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Wlink WL-R100 testing VPN setup

Test using Voxi sim works fantastic on this 4G router. Happy!

Now getting more technical. I am not technical technical person. Just above average techie digital marketer....

Goal: setup vpn client (surfshark) in this router.
VPN location: Hong Kong

WL-R100 OpenVPN setup page is a Tomato router firmware. So the setup should follow the Tomato router settings on Surfshark.

Step 1: you need to pay the service here is the referral link
Step 2: Get the VPN login setup required details. Login to your Surfshark account and go to VPN - Manual Setup - Router. Select OpenVPN. Step 3: Open a notepad in Windows or texteditor in Mac. Copy and paste on texteditor the Username and Password under Credentials tab.
Step 4: Then, on the Location tab, select the location where you want to be shown, in my case Hong Kong. Click the down arrow to copy the server address and server IP on to the texteditor.
Step 5: Download the CA and TLS certificates zip file. Unzip it and open the files using any code editor. In Mac, I used sublime text. As you will need to copy and paste the code on the Key tab later.

Now all things are ready.

Login to the 4G router. You know the IP. Go to VPN Tunnel - OpenVPN. Follow the settings as shown on Surfshark VPN setup for Tomato router firmware. It should look like these:

Basic
Advanced
Keys:
Status: if successful, it will look like this


The code for the Custom Configutation under Advance tab is

remote-cert-tls server
remote-random
nobind
tun-mtu 1500
tun-mtu-extra 32
mssfix 1450
persist-key
persist-tun
ping-timer-rem
reneg-sec 0
auth SHA512
cipher AES-256-CBC
log /tmp/vpn.log