Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:28 Post subject: OpenVPN Seems to be killing my DSL
Hi all! I'm an American that is currently living in Germany. I have a local DSL provider and I bought an old router from a colleague so that I could stream American TV among other things. The router is a Nighthawk X4 (R7500 model) I'm running the latest stable release (V3- Build 44715) of dd-WRT and my VPN provider is NordVPN. The actual problem that I'm encountering is when I start the service (streaming/working really anything at all) Telekom's (my provider) DSL AP will stop passing the traffic. I've changed the MTU packet size, tried both TCP/UDP, Changed the DNS MASQ the only thing left that I have not yet tried is going back to netgear's software and I don't really want to do that as I really like the DDWRT interface and all the options/functionality. Any ideas/help would be appreciated. Thanks all.
Joined: 18 Mar 2014 Posts: 12881 Location: Netherlands
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 11:40 Post subject:
Welcome to the forum
I moved your post to the more appropriate Advanced Networking forum.
See the forum guidelines with helpful pointers about how to research your router, where and what firmware to download, where and how to post and many other helpful tips:
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=324087
If you have read the forum guide lines you know that you are running an old and outdated build (not saying that that is the problem but you should update anyway)
So first update and *after* update reset to defaults and put settings in manually, never restore from a backup (to a different build).
Joined: 16 Nov 2015 Posts: 6436 Location: UK, London, just across the river..
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 14:00 Post subject:
Yep follow the egc advises from above...
-read the guides
-update to a newer build(make sure you put correct build as R7500 are 2 models v1 or v2 there is no v 3 supported or know to me...reset and add all settings manually !!!
-make sure DSL modem is set to a bridge mode (preferred)or there is not NAT or is in d-milzone, otherwise you'll end up with double NAT (its not that that bad)...
-than according to the guide set client OpenVPN...
-come back to post results or if you'd need more help
Happy Reading ! _________________ Atheros
TP-Link WR740Nv1 ---DD-WRT 55630 WAP
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -DD-WRT 55723 Gateway/DoT,Forced DNS,Ad-Block,Firewall,x4VLAN,VPN
TP-Link WR1043NDv2 -Gargoyle OS 1.15.x AP,DNS,QoS,Quotas
Qualcomm-Atheros
Netgear XR500 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoH,Forced DNS,AP Isolation,4VLAN,Ad-Block,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R7800 --DD-WRT 55819 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,Forced DNS,AP&Net Isolation,x3VLAN,Firewall,Vanilla
Netgear R9000 --DD-WRT 55779 Gateway/DoT,AD-Block,AP Isolation,Firewall,Forced DNS,x2VLAN,Vanilla
Broadcom
Netgear R7000 --DD-WRT 55460 Gateway/SmartDNS/DoH,AD-Block,Firewall,Forced DNS,x3VLAN,VPN
NOT USING 5Ghz ANYWHERE
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Stubby DNS over TLS I DNSCrypt v2 by mac913
Maybe you didn't read all of my message...? for my AP I am on the latest and greatest. I read the guides, Re-configured, nothing... Double NAT is not an issue I ensured that was turned off on the DSL AP. I will try the bridging mode when I have more time to monkey with this.
So, when I go to look up my AP firmware and version and all of that, what it listed is not the best option for my AP? I can see that there are more recent and current builds, but will they work with my router? When I pull up my specific device, I have the highest one available. I am new to DD WRT but not new to IT. I do know that some things are not designed and maybe aren't meant for all devices. If you're telling me that whatever the latest build it will work with my router, then I will put it on.
Joined: 18 Mar 2014 Posts: 12881 Location: Netherlands
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2023 16:50 Post subject:
See the forum guidelines with helpful pointers about how to research your router, where and what firmware to download, where and how to post and many other helpful tips:
https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=324087
Well, looks like it's not working at all. It won't even connect to the VPN, Followed the guide, using the latest and greatest, Do I need to pull stuff out of the log? I'm stumped.
