I recently changed the Network Mode on my Beryl AX (MT3000) from Router to Access Point Mode, but then found I could not access the Beryl using the GLiNET App. Is this by design? To be fair there is a message about accessing the Beryl using the IP Address assigned by the Main Router.
However this seems a bit difficult if you’re travelling and you just want to extend an existing network (that allows it), but then you cannot access the Router of that existing network. In this case how do you access the Beryl from the GLiNET App (if you do not know the IP Address of it?)
Just out of interest, but why would you use your GL.iNet in AP mode when travelling? The main idea is to have your own secure network when you are away, isn’t it?
Fair question; it’s actually for when we go to my wife’s parents place. They have an older router with Wireless N or AC, so I wanted to plug it into the LAN port and then we can connect our devices to the Travel Router when we visit my in-laws. Hopefully that makes sense.
No support for Access Point Mode has been added to the App. You can try manually entering the router’s WAN IP into the App and basic features may be available.
OK thank you. Maybe a feature request in future. I like the App (and it’s much easier to teach my wife to do stuff on the App when she travels for work than the WebAdmin).
You can actually set up a GL.iNet router as a “LAN-only” access point, in Router mode without connecting the WAN port and only connecting the Ethernet LAN port:
In Step 3 of this procedure, you can also just set Protocol to DHCP client and it will obtain an IP address from the main router.
I do not work for and I do not have formal association with GL.iNet
Thank you, I can look into that down the track, but for now I guess this question was more about whether the GLiNET App could be used in AP mode, which yuxin.zou has noted it can not be and provided an alternative.
If you set up the GL.iNet router as a LAN-only access point, then you can use the GL.iNet App to manage the router. Just add it via Initialized Devices in the app and enter the router’s LAN IP address.
It has been quite some time (9 months) since my original post requesting this functionality and I was REALLY REALLY hoping to see this “enable AP Mode in the App”, rather than having to go through the Webadmin each time.
I’d like to give the Router to my wife for Travel and have her use it via the App, as an App, at her parents place.
I thought of another reason to run in AP mode instead of full bore router: SPEED! In router mode I’m down to <200mbps standing right next to the GL unit. I get 1500mbps to the Internet directly off the LAN with a good AP.
One reason might be because typical hotels couldn’t configure a secure wi-fi network to save their lives (one huge one being the ubiquitous !@#$ed-up captive portal mess) but the LAN might be fine, and he doesn’t want to double-NAT. Or, in my case, I have an ISP-supplied modem that forces its router/AP/etc on me, but won’t reach where I want it to, so I want a mynetwork-backyard AP, and to be able to plug in a couple of devices to the LAN ports out there too. It seems like that was what this device was marketed to do, but I’m having a hell of a time setting up that simple functionality.
LAN->gl.slate.ax->LAN1/LAN2/wifi->end clients
That is all I want, and I think that’s what OP wants too.
Guys, I am planning to get a second MT3000, want to ask if it would be possible to use the second one as access point that is connected by ethernet, then from the second ethernet port to extend it to another switch.
So main router (mt3000) > ethernet connected to LAN 1 on the second mt3000 which will act as an AP > from that AP occupy the remaining LAN 2 port with an ethernet cable that goes into another room where there is a switch for the devices in that room.
Occasionally (when I am away from home for a long time), I would plug out the second mt3000 (the one that I would be using as an AP), and take it with me on the road, while in it's place just connecting a female to female connector (coupler) that connects the missing link between.
This setup works for me because I don't have that big of a home, and will fix the unreachable spots in my house while I am at home, while also the option to take the second router with me, convert it to a router when I am on the road.
Does this make sense? Also when converting between AP and a router, are the settings saved from the router mode (I believe the AP mode has no settings to be saved as it translates what the main router is bringing).
On the main router I have a stock openwrt with multiple VLANs. Would this work without much fuss?
