tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78743863290355774262024-02-08T04:19:52.398+00:00Punj Technology blogPunj Technology blog helping youPunj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-57816778957909781772022-12-31T20:30:00.089+00:002023-01-05T20:20:54.939+00:00Surfshark Wireguard on an OpenWRT router setup / installation<div><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: left;"><b>In this tutorial we will help you setup <a href="https://surfshark.com/friend?coupon=referral&utm_source=refer%20a%20friend&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=link&referral_code=8GFLmRdR" target="_blank">Surfshark VPN</a> on your router with the <a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT </a>firmware and the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WireGuard" target="_blank">Wireguard </a>protocol</b>.</h2><a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank">Surfshark VPN</a> offers a great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network" target="_blank">VPN</a> service, with some great <a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank">apps</a> to get you up and running on your devices. However we found using and setting up the service on our <a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT</a> router quite problematic. The support files at <a href="https://support.surfshark.com/hc/en-us/articles/7091559595666-How-to-set-up-WireGuard-on-OpenWRT-router-" target="_blank">Surfshark</a> are a great help to assist.<br /><br />Please remember this tutorial is for setting up <a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank">Surfshark VPN</a> to your <a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT </a>internet router using the new Wireguard VPN settings.<br /><br /><b>You must ensure that you have the following for this setup to work</b><br /><br />Cable router with <a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT </a>firmware already setup with SSH access. Our test router had the <a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank">OpenWRT</a> firmware V19.07.7 <br /><br />Windows 10 OS computer for setting up our VPN router.<br /><br />A <a href="https://surfshark.com/friend?coupon=referral&utm_source=refer%20a%20friend&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=link&referral_code=8GFLmRdR" target="_blank">SurfsharkVPN</a> subscription. Head over <a href="https://surfshark.com/friend?coupon=referral&utm_source=refer%20a%20friend&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=link&referral_code=8GFLmRdR" target="_blank">here </a>if you don’t have one for some great discounted prices. You will be provided with a great offer using our<a href="https://surfshark.com/friend?coupon=referral&utm_source=refer%20a%20friend&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=link&referral_code=8GFLmRdR" target="_blank"> link here</a><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://surfshark.com/friend?coupon=referral&utm_source=refer%20a%20friend&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=link&referral_code=8GFLmRdR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img alt="https://surfshark.com/friend?coupon=referral&utm_source=refer%20a%20friend&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=link&referral_code=8GFLmRdR" border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuw0JUhsbJ7ySXUDwI9qa4MRrCIo3CNmOoirTJH5orE1XIlNHMQfYYT7PsjuBu2HoHVTUWDTrMIkg8OBNVF7rmDtgCJLgruhu2L6PDf29hoaoILlNoSn3wMj9YGqHxjRCvhaRZUICkdOTBi8qiC76sIpcqC7Hs7tMxbE6f-jZkRgj4wAYsRrZkrLKs/s16000/surfsharkimage.png" title="https://surfshark.com/friend?coupon=referral&utm_source=refer%20a%20friend&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=link&referral_code=8GFLmRdR" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;">These are the steps in our blog tutorial below:-</div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><ul><li>Step 1 - Goto your <a href="https://surfshark.com" target="_blank">SurfsharkVPN</a> account and configure then download your SurfsharkVPN Wireguard profile</li></ul><ul><li>Step 2 - At your <a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT </a>router install the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WireGuard" target="_blank">WireGuard </a>software.</li></ul><ul><li>Step 3 - At your <a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT </a>router configure / setup <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WireGuard" target="_blank">Wireguard </a>and the router firewall.</li></ul></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><b>And that's it</b></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;">So lets get started</div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><ul><li><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Step 1 - Goto your SurfsharkVPN account and configure then download your SurfsharkVPN Wireguard profile</span></b></li></ul></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Log-in to your <a href="https://my.surfshark.com/vpn/manual-setup/main" target="_blank">Surfshark account</a> and then on the left go to the VPN tab and </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">choose the</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> Router </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">option and then click on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">WireGuard</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Cgfr24c1mRrMso1f-g3yrDfAYkHZD9al9hWINgRluNMAWp0K5VjKmPPVStCgaHQwk1EzFj-88zcJpZxLGHSZt7G2jVlso6t9wlBX6iGq66SpWL_xJPDPaESD9dIVBQm0V9kHS1IapZXwyHBja50oUSijkTy-ReHqfCvBckWKU_fvRNQcNVmszr9E/s1882/wgrou1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1176" data-original-width="1882" height="292" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Cgfr24c1mRrMso1f-g3yrDfAYkHZD9al9hWINgRluNMAWp0K5VjKmPPVStCgaHQwk1EzFj-88zcJpZxLGHSZt7G2jVlso6t9wlBX6iGq66SpWL_xJPDPaESD9dIVBQm0V9kHS1IapZXwyHBja50oUSijkTy-ReHqfCvBckWKU_fvRNQcNVmszr9E/w467-h292/wgrou1.png" width="467" /></a></div><br /><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">A new window will open. Now click on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">I don't have a key pair</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6sfCcUx8QFalJQRQjG8AEm8rzR8LzeiUCXKv0y5QQPz5T_SRXC9nxXu83snpr6D57rMFxDXRIH20C67yzOcay3qGqz7Z-tq-qQOq_NsmJ7If5AsqE3a-nrLQubMQwCln7jB02iocLV6-MLANF-3UypSY2IJWyGnA4tV8bBrJBUJXjLkkQ4ja8864b/s1886/wgro6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="1886" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6sfCcUx8QFalJQRQjG8AEm8rzR8LzeiUCXKv0y5QQPz5T_SRXC9nxXu83snpr6D57rMFxDXRIH20C67yzOcay3qGqz7Z-tq-qQOq_NsmJ7If5AsqE3a-nrLQubMQwCln7jB02iocLV6-MLANF-3UypSY2IJWyGnA4tV8bBrJBUJXjLkkQ4ja8864b/w449-h281/wgro6.png" width="449" /></a></div><br /><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">On the next window click on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Generate a new key pair</span>.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Note:</span> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">once the key pairs are generated, copy them and store them on your device, as you will not be able to check them again.</em></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2L8G0PhNSqGOhCcAUYiOtkTjIiPJepT35whTJEvV3r-IwRpa4ayXPRM8jleTwr6WFSaeA1TVMGkXxb4vVe4QhQTD6yxLj27QY4ZkyFBiiR9r97hWrP_6iCXes0lVnUYTztm8dY1YFPPPfbscn8jMxTnlBOiNlfSpWEgfNrNON6iyKa1LJOfOf6Im_/s1882/wgro7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="1882" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2L8G0PhNSqGOhCcAUYiOtkTjIiPJepT35whTJEvV3r-IwRpa4ayXPRM8jleTwr6WFSaeA1TVMGkXxb4vVe4QhQTD6yxLj27QY4ZkyFBiiR9r97hWrP_6iCXes0lVnUYTztm8dY1YFPPPfbscn8jMxTnlBOiNlfSpWEgfNrNON6iyKa1LJOfOf6Im_/w490-h305/wgro7.png" width="490" /></a></div><br /><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;">Next we need to choose the server location so select </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;">Choose a location</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"> button, and click on it where you will see a full list of available locations to connect to.</span><span style="color: #222e3a; 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font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJmUsMRMy9hiJZdkdXDgRf6JeJANP7-q-5jjcRpPvD3eaJUMhkU0o1gA0UMdFEXSSi8YQ2rkjBiaMpDd1QbFlz2Efl437O6QNS8v8nrhDRBfRN6IIeWHVHuZP22ES3Gm8GVQ83rPCw5ToVQXcG1mBxM8Q0PJ1PlFMiY9GZiFFzplPxbW6ekm1uEvEW/s1882/choose%20a%20loc.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="1882" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJmUsMRMy9hiJZdkdXDgRf6JeJANP7-q-5jjcRpPvD3eaJUMhkU0o1gA0UMdFEXSSi8YQ2rkjBiaMpDd1QbFlz2Efl437O6QNS8v8nrhDRBfRN6IIeWHVHuZP22ES3Gm8GVQ83rPCw5ToVQXcG1mBxM8Q0PJ1PlFMiY9GZiFFzplPxbW6ekm1uEvEW/w503-h314/choose%20a%20loc.png" width="503" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">Then download your profile to your desktop. The file will have the *.conf extension and contain all the relevant information like private and public keys, dns, server location etc information... If this information is missing in your downloaded <a href="https://support.surfshark.com/hc/en-us/articles/7091559595666-How-to-set-up-WireGuard-on-OpenWRT-router-" target="_blank">config file</a> go back and re-create the file or save this information from the surfshark account login manual setup page. This information is required or the wireguard setup will not work. SEE THE <a href="https://youtu.be/6kqm9S45BNU" target="_blank">YOUTUBE VIDEO</a> at the bottom of our tutorial if you need further assistance. </span></span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">In our example file below we have taken out our sensitive information like Private and Public keys, Interface, Address, Allowed IP's and Endpoint information.</span></span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQoWRxlS5jNILEXCo_saDO1DEsAxRzYHFBOjGU0vXcsN13zXkt9COuae2_zoGnVjqRR88ujs-0i8pVZq7oP4-EDAIR37trOK_eBP95KhfZ69RMpIKfoTVmS1oi8zFGplX5GY4FvJecpFW_VYDHfgnyBTAlBVpn6n6rJDB9_gCp8LatyP6qK1iiffYP/s642/wgconf.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="642" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQoWRxlS5jNILEXCo_saDO1DEsAxRzYHFBOjGU0vXcsN13zXkt9COuae2_zoGnVjqRR88ujs-0i8pVZq7oP4-EDAIR37trOK_eBP95KhfZ69RMpIKfoTVmS1oi8zFGplX5GY4FvJecpFW_VYDHfgnyBTAlBVpn6n6rJDB9_gCp8LatyP6qK1iiffYP/w545-h205/wgconf.png" width="545" /></a></div></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><h3><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Step 2 - At your OpenWRT router install the WireGuard software.</span></li></ul></h3></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">We assume that you have your <a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWrt </a>router already flashed with the up to date firmware and secured with an internet connection </span></span></span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">available</span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Open up your internet browser and type in the address bar access for your router setup page. Normally this is </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://192.168.1.1" target="_blank">192.168.1.1</a> unless</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"> you have changed this</span></span></span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Next click on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">System</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> and select </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Software</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZWnwsxB_NLJdxXzrkiqpm5--JwSkwhAiHFQU0JuAkpoZpRAKFT_tGoMA74IIIVFb4GJZjPhZzuBj7Sr0PoXeHjHr5wNUWgi8hSmmCMzkz_7i0f3XdCoMOUSE7SE-MRb4zCj7URJ1XCivm-E08t6TR6AHf92lYG9G3sWBycgI1IVzteXfv7k2S2New/s1476/openwrt1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="1476" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZWnwsxB_NLJdxXzrkiqpm5--JwSkwhAiHFQU0JuAkpoZpRAKFT_tGoMA74IIIVFb4GJZjPhZzuBj7Sr0PoXeHjHr5wNUWgi8hSmmCMzkz_7i0f3XdCoMOUSE7SE-MRb4zCj7URJ1XCivm-E08t6TR6AHf92lYG9G3sWBycgI1IVzteXfv7k2S2New/w487-h222/openwrt1.png" width="487" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">On this page, click on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Update lists</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">. so we can download the up to date <a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/wireguard/start" target="_blank">WireGuard </a>software</span></span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjicCobUQHGkSXFohS-DCMaO5br46ydjohDbwg3648PSSnXcw-JMywJivwsfbTyi6N7IoY8BwgvGeayGfeMOmdiAy74HjDkuOiN-xQFUEjdJzEWGaDD-RECFg9hI22L_DU3shgEbIhNoC5dDoOk_083v3zsCBLNqZIt3W8Olbi_Jn5dDK3Z-d0L6y1o/s1436/openwrt2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="1436" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjicCobUQHGkSXFohS-DCMaO5br46ydjohDbwg3648PSSnXcw-JMywJivwsfbTyi6N7IoY8BwgvGeayGfeMOmdiAy74HjDkuOiN-xQFUEjdJzEWGaDD-RECFg9hI22L_DU3shgEbIhNoC5dDoOk_083v3zsCBLNqZIt3W8Olbi_Jn5dDK3Z-d0L6y1o/w496-h222/openwrt2.png" width="496" /></a></div><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div>When the lists have updated, Type in the search field </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/wireguard/start" target="_blank">WireGuard</a></span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">, and install the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/wireguard/start" target="_blank">WireGuard</a></span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/vpn/wireguard/start" target="_blank"> </a>package, Next </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Type in the search field</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">luci-app-wireguard </span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">and install this package.</span></span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWRTGh_g6ieNsIBxtakUWR7BQ8k1cXdwqBUnp1mQ19dynCXn1J-M5CvanYlHT9QBbMou7_b8RsOZ0aZO6_d5AnmnaGT2MBG6QhqXQh3Zddgqm1I-ZUyO6341b6EmY6S-p4JkhslvG3Geuf134vq51R46dusp6oOVV9sVyw_Onmrnr5ww6GOfwssDsz/s1422/openwrt3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1422" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWRTGh_g6ieNsIBxtakUWR7BQ8k1cXdwqBUnp1mQ19dynCXn1J-M5CvanYlHT9QBbMou7_b8RsOZ0aZO6_d5AnmnaGT2MBG6QhqXQh3Zddgqm1I-ZUyO6341b6EmY6S-p4JkhslvG3Geuf134vq51R46dusp6oOVV9sVyw_Onmrnr5ww6GOfwssDsz/w553-h330/openwrt3.png" width="553" /></a></div><br /><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;">Now re-boot your router.</span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><h3><ul><li><span style="font-size: medium;">Step 3 - At your OpenWRT router configure / setup Wireguard and the router firewall.</span></li></ul></h3></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">We will now need to configure and setup the WireGuard interface. </span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Open up your internet browser and type in the address bar access to your router setup page. Normally this is </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><a href="192,168.1.1" target="_blank">192.168.1.1 </a></span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">if you haven't changed this</span></span></span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Click on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Network</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">, then select </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Interfaces</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">, and at the bottom of this page select</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> Add new interface.</span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU2StHl_SMMMbVsWkpimG8OWysnRes45ypFagmb0qckC4E9qt3RkM201K1gDIm-0slZtY3kR1lSmQ3rqa51pV_HHI0Mgs_tMrs5h_MS1_BzzYTwkI5k4Zil_nXaNuUKraYxSbkgNjeFycNufopco06hFRJJs1-bWw8pIN53Z7UuXScJqJFoy7WIUBO/s1436/openwrt4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="830" data-original-width="1436" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU2StHl_SMMMbVsWkpimG8OWysnRes45ypFagmb0qckC4E9qt3RkM201K1gDIm-0slZtY3kR1lSmQ3rqa51pV_HHI0Mgs_tMrs5h_MS1_BzzYTwkI5k4Zil_nXaNuUKraYxSbkgNjeFycNufopco06hFRJJs1-bWw8pIN53Z7UuXScJqJFoy7WIUBO/w524-h303/openwrt4.png" width="524" /></a></div><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Type the following in Name and Protocol</span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Name: </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">wg0</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Protocol: </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">WireGuard VPN</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">And then select </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Create Interface</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;" /><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4nz9GxGAqULG_iQFAXRpIxttepKUANslrCXjXKbY-0UQpMEG8G33GXWVfM3bwJnzQFOHFF-NIBhn-E3ojY4HW2d2dUI0QZppTMf9yLRtKd5BHoBKCaAxayELDoYco6btO6MngPNno-brFvniAXUAitflUkply10xajBlYgS6LNsxtjqh4LPPj1gT/s1344/mceclip2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="1344" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4nz9GxGAqULG_iQFAXRpIxttepKUANslrCXjXKbY-0UQpMEG8G33GXWVfM3bwJnzQFOHFF-NIBhn-E3ojY4HW2d2dUI0QZppTMf9yLRtKd5BHoBKCaAxayELDoYco6btO6MngPNno-brFvniAXUAitflUkply10xajBlYgS6LNsxtjqh4LPPj1gT/w473-h92/mceclip2.png" width="473" /></a></div><br /><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">Now in the Newley created wg0 interface we will enter the Private key which we generated at the beginning of this <a href="https://punj-technology.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">tutorial</a>. </span></span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">Within the wg0 "General Settings" page </span></span></span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Copy and paste the Private Key you saved earlier as shown below. Make sure this is the <b>Private key</b> and not the public one</span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiTsb7oDeomV7_TFIOXFRqaQNvvGKyXFIN32yzuKMzxa0jGMqfhC6rZOgijocTRfyYk9kGm9WtvxV-KybYfRt2jj4dzPqGXTwGL_bBtO1diyB46ZEt1vsfGp1BbYWZmIla46zCmeTfLJr_syOIUtsZky5Yw4bWCLlqqmkYdJpbm_OIoqoDGLdBKai/s1336/mceclip3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1336" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyiTsb7oDeomV7_TFIOXFRqaQNvvGKyXFIN32yzuKMzxa0jGMqfhC6rZOgijocTRfyYk9kGm9WtvxV-KybYfRt2jj4dzPqGXTwGL_bBtO1diyB46ZEt1vsfGp1BbYWZmIla46zCmeTfLJr_syOIUtsZky5Yw4bWCLlqqmkYdJpbm_OIoqoDGLdBKai/w488-h342/mceclip3.png" width="488" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">In the IP Address box, enter the IP address from the Surfshark WireGuard server file you saved earlier. In our example our was </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">10.14.0.2/16.</span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Next click on the</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Advanced Settings</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">tab and</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">uncheck <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Use DNS servers advertised by peer</span> and enter Surfshark DNS addresses which are: This option may not be available on some versions </span></div><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">162.252.172.57</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span></span><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">149.154.159.92</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Assigning the firewall Zone</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Next<b> </b>we will assign a firewall zone. To do this click on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Firewall settings. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">and then</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> click on</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">unspecified</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">and then in the bottom field enter</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">vpn</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><b>Next </b>click on the</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Peers</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">tab and select</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Add peer</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><b>Now enter all the information as shown below :</b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Description</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">:</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">you can name it whatever you like. Our example name was SurfsharkWireguardUSA</em></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Public key</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">:</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">paste your <b>public key</b> which is shown on the config file downloaded earlier (NOT private)</em></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Allowed IPs</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">:</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">0.0.0.0/0</em></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Route allowed IPs</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">:</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> Put a tick in this box ✅</em></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Endpoint host</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">:</span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> enter the endpoint IP address of the configuration file (<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">note that it should end with surfshark.com</span>) </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> In our example ours was us-seatle.prod.surfshark.com</em></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Endpoint port</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">: </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Enter the last 5 digits from the IP address of the configuration file - In our example ours was 51820</em></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Lastly, click</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Save</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">We now need to </span></span></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">save and apply</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"> the 7 pending changes with in our newly created </span></span></span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">WG0 interface</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> so that </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">they are saved within our router</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WP7qz6bkO_jDr6uB53o6EA5d_rws02qdPGhONnxG27BGHacvOUOZqRTJFMXR9FnWBjqRLcDAel1I2Wy-xQ7Imh_cthupMxz_2Jj9XYU_yoMZ0j7QPvvGeRUeSj71CV9vO_oP_GJebsqqFvR5Mvt-McsKnf0zRiv3Iz_KmjwnZ62HIgVRaOKIbiRX/s1424/mceclip0.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="1424" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4WP7qz6bkO_jDr6uB53o6EA5d_rws02qdPGhONnxG27BGHacvOUOZqRTJFMXR9FnWBjqRLcDAel1I2Wy-xQ7Imh_cthupMxz_2Jj9XYU_yoMZ0j7QPvvGeRUeSj71CV9vO_oP_GJebsqqFvR5Mvt-McsKnf0zRiv3Iz_KmjwnZ62HIgVRaOKIbiRX/w511-h335/mceclip0.png" width="511" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><h4 class="wysiwyg-text-align-center" id="h_01GANDT52396KRK06H8KH0PKX1" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;"><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium;">Finally we need to Configure the VPN zone</span></h4><div><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">To configure the VPN zone. Go to the </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Network</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> tab and select </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Firewall</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> at the bottom.</span></span></div><div><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEdj0TpTZRy1kqn9U6foQn1jjQkzete5830_gd2Xa8QoH-uMGlFRztFlGHwvkZh9EcP3qUYz0_h6twKpFbKd1VEy5JqbXI0wnd4L1nmZxJNeky_fo8lzxnyM6dIizJA1gXxlRoBxHpfpx1bI_sbRFxd_2J_UaF_jTmxgC3A0bVfjJk3Pdc6NZPOwpc/s1195/wgfw1.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="623" data-original-width="1195" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEdj0TpTZRy1kqn9U6foQn1jjQkzete5830_gd2Xa8QoH-uMGlFRztFlGHwvkZh9EcP3qUYz0_h6twKpFbKd1VEy5JqbXI0wnd4L1nmZxJNeky_fo8lzxnyM6dIizJA1gXxlRoBxHpfpx1bI_sbRFxd_2J_UaF_jTmxgC3A0bVfjJk3Pdc6NZPOwpc/w492-h257/wgfw1.PNG" width="492" /></a></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Here at the bottom, you will find the VPN zone wgO we created. We need to change the input, output, forward and masquerading options to match the “wan” zone. Change the input from </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Accept</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> to </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Reject, </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">And check the masquerading box here. After doing so, click </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Save</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">.</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><br /></span></span></div><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: xx-large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMV2nBtCf0HhZqk_eSjybgpGi_QKMd0D_9j4qZhPaDZFo9c2Av48tvUUJ3CVP2u-aLb20dyu5sZ3HurPEQPXK3J1MhgF7VbtZpPq_okoc3fgMW1kA6pPOhzimNnvdCqP2RE71YIEGmTRFuHcBL5NSKqSroFRsEHAJsZlkyVZcje3XRC2U2ha-uEa1W/s1073/wgfw2.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="1073" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMV2nBtCf0HhZqk_eSjybgpGi_QKMd0D_9j4qZhPaDZFo9c2Av48tvUUJ3CVP2u-aLb20dyu5sZ3HurPEQPXK3J1MhgF7VbtZpPq_okoc3fgMW1kA6pPOhzimNnvdCqP2RE71YIEGmTRFuHcBL5NSKqSroFRsEHAJsZlkyVZcje3XRC2U2ha-uEa1W/w524-h262/wgfw2.PNG" width="524" /></a></div><div style="font-size: xx-large;"><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Next the Lan to Wan zones will be edited, so click on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Edit</span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> and </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;">Allow forward to destination zones, </span><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; letter-spacing: -0.2px; text-align: left;"> section click on this little arrow and select the VPN zone. See image below</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="wysiwyg-font-size-x-large"><span style="color: #222e3a; font-family: SurfsharkCircularWeb;"><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgenWoeWhaJ6LpZWFBYB46HPILd7tYsDptjtDzfGS7HmN8kEJezi9Q_1MMnpurdzQTjfn46S-YAygKVWuoNZO_TX_J9sj4eVN9Yr_ownzbOOMgaV-EkEH6rtR7srdtHubzgl3JrJO9f-2WIrDF6hxzkqxNcDTPodBRe5ZbY95GfY9TuBgAX8mHA3lI5/s1108/wgfw3.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="524" data-original-width="1108" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgenWoeWhaJ6LpZWFBYB46HPILd7tYsDptjtDzfGS7HmN8kEJezi9Q_1MMnpurdzQTjfn46S-YAygKVWuoNZO_TX_J9sj4eVN9Yr_ownzbOOMgaV-EkEH6rtR7srdtHubzgl3JrJO9f-2WIrDF6hxzkqxNcDTPodBRe5ZbY95GfY9TuBgAX8mHA3lI5/w512-h241/wgfw3.PNG" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;">Finally Click <b>Save & Apply </b>and<b> reboot </b>the router</div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">The WireGuard VPN is should now be active and working. To verify, click on </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">Network</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">, then select </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">Interfaces</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">. The </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">WG0</span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"> interface created should be receiving and sending packets.</span></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilMskQEXNx8PZp5IsyIz5w3CY-DW8wOXHavSgq2KBLeogX4vguA7aD_o8TfN2xg6nSKctjhugD6CmvMfFOTWnVTT2X2JfZMiCQkRrDn8lWB4CF76uAJM4XexkmSDQvfaXUzam6OW1kKNKpdYhpkTaetrtYGFPx8I36MkV0qZGMcTaa_y0-Mj9oSc-F/s1015/wgfw5.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1015" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilMskQEXNx8PZp5IsyIz5w3CY-DW8wOXHavSgq2KBLeogX4vguA7aD_o8TfN2xg6nSKctjhugD6CmvMfFOTWnVTT2X2JfZMiCQkRrDn8lWB4CF76uAJM4XexkmSDQvfaXUzam6OW1kKNKpdYhpkTaetrtYGFPx8I36MkV0qZGMcTaa_y0-Mj9oSc-F/s320/wgfw5.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;">All now should be working with your internet protected by the Surfshark Wireguard VPN connection.</div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;">To check that Surfshark is protecting you with a secure connection open up your internet browser and go to <a href="https://surfshark.com/what-is-my-ip" target="_blank">https://surfshark.com/what-is-my-ip</a></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://surfshark.com/dns-leak-test" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1350" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh55T1YBIXfWVVvaW2mBYNxE4DCXn_r3Dawm1aTw-40XvQlQskA-OnIaZZRc6MnbwDoOUJiQNPioGGXqjYbz-xmJ0G0F7xmfVZKNsP89Q2xAs4X292yt8VQniSffMpBczpXHb1UWW7Ru3vNist6_efiXG7gsudIq2UcIWmE8f3JezGksr9iHwcO6iSw/w508-h261/wgfw6.PNG" width="508" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;">This useful webpage will confirm that your connection is secure. You can also carry out the Leak test to check that you using <a href="https://surfshark.com/dns-leak-test" target="_blank">Surfsharks secure DNS</a> servers.</div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;">And if you still experience problems head over to <a href="https://support.surfshark.com/hc/en-us" target="_blank">Surfsharks Support</a> where they have some great help pages.</div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; text-align: left;">An example is this great <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kqm9S45BNU&ab_channel=SurfsharkAcademy" target="_blank">youtube video</a> below by them which you will find useful</div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="348" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6kqm9S45BNU" width="419" youtube-src-id="6kqm9S45BNU"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We would like to thank the original author of this review at </span><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">www.punj.co.uk</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at </span><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="box-sizing: border-box;">http://www.punj.co.uk</a></i></span></div><div><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">We are providing the contents here for educational purposes only and offer no guarantee that this process will work for you. On this note you should be aware that by carrying out the processes here you do so at your risk </span></span><br /></i><div class="separator" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-size: large;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-7726393836506348582022-12-21T10:21:00.000+00:002023-01-03T13:17:23.753+00:00Surfshark (OpenVPN) on an OpenWRT router<p><br /></p><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In this tutorial we will help you setup Surfshark VPN on your router with the OpenWRT firmware.</span></span></h2><div align="justify" style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://punj-technology.blogspot.com/2018/08/purevpn-on-ddwrt-router.html"><span style="color: #ffc000; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><em><strong><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;"><span>H</span>ead over here if you are looking at installing and setting up DDWRT firmware on your router</span></span></strong></em></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></span></span></span></span><br /></span><div align="justify" style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span><span><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffc000; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;">Surfshark VPN</span></span></a><span><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">offers a great </span></span></span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffc000; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: red;">VPN</span></span></a><span><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">service, with some great </span><span><a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">apps</span></a> </span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">to get you up and running on your devices. However we found using and setting up the servic</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">e</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> on our </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #ffc000; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT</a></span></span><span><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">router quite problematic. The support files at <a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank">Surfshark</a> are a great help.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span><br /></span><div align="justify" style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span>Please remember this tutorial is for setting up <a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank">Surfshark VPN</a> to your internet router</span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"></span></span></span></span><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You must ensure that you have the following for this setup to work</span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Cable router with </span><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT</a></span><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank"> </a></span><span>firmware already setup with SSH access. Our test router had the </span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank">OpenWRT</a></span><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000;"><a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank"> </a></span><span>firmware V19.07.7</span></span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows 10 OS computer for setting up our VPN router.</span></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>A </span><a href="https://surfshark.com/friend?coupon=referral&utm_source=refer%20a%20friend&utm_medium=dashboard&utm_campaign=link&referral_code=8GFLmRdR" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">SurfsharkVPN</span></a><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000;"> </span><span>subscription. Head over </span></span></span><a href="https://surfshark.club/friend/8GFLmRdR" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000;"> </span><span>if you don’t have one for some great discounted prices. You will be provided with a great offer using our </span></span></span><a href="https://surfshark.club/friend/8GFLmRdR" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ffc000;"><span style="color: red;">link</span> <span style="color: red;">here</span></span></a><span style="color: #ffc000; font-size: 13.5pt;"></span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://surfshark.club/friend/8GFLmRdR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="138" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2sJhNCo7XYt2sfH0CuCHxpJJDAxWg_AwOfNFI_Dh5Cv30kje1p_JjDU_Gc717uKGsE5MBybpwE-H84ft5ZlT5eXBAyxOuNWz5NkctsIvfuH5AoROmBvjNzay1EXZlNoARFu1tDGC8ULDLE5oKvkrq5vldCeLVYjHERvZ37dBFZBWeX32v2tMKH3OU/s1600/surfsharkimage.png" width="138" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">You will require the following files. Download these and have them on your desktop.</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Surfshark VPN profile – </span><a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Download from here</span></a><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000;"> </span><span>- Extract using winzip or 7zip on to your windows 10 desktop</span></span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7874386329035577426" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7874386329035577426" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>WinSCP – </span><a href="https://winscp.net/eng/download.php" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Download from here</span></a><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000;"> </span><span>– Install WinSCP program as this will be required later</span></span></span><br /></span><br /></span></div></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Let’s now carry out the steps required</span></b></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Access and login into the </span><a href="https://openwrt.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">OpenWRT</span></a><span><span><span style="color: #ffc000;"> </span><span>router from your browser so that we can update and install the necessary router software program files. Normally you can do this by typing <a href="http://192.168.1.1" target="_blank">192.168.1.1</a> in your browser address bar.</span></span></span></span></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><br /></span><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Within the OpenWRT browser Luci screen go to “<strong>System</strong>” > “<strong>Software</strong>”</span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span></span><br /></span><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span>Now click on the “<strong>Update</strong>” button and wait for the screen to update</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkK7KG0s9nUmgpBhK_qJKIs1vkVlxrZ7ir_U-7TJktWlJtfgxkSXvlUSwwo9Ifm00xZdDlpssGzA5pFvDFDUvp0T6lYCmS3nG544lfeL4RhyNN8cxuhIF3cK1aEdy84pYvylpXLCiy2-R6tXeWsGNa2siDl3W8FpzvatdvXQAUkfjzkyj_f4AMMkVu=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="640" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhkK7KG0s9nUmgpBhK_qJKIs1vkVlxrZ7ir_U-7TJktWlJtfgxkSXvlUSwwo9Ifm00xZdDlpssGzA5pFvDFDUvp0T6lYCmS3nG544lfeL4RhyNN8cxuhIF3cK1aEdy84pYvylpXLCiy2-R6tXeWsGNa2siDl3W8FpzvatdvXQAUkfjzkyj_f4AMMkVu=s320" width="320" /></a></div></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span>Now within the “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Download and install package</b>” tab enter <b>"luci-app-openvpn openvpn-openssl" </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and press the “<b>OK</b>” button. This will now install the VPN package software to the router. Be patient for the software to install.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjge-jnfLmjfaPBjhzvKWALvGuZsONxDp4vb1oFWPk6kwnxWh2C_C_3uNOXMavzItCuSPYlpFcxCZEcxO5S-z-OAskNcig0HAS9BcLOsQNEwHHblnH758GX82-m5-vWvdkwAA_rdDIF1wxEnMmv9gF3rMRnbBU2wzmldZVxcMPjkaokhu97xxbZGU46=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="640" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjge-jnfLmjfaPBjhzvKWALvGuZsONxDp4vb1oFWPk6kwnxWh2C_C_3uNOXMavzItCuSPYlpFcxCZEcxO5S-z-OAskNcig0HAS9BcLOsQNEwHHblnH758GX82-m5-vWvdkwAA_rdDIF1wxEnMmv9gF3rMRnbBU2wzmldZVxcMPjkaokhu97xxbZGU46=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div align="right" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">We now need to configure the OpenVPN package and setup the firewall</span></b><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Now go to "<strong>Network</strong>" > "<strong>Interfaces</strong>" and click the "<strong>Add</strong> <strong>new</strong> <strong>interface</strong>" button.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYbZqSwrWN-NOly5ACDvJyKen0ndCIBZZ7_wT-232JUSSqj6XsBPHY8W6uddRze-7LhGZRW3HhEJmcP8pccySGfo_D0PFEolD2j-hnGHefWslR-VbRt9BIC70aXWFxO9Kq5LAN347Ds2t1HKWJCeN91oY0Eb337QY6GgJcU96OS46_ZYExOJVe8xwd=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="640" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgYbZqSwrWN-NOly5ACDvJyKen0ndCIBZZ7_wT-232JUSSqj6XsBPHY8W6uddRze-7LhGZRW3HhEJmcP8pccySGfo_D0PFEolD2j-hnGHefWslR-VbRt9BIC70aXWFxO9Kq5LAN347Ds2t1HKWJCeN91oY0Eb337QY6GgJcU96OS46_ZYExOJVe8xwd=s320" width="320" /></a></div></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span>Now Enter "<b>openvpn</b>" in "Name of the new interface". </span><span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Select "<b>Unmanaged</b>" in the "Protocol of the new interface" box.</span><span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Select "<b>Custom interface</b>" and enter "<b>tun0</b>". Note the zero and not the letter O.</span><span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Now click the "<b>Submit</b>" button.