GL.iNet GL-SFT1200 Secure Wi-Fi Router On The Go – AC1200 Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless Internet Router | IPv6 | USB 2.0 | MU-MIMO | 128MB RAM | Repeater Bridge | Access Point-M Mode: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
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For my link archive a router I bought a few years back: [Wayback/Archive] GL-SFT1200 Secure Wi-Fi Router On The Go – AC1200 Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless Internet Router | IPv6 | USB 2.0 | MU-MIMO | 128MB RAM | Repeater Bridge | Access Point-M Mode: Amazon.de: Computer & Accessories
- It is USB-C powered (the power brick delivers 3A at 5V, but in reality it uses far less).
- Mode and reset buttons are behind the antenna (see picture below).
- It is specced as AC1200, but that’s just theoretical a number.
- It came with EU and UK plug.
I needed it because from prior experience, I knew GL.iNEt can support a special Wireless Repeater mode where it still functions as a router (hiding the LAN/WLAN behind NAT)
Two physical drawbacks likely due to the portable nature:
the plastic RJ45 ports are slightly too wide which means that these keep falling out [Wayback/Archive] Inline® Dust cover, for RJ45 socket, color: green, 100pcs. Pack: Amazon.de: Electronics & Photo- no holes in the base to hang it to a wall
One firmware drawback: it shipped with v3.212 for which I could not find release notes. Luckily the firmware v3.215 I upgraded to had: [Wayback/Archive] Firmware v3.215 is released – Technical Support – GL.iNet.
Links to product and manuals (the paper manual are just two thin sheets, but the on-line documentation is OK; I was surprised WireGuard and Tor were supported!):
- [Wayback/Archive] GL.iNet Routers and Gateways Selection – GL.iNet
- [Wayback/Archive] GL-SFT1200 / Opal – GL.iNet
- [Wayback/Archive] GL-SFT1200 / Opal – GL.iNet specs
- GL-STF1200 on-line documentation (with some quoted bits that were important to me)
- [Wayback/Archive] First Time Setup – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] Internet – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- Cable
- Repeater
Using Repeater means connecting the router to another existing wireless network, e.g. when you are using free Wi-Fi in a hotel or cafe.
It works in WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider) mode by default, which means that the router will create its own subnet and act as a firewall to protect you from the public network.
- USB 3G/4G Modem
- Tethering
- [Wayback/Archive] Wireless – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- Wireless
- Guest Wi-Fi
Guest Wi-Fi is turned off by default, you can turn on it for visitors. Guest Wi-Fi is separated from the default Wi-Fi. That is, you can only access the Internet in Guest Wi-Fi, not the web Admin Panel.
- [Wayback/Archive] Clients – GL.iNet Docs (it even does a fixed bandwith QoS)
- [Wayback/Archive] Upgrade – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] Firewall – GL.iNet Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] VPN – GL.iNet Docs
GL.iNet routers have pre-installed VPN server and client in OpenVPN and WireGuard.
Note that
- WireGuard also supports both client and server!
- Tor is also supported.
- VPN referring to topics on [Wayback/Archive] VPN – GL.iNet Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] Applications – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics
- [Wayback/Archive] More Settings – GL.iNet Docs
- Admin Password
- LAN IP
- Static IP Address Binding
Usually your computer’s IP address is dynamically assigned by the router. If you want your computer to have a static IP address, you can manually add your computer’s MAC address and the static IP address you want to use. Note the configured client has to reconnect the router to take effect.
- Time Zone
- MAC Clone
- IPv6
- Custom DNS Server
- Button Settings
- Network Mode
- Revert Firmware
- Advanced
- General GL.iNet on-line documentation referred from the above documentation
- [Wayback/Archive] Firewall – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- VPN
- [Wayback/Archive] OpenVPN Client – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] OpenVPN Server – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] WireGuard Client – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] WireGuard Server – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- Make sure Internet Service Provider assigns you a public IP address
- Network Topology
- Initialize WireGuard Server
- WireGuard Client App
- Visit Client’s LAN Subnet
Please check if you Internet Service Provider assigns you a public IP address here.
If no, you can’t connect to the WireGuard Server.
- [Wayback/Archive] Internet Kill Switch – GL.iNet Docs
This feature is make sure the devices connected to the router always access the Internet via VPN.
