VPN Unlimited - HELP!

Technical Support for Routers
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Greetings!

I just received my very sexy GL-AR150 from Amazon last night. Got it all set up, firmware updated, all that jazz. The Wifi was working fine on it’s own, I was able to connect multiple devices to the router. I was happy as a clam!

Contacted VPN unlimited… they gave me all the manual configuration sets I needed. I loaded 3 of the .ovpn files (no need for me to pretend I’m in China) and got ready for VPN heaven!

I enabled and activated one of the .ovpn files… took a few seconds but it CONNECTED!

Then… the speed crashed to nearly nothing. Any/all sites would timeout… I’m connected, but nothing’s going up/down the pipe.

Any suggestions???

Thanks in advance!

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Can you make sure you have the newest firmware v2.25?

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I suspect this is a DNS issue - your ISP router is probably using it’s own DNS servers and blocking certain “taboo” sites.

 

>>> I was happy as a clam!
Scientific research has shown only 32.16% of clams are happy. Try being a rabbit - 82.32% are “normally” happy, hence the expression “happy as a bunny”

HTH,
Glitch

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So, basically, all the VPNs do the same stuff as they redirect your traffic through it’s own servers and this covers you good, like Mojoflix.com and others.

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Did you solve this? I have exactly the same issue. Everything connected and runs fine. As soon as I drop the ovpn config file it connects to vpn and there’s no internet anymore

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Solved it on the GL-AR750 - its a DNS issue. You need to set the two DNS options to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and then tick the ‘Force client DNS’ box

Hey presto all works.

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Better to avoid the Google Spy Factory and use Cloudfare DNS instead - it’s even been spoon-fed to you in the latest Beta firmware (V3).

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So do i just use 1.1.1.1?

What about the second DNS entry? Sorry new to all this!

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1.1.1.1 will do it but the secondary DNS is 1.0.0.1:

But in firmware v3 you can simply check “DNS over TLS from Cloudflare” and it’s all done for you.