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGaXU7BALOTzjBQglUN7U6GzovOoh7erNvJHK58_vHCJWgY7wgMTZ0xhTZIAAE8lCmLJIipmXkbUnh1BsdHyn8cphUN1QaSJtCmGMl6nhRCsXpHGPuri1dVruG5oFV_MBCGWcXHquk1lb9WHcKCLszVGA_RVm7waszw36zLz3l-Nw5SJ8AppmwUPut=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="640" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGaXU7BALOTzjBQglUN7U6GzovOoh7erNvJHK58_vHCJWgY7wgMTZ0xhTZIAAE8lCmLJIipmXkbUnh1BsdHyn8cphUN1QaSJtCmGMl6nhRCsXpHGPuri1dVruG5oFV_MBCGWcXHquk1lb9WHcKCLszVGA_RVm7waszw36zLz3l-Nw5SJ8AppmwUPut=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now click the "</span><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Advanced Settings</strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">" tab and select "</span><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Bring up on boot</strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">".</span></div></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqjYZQB8L3TAJ1Gncuyv5qPA6QoV85bnYZ7GV2S_VppdytuIbZK4dwotjBwPL7XkiTWa1S_h49LbVx9DjYb4gDPo-8XrFoXGDmjvMBnWgyBkd3ZJ9Q5JSyB_9pz4_apaOu3cBPn6ofPjC9558DXx4Cbp_oJAcp1FhJwBhlsIwT9Oml7SC685HCtf93=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="640" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqjYZQB8L3TAJ1Gncuyv5qPA6QoV85bnYZ7GV2S_VppdytuIbZK4dwotjBwPL7XkiTWa1S_h49LbVx9DjYb4gDPo-8XrFoXGDmjvMBnWgyBkd3ZJ9Q5JSyB_9pz4_apaOu3cBPn6ofPjC9558DXx4Cbp_oJAcp1FhJwBhlsIwT9Oml7SC685HCtf93=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyCEpYMtnNQ4EIDKNder_UPnT7W_jxJYoh50GLk71El_pkuQK_3jQ0Jkjp1s4J3m71Ta7tw4vhjj6X58OUZrKvO3QxsWN_rREoU1i8ecRmnd5UntaOqBEm-k_s4wvnUvr1etIYouutbqgC264dxFpGin4RYVT4R1RAcjKKf-aFWmstd5Qv_aEuNJeC=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="640" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyCEpYMtnNQ4EIDKNder_UPnT7W_jxJYoh50GLk71El_pkuQK_3jQ0Jkjp1s4J3m71Ta7tw4vhjj6X58OUZrKvO3QxsWN_rREoU1i8ecRmnd5UntaOqBEm-k_s4wvnUvr1etIYouutbqgC264dxFpGin4RYVT4R1RAcjKKf-aFWmstd5Qv_aEuNJeC=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 27.6px;">Now click the <strong>"Firewall Settings" </strong>tab and select <strong>"unspecified -or- create:". </strong>enter<strong> "vpn".<br /></strong>Click <strong>"Save and apply".</strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><strong><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong></div></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJj0SU83cHQZiGBdm5eVkg1HridyCaVuq2z69HTnTfSVCyRjVDeH1yWantF3uGUzElmw8x_kIhH5niRyliyIXQdOsIRD1O8SZrjuaNznqg3gD_LJ9HeErsc49Zzhr3jG_CoiCvllemLqTFqidgSRWSPEs7e-HThGP4Ee3buhu-y75z-yedEzrepspW=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="403" data-original-width="640" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJj0SU83cHQZiGBdm5eVkg1HridyCaVuq2z69HTnTfSVCyRjVDeH1yWantF3uGUzElmw8x_kIhH5niRyliyIXQdOsIRD1O8SZrjuaNznqg3gD_LJ9HeErsc49Zzhr3jG_CoiCvllemLqTFqidgSRWSPEs7e-HThGP4Ee3buhu-y75z-yedEzrepspW=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><strong> </strong></span><br /><span>You should now have the "OpenVPN interface" like the picture below.</span><br /><span><strong></strong><br /></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWpv7t-ySMl6c2TwX7QfVFUQmOAEnhoGvfctDr0lagnmrq055CIp-abCnN6Oars4GZ0GsmUPzc9cGRq-l5pMZTYU73ackSHYWaKcbYeep2vcm03lAlk184FM0tdIih14Pa79dNK0LggpUxL-pt6IwfVmSux1UD1UDJMWqecuZw4Ia5z1oV3RewuNVW=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="640" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgWpv7t-ySMl6c2TwX7QfVFUQmOAEnhoGvfctDr0lagnmrq055CIp-abCnN6Oars4GZ0GsmUPzc9cGRq-l5pMZTYU73ackSHYWaKcbYeep2vcm03lAlk184FM0tdIih14Pa79dNK0LggpUxL-pt6IwfVmSux1UD1UDJMWqecuZw4Ia5z1oV3RewuNVW=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">** Important Note: Please be careful here as you can lock yourself out of LuCI. **</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span><strong></strong></span></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><strong></strong></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span><strong></strong></span></span><br /></span><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Now go to</span><span><span> "<strong>Network</strong>" -> "<strong>Firewall</strong>"<br />Change on "<strong>wan</strong>" "<strong>Input</strong>" and "<strong>Forward</strong>" to "<strong>drop</strong>"<br />Deselect "<strong>wan</strong>" "<strong>Masquerading</strong>" and "<strong>MSS</strong> <strong>clamping</strong>" checkbox.<br />Change on "<strong>vpn</strong>" "<strong>Input</strong>" and "<strong>Forward</strong>" to "<strong>drop</strong>"<br />Select "<strong>vpn</strong>" "<strong>Masquerading</strong>" and "<strong>MSS</strong> <strong>clamping</strong>" checkbox.<br />Click "<strong>Save</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>apply</strong>".</span> <strong> </strong></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"></span><br /></span><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><strong> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUAXln_IUo7Z6SwhZz2VJUd5TdFI82W9hhjD7ezbapzbwTOeUhOGeo-LGm9viahnrRZIO19QAkHo26KjcE7zL18m8zJ4C8mfguxLy7B71VEzpZO1A2JP5q1DB2zkmPvrbEziGrQ5Jlr3abkDRIjhfe14SByn6Ws5FkB2C2PCyZScfUS0Mh2JAoOU6v=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="640" height="91" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUAXln_IUo7Z6SwhZz2VJUd5TdFI82W9hhjD7ezbapzbwTOeUhOGeo-LGm9viahnrRZIO19QAkHo26KjcE7zL18m8zJ4C8mfguxLy7B71VEzpZO1A2JP5q1DB2zkmPvrbEziGrQ5Jlr3abkDRIjhfe14SByn6Ws5FkB2C2PCyZScfUS0Mh2JAoOU6v=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></strong></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong></strong></span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong></strong></span><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><br /><span><strong></strong>Now click the <strong>"lan" "Edit" </strong>button<strong>.</strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><br /></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3eI5Q2B6SWOLUt_P_x8JApDWAE2wva0mTs6iUhP1fjIYQS2ULyCnlnHRs-IACddloXkWXtSqiSmPMMR7hXDZwARomIqCuR7Vt2lrgZFOJ_STEbxL4HMYC3LsqRij51SkqiFmVXyDckQaWVw0IwXSQ2xkI40dFROAtCFxRZx3iJV4ZOhmUXruDU5LC=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="34" data-original-width="640" height="17" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3eI5Q2B6SWOLUt_P_x8JApDWAE2wva0mTs6iUhP1fjIYQS2ULyCnlnHRs-IACddloXkWXtSqiSmPMMR7hXDZwARomIqCuR7Vt2lrgZFOJ_STEbxL4HMYC3LsqRij51SkqiFmVXyDckQaWVw0IwXSQ2xkI40dFROAtCFxRZx3iJV4ZOhmUXruDU5LC=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong></strong></span><span style="line-height: 27.6px;">Select "<strong>vpn</strong>" "<strong>Allow forward to destination zones</strong>:" checkbox.<br />Deselect the "<strong>wan</strong>" "<strong>Allow forward to destination zones</strong>" checkbox.<br />Click "<strong>Save</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>apply</strong>".<br />Click "<strong>Back</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Overview</strong>" button.</span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 27.6px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"></span></span><br /></span><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvePLiZzUHK6gg2aayccFhy1c8Vhbldh2etROWqDgBJGbP2d_kV0rqxczGBQ_JK1uDRI3z6HWtA0T49bU9OP3XpY9NqIGTfzq_qQaDjaW4MagMPHWpvYe6By12YVpYuIkFPFopkvSv57i9Hsi-5WnmnNH3TSfxmW7s6ZTq1kY4p4OqdvPqxRs2LvT1=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="640" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvePLiZzUHK6gg2aayccFhy1c8Vhbldh2etROWqDgBJGbP2d_kV0rqxczGBQ_JK1uDRI3z6HWtA0T49bU9OP3XpY9NqIGTfzq_qQaDjaW4MagMPHWpvYe6By12YVpYuIkFPFopkvSv57i9Hsi-5WnmnNH3TSfxmW7s6ZTq1kY4p4OqdvPqxRs2LvT1=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Your Firewall Zones should look like the image below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span>Note: Devices connected to the LAN will only get internet access when the VPN is enabled.</span></div><div style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong></strong></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQNtlrczVYBFIghybKAUQLCg-_Zwk7PoRRW2nW_SrVN6vku4SYbIe66w9bbup8wRjeofUSh9PuUCUvp8UfhPsQpo2ZGFOHaZhfX_Wb2bT9HQbWfv2INphFbxnyqxsHA8n3Kto8pJcTP6Od0lA3AHtbYnFEr3W1ZZ39_iklxJmV-AU-iSuDNiDU4QJY=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="640" height="90" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiQNtlrczVYBFIghybKAUQLCg-_Zwk7PoRRW2nW_SrVN6vku4SYbIe66w9bbup8wRjeofUSh9PuUCUvp8UfhPsQpo2ZGFOHaZhfX_Wb2bT9HQbWfv2INphFbxnyqxsHA8n3Kto8pJcTP6Od0lA3AHtbYnFEr3W1ZZ39_iklxJmV-AU-iSuDNiDU4QJY=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">Lets now add the Surfshark VPN profile.</span></strong></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></strong><span><strong></strong>Install WinSCP and run program.<br />Log in to your router.</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div></div><div style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIxOub5XIWq1StYQ6jKOhSx2bfyYoi81sxywegtPptmNs3eaZFPN1P-lS12FtCRkT0izSNgpK1IfWcE19yta9rj-BAKypcRDZVgoXVHAUanrC16IchFryJYby37J0vs3HvUUWq2AgPvo52o3NB1k7lH8flVn1Nrzpx2snq4UN237myfp9yWLpis9TJ=s627" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="627" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIxOub5XIWq1StYQ6jKOhSx2bfyYoi81sxywegtPptmNs3eaZFPN1P-lS12FtCRkT0izSNgpK1IfWcE19yta9rj-BAKypcRDZVgoXVHAUanrC16IchFryJYby37J0vs3HvUUWq2AgPvo52o3NB1k7lH8flVn1Nrzpx2snq4UN237myfp9yWLpis9TJ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span>On the left window, navigate to your "<strong>Desktop</strong>".<br />On the right window, navigate to <strong>"/etc/openvpn</strong>".<br />Drag Surfshark VPN folder from left window to the right.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUTeBbVQ-xI5Bs0zDdVKWrQUCcJYCOGbyt7YmI_AvgJCzwWGy3fXwO2MuuwkGwWvaeMxBJ4U323l7QiS-eRDvzbtcc1H2apCRAX6Pke7q8bB_rQ-CR_Ry8DHeKH-2uIj1MyV8UNG9ffS86aHSdkRtoMU9gHVT67UNjjlnb5KOgkJnb0U5IOWS6PUTF=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="640" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiUTeBbVQ-xI5Bs0zDdVKWrQUCcJYCOGbyt7YmI_AvgJCzwWGy3fXwO2MuuwkGwWvaeMxBJ4U323l7QiS-eRDvzbtcc1H2apCRAX6Pke7q8bB_rQ-CR_Ry8DHeKH-2uIj1MyV8UNG9ffS86aHSdkRtoMU9gHVT67UNjjlnb5KOgkJnb0U5IOWS6PUTF=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span>Double click Surfshark folder in right window, then double click on "<strong>auth</strong>" file.<br />Enter your Surfsharkvpn username on top line. You will get this from your account "Manual Setup Credentials" eg abc123***** (Not your email username)<br />Enter Surfshark Vpn password on bottom line. You will get this from your account "Manual Setup Credentials" eg abc123***** (Not your password for account login)<br />Save and close file.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><strong></strong></span></span></div></span></span><br /></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitKfZ8xA1GPxx9dgYa9Uvl17cKb1gJ47xzwDtWzYNV0I1D89lahNXM5STvtKzJwNHDxwq7gC56z6vsESkqznjEH3UWHiXZrp1btLhPpWP4tCBCr3nV3JD1b_JJSPZGdvpkyYKcwuv246BUBCW1DYHEN-BIj7dvBeZngVTMYW_ISRtKdX-9xIwXx7oF=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="640" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEitKfZ8xA1GPxx9dgYa9Uvl17cKb1gJ47xzwDtWzYNV0I1D89lahNXM5STvtKzJwNHDxwq7gC56z6vsESkqznjEH3UWHiXZrp1btLhPpWP4tCBCr3nV3JD1b_JJSPZGdvpkyYKcwuv246BUBCW1DYHEN-BIj7dvBeZngVTMYW_ISRtKdX-9xIwXx7oF=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span>Now navigate in right window to "/<strong>etc/config</strong>".<br />Rename the "<strong>openvpn</strong>" file in right window to "<strong>openvpn</strong>.<strong>bak</strong>".<br />Now drag the new "<strong>openvpn</strong>" file from left window to the right.<br />Exit WinSCP.<br />Reboot OpenWRT/LEDE router.</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><strong></strong></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"></span></span></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMblVln0gEM6gJHkVdEd4D1BwxIfDrUH93aDfUOkjMyyrhCOgJ4TdetjFJMM-Zmbn-wSjXdpcKsbd4hL8W4El156NrHSrFTaxgwOnHTEkE1_0gSeRwDnY9CwM7sJPMezWgbEcjKCuRKxmiDjpgZqvByfk7cXXRmiZ1z31cEkW39kwaqx8SE6WGiS65=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="640" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjMblVln0gEM6gJHkVdEd4D1BwxIfDrUH93aDfUOkjMyyrhCOgJ4TdetjFJMM-Zmbn-wSjXdpcKsbd4hL8W4El156NrHSrFTaxgwOnHTEkE1_0gSeRwDnY9CwM7sJPMezWgbEcjKCuRKxmiDjpgZqvByfk7cXXRmiZ1z31cEkW39kwaqx8SE6WGiS65=s320" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 36.8px;"><span>Log back into OpenWRT/LEDE and go to "<strong>Services</strong>" -> "<strong>OpenVPN</strong>"<br />Click on the "<strong>enabled</strong>" checkbox next to Surfshark.<br />Click "<strong>Save</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>apply</strong>".<br />Finally press the "<strong>Start</strong>" button to enable the VPN.<br />Note: Connection to SurfsharkVPN is a little slow. This is normal</span></span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></span><br /><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span>To change VPN server, go to "<strong>Services</strong>" -> "<strong>OpenVPN</strong>"<br />Click the "<strong>Edit</strong>" button.<br />The Server list is available <span style="color: red;"><a href="https://surfshark.com/" target="_blank">Here</a>. </span>This is updated by <a href="http://Surfshark.com" target="_blank">Surfshark.</a></span></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAw3H930P3V2QCbvyBlyaAcT52whLFJWFpyvukQq9mDBOpkwVq8npYaGAuM5SGiVbudWow1FzwWLXYXTqJeUYaZPt76-WiYUl_UdoldzRwyumcWHxsvrNDy9H9yHnduCThRmrGa0QSyyCGLiFfmlqm7zjRL9ESXbPogR1b0p2iXj5aJJYVP4k5QU6u=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="640" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAw3H930P3V2QCbvyBlyaAcT52whLFJWFpyvukQq9mDBOpkwVq8npYaGAuM5SGiVbudWow1FzwWLXYXTqJeUYaZPt76-WiYUl_UdoldzRwyumcWHxsvrNDy9H9yHnduCThRmrGa0QSyyCGLiFfmlqm7zjRL9ESXbPogR1b0p2iXj5aJJYVP4k5QU6u=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span><span>Note: Select servers with UDP protocol.</span></span></span><br /><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><strong><br /></strong></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeCnjnaFET4GdvNlDKkW5bGzAEhFOFTCil6LrvzvMIS6Hf8ARtlaVVhyWk1k2L4wDIMkAq4nhtAxmTnWTAThfW9efswtko9_TnXEYJBisELxJOzdY6sVbX2Jm-_Rgl2JZb0X5Mviu1WMo5pFB79OG1de4YqnGXaAGxJilZpQE16e6bCEKET4HImxeu=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="37" data-original-width="640" height="19" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeCnjnaFET4GdvNlDKkW5bGzAEhFOFTCil6LrvzvMIS6Hf8ARtlaVVhyWk1k2L4wDIMkAq4nhtAxmTnWTAThfW9efswtko9_TnXEYJBisELxJOzdY6sVbX2Jm-_Rgl2JZb0X5Mviu1WMo5pFB79OG1de4YqnGXaAGxJilZpQE16e6bCEKET4HImxeu=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br /></span><br /></span></span><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv9TWq_Q9rmL-uyLHCLcZFWeSsTDcJ3e54XLr6EX9eEfYVEeXpHgt1MV9EePwwflzQZZPSU-xusaDWBdr9IYkzT3sNSs_JxGJO7DVx76riQHpUR-P45U3dBCUgAjkiAOegeeIfMvpHxmpO6ta2DdoCqaDh2_0qdRaaYU6zBMYF9b2_tCD3iTcWn5SU=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="640" height="282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhv9TWq_Q9rmL-uyLHCLcZFWeSsTDcJ3e54XLr6EX9eEfYVEeXpHgt1MV9EePwwflzQZZPSU-xusaDWBdr9IYkzT3sNSs_JxGJO7DVx76riQHpUR-P45U3dBCUgAjkiAOegeeIfMvpHxmpO6ta2DdoCqaDh2_0qdRaaYU6zBMYF9b2_tCD3iTcWn5SU=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 16.8667px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span>You can now visit </span><a href="http://www.ipleak.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">www.ipleak.net</span></a><span> to check your VPN status.<br /><br />As an option you may wish to add the Google DNS Servers.<br /><br />Go to: "<strong>Network</strong>" -> "<strong>Interfaces</strong>" -> "<strong>LAN</strong>" -> "<strong>Edit</strong>" -> "<strong>DHCP</strong> <strong>Server</strong>" (below the “Common Configuration” section) -> "<strong>Advanced</strong> Settings". In the "<strong>DHCP</strong>-<strong>Options</strong>" enter: "<strong>6,8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4</strong>".<br />Click "<strong>Save</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>apply</strong>".</span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><br /><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"></span></span></span></span><br /><span>Hopefully you will now have a working OpenWRT Surfshark VPN connection.</span><br /><span>And don't forget if you don't have <a href="https://surfshark.club/friend/8GFLmRdR" target="_blank">surfshark VPN</a> yet then use this link <a href="https://surfshark.club/friend/8GFLmRdR" target="_blank">HERE</a> to get a great discounted deal. </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://surfshark.club/friend/8GFLmRdR" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="138" data-original-width="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj77sliKGDmsWSDCSfwXvdw_gdK_xqCjBqY_LC0Mw5boXclqofJ8rlF8cMV92_Jl2P-Zrzla84Ib4AgeUgTDTFBEPp8stEsKodsOy0dLQRtoWxa8craXMdUXQefih9K4Sh_-fl70-mzmjBFdm997W-N_KO_aeSXYZb8J99iOOsf2cHG-Rq2ARfuoxir/s16000/surfsharkimage.png" title="Your Surfshark VPN Deal" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">We would like to thank the original author of this review at </span></span><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">www.punj.co.uk</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;"> for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at </span></span><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">http://www.punj.co.uk</span></span></a></span></p><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><span>We are providing the contents here for educational purposes and offer no guarantee that this process will work for you. On this note you should be aware that by carrying out the processes here you do so at your risk</span></span> </span></h2><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 16.8667px;"><strong></strong></span></span></span></div></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-708530825566092832022-09-21T19:15:00.013+01:002023-01-03T13:00:12.270+00:00IP Bullet camera night vision repair<p> </p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><u>IP Bullet camera night
vision repair</u><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In this tutorial we
will show you how we repaired our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_camera" target="_blank">IP CCTV camera</a> which would not illuminate the
night-time <a href="https://www.broadcom.com/products/leds-and-displays/infrared-leds" target="_blank">infra-red LED’s</a>. This meant that although our IP Camera worked
during daytime our faulty CCTV camera would not provide video or images during
the dark night-time hours. At night-time only a black image screen was seen and
observed.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Please note that the
human eye cannot see the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared" target="_blank">infra-red light</a> illuminating. We used an old mobile
phone camera which could see the infra-red light to check whether our IP camera
was illuminating it’s infra-red LED’s.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our camera was a <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m570.l1313&_nkw=ip+camera&_sacat=0" target="_blank">cheap ebay</a> IP bullet CCTV camera.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivHfPTZKbCDd3Nl_cozOzna0xqwadW_Zy3NsliC0mHRAjhc7hzh7WILhZa_ZpchD7IioNkjEoE-f2p0xOMLdoBg-V6ecyax-8IEsvYH0q4wPnyxxkMUUrnsAkZHjWkMRZfBet0Crfv8Ht4KJZ4qMoCat7C7nk_5F5aFJyOg4CfQLxBrmsINRKbXfWp/s459/ipbulletcamera.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="459" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivHfPTZKbCDd3Nl_cozOzna0xqwadW_Zy3NsliC0mHRAjhc7hzh7WILhZa_ZpchD7IioNkjEoE-f2p0xOMLdoBg-V6ecyax-8IEsvYH0q4wPnyxxkMUUrnsAkZHjWkMRZfBet0Crfv8Ht4KJZ4qMoCat7C7nk_5F5aFJyOg4CfQLxBrmsINRKbXfWp/w200-h190/ipbulletcamera.PNG" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><u>Diagnosing and investigating the fault on our IP Camera</u></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The first thing we
checked was that our camera app was up to date.</span></div><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Once we were satisfied
that the software was up to date it was time to check the camera PSU to ensure
that this was not faulty. We had a spare new good 12V 1.5A power supply which
proved that the camera had a good power source. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The next step was to
take the camera apart to inspect the internal components and hardware.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now as part of our
diagnostics we had to be careful when powering the camera in its tear down dismantled
