New Purchase GL - AR300M - what can I do?

Technical Support for Routers
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Hi all,

 

I have just purchased this router and I have read a few different things but can’t find a definite list of the capability of this product.

 

I have read I can create a vpn router, use it for tor, repeater extra but is there a guide that talks through what and how to do it?

Any guidance is much appreciated!

Thanks!

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Thanks for the link. I have had a look at that section and i have a basic understanding however what I wanted to know was, is there anything fun and extra you can do?

 

for example, can i create a torrent server with this or use it for media sharing by adding a HD to it and then people on that network can share the files?

 

Thanks

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I don’t know if you can create a torrent server.

But you can attach USB memory key or hard disk (please use external power support for the hard disk) and share the files in your LAN network.

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Yeah, you can set up a VPN client or server. I use it as a proxy connection for hotels and even on airplanes (so I can share one purchased connection).

You can set up a Transmission client, which obviously has the torrent serving functionality, too.

It’s a mini linux, so the answer is pretty much anything.

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As said above it’s pretty much a small linux, there is a repository of packages you can install where you’ll find tools, shells, programming languages etc.

You may run into issues (eg. I came across a package that only included a binary but not a shared library the binary depended on) but many things you would not normally run on a router work quite well.

I have not tried to set up a torrent server but I’ve experimented a bit with running an amule-client, unfortunately however it seems to lead to filesystem-corruption when there are many open files, but your mileage might vary.

If you only want to share media on the network that should be easy to do. I run mpd on it to play music over a very cheap usb-soundcard and simply use samba (that already comes installed) to watch movies on an attached USB-harddisk on my tablet.

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How do you set up transmission server? i’ve already installed transmission-daemon, transmission-cli, and transmission-remote but transmission client still cannot connect to transmission server

do we have to change firewall setting, if yes how?