I just moved to the Netherlands from Los Angeles. I have a US Roku system. It works if I set up my iPhone as a personal hotspot, and it’s eating up my information, but it works!
The house I’m renting has Odido. I want to know which router I need to buy to get to a US VPN to watch my Roku stations, and if I need anything else to set it up, and how to do that. Thanks! I am very un-tech savvy.
Are you in your new place for travel or intending to permanently settle there? Also when you say that you are connecting the Roku to your iPhone, are you using a US VPN on your iPhone and if so can you specify who is your VPN provider?
Until the end of March, it is a short term rental. Then I will move into a permanent rental in the Netherlands. My iPhone carrier is still in the US, so no VPN. It recognizes it as US.
I think I need to get a Beryl AX (GL-MT3000) and Wireguard. Is that correct?
Absolutely. You can never go wrong with the Beryl AX.
Thank you!
If your phone is reporting your geolocation as in the US (e.g. via whatsmyip.com) you could use your phones hotspot for the Roku to connect to.
Otherwise any of the travel routers (Opal, Beryl AX or Slate 7) would allow you to connect to a commercial or private VPN presenting in the US.
I have tested all three routers and have an Opal permanantely connected to a private node in CO.
If you look at the fimrware for the routers you’ll see that the Opal runs older firmware than the newer Beryl AX and newset Slate 7. So if you want the longest life from the router look to get a newer model.
Once configured the travel routers are good for connecting to other host networks.
Thanks. My phone as a hotspot used up all my international data in 2 hours. I’ve been tryin to get this Beryl AX set up with my NordVPN for 3 weeks now. I can’t get to the IP address on Google or Safari. I’m on a Mac.
So frustrating. After downloading the UDP for USA Los Angeles, my mac says There is no application set to open the document “us6776.nordvpn.com.udp.ovpn”
Are you able to access the router’s GUI on your MAC? if so, you will then need to upload the .ovpn file you have on your computer up to the router’s Open VPN client section of the router when you can then start the VPN client service from there. Apart from storing and uploading the VPN configuration file to your Beryl AX, your MAC has absolutely nothing else to do with and does not need to run that file
I can’t. I tried on my computer and my iPhone. Both Google Chrome and Safari.
Are you able to connect to the router’s WiFi or LAN port successfully? Have you tried resetting the router? Something is not right there.