format as not to short the circuit boards or internal components.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We checked that the
CCTV camera was clicking when covering the camera or in darkness. This told us
that the camera was trying to go into night-time vision mode. This could also
be done by covering the light dependent resistor. (Location of the LDR as shown
in the picture image below).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIhDooA4CP6psMcf3vem5eLRRgEsziJUgxUHd1zP5VC05HFgJQzRzgYOxqYS4sYN2GiK5FiapwZhkmA-ELFB5OMvjQB_B9lCDqIU3R5Rjqd0CJOGRI9EqI6wO5N5gSTWzx9FADpu4Iv757sfSPa21t6W4ucQ-RnMKaGIMi1U4zpPas9LswmPdMYhZ/s685/irboardfrontcomponents.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="685" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRIhDooA4CP6psMcf3vem5eLRRgEsziJUgxUHd1zP5VC05HFgJQzRzgYOxqYS4sYN2GiK5FiapwZhkmA-ELFB5OMvjQB_B9lCDqIU3R5Rjqd0CJOGRI9EqI6wO5N5gSTWzx9FADpu4Iv757sfSPa21t6W4ucQ-RnMKaGIMi1U4zpPas9LswmPdMYhZ/w320-h251/irboardfrontcomponents.png" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We also used an old
phone camera which could show whether the infra-red LED’s were illuminating. How-ever
in our case our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared" target="_blank">Infra-Red LED’s</a> were not illuminating.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXfKRTGctnlYrqkMBvtZYlmtKEH_i5XGURVxFxAnO5UKiLQH5s-A-D9MDyTtauAcZnTSMGW8KwQ2kBOA55tTvZGBbBd4zoPTrlffd1hqtMA9XKXCZVMDd9VdL-0oqfaHr2A2aNr4iDOoKkb6pBdqJnhdVN2z8lCjGX-rMoyR7qtqX7GfYsjQMxy4s/s477/irboardfront.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="443" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXfKRTGctnlYrqkMBvtZYlmtKEH_i5XGURVxFxAnO5UKiLQH5s-A-D9MDyTtauAcZnTSMGW8KwQ2kBOA55tTvZGBbBd4zoPTrlffd1hqtMA9XKXCZVMDd9VdL-0oqfaHr2A2aNr4iDOoKkb6pBdqJnhdVN2z8lCjGX-rMoyR7qtqX7GfYsjQMxy4s/s320/irboardfront.PNG" width="297" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our next step now was
to check and test each diode on the LED array circuit board. Our chosen method
to do this was to use a multimeter with a diode test function mode.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxCwD9n539nqqPibokQu5DyFyP0RxbavsWnXjyhxGv44SidOoz1ntFYiB9Nfh_9qEjMZYAcK2DZfulhY63fAmck2-ZaG5MyikDLIOfdvMPFPn3u7amXG9EuaJO9KtVAVsrNcDBgtOuLH15AW2GaKDnvJqH-dMvyR5FPGVHZCg2doYYJACeYwTzcHK/s360/multimeter.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="360" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNxCwD9n539nqqPibokQu5DyFyP0RxbavsWnXjyhxGv44SidOoz1ntFYiB9Nfh_9qEjMZYAcK2DZfulhY63fAmck2-ZaG5MyikDLIOfdvMPFPn3u7amXG9EuaJO9KtVAVsrNcDBgtOuLH15AW2GaKDnvJqH-dMvyR5FPGVHZCg2doYYJACeYwTzcHK/s320/multimeter.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This test would be
carried out with the Infra-red array board disconnected from the camera and any
power supply.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our Infra-Red array
board had 24 IR LED’s. A good IR LED reading with our multi meter would show a
volt drop reading of approx. 1.2v in one direction only. When reversing the
leads the meter should display open circuit. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUrkglvGKyALUWtfy9A1--3Pr7jg70zlyiE3kBYslgM0Kjq27ZpR_AVNv2BF8z2UEPJfqOkjbKuMhFJoFVrGXMZxG34DK6Iw_CG7PaRfehW5pjsyeqsyRh3svWrgf1bbi7hFllprZuXCgg_Mudp6SqKEGGEGwOlePmnFJn4UjldoyvcyaLKeSpC6h7/s470/irboardback.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="425" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUrkglvGKyALUWtfy9A1--3Pr7jg70zlyiE3kBYslgM0Kjq27ZpR_AVNv2BF8z2UEPJfqOkjbKuMhFJoFVrGXMZxG34DK6Iw_CG7PaRfehW5pjsyeqsyRh3svWrgf1bbi7hFllprZuXCgg_Mudp6SqKEGGEGwOlePmnFJn4UjldoyvcyaLKeSpC6h7/s320/irboardback.PNG" width="289" /></a></div><br /><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><u>Testing each LED on our
IR LED array board</u></span></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Using our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimeter" target="_blank">multimeter</a>
with the rotary dial on the diode test function we tested each LED as follows</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Connect the test leads
to the LED. A good LED test showed a reading of approx. 1.28v.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When the leads are
reversed the meter should display OL or open circuit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQN7EIs27hP5M2PeHVK9q1uj3dYvRvVUS_1wQmgb7b56wVu50w_tpC_uRzLCIAqQvxmYCwR-rMR_64H_js1CUL2Hs7JiFSBJI4f9SCfOryv2vTTxSwNxfkgTqR4hygyL4cyWmUdy4bjwZB5jgCdFIp1nMkHPV2x3M_ysWk3-XiEs9_j7h7iVziLnai/s668/forward%20reverse%20biase.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="323" data-original-width="668" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQN7EIs27hP5M2PeHVK9q1uj3dYvRvVUS_1wQmgb7b56wVu50w_tpC_uRzLCIAqQvxmYCwR-rMR_64H_js1CUL2Hs7JiFSBJI4f9SCfOryv2vTTxSwNxfkgTqR4hygyL4cyWmUdy4bjwZB5jgCdFIp1nMkHPV2x3M_ysWk3-XiEs9_j7h7iVziLnai/s320/forward%20reverse%20biase.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">In our case we found
that 4 of our infra-red LED’s were open circuit testing both ways. This
indicated that these LED’s were bad and faulty. We now had to un-solder the
suspect faulty LED’s from the array circuit board.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_lFKIM6L2KVQBK-Ci9lpDgpVO_VjDCnyycueqMsfvWGHioI_8XHtDVxSSuQcza-o04fIfC_4dFB-17NTcgq5KGLYX0cZ3RolyKd7onb_4cMrS7xz-dACXiy-bQmUeMeN_5i2bwFqTuaDmyWh-WErags9cVnP2zW3449Q6Ey8_2vgEx7SCvDAPsGeA/s422/badled.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="422" data-original-width="336" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_lFKIM6L2KVQBK-Ci9lpDgpVO_VjDCnyycueqMsfvWGHioI_8XHtDVxSSuQcza-o04fIfC_4dFB-17NTcgq5KGLYX0cZ3RolyKd7onb_4cMrS7xz-dACXiy-bQmUeMeN_5i2bwFqTuaDmyWh-WErags9cVnP2zW3449Q6Ey8_2vgEx7SCvDAPsGeA/s320/badled.PNG" width="255" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">Our next step was to
either order spare good infra red LED’s or find a replacement 24 infra red LED
array board to replace our faulty one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Replacement spares as
mentioned above are cheaply available from <a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2322090.m570.l1313&_nkw=infra+red+array+board&_sacat=0" target="_blank">ebay</a>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We decided to replace
the individual 4 faulty IR LED’s. We ordered 5mm 850nm </span><a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Ir-Led-in-Individual-LEDs/181880/bn_7022756438" target="_blank">Infra-Red</a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.ebay.co.uk/b/Ir-Led-in-Individual-LEDs/181880/bn_7022756438" target="_blank"> LED’s</a> to
replace our faulty ones.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1h1SxRfvwh6dmMZfS9RieRreZF5pqyle2Y7b4Nb4lJGNAywjWCu8vEJriSx3u17lJvccwMFT5RJeZDM_25cNUkZCTZSYPelGUytPCBevpQbCkCyKb0KcEjpzc0xcofr36CpWJCiWg40GEKaULD81HC79DsQta7J_OS9XhM8c4JbKK4zuO46t9OxjJ/s479/IRLEDs.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="479" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1h1SxRfvwh6dmMZfS9RieRreZF5pqyle2Y7b4Nb4lJGNAywjWCu8vEJriSx3u17lJvccwMFT5RJeZDM_25cNUkZCTZSYPelGUytPCBevpQbCkCyKb0KcEjpzc0xcofr36CpWJCiWg40GEKaULD81HC79DsQta7J_OS9XhM8c4JbKK4zuO46t9OxjJ/s320/IRLEDs.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our new IR LED’s were
soldered back to our circuit board observing the correct polarity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We re-tested all the </span>infra-red<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> LED’s on our board as mentioned above with our multi meter before
re-assembling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Finally our IP CCTV
Camera was re-assembled and powered up to prove that our repairs were carried
out successfully.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Y1zVSJ9jKirHqOoWD8etG-Efez6hgttl8gRmvXqibuv0ygWiIi448yFW0HkxfTKDDs8Xf6XmUUcNRm4G9GHZlo1ibMfJ8VENdcHNZlwtpqv5U4DeHctyti7toWhCjRtsN9aOb2TI35kf7ZGOawFjr5mRhso747GMRJUcqJnVLVecBIDWahO7yHQW/s327/nighttimevision.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="256" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4Y1zVSJ9jKirHqOoWD8etG-Efez6hgttl8gRmvXqibuv0ygWiIi448yFW0HkxfTKDDs8Xf6XmUUcNRm4G9GHZlo1ibMfJ8VENdcHNZlwtpqv5U4DeHctyti7toWhCjRtsN9aOb2TI35kf7ZGOawFjr5mRhso747GMRJUcqJnVLVecBIDWahO7yHQW/s320/nighttimevision.PNG" width="251" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Our IP camera has been
re-installed and has been working great since our repairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hopefully you have found our tutorial of interest and may be of help to you.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">We are providing the contents here for educational purposes and offer no guarantee that this process will work for you. On this note you should be aware that by carrying out the processes here you do so at your risk.</span></b></i></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-19929652439940132062022-02-28T12:00:00.011+00:002023-01-03T13:01:45.519+00:00HP Laptop bios password removal<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">HP Laptop
bios password removal</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">In this tutorial we will show you how we removed the bios
password on our HP laptop. The password was put on by us but now forgotten. It
was decided to give this laptop to charity as fully functional without any
restrictions. The other option was to
scrap and send this to the local landfill as we had no use for this laptop anymore.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">The procedures below have been successfully carried out
by us on numerous occasions.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">First of all we must state that our preferred procedure
was not created by us. It is only right to give <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://mazzifsoftware.blogspot.com/p/hp-bios-unlock.html" target="_blank">Mazzif</a> </span>the
credit he deserves in developing and supporting this procedure.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mazzifsoftware.blogspot.com/p/hp-bios-unlock.html" target="_blank">https://mazzifsoftware.blogspot.com/p/hp-bios-unlock.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">So let’s take a brief look on how we removed the BIOS
password on our laptop.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Our laptop was a HP 640 and HP840G3.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Brief description
on what we will do and what is required</b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">If you require an in depth tutorial on how this procedure
works head over to <a href="https://mazzifsoftware.blogspot.com/p/hp-bios-unlock.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mazzifs</a> website for a detailed and better understanding off
this procedure.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">The bios password was installed by us for security
reasons and to prevent our user from carrying out alterations on the laptop
without the Administrator’s consent.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">To remove the forgotten password within the BIOS we will
need to read the current BIOS code within the laptop and then alter the bios code
to remove the password. This can be done by using the following methods as
shown below.</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There are three
methods available and covered in this tutorial.</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Method 1</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">Our preferred method is to unsolder the BIOS chip from
the motherboard of the laptop and then reprogram and remove the bios password
code with a programmer. This method always works for us but does require some
skill in removing and re-soldering the chip back on to the motherboard.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Method 2</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">The second method is to use a soic8 clip attached to the
BIOS chip on the laptop and the programmer to alter the code. This is not our
preferred method as this requires good contact between the BIOS chip and the
programmer. We often fail with this procedure due to the poor contact on the
clip that sometimes can occur. Other components on the motherboard can also interfere with reading of the chip hence this method not being our preferred choice. Try this method first and if it continually
fails as a last resort use method 1. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Method 3</b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">The 3<sup>rd</sup> method is to buy a pre-programmed bios
chip from ebay to replace the bios chip on the motherboard. With this method you
may need to replace both the Main bios chip and the EC (Embed Controller)
chip.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">You might also need to let the seller know the SKU,
serial number and the model of your laptop. BIOS image dumps are not
transferable, so you can’t use the same bios code dump on different laptops
regardless of them being the same model. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">What you will need
to remove the bios password using Method 1</b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><strong><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Programmer</span></strong> – CH341A USB
Programmer to read, write and verify the bios code<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4vxMLekuSWTWIAOsXKEv2YcLPFK6kgvrQVEJLXHJsE7ugXNIP0aFi1KoW1UxIjOoeHTBIqqpMTnrOoSxiiHoB2vdC9PTt8wr9Wza6IU42dlr4nylY8LfOst9UHkCKcIE8T83gcZ65wGk/s346/CH134AProgrammer.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="238" data-original-width="346" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4vxMLekuSWTWIAOsXKEv2YcLPFK6kgvrQVEJLXHJsE7ugXNIP0aFi1KoW1UxIjOoeHTBIqqpMTnrOoSxiiHoB2vdC9PTt8wr9Wza6IU42dlr4nylY8LfOst9UHkCKcIE8T83gcZ65wGk/s320/CH134AProgrammer.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><br /></div></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><strong><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Adapter</span></strong> - SOIC8 SOP8 to
DIP8 150mil 200mil Programmer Adapter – Required to fit the bios chip to
the programmer<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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– Soldering hot air station to de-solder and re-solder the bios chip<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZrdOAek9PK1ILIqAu9cS_MW0XBfO-d2alRhUjWD3tfzqRgy7unxQxw3BwrDgOKPy7om9PPuIwmGZ_KGtzw4nqtEaq9kxwOZUDytBIJJB3Xbi6bjLiDpjIm9DVBmsbmFrLUG7vw2vj8Q/s269/hotairststion.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="187" data-original-width="269" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7ZrdOAek9PK1ILIqAu9cS_MW0XBfO-d2alRhUjWD3tfzqRgy7unxQxw3BwrDgOKPy7om9PPuIwmGZ_KGtzw4nqtEaq9kxwOZUDytBIJJB3Xbi6bjLiDpjIm9DVBmsbmFrLUG7vw2vj8Q/s0/hotairststion.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><strong><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Soic8 pin clip </span></strong>– Useful for the
unsoldering method of the read / write of the bios chip using the programmer and the clip </li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103184" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="1000" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBH-7P0P639wx7YtAu62ofdkmcF9Mnl8LxtLtG5Z-3SsNdGP_F3hB0UrfGrv1YMADEkuT6hpudgCBGOwDZlklJZxwG2P4OXUAoDGgXxWHL2RIdggCIv-be1I6H4b8yr7gTM9YkyplXtIg/w256-h205/SOIC8clip.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103184" target="_blank"><b>HP Unlocking tool</b></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"> </span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">–
Mazzifs great software for removing the bios code from your original
locked bios<o:p></o:p></span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-underline: none;"><b><a href="https://www.dwdvb.com/ch341a-usb-mini-programmer-latest-software-download/" target="_blank">NeoProrammer software</a> - </b></span></span>CH341A USB Programmer software with drivers</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">A working laptop / PC with usb ports for installing the programmer
and to carry out the password removal using the unlocking tool. Ours had the latest Windows 10 OS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><b>The programmer, adaptor and Soic8 pin
clip can be purchased from <a href="http://www.ebay.com" target="_blank">ebay</a> for under 20GBP</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">The HP Unlocking tool is available from <a href="https://mazzifsoftware.blogspot.com/p/hp-bios-unlock.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mazzifs</a>
website or the <a href="https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103184" target="_blank">badcap</a> forums<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103184" target="_blank">https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103184</a></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://mazzifsoftware.blogspot.com/p/hp-bios-unlock.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://mazzifsoftware.blogspot.com/p/hp-bios-unlock.html</a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b>Method 1 </b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">So now let’s look
at our preferred method first. This will require unsoldering of the bios chip</p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">In our example our
laptop is a HP840G</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">1. Download
the password unlocking software “<span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext"><a href="https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103184" target="_blank">HP UnlockingTool</a>” and place this in the root C:\ drive of your working laptop</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: -24px;"><span color="windowtext" style="text-underline: none;">2. Also create a folder on your desktop and give it a name.
Our working directory was called “biosdump”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal; text-align: left; text-indent: -24px;"><span color="windowtext" style="text-underline: none;">3. Download the </span></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span color="windowtext" style="text-underline: none;"><a href="https://www.dwdvb.com/ch341a-usb-mini-programmer-latest-software-download/" target="_blank">NeoProrammer</a> software </span></span>with drivers and place this in your working desktop directory "biosdump". This program will be required for reading. writing and verifying the bios dump later. Make sure that the drivers are installed and the program configured and working. </p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"></p><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Locate the bios chip on the laptop
motherboard – Ours’s was located on the back of the motherboard labelled U365.</div><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjTphk8dA8J-dwxPEriWUKrKZWBn-EtxhlwjJrHtdeGAN_liXOLdtiofj3cPNvEPqoeAGhLxKZ_4II0ot8AvM5hxIohvXpIwsUR4mf1lQdiHghIPpyGHW_vr1S365uqdszCD9pbH9xq4/s215/image1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="215" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDjTphk8dA8J-dwxPEriWUKrKZWBn-EtxhlwjJrHtdeGAN_liXOLdtiofj3cPNvEPqoeAGhLxKZ_4II0ot8AvM5hxIohvXpIwsUR4mf1lQdiHghIPpyGHW_vr1S365uqdszCD9pbH9xq4/s0/image1.png" width="215" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">The bios chip was
a <a href="https://www.winbond.com/resource-files/w25q128fv%20rev.m%2005132016%20kms.pdf" target="_blank">Winbond 25Q128FVSQ 1553</a>. Note the red dot marking pin 1 on the chip.</p>
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the locked password laptop remove the laptop battery, memory, hard disk and also remove the cmos battery plug.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">6.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">With
the soldering hot air station using a fine nozzle de-solder the bios chip. You
can watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/" target="_blank">youtube</a> if further assistance is required on de-soldering the chip
using a hot air station. We set our hot air station @ 250c to de-solder our chip.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">7.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;">Once
the bios chip is removed let the chip cool down. Place the chip in the SOIC8
SOP8 to DIP8 200mil Programmer Adapter.
