Reddit reviews GL.iNet GL-AR150 (White) Mini VPN Travel Router, Wi-Fi Converter, OpenWrt Pre-Installed, Repeater Bridge,Mobile Hotspot in Pocket,150Mbps Wireless High Performance, OpenVPN, WireGuard

We use a simple GLiNet router for this exact purpose... the firmware is extensively customizable and it should allow you to set the static IP and still get online.

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Hmm. Robotics you say? And not a fan of the FCC right now? Maybe given that experience you should get more involved in hardware. I can think of a few things that you might want to look at for inspiration besides learning GNU/Linux(Ubuntu will be a great place to get started, it takes care of most of the post-install idiosyncracies for you, which makes it a nice environment to learn on) and computer hardware.

Depending on where you go with hardware, you might also want to look into OpenWRT. It's especially worth mentioning because the financial barriers to entry for OpenWRT hacking are really, really, really low right now. You can get a platform to start working with for between 20 and 35 dollars, that's cheaper than a Raspberry Pi.

Big one I think hasn't been mentioned here yet, building antennae. There are many ways to make antennae that can boost your wireless network range in a particular direction without violating the FCC's rules or causing likely interference with other people's electronics. By doing this, you can establish point-to-point links with other, local people interested in establishing a network and build a network which doesn't necessarily need to depend on the internet. In certain configurations, this is also known as a Wireless Mesh Network and it's pretty cool. There are antenna recipes and howtos all over the internet, but Instructables might be a good place to start.

Another neat hardware project is the RONJA optical point-to-point link system. While it might be harder to get going on building your RONJA, it's an interesting perspective on wireless communication and how it can be done, and what the tradeoffs are for different approaches.

Also, for the purposes of follow up questions, can I assume from your stated age that you are in a classroom environment for some number of hours of the day, and would you mind mentioning a little bit more about how you got into robotics? The reason I ask is because much of the in-practice stuff eventually depends on developing relationships with people in your community to encourage greater involvement. It's kind of intuitive, networks are more useful if there are people to send messages to. If there's a robotics club, or a science/engineering olympiad, or even an especially passionate quiz-team, getting them in on your hypothetical project could be really beneficial.

Have you considered a mini travel router like this: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B015CYDVG8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_4MniDbXK0RPNF

It basically acts like the router in your home, splitting one internet connection across many devices, but it can use another wifi connection (even one with a portal/signin screen) as the upstream internet connection. Really useful if you are at a hotel where the wifi is pay by device, or if you have hard-to-configure devices (or those that can't do portal pages well).

Edit: I see below that you own one. Have you never tried to use it in wireless bridge mode? That TP-LINK should support that.

I tried to do this very same thing. There are 2 possible solutions.

1: Buy a little device that will take the wifi signal and put it back out over Ethernet. I used this one and it was great.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015CYDVG8/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_49ogzb58N17XB

Ultimately i wanted a all wired solution to the router so I ended up purchasing a zte home base device. Model z700a. I found it for $29.99 on eBay but they seem to be going for $49 now. It's a hotspot made for home use with an Ethernet jack built in.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/162504931800

Hope this helps.

I'm using an N2 for music playback in my car now, although I solved most of the similar requirements you mentioned by also having a Nexus 7 in front of it. I found some nice touch screens and 7 inch digitizers that technically worked but getting everything to play nice together in Android was tough. I preferred the Nexus 7 / N2 combo in the end.

The Nexus 7 runs android for maps/YouTube/Spotify all that and the N2 does what it does best and outputs quality audio over Bluetooth to 3.5mm jack. I forked this Pi gist for easy Bluetooth A2DP and modified for the N2 and other non-raspbian SBCs, give it a go if you're looking for that:

https://gist.github.com/MrDoctorKovacic/5bd4943b27320e65a033948fafb86d19

For power management, find an ACC power line in your car (usually one of the wires to the stock radio), connect to a buck converter and timed relay. Loss of power on GPIO will tell the N2 to safely shutdown and the relay will kill power to the power supply about 30 seconds later.

Depends on the car, but many vehicles just run the VCC coming from the alternator/battery, which ranges from 11.4V to 13.8V. Their radios or infotainment account for that. THIS RANGE WILL KILL YOUR ODROID! It must be regulated to ~12.2v either by you or the car.