- [Wayback/Archive] VPN Policies – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] Tor – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- General GL.iNet on-line documentation not referred from the above documentation
- [Wayback/Archive] Upgrade to Firmware 4.x – GL.iNet Docs
- VPN
- Others
- [Wayback/Archive] Change WAN to LAN – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
You can configure the WAN port of the router so that it can be used as a LAN port. That’s useful when you are using the router in repeater mode which the WAN port is not required. As a result, you can have one more LAN port.
Especially for GL-AR300M-Lite, it only has one Ethernet port which works as WAN by default. Therefore, you must connect to it via Wi-Fi. However, once you have connected to it, you can change its WAN port to LAN so that you can connect to it via an Ethernet cable.
- [Wayback/Archive] LED Indication – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] File Sharing – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] Multimedia File Sharing – GL.iNet Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] DDNS – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- Setup
- Enable DDNS
- Check if DDNS is enabled
- HTTP Remote Access
- HTTPS Remote Access
- SSH Remote Access
- Turn Off
The DDNS domain printed on the back label of router has changed. If your DDNS url is
xxxxxxx.gl-inet.comon the back of router, new DDNS url will bexxxxxxx.glddns.com. - [Wayback/Archive] Cloud – GL.iNet Docs (GL.iNet GoodCloud¶) with these subtopics:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Setup
- Manage your devices
- Site to Site
- Batch Setting
- Template Management
- Task List
- BLE MQTT Bridge
- GoodCloud and VPN
- Turn off cloud
Keep in mind cloud security.
- [Wayback/Archive] SSH to the Router – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- [Wayback/Archive] Modify files on the router – GL.iNet Docs (using WinSCP)
- [Wayback/Archive] Check IP Address – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- Wayback/Archive] Internet Priority – GL.iNet Docs
The priority of 4 Internet connection type is Cable > Repeater > Tethering > 3G/4G Modem
That means if the router has multiple type of connection simultaneously, it will choose the highest priority type connection, if the connection is down, it will fall back to a lower priority connection in a certain period of time.
- [Wayback/Archive] Mobile App – GL.iNet Docs linking to:
- [Wayback/Archive] Find model number – GL.iNet Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] LuCI – GL.iNet Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] LED Customization – GL.iNet Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] Camera – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- Supported Models
- Install Plug-ins
- Adjust the webcam as needed
- microuter USB Webcam
- Enjoy your streaming USB webcam through connecting GL.iNet router.
Through GL.iNet routers, you can monitor your home, office by using USB webcam. If you have your own USB Webcam, you can follow the procedures below to set up real time monitoring via GL.iNet routers and see if it is workable.
Be very careful with this, as you do not want to expose your webcam to be visible form the internet without authentication.
- [Wayback/Archive] GL-AX1800 new and old version – GL.iNet Docs
- [Wayback/Archive] Set up WireGuard server via AstroRelay – GL.iNet Docs
AstroRelay can provide a secure reverse proxy tunnel, which you can access your resources behind NAT and firewall.
- [Wayback/Archive] Change WAN to LAN – GL.iNet Docs with these subtopics:
- Firmware
- downloads [Wayback/Archive] GL.iNet download center
- source [Wayback/Archive] gl-inet/glinet: All ipks for GL.iNet’s official firmware. which I found via [Wayback/Archive] gl-inet/imagebuilder: Warning！Please look at ‘GL.iNET Imagebuilder Introduction’ section.
Regrettably it has no marked [Wayback/Archive] Releases · gl-inet/glinet and very few [Wayback/Archive] Tags · gl-inet/glinet or [Wayback/Archive] Branches · gl-inet/glinet.
- [Wayback] usermanual.wiki/m/7f6ba9bf2d52de3172669e500d48902df21efb83884dd2536b1080ea455e0542.pdf manual
- [Wayback/Archive] GL iNet GL-SFT1200/Opal AC1200 Wireless Travel Router User Manual – Manuals+
- Store: [Wayback/Archive] GL-SFT1200 Opal Gigabit Wireless Travel Router — GL.iNet
Images
- Amazon product image
- Documentation image
Searches
- [Wayback/Archive] gl inet “ac1200” travel filetype:pdf – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] User Manual Search Engine: gl inet travel ac1200
- [Wayback/Archive] gl inet “ac1200” travel – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] GL-SFT1200 site:gl-inet.com – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] “glddns.com” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] gl.inet 3.215 – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] gl.inet 3.212 – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] GL.inet Firmware v3.215 is released – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] GL.inet Firmware v3.212 is released – Google Search
–jeroen
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