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So I think that what I need is an actual USB Dongle and not a hotspot. the USB Donlge modems don't act as DHCP servers, rather if you wanted to use it to share you would plug it into a windows machine and setup internet connection sharing and the PC would be the DHCP Server. Time to find a USB...

yeah, if it were like your setup with a totally separate ISP provider it would work flawlessly I think. I thought I saw some others in this thread that were using 4g dongles so was hoping they would chime in :)

Thanks for the input, I thought about doing that having it setup like this... ASUS IP 192.168.1.1 DHCP Range: 192.168.1.10 - 192.168.1.100 USB Hotspot IP: 192.168.101 DHCP Range: 192.168.1.111 - 192.168.1.254 But I think my issue would be, that my ASUS Router would still be trying to issue...

I've recently started playing with the DUAL-WAN using a portable HotSpot as the secondary backup. So here is my issue and maybe you guys will know what I'm doing wrong. I have Xfinity for my primary, running to an Arris cable mode, which then feeds to my AC88U for primary internet. The AC88U...

My NAT settings are enabled presently. Update: so far all has been good except for brief 2-5 minute outages, that happen maybe 2 times a day. I am assuming that this is when PIA is re-issuing a new IP for me. If there was a way to get them to leave the initial connection alone, I think it...

Gotcha, so far I'm still connected and able to browse out, torrent, etc. I'll keep updating throughout the day to you guys. If it does drop out at all, I'll post up any logs I have and we can compare to see if there are any similarities.

So far, 12 hours no disconnects. I will add that I updated to alpha 3 to possibly address a WiFi dropping out issue I was having and that seems to be ok too. total up time over 2 days and no errors in logs, total up time for PIA 12 hours and nothing in logs, so far it's good except for the PIA...

OK! settings are plugged in and VPN running. How long were you able to keep a connection for? I started at 6pm eastern standard time

OK, I'm home now and I can plug in my PIA for experimental fun time! Can you give me your paramters, without your PIA credentials of course :) and I'll mirror what you have and lets see how it goes!

I am experimenting with the Alpha 380.66 right now, I will try plugging PIA into it later and see. I don't think I'll keep it since it kills my internet speed but for the sake of troubleshooting I'm game to give it a go!

Seems the general consensus is a high clock speed is the best way to go unless you code it in a way to use multiple cores/threads but for what I'm doing which is simple 1in/1out a simpler machine would work best. For anyone else that might be considering this don't go cheap on the NICs, I'm...

Makes sense, I didn't really think about the fact that the router is doing the encryption/decryption of the traffic. So it seems it would be simpler to put a decent PC (with 2 NICs) between my router and modem, run PIA on incoming traffic NIC from Moem, bridge to second NIC which goes to Router...

interesting thought, I'm using the one that came with my ASUS router, but I have spares I can switch up for testing

ok, came home earlier to no WiFi. I also noticed when this happens trying to access the router through web GUI is really tediously slow. each section eventually comes up but it is slow like downloading MP3s on Napster using dial-up back in the day :p so I think we can rule out the airtime...

Agreed, great article. The new stuff on _4 I haven't played with yet, but I'll tweak here and there later. In the meantime, does anyone else get ridiculously slow speed when using PIA on the router? the workstation client allows me almost 80% of unrestricted download, but having VPN on the...