Make sure you are aware of pin 1 shown with the red dot.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin-left: 36pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">8. <span style="text-indent: -18pt;">Now
place the above SOIC8 SOP8 to DIP8 200mil adaptor with the bios chip into the CH341A
USB Programmer. You need to make sure that the adaptor is correctly inserted in
to the programmer with pin 1 orientation of the bios chip to the programmer
socket</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: right; text-indent: -18pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: right; text-indent: -18pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: right; text-indent: -18pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3jX8GoGcweOJv5Eb9_qi0WTo_hEU7NFciljN3QzALZ8yemL_j8W0f5Qod9s4ikPFApxjmEDzbBmsxbbB6UBuw6KRDw7wmi9a3dnx9ia6LSRDlSRmTSX58_dk0CRXyZxRtqbrqAoc3AI/s320/programmer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="320" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3jX8GoGcweOJv5Eb9_qi0WTo_hEU7NFciljN3QzALZ8yemL_j8W0f5Qod9s4ikPFApxjmEDzbBmsxbbB6UBuw6KRDw7wmi9a3dnx9ia6LSRDlSRmTSX58_dk0CRXyZxRtqbrqAoc3AI/s0/programmer.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: right; text-indent: -18pt;">Note our adaptor with the bios chip installed in to the programmer as shown for IC25XXX</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHu6RfE5Z28Gmb0NhlauTnmk8ahyphenhyphenT2u_5kb6C_Cjp9tHxgEym2Ra8M9qC5OxIB1WkeoJPbkbX1KjbPIePA5PLUAHF2ir6hrgxjcNAAmWg8QFRh9J8wHtlqprwMUjc0Y9cpAwWa3ZMs-HQ/s282/adaptor+and+programmer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="227" data-original-width="282" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHu6RfE5Z28Gmb0NhlauTnmk8ahyphenhyphenT2u_5kb6C_Cjp9tHxgEym2Ra8M9qC5OxIB1WkeoJPbkbX1KjbPIePA5PLUAHF2ir6hrgxjcNAAmWg8QFRh9J8wHtlqprwMUjc0Y9cpAwWa3ZMs-HQ/s0/adaptor+and+programmer.png" width="282" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></span></div><span style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div>9. Now insert the programmer into your working laptop usb port and run the </span><a href="https://www.dwdvb.com/ch341a-usb-mini-programmer-latest-software-download/" target="_blank">NeoProrammer </a>software. Within the <a href="https://www.dwdvb.com/ch341a-usb-mini-programmer-latest-software-download/" target="_blank">NeoProrammer</a> software program press the tab "Detect". This should detect your bios chip IC as a <a href="https://www.winbond.com/resource-files/w25q128fv%20rev.m%2005132016%20kms.pdf" target="_blank">W25Q128xV</a> chip. This also confirms that your bios IC chip and software are in satisfactory working order.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHIgF94OtWpX9BwgmcfsZdBdBSDTNiG7MHGN4PcIp1eWDVvPZH9E7HbzTjbj1pQROUJTWSAExh0urJckATP6yn8twVgm2bNYju25hK0kS5_lbdzOSHE7vN7LzY4p-JE96pR0o83wSy1k/s512/neoprogramer.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="357" data-original-width="512" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHIgF94OtWpX9BwgmcfsZdBdBSDTNiG7MHGN4PcIp1eWDVvPZH9E7HbzTjbj1pQROUJTWSAExh0urJckATP6yn8twVgm2bNYju25hK0kS5_lbdzOSHE7vN7LzY4p-JE96pR0o83wSy1k/s320/neoprogramer.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">You can know press the icon within the software to read the bios chip IC. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Once the bios chip has been read you must press the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpHIgF94OtWpX9BwgmcfsZdBdBSDTNiG7MHGN4PcIp1eWDVvPZH9E7HbzTjbj1pQROUJTWSAExh0urJckATP6yn8twVgm2bNYju25hK0kS5_lbdzOSHE7vN7LzY4p-JE96pR0o83wSy1k/s320/neoprogramer.png" target="_blank">verify icon</a> to ensure that the bios data has been verified to be correctly read without any errors.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Next save the bios data to your working desktop folder "biosdump" and name this file as dump.bin.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>Within the next steps we will remove the bios password from the dump.bin file. The file will automatically be renamed dump_unlocked.bin. This will then be programmed back to the bios chip</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">10. Now from your desktop folder "biosdump" with your mouse pick up the file called dump.bin and drop this in to the program within the c:\ root drive called <a href="https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103184" target="_blank">HP Unlocking tool</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>NOTE:-</b> ** <b>VERY IMPORTANT </b>** You do not open the unlocker program - You pick up the dump.bin file with your mouse and drop into the <a href="https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=103184" target="_blank">HP_Unlocking_tool </a>program **.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This will automatically create a new file within the desktop folder "biosdump" called dump_unlocked.bin. This new file dump_unlocked.bin has the bios password removed.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">11. We now use the <a href="https://www.dwdvb.com/ch341a-usb-mini-programmer-latest-software-download/" target="_blank">NeoProrammer</a> software to erase the the bios IC chip. Once the chip has been erased we will write and verify the new file dump_unlocked.bin to the IC Bios chip.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">12. The final steps are to re-solder the bios IC chip back on to the laptop motherboard and install the <span style="text-indent: -24px;">memory, hard disk, cmos battery plug and power on the laptop. The laptop will re-boot a couple of times with a blank screen and flashing lights and then you will find that the laptop password has been removed. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;"><b>This method always works for us and has never failed us. If you run into problem or the above steps have not worked then you may find the following helpful:-</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-indent: -24px;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="text-indent: -24px;">Read this tutorial carefully and follow the steps exactly</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -24px;">Read, verify and save the existing bios code on the bios chip. You must verify and make sure that you back up and save the original bios code. PLEASE VERIFY the backed up code.</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -24px;">Always verify the bios code when reading, erasing and writing code to chip from the NeoProrammer software</span></li><li><span style="text-indent: -24px;">If you get a black screen on completion check that you have verified and written the bios code correctly. Also ensure that the bios chip has been soldered with all pins intact with good contact on the motherboard solder pads.</span> </li></ul><div><b>The above steps all ways works - If yours fail then this will be down to user error with reasons as mentioned above.</b></div><div><br /></div><b>Hopefully you have found our tutorial of interest and been able to remove the bios password</b> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><p class="MsoNormal"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">We are providing the
contents here for educational purposes and offer no guarantee that this process
will work for you. On this note you should be aware that by carrying out the
processes here you do so at your risk.<o:p></o:p></span></b></i></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com05Q8W5GC9+XF-23.8275233 138.5187336-40.498163813692081 120.94060859999999 -7.1568827863079179 156.0968586tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-27730481823270387372021-12-19T11:57:00.005+00:002023-01-03T13:09:42.138+00:00PureVPN (OpenVPN) on an OpenWRT router<div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";">We are providing the contents here for educational purposes and offer no guarantee that this process will work for you. On this note you should be aware that by carrying out the processes here you do so at your risk</span></span> </span></span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">In this tutorial we will help you setup PureVPN on
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you up and running on your devices. However we found using and setting up the
service on our </span></span></span></span><a href="https://openwrt.org/"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">OpenWRT</span></span></a><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">router quite problematic. The
support files seem out dated and buggy, and there is little help available on the support pages and internet. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please remember this tutorial is for creating a secondary VPN only router to
your main primary internet router</span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">You must ensure that you have the following for
this setup to work</span></b></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Cable
router with </span><a href="https://openwrt.org/"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">OpenWRT</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">firmware already setup with SSH access. Our test
router had the </span></span></span><a href="https://billing.purevpn.com/aff.php?aff=36650"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">OpenWRT</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">firmware V18.06.4</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Windows
10 OS computer for setting up our VPN router.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A </span><a href="https://billing.purevpn.com/aff.php?aff=36650" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">PureVPN</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">subscription. Head over </span></span></span><a href="https://billing.purevpn.com/aff.php?aff=36650"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">if you don’t have one. You will
be provided with a great offer using our </span></span></span><a href="https://billing.purevpn.com/aff.php?aff=36650"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">link</span> <span style="color: red;">here</span></span></a><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You
will require the following files. Download these and have them on your desktop.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">PureVPN
profile – </span><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/PunjVPNBlogTutorial/PureVPN/PureVPNprofile.zip"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Download from here</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">- Extract
using winzip or 7zip on to your windows 10 desktop</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7874386329035577426" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7874386329035577426" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">WinSCP
– </span><a href="https://winscp.net/eng/download.php"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">Download
from here</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">– Install program as this
will be required later</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Let’s now carry out the steps
required</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Access
and login into the </span><a href="https://openwrt.org/"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">OpenWRT</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">router from your browser
so that we can update and install the necessary router software program files.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Within
the OpenWRT browser Luci screen go to “<strong>System</strong>” > “<strong>Software</strong>”</span></span></div>
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<span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now click on the “<strong>Update</strong>”
button and wait for the screen to update</span></span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Now within the “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Download and install package</b>” tab enter <b>"luci-app-openvpn
openvpn-openssl" </b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">and press the
“<b>OK</b>” button. This will now install the VPN package software to the
router. Be patient for the software to install.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We now need to configure the
OpenVPN package and setup the firewall</span></b><br /></div><div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now go to
"<strong>Network</strong>" > "<strong>Interfaces</strong>" and click the "<strong>Add</strong> <strong>new</strong>
<strong>interface</strong>" button.</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now Enter "<b>openvpn</b>" in "Name
of the new interface". </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Select "<b>Unmanaged</b>" in the
"Protocol of the new interface" box.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Select "<b>Custom interface</b>" and enter
"<b>tun0</b>". Note the zero and not the letter O.</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now click the "<b>Submit</b>" button.</span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Now
click the "<strong>Advanced Settings</strong>" tab and select "<strong>Bring up on
boot</strong>".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Now
click the <strong>"Firewall Settings" </strong>tab and select <strong>"unspecified -or-
create:". </strong>enter<strong> "vpn".<br />
</strong>Click <strong>"Save and apply".</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">You should now have the "OpenVPN interface" like the picture below.</span></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="border-image: none 100% / 1 / 0 stretch; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbj8gxnC65PgCWDre6X1bj94EfpYY2NSdIqPsC-bkT2Jd40zbSGc8frvB65o94UMY7gjYZbaZhjQ4SS9o1bFc3fhOiVZElC8xK-QQXZYu53WFY82E0efzgegnlufhPQqzO-KPah6RY0jtexcnCL-qJdwtnHlIbq0sTsL7PrOBYXTBQnix8ZAh1VrS8=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="640" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbj8gxnC65PgCWDre6X1bj94EfpYY2NSdIqPsC-bkT2Jd40zbSGc8frvB65o94UMY7gjYZbaZhjQ4SS9o1bFc3fhOiVZElC8xK-QQXZYu53WFY82E0efzgegnlufhPQqzO-KPah6RY0jtexcnCL-qJdwtnHlIbq0sTsL7PrOBYXTBQnix8ZAh1VrS8=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: calibri;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><strong></strong></span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">** Important Note: Please be careful here as you can lock yourself out of LuCI. **</span></div>
<span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><strong>
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<span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><strong>
</strong></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now go to</span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
"<strong>Network</strong>" -> "<strong>Firewall</strong>"<br />
Change on "<strong>wan</strong>" "<strong>Input</strong>" and "<strong>Forward</strong>" to
"<strong>drop</strong>"<br />
Deselect "<strong>wan</strong>" "<strong>Masquerading</strong>" and "<strong>MSS</strong> <strong>clamping</strong>"
checkbox. <br />
Change on "<strong>vpn</strong>" "<strong>Input</strong>" and "<strong>Forward</strong>" to
"<strong>drop</strong>"<br />
Select "<strong>vpn</strong>" "<strong>Masquerading</strong>" and "<strong>MSS</strong> <strong>clamping</strong>"
checkbox.<br />
Click "<strong>Save</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>apply</strong>".</span> <strong> </strong></span></span></span></div>
<span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;">
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</strong>Now click the <strong>"lan" "Edit" </strong>button<strong>.</strong></span><strong> </strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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"</span><strong style="font-family: inherit;">vpn</strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">" "</span><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Allow forward to destination zones</strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">:" checkbox.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">
Deselect the "<strong>wan</strong>" "<strong>Allow forward to destination zones</strong>"
checkbox.<br />
Click "<strong>Save</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>apply</strong>".<br />
Click "<strong>Back</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Overview</strong>" button.</span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Your Firewall Zones should
look like the image below.<br />
Note: Devices connected to the LAN will only get internet access when
the VPN is enabled.</span></div>
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</strong>Install WinSCP and run program.<br />
Log in to your router.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"></span></div>
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the left window, navigate to your "<strong>Desktop</strong>".<br />
On the right window, navigate to <strong>"/etc/openvpn</strong>".<br />
Drag purevpn folder from left window to the right.</span> </span></div>
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<span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Double click purevpn folder in right window,
then double click on "<strong>auth</strong>" file.<br />
Enter your purevpn username on top line. eg purevpn0*****<br />
Enter purevpn password on bottom line.<br />
Save and close file.</span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><strong style="font-size: 11pt;">
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<span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Now navigate in right window
to "/<strong>etc/config</strong>".<br />
Rename the "<strong>openvpn</strong>" file in right window to "<strong>openvpn</strong>.<strong>bak</strong>".<br />
Now drag the new "<strong>openvpn</strong>" file from left window to the right.<br />
Exit WinSCP.<br />
Reboot OpenWRT/LEDE router.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Log
back into OpenWRT/LEDE and go to "<strong>Services</strong>" -> "<strong>OpenVPN</strong>"<br />
Click on the "<strong>enabled</strong>" checkbox next to purevpn.<br />
Click "<strong>Save</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>apply</strong>".<br />
Finally press the "<strong>Start</strong>" button to enable the VPN.<br />
Note: Connection to PureVPN is a little slow. This is normal</span></span></span><div><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCJ7P8N9anyL3AkSsGBJWhOMW-Oy92s9VSbfMVdhhWxp5apIZs1f6a0fGrD94FWg0VkK2UC9OLkeIQB-1cTA_lPiMSOf9WRVQS_jY0ZZhYQ29NIiLvtIukDfEf-Jiycm4ZYH_vgYbHYEvoGmn0v_w7gVhhdyNv735ZkRN4Kw5661WVY3dt6Ey5l-Xa=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="640" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCJ7P8N9anyL3AkSsGBJWhOMW-Oy92s9VSbfMVdhhWxp5apIZs1f6a0fGrD94FWg0VkK2UC9OLkeIQB-1cTA_lPiMSOf9WRVQS_jY0ZZhYQ29NIiLvtIukDfEf-Jiycm4ZYH_vgYbHYEvoGmn0v_w7gVhhdyNv735ZkRN4Kw5661WVY3dt6Ey5l-Xa=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">T</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">o
change VPN server, go to "</span><strong style="font-family: inherit;">Services</strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">" -> "</span><strong style="font-family: inherit;">OpenVPN</strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></div><div><span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
Click the "<strong>Edit</strong>" button.<br />
The Server list is available </span><a href="https://support.purevpn.com/vpn-servers" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. This is updated by PureVPN</span></span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>
Note: Select servers with UDP protocol.</span></span></span><br />
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<span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can now visit </span><a href="http://www.ipleak.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit;">www.ipleak.net</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to check your VPN
status.<br />
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As an option you may wish to add the Google DNS Servers.<br />
<br />
Go to: "<strong>Network</strong>" -> "<strong>Interfaces</strong>" -> "<strong>LAN</strong>"
-> "<strong>Edit</strong>" -> "<strong>DHCP</strong> <strong>Server</strong>" (below the “Common
Configuration” section) -> "<strong>Advanced</strong> Settings". In the
"<strong>DHCP</strong>-<strong>Options</strong>" enter: "<strong>6,8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4</strong>".<br />
Click "<strong>Save</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>apply</strong>".</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hopefully you will now have a working OpenWRT PureVPN connection.</span></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">We would like to thank the original author of this review at </span></span><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">www.punj.co.uk</span></span></a><span style="line-height: 18.4px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;"> for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at </span></span><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 18.4px;"><span style="color: black; font-size: xx-small;">http://www.punj.co.uk</span></span></a></i></span></p><h2 style="margin: 10pt 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><i><span style="font-size: 7.5pt;"><span>We are providing the contents here for educational purposes and offer no guarantee that this process will work for you. On this note you should be aware that by carrying out the processes here you do so at your risk</span></span> </i></span></h2></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com2London, UK51.5073509 -0.1277582999999822351.1912379 -0.77320529999998222 51.8234639 0.51768870000001777tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-579851001253884102021-07-26T12:28:00.005+01:002023-01-03T13:21:43.405+00:00TP LINK router firmware recovery<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal">TP LINK router firmware recovery<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">In this tutorial we will show you how we recovered our <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/"><span color="windowtext">TP-Link WR1043nd
V1.10</span></a> wireless router from a failed firmware update. Our method used
is very simple and has worked for us on multiple times.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-Link"><span color="windowtext">TP-Link</span></a> manufactures computer networking products
and are highly recommended on the internet. The design within
the recent products includes for a recovery method should problems arise in
carrying out the risky firmware update.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The example used here can be used to recover other models using
the correct method for your device.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzgOwANz7jnbSZUjt37UTYgvOQ8sYr6bRHQ0W8p9aMoxQ4fq_MhbNWpwN5V0KQSa9DvQ-rT8o2jBtbSNbcftNcoDllrZuuCIGbJjq6ossXor1CQp-_RKBMP2uOdN5UBdp1Tx85JgyeVg/s172/TL-WR1043ND-V1.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="131" data-original-width="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpzgOwANz7jnbSZUjt37UTYgvOQ8sYr6bRHQ0W8p9aMoxQ4fq_MhbNWpwN5V0KQSa9DvQ-rT8o2jBtbSNbcftNcoDllrZuuCIGbJjq6ossXor1CQp-_RKBMP2uOdN5UBdp1Tx85JgyeVg/s0/TL-WR1043ND-V1.gif" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal">The basics of our recovery method is to connect up a PC or
laptop as a TFTPD server to our faulty failed router and upload a good working
copy of the firmware. If all goes well you will have recovered your <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/"><span color="windowtext">TP-Link WR1043nd
V1.10</span></a> wireless router.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please do remember we offer no guarantee if this method will
work for you. Also there is always a big risk in updating any software /
firmware that can leave the device’s totally bricked.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So let’s begin and show you how to recover the <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/uk/products/details/TL-WR1043ND.html"><span color="windowtext">TP-Link WR1043nd V1.10</span></a> wireless router from
a failed firmware update.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You will require the following for the <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/uk/products/details/TL-WR1043ND.html"><span color="windowtext">WR1043nd V1.10</span></a> recovery method. Our example
is for the UK version of the router and firmware. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->A computer or laptop with an Ethernet port – We
used a laptop with Windows 10<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->A RJ45 Ethernet cable to use between your laptop
and the WR1043nd router<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Up to date firmware from the TP-Link website - <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/uk/support/download/tl-wr1043nd/v1/#Firmware">https://www.tp-link.com/uk/support/download/tl-wr1043nd/v1/#Firmware</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto;">** Please do not download the wrong version firmware for your router otherwise there is a big risk you will brick your device**<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->A TFTP server for communicating with the faulty
router. In our example we used <a href="https://tftpd32.jounin.net/"><span color="windowtext">TFTPD32/TFTPD64</span></a>. You can down this from <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://tftpd32.jounin.net/">https://tftpd32.jounin.net</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Let us now get our PC / Laptop and <a href="https://tftpd32.jounin.net/"><span color="windowtext">TFTPD32/TFTPD64</span></a>
server ready for the recovery<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"></p><ol style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->On your PC / Laptop create a directory called “temp”.