If that's the case you need to have a good power supply going to the N2 preferably one that can step up and down and provide about 2-3 amps. 3A if you're doing a camera/GPS/SSD. I use this one, no complaints. Vendors, especially on AliExpress and eBay, lie all the time and their power supplies either drop voltage/amperage randomly or can't keep up with spikes. This doesn't matter for LEDs or motors, but isn't good for a computer. If you value your time, don't cheap out on the power supply.

I also have a small router by GLi Net which has a USB tethering feature, and spits that phone hotspot out over WiFi and ethernet connection to the N2 (I have a switch but you don't need one). I don't know if the N2 is able to tether directly, if it can this router is redundant. let me know!

Any USB camera should work fine, use quality extension cables (USB3 even if the camera is USB2) if you're running it from the rear to the front. Good chance a bad cable will lead to degraded image or random disconnects.

EMMC will boot faster than an SSD I believe.

That's about all I know. This is a tough project to do right, I recommend if you want something cheap and easy to stick with a Nexus 7 or similar. I've been playing with SBCs for my car about 3 years now because it's fun, but I still haven't landed on a setup I'm satisfied with. The N2 will end up being as expensive as off the shelf options imo

I would get one of these and save the pi for something more specialized to it.

https://www.amazon.com/GL-AR150-Converter-Pre-installed-Performance-Programmable/dp/B015CYDVG8

https://www.amazon.co.uk/GL-iNet-GL-AR150-Pre-installed-Performance-Programmable/dp/B015CYDVG8/

so I use this router:
https://www.amazon.com/GL-AR150-Openwrt-pre-installed-Repeater-Tethering/dp/B015CYDVG8/ref=pd_sim_147_4?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B015CYDVG8&pd_rd_r=NVV3P2R3A7K44PJV1P35&pd_rd_w=bYb4R&pd_rd_wg=9z0nU&psc=1&refRID=NVV3P2R3A7K44PJV1P35

for usb tether to the hotspot and turn off wireless on both the hotspot and this device and connect the lan out from the travel router to a full fledged ac router that i had and use that for dhcp and wifi. It works perfectly for me.

I know I have an extra router in there but the reasoning was the ac router I have is a great one with long range, but no usb input and i didnt want to spend $100s on a new router and the travel router has about the same range as the hotspot so anything on the other side of my house has no connection. This solution worked for me as I only had to sped 26 bucks for the travel router and thats it.

We don't know of the chipset handles this. So we don't know what it takes. But for 20 bucks or so you can buy a device that won't waste your phones battery to act like this and does exactly like you are asking for.

GL.iNet GL-AR150 Mini Travel Router, WiFi Converter, OpenWrt Pre-installed, Repeater Bridge, 150Mbps High Performance, OpenVPN, Programmable IoT Gateway https://www.amazon.com/dp/B015CYDVG8/

Alternatively you can also do these same attacks with the addition to probe sniffing which is a big plus in my book with a GL.inet AR150 using the AR150 WiFi Pineapple Firmware and simply power the router with a cheap usb battery pack.

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A system-wide tor proxy? Hmmmm...

Easiest way is to buy one of these mini routers for $25 and then flash it with the Tor Firmware they provide on the GL-NET website.

https://www.amazon.com/GL-AR150-Converter-Pre-installed-Performance-Programmable/dp/B015CYDVG8

Then you will have a Tor wifi and Tor Ethernet Port at the flip of a little switch.

Other then that, it IS possible to use Whonix Gateway and a Windows Virtual Machine with Softether VPN installed to share that connection to a vpn capable router.

And you could even pop up a Wireshark on that Windows box to monitor your traffic.

But its all depending on what you have for hardware.. I have a few PC's and many routers so anything can be networked out.

Hell, It could all be done with Linux. There is really a million ways. And each one, of course, "chipping away" or "adding" to your privacy. Depending on who you talk too. Lol

Once you are familiar with the software I provided you can do tons of different combinations.

Softether VPN (Vpngate) has some really powerful and complex networking features.

I'm working on some videos ....

Good Luck!

You can get a vpn router and log in with your vpn account and then all your devices that connect to the router are protected.

https://www.amazon.de/GL-iNet-GL-AR150-Pre-installed-Performance-Programmable/dp/B015CYDVG8/ref=sr_1_2?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=gl.+vpn&qid=1566332396&s=gateway&sr=8-2