the finish of that – no internal fuse and when I received back in this article, dead… warm but no lights… bin.
So that still left me with my TP-Link Archer MR600 (which typically just handles incoming 4G (we don’t have “proper” broadband right here but with the suitable 4G router can obtain good speeds) operating the exhibit which it can do, to a point.
Now that’s all very pleasant but the Archer only will NOT take care of internal hostnames – i.e. I have a home entire of IOT gizmos like Tasmota’d plugs and lights and so forth., plenty of them and accessing them by IP handle is distressing. Also in the event of lightning I’ve generally found it practical to have anything separating my major router (with IP/MAC options etc etcetera) from the outdoors world…
The TP-Url is a should as it pulls in a very good 4G sign – SO now I was down to obtaining no interior names, no AdGuardHome and many others etc., so I believed I’d go and acquire a further Convexa-S – guess what – nothing at Amazon, almost nothing at AliExpress – no luck at all. But as I’d just returned from a enjoyable experience with the FLINT in the British isles (100% trustworthy) I checked on AliExpress and they had the FLINT at a reasonable 111 Euros all in – so I went for it and it arrived now right here in Spain from China – requested on Jan 9th – arrived nowadays Jan 16th – simply cannot be negative.
Now all I experienced to do was get it functioning. I plugged it into the mains – waited a number of minutes and lo, its default WIFI entry factors (2.4Ghz and 5Ghz) appeared on my mobile phone.
I picked the first just one – GL-AX1800-xxx (which by the way confirmed a good small “6” following to the WiFi indicator on my Samsung S22 Extremely – in no way found that ahead of). I selected that and entered the by now common default Gl-iNET password… “goodlife” – erm, no… but the somewhat more elaborate default password was printed on the bottom of the router so seconds afterwards I was in..
At this issue I preferred to accessibility the management panel at 192.168.8.1 – and after confirming I preferred ENGLISH it questioned me to enter a new admin password… that’s a crack from the past. but simple..
And there I was, again in acquainted territory. I altered the FLINT LAN tackle selection to 192.168.1.x and reverted my 4G router to a thing other than 1…. plugged the output of the 4G router into the FLINT WAN, plugged my Pc and so forth into the FLINT LAN connectors – disabled the WIFI on the TP-Connection and renamed the GL-iNET 2.4Ghz WiFi to my standard IOT WiFi along with password.IWAS Back IN BUSINESS… and I swear it is quicker than the initial Convexa S – applying Superior IP SCANNER to appear at all the devices on my community and their names – I am persuaded it picked them up 2 times as immediately as the older and now useless Convexa-S router. As all the present day GL-iNET routers have the exact same thorough management panel – no new finding out curve.
All that continues to be was to punch in some IP/MAC mappings I use – and to do a firmware update (it’s in the menu) .. oh and install LUCI (the a bit a lot more intricate OpenWrt graphical interface – I like to have that handy. 54MB of RAM so no challenge there.
A person past position – set the time zone – seconds later on – finished.
I enabled the pre-set up ADGUARD Property – carried out. Now there is a caviat listed here, I use that all the time to minimise undesired Ads but I learned a although ago it is very best to transform it off when installing sofware on my Computer. I recall striving to go MAGIX Movie Studio from just one machine to another and it simply just WOULD NOT HAVE IT… it finally turned out that ADGUARD Residence was the problem… but at the time you know that, it is not a difficulty. Why do I use Adguard in thw GL-iNet routers? Properly, it comes installed as typical and for 4G, I have a Really significant regular restrict but there’s no hurt in halting un-necessary rubbish coming in.
And as if to prove the position – it is now late night – I set up the router early afternoon and turned on AdGuard Dwelling. It has currently blocked 4,000 adverts and/or cookies.
BUT Hold out – I’m thrilled. Simply because I’m 1 of these fellas who just can’t go away items by itself – I was looking to see if I could suit TailScale VPN to the router (not carried out that but but browse on…) It turns out that the router although not exhibiting any have to have for firmware updates was operating v3.2 as is my United kingdom FLINT… Effectively, on the GL-iNET web-site is a reference to V4 so I went for the manual update realizing high-quality perfectly I’d blow all the options I’ve just put in – and guaranteed enough it did.
Anyway the to start with issue I pointed out was a manufacturer new update to the glance and truly feel – and they set up LUCI by default as nicely, as an alternative of loading to load it in separately. In any case I like to retain the choice to have my cellular cellphone present a signal to the router in scenario the key 4G in my TP-Link goes down – just for backup – and there is s REPEATER manner in the GL-iNet routers – in the past I have always long gone to the LUCI interface to make certain that if there is a cell hotspot readily available, the router will favor that…. NOW which is component of the major menu – but it will get Greater:
There’s a new multi-WAN load-sharing alternative – so I had to give that a go.. and – the most effective I have experienced out of my normal 4G enter is 100Mbps down load, more commonly 80Mbps to 100Mbps. What happened with the load sharing choice turned on and my mobile hotspot turned on?? Finest I have witnessed tonight is (I am SO enthusiastic) 219Mbps download… I cannot Believe my eyes..
See the menu on the still left – this is new – you can have multi-WAN in fallover or load equilibrium manner – and choose who gets precedence by basically sliding for instance Ethernet up or down when compared to in my situation the repeater (my cellular telephone performing tethering).
I can see this is going to be Enjoyment. AH and they’ve upgraded the cell App as Very well – this just retains obtaining better… Oh and new world-wide-web interface themes – basic, blue or Dark interface (well, I under no circumstances discovered them prior to). Like IT.
For a lot more on the GL-iNET controls and their use of OpenWrt, see my other GL-iNET blog entries in right here.
