ICMYI the advanced mode (LuCI) on the Opal has a ton of features. I has a setup alloting 4096 IP addresses on DHCP as a test case for a project, for example. And also broadcasting 6 different APs for another.
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You are so creative, literally what I was planning, but I never thought that a Ras Pi 4 could be running with a power bank, considering how many watts it takes up.
As soon as I saw that white thingy with two antennas I was like "hold on a second!". How is the speed for you? I set it up as a repeater with single-hop VPN and just ran cloudflare's speedtest (I'm connecting from a hotel's wifi). I got:
41.6 dl 44.8 up 14.0 latency 4.84 jitter
At first I setup openvpn and it was like 3mbps laggy very laggy. But wireguard for some reason makes it fly.
Are you using gl.inets own configuration program or openwrt's luci?
Openvpn is based on older encryption that is compute heavy. For 10 mb/s in open VPN, you'll get 30x the performance in wireguard, at least in my experience with the same opal. This is when it is done in software only and without a dedicated encryption chip.
There is a bug in some glinet firmware where the allowedips doesn't get parsed correctly. I believe it is fixed in the newest version (I'm doing split VPN now)