In our example the location of our directory was c:\temp\ . Within this
directory place the files downloaded which will be the firmware from the TP-Link
website and <a href="https://tftpd32.jounin.net/"><span color="windowtext">TFTPD32/TFTPD64</span></a>
server. If the files were downloaded in a compressed zip format then decompress
them using <a href="https://www.winzip.com/"><span color="windowtext">WinZip</span></a>
or <a href="https://www.7-zip.org/download.html"><span color="windowtext">7zip</span></a>.</li></ol><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">In our example within the directory c:\temp\
we had the following files decompressed. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a.<span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">The TP-Link firmware </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; text-indent: -18pt;"> </span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">– wr1043nv1_en_3_15_up_boot(140319).bin</span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo3; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->The <a href="https://tftpd32.jounin.net/"><span color="windowtext">TFTPD32/TFTPD64</span></a> server files. Tftpd64.exe,
tftpd32.ini and tftpd32.chm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf1XSqcLrdj5ToxQXZAd-4riZ32f6zp2d5Bjp-9fxsMDDmgCQNmvmYhBUyqEGfvoNt91MLyAK0zEo_pOyWa64rSR8t0G9y3DtL8dFFFSEVP5OSujPSwFvhIKOL3CfbPy1zUqKzK2cJAxA/s911/c+drive.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="911" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf1XSqcLrdj5ToxQXZAd-4riZ32f6zp2d5Bjp-9fxsMDDmgCQNmvmYhBUyqEGfvoNt91MLyAK0zEo_pOyWa64rSR8t0G9y3DtL8dFFFSEVP5OSujPSwFvhIKOL3CfbPy1zUqKzK2cJAxA/s320/c+drive.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: left; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">2. 2. </span><span style="font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">We now need to set the IPv4 address of the wired
Ethernet interface on our PC / Laptop to </span><strong style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" style="mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">192.168.0.66</span></strong><span style="text-indent: -18pt;">,
and subnet mask to 255.255.255.0.</span><!--[if !supportLists]--><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8YyFGgb6fqOw_tS-3U1U9FQsBZeq5rjfTbaGfORvGyg1YNAxl83YHGm4_lv1GKWnVtzNwLm_gzLrvjPtaSmFmKzyi2OpP-NSWDWrDaLANsbEz5jzYLLuH8GarTPdGFtU9ubz9eC3nOA/s455/SetLanIP.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="401" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8YyFGgb6fqOw_tS-3U1U9FQsBZeq5rjfTbaGfORvGyg1YNAxl83YHGm4_lv1GKWnVtzNwLm_gzLrvjPtaSmFmKzyi2OpP-NSWDWrDaLANsbEz5jzYLLuH8GarTPdGFtU9ubz9eC3nOA/s320/SetLanIP.png" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">3. </span></span></span></span>We now need to rename the firmware file. This is
very important as this will be the file that the router will be looking for in
recovery mode. So rename the file “wr1043nv1_en_3_15_up_boot(140319).bin”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">To<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast">“wr1043nv1_tp_recovery.bin<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1AF6UCN9L2DworN_kiNyVH07ot5Druzt7DQ1J7K61n_h1aoXkK-57NBlck0SsEWorsTAwMvXpL1oHXWc2Hj4mOXtgPKbIvnAXJ26KAeH3meIV5oD32qpw1UC_z0ujxGxDPrdXHcCv4fc/s911/c+drive.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="911" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1AF6UCN9L2DworN_kiNyVH07ot5Druzt7DQ1J7K61n_h1aoXkK-57NBlck0SsEWorsTAwMvXpL1oHXWc2Hj4mOXtgPKbIvnAXJ26KAeH3meIV5oD32qpw1UC_z0ujxGxDPrdXHcCv4fc/s320/c+drive.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">4.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 4.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Start the TFTP server – Run the tftpd64.exe file
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 5. </span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Point the TFTP server’s directory to the folder
that you previously unzipped the router firmware to eg “C:\temp\”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle">Also point the server interface to the PC /
Laptop NIC within the drop bar to the NIC as shown below 192.168.0.66<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiREmswFdZB_twWSFa9NwPDlyEXbt-IpUA-Xrp80M1HgH8EApxrFEviaA4wqOCkDVnEfqtKUeYVHbbyKTBlH7hNOtmGDXPDuL8DWzdVowB1NjptWAASJzTwJzqWV4IWtV-wCkjIsIJ6O1M/s255/folderloaction.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="197" data-original-width="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiREmswFdZB_twWSFa9NwPDlyEXbt-IpUA-Xrp80M1HgH8EApxrFEviaA4wqOCkDVnEfqtKUeYVHbbyKTBlH7hNOtmGDXPDuL8DWzdVowB1NjptWAASJzTwJzqWV4IWtV-wCkjIsIJ6O1M/s0/folderloaction.png" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 6.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->With the router powered off plug in your Ethernet
cabling between the LAN port of the router and the PC / Laptop Ethernet port. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">7.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 7.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Ensure the TP-Link router stays powered off. Now
hold down the reset button on the router and keep it depressed. Power the
router on, wait until you see the firmware being uploaded and then release the
reset button. If the firmware upload is successful this will be shown in the
log view bar tab – ** VERY IMPORTANT** DO NOT SWITCH THE ROUTER OF FOR 5
MINUTES<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p>IF THE RECOVERY WAS SUCCESSFUL see below –
If not carry out the above steps again</p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">8.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 8.</span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><!--[endif]-->Power down the router and reconfigure your PC /
Laptop NIC back to its original settings as before <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsrFCJOl2NrOOJTVTcztvreIIqpeHPejvK057nYdvy6nEogCUFINyaAD2WwpN58ufXDHnPmiODaey5IMStAEoi2NEo-vGewNolxGA4clUY8Rk3UdugXPxQ1RuuBBr5naKwO3B2W2wiSBw/s452/NIC+auto.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="452" data-original-width="386" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsrFCJOl2NrOOJTVTcztvreIIqpeHPejvK057nYdvy6nEogCUFINyaAD2WwpN58ufXDHnPmiODaey5IMStAEoi2NEo-vGewNolxGA4clUY8Rk3UdugXPxQ1RuuBBr5naKwO3B2W2wiSBw/w231-h271/NIC+auto.PNG" width="231" /></a></div><br /><p></p>
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<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> 9. </span><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Power your router on and log on to the router configuration
page<o:p></o:p></p>
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192.168.0.1<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>This method always works for us. If you run in to problems
it will be for the following reasons</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 54pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l2 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Wrong firmware and filename not renamed as shown
in the tutorial<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->NIC IP address and settings not configured
correctly as shown above<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->During the firmware upload you will see the
progress bar. The router may seem un-responsive. Wait a minimum of 5 minutes –
Possibly 10 before powering down<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Finally you may have defective hardware preventing
the recovery. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Hopefully our tutorial has been helpful in repairing your router </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>We are providing the
contents here for educational purposes and offer no guarantee that this process
will work for you. On this note you should be aware that by carrying out the
processes here you do so at your risk.<o:p></o:p></i></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: center;"><o:p> </o:p></p>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-23793494800572643692018-08-11T14:00:00.007+01:002023-01-03T13:11:00.359+00:00PureVPN on DDWRT router<h4>
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<u><b>On this page we are going to provide our tutorial for installing <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.purevpn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PureVPN</a></span> on your <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://forum.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DDWRT</a></span> router.</b></u></h4>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">We would like to thank the original author of this review at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk</a> for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">http://www.punj.co.uk</a></span></b></h4>
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Hopefully you will have researched and gained informative knowledge on what a <span style="color: black;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">VPN</a> connection can offer. Also you are probably encountering problems in satisfactorily installing <a href="https://www.purevpn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PureVPN</a> on your <a href="https://dd-wrt.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DDWRT </a>home wireless router. If that's the case then we maybe able to help in your installation and set-up.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.purevpn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PureVPN</a> offers a great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">VPN</a> service, with some great <a href="https://www.purevpn.com/download" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">apps </a>to get you up and running on your device's. However we found using and setting up their service on our </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://dd-wrt.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DDWRT</a></span> router quite problematic. Their support files seem out dated and buggy, and you will note the problems people are encountering as mentioned within the comments on the support pages. We had great difficulty in using their<a href="https://support.purevpn.com/applet-on-ddwrt" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> DDWRT applet </a>and <a href="https://support.purevpn.com/how-can-i-configure-openvpn-on-my-dd-wrt-router" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenVPN router setup</a> .</span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">With our set-up you will require minimum steps to get you up and running. In brief you will run our script which will automatically provide most of the settings required within your router for a <b>UDP OpenVPN setup</b>. Hopefully after the script completes all that is required by you is to input your PureVPN username, password and UDP server address. </span></div>
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<u><b><span style="color: black;">So lets get started in the installation of setting </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.purevpn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PureVPN</a> on a </span></span></b><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://dd-wrt.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DDWRT</a></span> router with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVPN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenVPN</a> configuration</b>.</span></span></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">It is assumed that you have the following items</span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">A good satisfactory working internet connection. </span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://dd-wrt.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DDWRT</a></span></span> compatible router with </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVPN" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenVPN</a></span></span></span> support, and 8MB flash memory with the latest firmware for installing the </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://support.purevpn.com/how-can-i-configure-openvpn-on-my-dd-wrt-router" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OpenVPN</a></span></span></span> configuration. We used a <a href="https://www.tp-link.com/us/products/details/cat-9_Archer-C7.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TP Link Archer C7 V2</a> within our test.</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">A premium </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://www.purevpn.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PureVPN</a> account subscription.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">You will also need to hand the following.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Your PureVPN username which usually looks something like "purevpnxxxx"</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Your PureVPN password</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">The PureVPN UDP server address you intend to connect to. The PureVPN server addresses can be found at <a href="https://support.purevpn.com/vpn-servers">https://support.purevpn.com/vpn-servers</a> Ensure that you choose the OpenVPN UDP servers. In our setup we used </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">ukl1-ovpn-udp.pointtoserver.com We prefer to use the IP of the server address. You can find this by pinging the server and using the IP address shown by the ping reply. In our case this was 172.111.157.130</span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<u><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Now lets start our set up</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><u><br /></u></span></span></span></span></span></u></h4>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Step by Step Configuration</span></span></span></span></span></h4>
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<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">log into your </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://dd-wrt.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DDWRT</a> router and factory reset your router. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Install minimum settings to ensure that your router has internet access. Make sure that you test that your internet connection is satisfactory and working.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Log into your router and go to the DDWRT router menu. This is usually done by typing 192.168.1.1 within your browser and providing your router username and password. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">When within the DDWRT set-up pages Navigate to "Administration" and then go to "Commands".</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Within the "Commands" box type or paste the following text code </span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/vpn/purevpnbp.swi" target="_blank">eval `wget -q -O - http://www.punj.co.uk/vpn/purevpnbp.swi` </a></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"> and then press "Run Commands" tab. This will install the PureVPN settings within the OpenVPN router software for you </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">When the above code script completes the router will reboot. Please wait until this step completes.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Now go back into the DDWRT router set-up page and navigate to "Services" and then "OpenVPN" page and then enable the "OpenVPN Client" tab. </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">We will now provide our <a href="https://support.purevpn.com/vpn-servers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PureVPN server address</a>, username, and password within the "Open VPN client". Hopefully all other entries will be pre-configured eg port, Tunnel Device, Encryption etc</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Now in the "Server IP/Name" type the <a href="https://support.purevpn.com/vpn-servers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PureVPN Server address</a> or IP of the PureVPN server. In our case this was 172.111.157.130 or ukl1-ovpn-udp.pointtoserver.com </span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">Next go to "</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: black;">User Pass Authentication" and press this. In "username" and "password" box provide your PureVPN username and Password. In our setup our username was something like purevpnxxxx.</span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li>Now press "Save" and "Apply Settings" to save our configuration.</li>
<li>Finally re-boot your router.</li>
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You should also go on to the internet and navigate to an <a href="http://whatismyipaddress.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IP look up site</a> to check that you are connected to your PureVPN connection. In our test we used <a href="http://whatismyipaddress.com/">http://whatismyipaddress.com/</a><br />
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<li>Check that you have correctly entered the PureVPN UDP server address</li>
<li>Check that you have used the correct PureVPN username. It should be something like purevpnxxxx</li>
<li>Ensure that you firewall is correctly configured and not blocking the VPN connection</li>
<li>If you are using dns masq go to "Services" > scroll down to "Dns Masq" and then within the "Additional DNS Masq Options" enter the following (Dns Servers)</li>
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server=208.67.222.222</div>
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Hopefully we have helped you to be up and running now. We have tried this method on many occasions with different router manufacturer and hardware so are very confident that it will help you.</div>
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Finally don't forget that this is a very basic setup to get you up and running. You should contact PureVPN support to carry out further tweaks and adjustments to your setup.</div>
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On this page we are going to look at how we can use our recommended 3rd party router to work with <a href="http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/tv-packages/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BT TV</a>.</div>
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We no that we struggled to find a lot of information on purchasing a compatible 3rd party router working satisfactory with the BT IPTV multicast channels.</div>
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Our working setup was using the TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 wireless router which worked satisfactory with IPTV multicast and BT TV channels. This router worked for us on the <span class="st">BT Infinity fibre package with BT TV and BT Sport channels.</span></div>
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BT now provide some fantastic TV packages as part of their BT Broadband portfolio. They also provide their BT Homehub to their customers which works great with their broadband packages. </div>
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Some people how ever prefer to use their own routers rather than the working BT supplied Homehub. You should note that BT do not provide support for using 3rd party routers. </div>
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You can find further information on other compatible 3rd party wireless routers on the <a href="https://community.bt.com/t5/YouView-Boxes/Using-a-3rd-party-router-for-Multicast/td-p/1048582" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BT help Forum site</a>. </div>
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Most third party routers will work satisfactory with BT Broadband, however most will be problematic in working satisfactory with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_TV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BT TV </a>and IPTV Multicast channels.</div>
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BT TV is delivered through the broadband line and most 3rd party routers have difficulty or are not compatible with the IPTV multicast channel delivery. Therefore even tho the broadband works great you will get a black screen or error message when viewing any BT IPTV multicast channels. On other 3rd party routers you may find that even tho you have configured IPTV the muticast packets flood the wireless router which in turn locks up the router and provides a very unsatisfactory internet experience.</div>
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Our set up however uses the BT FTTC Modem and the TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 wireless router on our <span class="st">BT Infinity fibre line which so far has worked great with little setup.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.tp-link.com/lk/products/details/?model=Archer%20C7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 wireless router</a> can be purchased from most retailers and at the moment is very competitively priced compared to other AC wireless routers.</div>
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One word of warning - This router is available in three versions. We are unable to confirm that the version 1 router will work satisfactory. However the newer versions 2 and 3 certainly are. We recommend that you purchase version 2 or 3.</div>
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When getting your TP-Link Archer C7 AC1750 wireless router just make sure you up date the firmware to the latest from the TP-Links web site. If you see the following router setup screen as shown below with the "IPTV" settings on the left hand side menu then your router will most certainly work satisfactory.</div>
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The only setting within the router that we were required on our setup was the pppoe username and password which will be found in your old BT Homehub setup pages. The IPTV muticast channels worked with the default router settings.</div>
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Our setup has now been working very well for sometime. We decided to do this blog as confirmation that the TP-Link router mentioned above worked satisfactory as mentioned above.</div>
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Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-62518496152577787462015-01-31T13:46:00.002+00:002015-01-31T13:46:22.322+00:00Using USB Drive to install windows 7 / 8 <span style="font-size: xx-small;">We would like to thank the original author of this review at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk</a> for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">http://www.punj.co.uk</a></span><br />
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On this page we are going to look at on how you can create your windows 7 or 8 media installation on to a usb 2.0 flash drive. </div>
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Like us you may have your current windows 7/8 installation media provided on a DVD. By creating your installation media onto a usb drive you will certainly cut the installation time to around 15 minutes compared to the DVD installation which can take up to an hour.<br />
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To create your windows 7/8 installation onto a usb drive you will need a usb 2.0 4GB flash drive.</div>
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As these usb 2.0 flash drives are relatively cheap, using a larger capacity drive sometimes proves useful as you can keep other files on your installation media. An example of additional files would be having additional drivers, and your favourite programs readily available on your installation media.</div>
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1. Plug in your new clean usb 2.0 flash drive into your PC/Laptop.<br />
In "My Computer" Make a note of the drive letter for the DVD rom drive and your new usb drive.<br />
In our example our DVD drive was shown as the "D Drive" and our usb drive was shown as the "e drive".<br />
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2. Now open the command prompt program with admin rights. You can do this by going to the "Start menu" and typing "<b>cmd</b>". You will see "cmd.exe". Right hand click cmd.exe and "<b>Run as administrator</b>". This will open the command prompt with administration rights.</div>
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4. The next step is to type "<b>LIST DISK</b>". This shows all the disks within our computer. In our example "Disk 0" was our main C drive and "Disk 1" was our usb drive. In our example we will be using "Disk 1".<br />
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If all is well you should see as in our example a confirmation stating "Disk 1 is now the selected disk".<br />
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You should get a successful response ‘DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk”.<br />
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10. The next step is to format our usb drive. We can do this by typying "<b>format fs=ntfs quick</b>" This will format our usb drive. Wait until you have received confirmation that the format has 100 percent completed.<br />
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12. To make our usb drive bootable we type <b>d: cd boot</b>. This takes us to the boot folder within our dvd rom drive which has our windows 7 / 8 installation media. <br />
Now type "<b>Bootsect.exe /nt60 e:</b>. <br />
In our example e: is our usb drive. Substitute the e: with the letter of your USB drive. This procedure will create a boot sector on the USB drive.<br />
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You can now install windows 7/8 installations much quicker and this should save you between 40% to 60% of the time it takes from a DVD disc.<br />
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We hope our readers have enjoyed our project and will come back to <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk</a> for our views on more technological projects and products.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Due to this you will also find many users who have bricked their set up boxes from failed firmware updates. If you find yourself with this problem then you will be glad to hear that these boxes do offer a few options for recovery.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The recovery method that we used on our DM500s was to use a null modem serial RS232 com cable and a utility called DreamUP to communicate and upload a good working copy of the firmware to our set top box. Below are the instructions and where to get a copy of DreamUP software. You will also need a good copy of the firmware for the DM500s which you can get from searching Google</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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Download a copy of DreamUP and place this on your desktop from here<span style="color: #b45f06;"> </span><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/Downloads/DreamUP_ver1.3.3.1.zip" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><strong>DreamUP_ver1.3.3.1.zip</strong></span></a></div>
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We made our own and below is the schematics for those wishing to make their own cable.</div>
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We must point out that the use of the correct cable is absolutely essential. If you are unable to communicate with the set top box and dreamUP or receive errors it will most likely be the use of using incorrect cabling. Please check that you have not got a straight through serial cable. The correct RS232 serial cable requires pins 2 and 3 known as the transmit and receive lines to be crossed linked.</div>
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As you can see in the schematic you really only need 3 wires from your DB9 socket to make the RS232 serial cable. Note that pins 2 and 3 are crossed over for transmit and receive of the signals.</div>
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Using your PC / laptop download <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/Downloads/DreamUP_ver1.3.3.1.zip" target="_blank"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><strong>DreamUP_ver1.3.3.1.zip</strong></span></a> and unzip the contents to your desktop.<br />
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Next plug your Null Modem RS232 cable between the DM500s and the serial port of your PC.<br />
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Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-57735925448484559972012-06-17T17:20:00.004+01:002014-07-20T10:12:20.799+01:00Dell mini Inspiron 910 - STEC SSD repair faulty disk<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>We would like to thank the original author of this review at </i><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/"><i><span style="color: #ff9900;">www.punj.co.uk </span></i></a><i>for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at </i><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/"><i><span style="color: #ff9900;">http://www.punj.co.uk</span></i></a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On this page we are going to look at the Dell Mini 9 Inspiron 910 mini laptop / netbook and a common problem that some users have faced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Dell Mini 9 Inspiron that we are going to talk about here had the following specifications and were all just over twelve months old.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We have had several of these mini laptop / netbooks sent to us for repairs all giving symptom's of a failed disk. When switching the Dell Mini 9 on, the screen would show errors as " Operating system not Found" and on two of these the SSD disk was being reported as 0MB within the bios.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Normally this error in most cases is the symptom's of a failing hard disk and usually requires the hard disk to be replaced. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the Dell Mini 9 the hard disk consists of a Mini PCIe PATA SSD disk which unlike normal hard disks consist of no moving parts. The Mini PCIe PATA SSD is made of memory chips which will retain data after power loss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The STEC Mini PCIe PATA SSD on the Dell Mini can be located on the rear of the laptop by removing the hardware compartment lid which is held by two screws.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Most people that we have come across seem to replace their SSD disks when they encounter this error as this is the advise by Dell Support to them. Further when you encounter these errors the disk becomes inaccessible for any of the usual disk utilities including Linux GPart. You will find that using the Linux Live CD for accessing the SSD for partitioning, formatting and other tests is always unsuccessful. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We believe that occasionally some of the data on the disk becomes corrupt and the disk is also occasionally unable to re-align itself. The disk will then go into a lock and give symptons as described above. You will also find very limited information on the Internet to resolve this issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Our method for recovering your STEC Mini PCIe PATA SSD disk evolves running a utility within a bootable CD or USB media to re-align and updating the disk firmware. This utility was made available from STEC the SSD Disk manufacturer to whom we are very grateful to. The utility will destroy all data on the disk and when completed revive what was a dead SSD disk. You will then need to re-partition and format your SSD disk. If all goes well your final task is to re-install your OS and data to your Dell Mini 9</span></div>
