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While the pcWRT router firmware does support VLAN creation on the router itself, out of the box it does not support incoming tagged VLAN traffic. You need to log in the router shell to edit the switch configuration manually. Doing so will mess up the UI for VLAN assignments on the Network Settings page, but as long as you don’t update network settings from that page again you should be fine.

More info on manually setting up VLANs is available here: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/vlan/switch_configuration

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Yes, googleapis.com is also blocked when you block YouTube. But you can enter www.googleapis.com in the white list to bypass the block.

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@chrisj The command is “ssh root@<router-ip>”. Is that what you entered?

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1. You can create up to 4 SSIDs per band (of course, including guest)
2. You can limit speed on a group of devices (organized in profiles). You can assign named devices to any profile you create. Unnamed devices are automatically assigned to the Default profile. There are multiple ways to set controls. C.f., https://www.pcwrt.com/2020/01/how-to-allow-or-block-web-sites-on-the-router/
3. You can specify which network (VLAN) goes through VPN when you set up the VPN connection: https://www.pcwrt.com/2019/12/how-to-set-up-an-ikev2-ipsec-vpn-client-connection-on-the-pcwrt-router/
4. Not planned yet. Are you intending to use a SOCKS5 proxy with some VPN services?
5. Yes

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@Ramazanpour69 https://shop.pcwrt.com. Shipping cost to Australia is calculated at checkout.

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The Globe is always orange.

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There’s a possibility that you’ll break something if you modify the iptables directly.

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The LEDs for 2.4G & 5G are on when WiFi is started on the corresponding band. The LED blinks when there’s network activity. Same goes with the Globe (for Internet). It blinks when there’s network activity. It may also blink when WAN down, as the router is trying to get an IP address from the ISP.

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Breed is a bootloader of Chinese origin, first published on the forum https://www.right.com.cn/forum/. This is the developer’s blog: https://blog.hackpascal.net/. It’s closed source. Unfortunately all these are in Chinese.

Router management UI is available in HTTPS as well as HTTP (using a self-signed cert, you’ll get a warning the first time). We kept HTTP open for convenience to the user.

When a page is blocked, the router tries to display a “blocked” page. This works if the accessed page is in HTTP. For pages blocked over HTTPS, the router still tries to send the “blocked” page. But since the router does not have the right SSL cert for the requested web site, your browser will either deny the page or show a SSL cert warning.

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@moral That is the correct behavior. When you turn on client isolation, it is turned on for the VLAN, which may encompass both WiFi bands and wired connections. Maybe the UI should be updated to auto-check client isolation on the other band when it is checked for one band.

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@bashdashovi There’s probably something else then. We didn’t have any problems with calendars keep blocking when they’re supposed to be back on. The last update did not touch the Access Control functions either.

Can you send a copy of your backup file to [email protected]?

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@bashdashovi You may try putting all Echo devices in a dedicated profile and selecting a non-filtering DNS such as 1.1.1.1.

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@BashDashovi Is Ad blocking enabled on the profile? If so, check the Internet logs for which domains required by Echo was blocked as Ad. Post those domains here and we’ll remove those from the ad blocking list.

As an immediate test, you can create a separate profile for the Echo devices and disable Ad blocking for the profile.

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@20muhanna04 You may check the Internet Access logs to see if any domain needed by Google Meet is blocked.

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@James Please send email to [email protected]

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