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<b>You Should be aware that this procedure will destroy all data on the disk. We offer no guarantee or warranty that this procedure will work for you</b>.</div>
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To repair and revive your failed STEC Mini PCIe SSD disk this is the procedure that works for us.</div>
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You will need to download the utility firmware and prepare the bootable media on another computer or laptop. Below are the step by step instructions we use to repair our STEC Mini PCIe SSD.</div>
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Prepare a USB Pen Drive formatted with Fat32 and with a bootable dos system.</div>
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Download the following <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/Downloads/stecssdutil.zip" target="_blank">STEC SSD 8 / 16GB util</a> firmware to your desktop and unzip the contents with winzip.</div>
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Copy the unzipped "stecssdutil" utility folder to your bootable USB pen drive.</div>
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When the above steps are complete remove your newly created USB pen drive and now go to the Dell Mini 9.</div>
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Ensure that the Dell Mini 9 is plugged into the power supply. This is very important.</div>
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Now plug in your USB bootable pen drive with the stecssdutil folder contents.</div>
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Switch on your Dell Mini 9 and keep pressing 0 (Zero) on the keyboard. You should be prompted with a screen asking which device to boot from. You will need to ensure that you are booting from the USB pen drive (USB Hard Drive). </div>
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If the usb pen drive has successfully booted you will be navigated in to the dos environment with the screen at the command prompt C:\ .</div>
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Now type "CD stecssdutil" and press enter. You will now be navigated into "c:\stecssdutil" folder.<br />
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Now <b>do not touch any thing or switch off</b>. Let the utility complete. This may take some time to complete. Let the utility firmware finish or you will destroy your disk.</div>
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When the utility completes you will be back at the C:\ prompt or C:\stecssdutil\ prompt .</div>
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The final steps require preparing your repaired STEC SSD drive and then re-installing your OS from your recovery CD's.</div>
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We used the Linux Live GParted CD which can be found at <a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php" target="_blank">http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php</a> for deleting the old partition and then creating a new NTFS partition and a NTFS format to complete our procedure.</div>
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The final step will be to re-install the Dell Mini 9 OS and drivers from the Dell Recovery media that came with your Dell Mini 9.</div>
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Finally this is the very same procedure that some people are selling on ebay to revive this particular SSD disk for you. We hope that our readers will save some money and have the satisfaction on carrying out this repair themselves. Our personal opinion is that Dell Support should offer this publicly as a free of charge repair for the user's effected to carry out. They should also make more of an attempt to make this issue more known on their support site and the Internet.</div>
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Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com239tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-79605169280458257082012-04-29T12:54:00.004+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.772+01:00BT Homehub V 3 Open ports 161 and 4567 stealthed<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>We would like to thank the original author of this review at </i><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/"><i>www.punj.co.uk </i></a><i>for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at </i><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/"><i>http://www.punj.co.uk/</i></a></b></span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On this page we are going to discuss why the BT Home Hub V3 is shipped with open ports</span><br /><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTz-I0FOjkK83bOnsoKrC7Ym_h6o9DGV6yA4rFvYL_313pQa92Wi4b-yZGOPcwTnx_OLcLaWioU_4CVO8eDJoeWhcHszPzW0U6eQcXQqmJ1CRi0Mj9t7t4tx9RyDRI8f58w7FED6OlkLc/s1600/bthhv3front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTz-I0FOjkK83bOnsoKrC7Ym_h6o9DGV6yA4rFvYL_313pQa92Wi4b-yZGOPcwTnx_OLcLaWioU_4CVO8eDJoeWhcHszPzW0U6eQcXQqmJ1CRi0Mj9t7t4tx9RyDRI8f58w7FED6OlkLc/s200/bthhv3front.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On our previous blog we discussed using OpenDNS with BT Broadband and the BT home hub. We still congratulate BT for providing their customers with a great home wireless router but like most people we cannot understand why they supply their router shipped with open ports.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It is now confirmed that the current BT Home Hub v3 is supplied with ports 161 and in some cases 4567 permanently open and not closed. We are also going to provide our readers a simple fix to stealth these open ports. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Further the BT Hub Manager settings do not allow these ports to be further configured or turned off.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There is a lot of discussion at the BT Care Community Forums at</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><a href="http://community.bt.com/t5/Other-BB-Queries/port-161-open-on-home-hub-3/td-p/133207"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">http://community.bt.com/t5/Other-BB-Queries/port-161-open-on-home-hub-3/td-p/133207</span></a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">With people asking this very same question and the response from BT. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You can check to see if your firewall or router has open ports by visiting the Gibson Research Corporation port scanning service called ShieldsUp. This can be found by following this link</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2">https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The image below shows our test BT Home Hub V3 with port 161 open.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/openport161.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/openport161.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">We would agree with the Gibson Research Corporation comments regarding port 161 and why open ports are vunerable to hack attacks. </span></div><br /><br />“Most users will not be exposed to SNMP (nor will they ever find port 161 open) unless some piece of their networking equipment has an active and open SNMP service port. If our port analysis ever shows that a router (for example) or other network device exposed to the Internet has its SNMP interface open you will want to arrange to disable and close that port immediately. Malicious hackers know that some consumer networking equipment has been shipped with exposed SNMP ports and with default access passwords. Therefore, it would not be at all unlikely that such a router or other equipment would be quickly discovered and exploited. Malicious hackers would find this amusing, but you would probably not”<br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;"> <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">You can read the Gibson Research Corporation full description of port 161 at</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.grc.com/port_161.htm">http://www.grc.com/port_161.htm</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Port 4567 is explained at</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.grc.com/port_4567.htm">http://www.grc.com/port_4567.htm</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">How to temporarily fix and stealth open ports 161 & 4567 </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">OK now how can we stealth these open ports. Well it’s really up to BT to provide a permanent fix with an updated firmware to fully secure these open ports. As BT currently leave these ports open we can carry out a temporary solution in stealthing these open ports.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In brief we are going to access the BT Home Hub manager settings and use the port forwarding settings to route these open ports to an unused IP address on our network. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We must ensure that this IP address is <b>not</b> or ever used for any device on our Lan network.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Well here is the simple fix.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><br /><br /><ol><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Login to your BT Home HUB manager settings at 192.168.1.254.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Select “'Settings”. then</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Select ‘Advanced Settings'. then</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Select 'Port Forwarding'.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In 'Device’, select 'User-defined IP' and enter an unused IP address eg 192.168.1.250. (Must be unique and not to be used by any device on the network).</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"> </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now Click 'Add' and 'Assign' and then 'Apply'</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In this same screen, click 'Supported applications'.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now add a new application. Name this as SNMP/TRAM. This will represent the two protocols ports 161 & 4567.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Set 'Protocol' to 'Any'.</span></li></ol><ul><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In all the boxes labelled 'Port Range' and 'Translate to', enter 161 then Click 'Add'</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></li></ul><ol></ol></div><ol></ol><ul><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">In all the boxes labelled 'Port Range' and 'Translate to', enter 4567.then Click 'Add'.</span><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></li></ul><ol></ol><ul><li><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Now Click 'Apply' to save and apply the new changes.</span></li></ul><ol></ol><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now if you go to</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2">https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">and try the Gibson Research Corporation port scanning service called ShieldsUp this should show the previously open ports as now stealthed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/closeport161.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/closeport161.gif" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So to re-cap what we have done is used the port forwarding settings to route these ports to a unique unused IP address within our network which doesn’t exist. When the port scanner now tries to communicate with these ports to the non-existing IP address it can’t because the IP address has no device to communicate with.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Finally it’s really up to BT to provide a permanent fix with an updated firmware to fully secure these open ports. The port forwarding solution above is only a temporary solution in stealthing these open ports.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We hope you have enjoyed our latest tip and if you wish to discuss this further then please leave your comments and suggestions below.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></span></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-29367066693927117382012-01-15T16:51:00.006+00:002014-06-13T23:14:35.792+01:00Solve wireless router connection problems<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><i>We would like to thank the original author of this review at </i><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/"><i>www.punj.co.uk </i></a><i>for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at </i><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/"><i>http://www.punj.co.uk/</i></a></b></span> <br /><br />Many people today connect to the Internet using a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_router" target="_blank">wireless router</a> either provided by their ISP or purchased by themselves. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_router" target="_blank">Wireless routers</a> are great devices letting people connect to their home networks without having a wired connection between the device and the router. As an example you can sit in your garden and connect wirelessly to your home wireless router to access the Internet.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTz-I0FOjkK83bOnsoKrC7Ym_h6o9DGV6yA4rFvYL_313pQa92Wi4b-yZGOPcwTnx_OLcLaWioU_4CVO8eDJoeWhcHszPzW0U6eQcXQqmJ1CRi0Mj9t7t4tx9RyDRI8f58w7FED6OlkLc/s1600/bthhv3front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTz-I0FOjkK83bOnsoKrC7Ym_h6o9DGV6yA4rFvYL_313pQa92Wi4b-yZGOPcwTnx_OLcLaWioU_4CVO8eDJoeWhcHszPzW0U6eQcXQqmJ1CRi0Mj9t7t4tx9RyDRI8f58w7FED6OlkLc/s200/bthhv3front.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We have come across many occasions when the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_router" target="_blank"> wireless router</a> sometimes becomes problematic and intermittently disconnects the user providing an unsatisfactory connection. To help we are going to give our readers some <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/telecom/bbrouterproblems.html" target="_blank">useful tips</a> on how to resolve these issues.<br /><br />You may have experienced one of the following symptoms:<br /><br />1. Your PC or laptop frequently connects and disconnects you from the wireless router.<br />2. You are connected to your wireless router but the wireless connection seems very slow.<br /><br />We have resolved these issues on many occasions by just following some simple tips.<br /><br /><b><u>Some useful tips to resolve wireless problems</u></b><br /><br />Nearly all <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_router" target="_blank">wireless routers</a> today come preset so that the user simply connects their wireless router to the ISP connection and by using the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wpa2" target="_blank"> security key</a> provided they are ready to surf the Internet.<br />The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wpa2" target="_blank">security key</a> will normally be found on a sticker on the back of the router.<br />The manufactures try very hard to make the installation of the wireless router an easy experience for the user.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">An example of this setup by the manufacturer would be that the wireless router comes pre-configured with the wireless channel pre-set to "Auto" or Channel "6". <br />Normally in all occasions an unsatisfactory wireless connection is due to external interference interfering with the wireless connection.<br />The external interference can come from neighbouring wireless routers and devices. Indeed even the neighbours microwave can interfere with your wireless connection. <br />A simple solution to resolve and fix your connection is by changing the channel your wireless router uses to communicate with your devices eg computer or laptop.<br />To change the channel you will need to go into the wireless router set up pages. You can find more information on how to get into your wireless router setup pages by reading your router manual or by searching in <a href="http://www.google.com/" target="_blank">google</a> for your router.<br />Once you are in the wireless router setup page you will notice that the wireless channel is set to "Auto" or channel "6". This channel setting can normally be changed. You can normally manually set the channel number between 1 to 13.<br />By simply changing this to say channel "2" you can resolve a lot of issues. You may even find that your wireless router can now be picked up at longer distances and stay satisfactorily connected for a longer time.<br /><br /><br />Some of the more experienced users will also tweak their devices in other ways in an effort to get the best wireless connection. How ever some of these tweaks can also result in making the connection unsatisfactory and even worse for the user. An example of this is one that we came across very recently. <br />We had a user who had the <a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index" target="_blank">DD-WRT</a> firmware on their wireless router. They were able to set the transmit TX power settings which basically either transmits the wireless signal at higher or lower power settings.<br />They thought by using higher power settings they were improving their wireless signal so that it would be picked up more easly by the wireless devices. However by setting this at higher power settings they were just saturating the signal to their wireless device. We recommend that you never increase the power transmit settings on your wireless router. Not only will you saturate additional noise but you will most probably shorten the the life of your wireless router. We were able to resolve this issue for this user by just lowering this slightly lower than the default setting. In our case this was lowered from the default setting of "70" to "50".<br /><br />Some people will also access the wireless NIC settings within the wireless NIC device on the laptop or computer. Within the "Wireless Network adapter connection" you can get access to the wireless adaptor settings within the advanced menu. Here you can also see that on some wireless adaptors you can set the "Transmit Power". Some people think by setting this to the "Highest" setting they will be able to iimprove their wireless signal as it is now operating at the highest setting. All they are doing here is again shortening the life of their wireless adaptor and as stated before saturating the wireless signal. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">We again recommend that you choose a medium setting for the transmit TX setting.<br />The lower the setting the better the wireless connection will perform. Also the wireless NIC card will use less power which will result in less heat and a longer life for that device.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />We are amazed that the tips we have detailed above are not given as standard by the manufactures support personel. <br />We have come across many users replacing their wireless routers stating that the previous router that was purchased not so long ago as poorly made by the manufacturer. Indeed the same has been said for the free ISP supplied wireless routers. In our opinion manufactures do try to make good quality products and ISP do want to provide the best for their customers. However by just changing the wireless channel will most defantly in most cases give amazing results.<br /><br />Over the years we have resolved many wireless issues by just using the simple tips above. <br /><br />So finally if your wireless router is playing up whether this is the one you purchased or this was given free to you by your ISP, we recommend you try our tips here, Hopefully you will once again have your wireless router and devices working as they are suppose to.<br /><br />If you have enjoyed our latest tip or wish to discuss this further then please leave your comments and suggestions below<br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-938514639177501312011-12-31T15:59:00.004+00:002014-06-13T23:14:35.803+01:00Best Wishes for 2014 new year<div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Seasonal Greetings to all</span></b></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wishing everyone a happy new year for 2014</span></b></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">May the new year bring love happiness and peaceful living to all</span></b></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Best Wishes from everyone</span></b></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">at</span></b></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Punj Technology Blog</span></b></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">and</span></b></div><div style="color: orange; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">www.punj.co.uk</span></b></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-80205861720380644272011-08-19T22:05:00.006+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.823+01:00Toshiba Corrupt bios Recovery<div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>We would like to thank the original author of this review at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk </a>for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">http://www.punj.co.uk/</a></b></span></i> <br /><br /><br />On one of our previous blogs we reviewed and demonstrated on how to recover your computer / laptop from a corrupt bios using the <a href="http://punj-technology.blogspot.com/2010/10/review-on-mcumall-usb-pro-gq-4x.html">EPROM / EEPROM MCUmall True-USB PRO GQ-4X Willem Programmer</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now we are going to show you how you can recover from a corrupt bios using no specialist equipment.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This method will require the use of a floppy disk media, CD/DVD or a standard usb stick flash media device. This method is commonly known as"Bios Crisis recovery disk method".</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bios is the first part of software code to run when you switch on a computer. This code gives instructions for the power on self test (post). This self test checks and ensures that the computer has all the required parts eg disks memory etc and that they function. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most modern computer bioses can be recovered by using a crisis disk whether this be via a floppy or usb disk media. On some computers however when the bios boot tables become corrupt this can be problematic as this normally requires the bios chip to be manually reprogrammed or replaced. If your bios boot tables have become corrupt then this process will probably not be successful.<br /><br />We were recently contacted by one of our clients who had corrupted the bios to his Toshiba A100-210 Model PSAA8E laptop.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/tosh1.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="183" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/tosh1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our client had visited the official Toshiba website and downloaded the bios for his laptop from <a href="http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/bios-20071126124517.zip">here</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He then carried out the procedure of updating his bios as instructed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Toshiba bios program seemed to run and complete as confirmed at the end of the update. However when the laptop re-booted he noticed that the start up screen seemed to stay stuck on the blue bios start-up screen. He was then unable to get the laptop to progress further and boot to his windows xp installation.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/tosh2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/tosh2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There was a lot of private data which was now UN-accessible. In desperation the laptop was given to us to see if it could be recovered. We are not sure why the bios update had failed as our client seemed to suggest that he had carried the update as recommended.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">We knew that this laptop has a <a href="http://www.phoenix.com/">Phoenix Bios</a> so our first attempt was to try the bios disk recovery method. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For this method which we have successfully used before you will need a usb floppy disk drive with 1.44M floppy media. You will also need to download files as instructed below. In brief we will create a recovery diskette which will have a good copy of the bios file. For this particular laptop a good copy of the bios file will be available within the download below. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is a step by step instructions on how we carried out the bios disk recovery method.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><ol><li>Download the <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/Downloads/BiosRocoveryMethod.rar">BiosRocoveryMethod.rar</a> file from <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/Downloads/BiosRocoveryMethod.rar">here</a> This will have all the files required to create the floppy diskette and a good copy of the bios file for this laptop.</li><li>Use winrar to decompress the downloaded file and place them in a folder on your desktop.</li><li>Now you will need a floppy drive or usb stick. We used a usb floppy drive as we no from experience that the usb stick will be unsuccessful with the recovery of this particular laptop.</li><li>You need to carefully read the instructions in the <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/Downloads/BiosRocoveryMethod.rar">BiosRocoveryMethod</a> folder downloaded earlier.</li><li>You will now need to Click on the Phoenix_Crisis_Recovery.exe to make a bootable Floppy.</li><li>Copy all the files from Rescue folder to your newly created bootable floppy diskette.</li><li>Rename your BIOS file to bios.wph and copy it to your floppy diskette. We have provided a good copy of the bios file for this laptop.</li><li>Now un-plug the power to your laptop. Connect your usb floppy drive to your usb port with the newly created bios recovery diskette.</li><li>Hold down FN+F keys on the keyboard and while holding plug the computer in to the power and press the power button.</li><li>You should hear the laptop bleeping and also the floppy drive being read and working. Hold the keys for a while and then let go.</li><li>Leave the laptop for at least 10 minutes. Within this time the laptop may also repeatedly bleep whilst also copying the new bios file to your laptop.</li><li>If the laptop does not restart itself after about ten minutes turn the power down and re-start the laptop</li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;">Hopefully the laptop will re-start and at the intial bios boot screen ensure that you set your bios to "Load bios Defaults".</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/tosh3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/tosh3.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />Your laptop should now boot to your xp installation and hopefully you will have recovered from your corrupt bios.<br /><br />A few words of caution. This method with the provided bios file is only for the Toshiba A100-210 Model PSAA8E laptop. Do not use this file if you are going to use this method for a different laptop / computer. If you do use this method for a different computer / laptop which has a phoenix bios be sure to use a bios file for that computer or laptop and re-name to bios.wph.<br /><br />You should also be aware that updating the computer / laptop bios carries risks and could render your motherboard completely dead if things go wrong.<br /><br />We are providing the contents here for educational purposes and offer no guarantee that this process will work for you. On this note you should be aware that by carrying out the processes here you do so at your risk.<br /><br />We hope our readers have enjoyed our project and will come back to <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">www.punj.co.uk</a> for our views on more technological projects and products.<br /><br />If you have enjoyed our latest tip or wish to discuss this further then please leave your comments and suggestions below.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-30420072678993985842011-02-27T13:54:00.020+00:002014-06-13T23:14:35.834+01:00Using OpenDNS with BT HomeHub Broadband<b><span style="font-size: large;">Using OpenDNS with BT Homehubs Broadband</span> </b><br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>We would like to thank the original author of this review at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk </a>for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/telecom/bbrouterproblems.html">http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/telecom/bbrouterproblems.html</a></b></span></i><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">On this page we are going to show you how to use the OpenDNS service on BT Broadband using the BT Homehub and some additional cheap hardware. BT has currently disabled their users from entering their own dns settings on the BT Homehubs using the current BT firmware. BT had adopted to disable certain features on their homehubs to close certain security vulnerabilities on their hardware.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">So first of all lets briefly find out what the OpenDNS service is.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.opendns.com/">OpenDNS</a> is a dns service which can help in providing the user in controlling and blocking Internet sites which the user deems as inappropriate. This can be useful if you have kids on your home network and you want to filter and block web sites which you deem appropriate for them to visit or use.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">OpenDNS also provides anti-phising and malware / botnet protection to further protect the Internet user. We do however advise strongly that the user still incorporates security software on each PC / Laptop and home network devices that they currently use to ensure a high level of protection.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now we will give a brief explanation of the BT Homehub.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">BT provide all their customers exclusively using the BT Broadband product their branded wireless router known as the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_Home_Hub">BT HomeHub</a>. In providing this great piece of kit BT can provide support for the BT Broadband customer. The latest BT Homehub version 3 includes the smart wireless N technology, provision of a gigabit LAN port and the USB port for connecting a printer or hard disk to your home network. This version of the home hub can also be used on BT's ADSL and Infinity product. Overall we have been very impressed with this latest BT Hardware and congratulate them in providing such an outstanding piece of kit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTz-I0FOjkK83bOnsoKrC7Ym_h6o9DGV6yA4rFvYL_313pQa92Wi4b-yZGOPcwTnx_OLcLaWioU_4CVO8eDJoeWhcHszPzW0U6eQcXQqmJ1CRi0Mj9t7t4tx9RyDRI8f58w7FED6OlkLc/s1600/bthhv3front.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTz-I0FOjkK83bOnsoKrC7Ym_h6o9DGV6yA4rFvYL_313pQa92Wi4b-yZGOPcwTnx_OLcLaWioU_4CVO8eDJoeWhcHszPzW0U6eQcXQqmJ1CRi0Mj9t7t4tx9RyDRI8f58w7FED6OlkLc/s320/bthhv3front.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgasVB7Bc8ZlmUMBzLsF08ma4kDYgXD9NOBqsjw3D7yZt_GAdnzAGKu__sKDNHkO9BHtjRiiTIFcIfMnUdHMnLk9GeNq1Kp6pE-XITeUSj0PSK4jOiGjD0AdBndeFdpW17cZHoglryRBu8/s1600/BTHHV3rear.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgasVB7Bc8ZlmUMBzLsF08ma4kDYgXD9NOBqsjw3D7yZt_GAdnzAGKu__sKDNHkO9BHtjRiiTIFcIfMnUdHMnLk9GeNq1Kp6pE-XITeUSj0PSK4jOiGjD0AdBndeFdpW17cZHoglryRBu8/s200/BTHHV3rear.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">By using some additional hardware and setting the home network correctly we can use the OpenDNS service and still get support from the official BT support channel as we are still using their provided piece of kit on the BT Broadband product.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">In order to use OpenDNS we need to configure the dns settings on our home network to use the OpenDNS servers. This can be done in a couple of ways. The user can either at each computer or laptop access the network configuration and manually enter the OpenDNS server settings, or use these dns settings at the router to globally use the dns service for all devices on the network. Entering the dns settings within network configuration at each device can be quite time consuming and can also be quite easily bypassed by someone by just entering their own dns settings. By configuring the router correctly we can ensure that the chosen dns service is the only dns service used.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Our tip includes the use of an additional router which will be configured with the OpenDNS setting and provide DHCP to all devices on the network. In using our method the user is required to disable the DHCP on the BT Homehub for providing IP addresses to devices on the home network. In brief the DLink will be used as a slave router providing DHCP and DNS in lieu of the BT HomeHub.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">In our method we chose the DLink DIR-615 version D2 router as our additional piece of hardware. We chose this router as it cost just £1.50 plus £3.50 shipping from eBay. The DLink DIR-615 is a wireless broadband router with wireless N and four 100mb Ethernet ports.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWukyhHaAN425hp0MiUxyNe-nHa5emDTYPB_ebJKRvLBH0dQ3Eufyen5n1ReMhb1qeXwWMMcgFIAMGMmgc0lsd16QXmRRBz0xVh8lvHV_SzSe3efFaLj4ikrjLSabrBxf_GsqqZUst1s/s1600/dir615.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEWukyhHaAN425hp0MiUxyNe-nHa5emDTYPB_ebJKRvLBH0dQ3Eufyen5n1ReMhb1qeXwWMMcgFIAMGMmgc0lsd16QXmRRBz0xVh8lvHV_SzSe3efFaLj4ikrjLSabrBxf_GsqqZUst1s/s200/dir615.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The first thing we did with this router was to upgrade the firmware from the DLink to the <a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index">DD WRT</a> firmware.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The <a href="http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index">DD WRT</a> firmware is a free Linux-based firmware</span><span style="font-size: small;"> offering a great number of functionalities. This firmware allowed us to setup this router as a slave router which provided all devices on our network with DHCP and the DNS settings for the OpenDNS service. In addition we configured this router to intercept the dns port to prevent users from using their own dns server. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyd0eI0mzMXtJOvTi1JhW8QP_YGU5lMeR9QbQNKbuGJj-lCPVjKk5iYBaMpOPvHsNy0yLn6EoiFHpn1Xe6aGvTMYfHbapKJ2v01mO4-rnta5mKBt9CopDY9eOqrBrDcojG99EF7JOX2DM/s1600/ddwrt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyd0eI0mzMXtJOvTi1JhW8QP_YGU5lMeR9QbQNKbuGJj-lCPVjKk5iYBaMpOPvHsNy0yLn6EoiFHpn1Xe6aGvTMYfHbapKJ2v01mO4-rnta5mKBt9CopDY9eOqrBrDcojG99EF7JOX2DM/s320/ddwrt.jpg" title="DDWRT-Basic Setup" width="320" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The following setup configurations was used within the DLink configuration page. All other settings were left as the default settings.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Wan Setup</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wan Connection Type - Disabled</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Network Setup</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Local IP Address - 192.168.1.1</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Subnet Mask - 255.255.255.0</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gateway - 192,168.1.254 (</span><span style="font-size: small;">IP address of BT Homehub)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Local DNS - 208.67.222.222 (OpenDNS server)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Wan Port</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assign WAN Port to Switch - Tick check box (This enables the Wan port to be used as a LAN Port)</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Network Address Server Settings (DHCP)</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DHCP Type - DHCP Server</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DHCP Server - Enabled</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Static DNS 1 - 208.67.222.222 (OpenDNS Primary server)</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Static DNS 2 - 208.67.220.220 (OpenDNS Secondary server)</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Static DNS 3 - 208.67.222.220 (OpenDNS Server)</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use DNSMasq for DHCP - Tick check box</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use DNSMasq for DNS - Tick check box</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DHCP-Authoritative - Tick check box</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">All other settings can be left in their default.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The final step was to disable the DHCP within the BT Homehub. All that is needed now is to connect the DLink router to the BT HomeHub via the LAN Ports using an Ethernet RJ45 cable and re-booting the two routers.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This is the basic setup to use the OpenDNS service using the BT Homehub within the network by using an additional slave router providing the DHCP and DNS settings. Additional settings can be entered into the slave router to prevent users on the network using their own dns settings. The DD WRT firmware offers other additional functionalities such as custom DDNS which can be very useful. We have not shown these additional settings but may cover this at a later update.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We hope our readers have enjoyed our project and will come back to <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">www.punj.co.uk</a> for our views on more technological projects and products.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you have enjoyed our latest tip or wish to discuss this further then please leave your comments and suggestions below.</div><br />Read this topic on <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/telecom/bbrouterproblems.html">http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/telecom/bbrouterproblems.html </a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Disclaimer :</b></span><br />There is a chance you can brick your router if something goes wrong, also this can then void your guarantee / warranty of your router.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">So by flashing the firmware of your router you <b> do so at your own risk </b></span><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></b><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com91tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-45472663618879507642010-10-23T11:09:00.117+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.854+01:00Motherboard faulty bad capacitor repair<div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>We would like to thank the original author of this review at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk </a>for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/mbbadcap.html">http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/mbbadcap.html</a></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></i></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Motherboard faulty bad capacitor repair </b></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">On this page we are going to show you an example of bad capacitors on a computer motherboard. We will discuss the motherboard specification, the symptoms of this problematic board and the final repair outcome of this motherboard.</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; height: 205px; margin-top: 27px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><img alt="BioStar Motherboard" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/biostarMB.jpg" style="height: 203px; width: 243px;" /> <br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="font-family: inherit;">We were recently given a computer which would give occasional BSOD (Blue screen of death) and always provided grainy poor quality video. The computer would also when shutting down not completely switch off. Although the computer was switched off the power LED would remain on and you could then not switch the computer back on. The only way to switch the PC back on was to un-plug the PC from the wall socket and plug the supply back on. The PC would then boot up again until the next shutdown. Any good graphic applications would always cause a BSOD (Blue screen of death) using either the internal graphics GPU or the use of any add on graphics card.</div><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div><br />On opening the computer casing we noted that the motherboard was a Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 with an AMD Athlon 3000+ 64 bit socket 939 CPU. The main memory ram installed was 1GB with a Western Digital 80GB IDE hard disk drive. Apart from the above symptoms the computer ran fine.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br />Straight away we noticed when looking at the main motherboard that quite a few of the electrolytic capacitors looked bad. Actual component testing on today's modern circuit boards can be quite difficult without test instruments. The use of specialist test meters and equipment is the only way to satisfactorily test components.<br /><br />Not everyone will have access to the specialist test equipment. We can however sometimes assume failure of some components by visually looking at these components. <br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Visual checking of a capacitor to determine failure is one example where an electrolytic capacitor will look different to a good electrolytic capacitor on a circuit board.<br /><br />For a basic understanding of what a capacitor is and what it does you can either google for more information or you can visit our web page<span style="font-size: small;"> <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/basicelectronics.html" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/basicelectronics.html</a> </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br />Below the image on the left shows what a good capacitor should look like. On the right image we show an example of a bad capacitor. You will notice that the bad capacitor casing on top is bloated where as the good capacitor on the top is completely flat.</div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="Good Capacitor" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/goodcap.jpg" style="height: 171px; width: 130px;" /> <img alt="Bad Capacitor" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/badcap.jpg" style="height: 173px; width: 138px;" /></span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Image on the left shows a Good Capacitor ---- Image on the right shows a Bad Capacitor</b></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You may also notice that a bad capacitor has leaked from the top or bottom with its electrolytic content. Capacitors can also go bad and show no visible signs. The only way to test a capacitor which shows no visible signs of failure is to measure the capacitors ESR and capacitance value using an ESR meter. You can read our review on a great budget meter called an ESR Micro which can be used for the correct method for testing capacitors on <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/microesr.html">http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/microesr.html</a></div></div></div><br />On our motherboard we had five 3300uf 6.3V capacitors located near to the CPU and two 1000uf 6.3V capacitors elsewhere on the board showing the bulging effect of a bad capacitor. <br /><br /><div style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><img alt="bad caps near cpu" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/bsbadcap.jpg" style="height: 211px; width: 300px;" /></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">As you can see on the image above the five capacitors which are next to the CPU heat sink are bulging with some signs of electrolytic leakage.<br /><br />It is advisable prior to removing the capacitors to make a sketch or take photographs of where the capacitors are located on the motherboard. The last thing you would want is to forget which capacitor came from which location on the motherboard. You certainly don't want to be putting in the wrong capacitors in the wrong location of the motherboard. You must also take your time and double check each task when carrying these procedures.<br /><br />Removing capacitors on modern motherboards can be quite tricky. Most modern motherboards are made of multiple layers interconnecting each layer. Care must taken that the layers not visible on a motherboard are not damaged when soldering or de-soldering. When removing these components the soldering iron must be clean and hot enough to melt the solder but not to hot that it will cause heat damage to the circuit board tracks which may be visible or located within the un-visible layers of the board. A good tip is to heat the lead of the capacitor and wiggle and pull on one side then heat the other lead and do the same to that. Eventually the capacitor will come out. The other problem you may encounter is once the capacitor has been removed the component hole is completely blocked with solder. Our tip to unblock these holes is to apply some more solder on the blocked hole and then use a solder sucker tool to suck the solder out of the hole. If you find that the solder sucker is not totally unblocking the component hole then pushing a stainless steel needle into the hole while holding the hot soldering iron on to the blocked hole sometimes helps. The hot solder should not stick to the stainless steel needle and therefore this tip should work.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Below we provide an image of the motherboard with the capacitors removed.</b></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /></b></span> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><img alt="Caps removed" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/bsbadcapremove.jpg" style="height: 240px; width: 306px;" /></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Once the capacitors have been removed you should inspect the motherboard with a magnifying glass to ensure that no solder that should have been removed is shorting the board. If all looks well then you are ready for the next procedure.<br /><br />If you look at the image above, of the motherboard with the removed capacitors you will notice where the capacitors came out there is a symbol of a circle with one side coloured white. This white coloured area shows us the polarity of the capacitor to be negative on this white coloured side. The polarity of the capacitor is very important for the correct function of the capacitor. <br /><br />On our motherboard we chose our replacement of capacitors manufactured by Panasonic and Nichicon. We wanted to ensure our replacement capacitors were sourced from reputable manufactures. We chose the same value capacitance and voltage for our replacement capacitors. You can use higher voltage capacitors but you should ensure that the capacitor leads are not to thick to put back into the motherboard component hole. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Once the new capacitors have been put into the motherboard always double check before soldering that the correct values have been used. It is quite easy to confuse and mistakenly use a 100uf capacitor instead of the correct value 1000uf. Also check that you have inserted correctly the polarity of the capacitor. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /></b></span> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><img alt="new caps on mb" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/bsnewcap.jpg" style="height: 254px; width: 374px;" /></b></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></div></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b><b>Above you will see an image of the motherboard with the new replaced capacitors.</b></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On completion of the soldering task you may want to clean the excess flux deposits left behind by the soldering. We normally use a cotton bud dipped into alcohol which works fine for us. Now is also a good time to re-check the new capacitors to ensure that the correct values have been used and that the motherboard is clean and ready for re-installation.<br /><br />On re-installation of the motherboard into the PC tower case we ensured that all the add on cards and memory went back into the same slots as originally found prior to stripping out the motherboard. If you do end up using a different slot for your add on card or memory you may find that the PC will not re-boot until you have cleared the CMOS and loaded the default factory settings. Your motherboard manual should help to locate the correct jumper on the motherboard to clear CMOS if you find you have a blank screen.<br /><br />For us the motherboard switched on straight away and booted straight in to the XP operating system with out any problems. We used Everest to stress test our repaired motherboard for two hours without encountering any problems.<br /><br />On completion we decided to test the faulty removed capacitors using the <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/microesr.html">ESR Micro V4</a> for measuring the capacitance and ESR readings.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />A good 3300uf capacitor should give us a measured capacitance reading of the same value subject to the manufactures tolerance of about 10% either side of the tolerance value. We would also expect the ESR measured reading to be approximately 0.02 ohms. Testing the removed bulging capacitors gave us typical measured readings of 138uf capacitance and an ESR measurement of 36 ohms for the 3300uf capacitor. This clearly showed that these capacitors were faulty and if left in their current state they could have caused more severe problems to other components on the motherboard.<br /><br />In our final conclusion we can say that replacing the bad capacitors on this motherboard completely resolved our previous problematic issues. Our motherboard seems also quicker in load times and faster over all.<br /><br />The whole cost of the five 3300uf 16V and two 1000uf 16V capacitors was under £6.00 GBP including shipping. The whole task of replacing the capacitors took approximately forty five minutes.<br /><br />We hope our readers have enjoyed this article on replacement of faulty bad capacitors on computer motherboards and will come back to <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk</a> for our views on more technological products.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a></div></div></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-25368033342612279942010-10-09T11:14:00.008+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.867+01:00Review on the MCUmall USB-PRO-GQ-4X programmer<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>We would like to thank the original author of this review at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk </a>for granting us permission to publish this particular blog content. The original contents of the review can be found at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/usbprogq4x.html">http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/usbprogq4x.html</a></i></b></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today we are going to review the latest EPROM / EEPROM MCUmall True-USB PRO GQ-4X Willem Programmer. We will provide information on what the manufacturer of this product claims and how we recently successfully used this product to repair a failed bios on a laptop. Our review will be based on our experience on ordering this item direct from the manufacturer and its ease of use.</div></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/GQ4X.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="161" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/GQ4X.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So what is this EPROM programmer. EPROM chips are found in numerous hardware which store essential data. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An example of this is the bios chip on all modern computers and laptops. On computers and laptops these EPROM chips will be either installed within a socket or soldered directly to the motherboard.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The bios is the first part of software code to run when you switch on a computer. This code gives instructions for the power on self test (post). This self test checks and ensures that the computer has all the required parts eg disks memory etc and that they function.</div><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We originally had a need for a product like this for re-programming bios chips which are found in computer / laptop motherboards. We did our research like most on the Internet on what products are available, their ease of use as stated on the marketing literature and the cost of the item inclusive of shipping to our United Kingdom premises.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most products we came across seemed very expensive and lacked the support of future software upgrades for the programmer. Also we noted that these products in most of the cases lacked good customer reviews or seemed to technical for ease of use.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><small><big><br /></big></small>One company who not only manufactures this type of product but also sells their products direct world wide is<small><big> <a href="http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_dynamicIndex.asp" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">MCUmall Electronics Inc.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_dynamicIndex.asp" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">MCUmall Electronics Inc</a> </big></small>is a company based in Canada which seems to have a very good reputation for the manufacture of specialist electronic hardware and software. In our own personal opinion they lead in providing budget affordable good quality hardware, the USB Pro GQ 4X would be a good example of this.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So how did we rate them on getting product information, ordering, shipping and after sales customer service on this product.<small><big><br /><br /></big></small>We first read their marketing literature on their web site about their EPROM programmers on this site<small><big><br /><a href="http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_dynamicIndex.asp" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_dynamicIndex.asp<br /></a></big></small></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their web site is simple with precise information on the products they deal with. They also have a dedicated support site which is regularly visited by their staff offering advice on not only their products but other manufacturer devices to.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After much research on this product we placed an order for the<small><big> <a href="http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=4312" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">True-USB PRO GQ-4X Willem Programmer</a> <br /> </big></small></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The ordering process was straight forward like most online purchases. The order was placed in February 2010 and the cost including shipping was £84.93 GBP on our chosen payment method. We were sent emails confirming our order and shipping details. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The item took 10 working days to arrive and was well packed. The package arrived with the following contents.<small><big><br /></big></small></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1 - One True USB Programmer Series GQ-4X</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2 - One USB cable, and one installation CD with the latest software and PDF user manual.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3 - One PLCC32-DIP32 Socket Adapter.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 - One PLCC32-DIP28 Socket Adapter.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5 - One FWH+LPC Adapter.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6 - One PLCC IC extractor. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We recently acquired an Fujitsu Amilo Laptop which had a corrupt bios. The laptop was completely dead with no activity or lights on. In the past we have recovered bad bios corrupt code by using a method known as crisis disk recovery.</div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/Amilo-L6825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="164" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/Amilo-L6825.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><small><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></small></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most modern computer bioses can be recovered by using a crisis disk whether this be via a floppy or usb disk media. On some computers however when the bios boot tables become corrupt this can be problematic as this normally requires the bios chip to be manually reprogrammed or replaced. As the laptop showed no signs of life whats so ever we had to open the laptop casing up to get to the bios chip. For a change this laptop was quite easy to work on. The laptop bios was a plcc32 chip part number A29040AL-70.<small> </small></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><small><br /></small></b></span> <br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><b style="font-weight: normal;"><small><img alt="bios" height="119" src="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/img/amilo%20bios.jpg" style="height: 100px; width: 168px;" width="200" /><br /></small></b></div><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The laptop bios chip was also placed in a socket which meant it could easily be taken out. On some motherboards the bios chip can be soldered onto the motherboard which then requires the chip to be un-soldered for reprogramming or replacement. Bios eeprom programmers can be purchased with test clips that can be clipped to the chip but these are quite expensive to buy. For those who don't have an eeprom programmer the bios chips are quite cheap to buy of fleabay. The sellers can also send the chips pre-programmed with the bios code of your choice. This type of repair can be very expensive and some manufacturer support engineers sometimes replace the motherboard rather than the cheaper solution of repair or replacement of the chip. In some cases this repair can cost up to or more than the original computer itself.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using the MCUmall True-USB PRO GQ-4X Willem Programmer device.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Using the MCUmall True-USB PRO GQUSB lead. <a href="http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_dynamicIndex.asp">MCUmall</a> regularly update their software to support additional chips. If you find that your EPROM chip is not supported you can visit <a href="http://www.mcumall.com/forum/default.asp">MCUmall support site</a> where they will in most cases help you to add your un-supported chip to the software database.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In our review our corrupt bios chip was a plcc32 chip part number A29040AL-70. We ran the programmer software on our test computer and followed the simple instructions. The programmer software on our test machine was Revision 5.02b. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Once the software has opened you click on the "Device" tab to search for your device chip. Our bios chip was supported by the programmer software. The programmer software will then ask you to place your EPROM chip into the programmer. Clear instructions are given on placement of the chip to the programmer with regards to orientation or use of any adapter that maybe required. In our case the software asked us to place our chip in the PLCC32-DIP28 Socket Adapter and then lock the device in to the programmer ZIF socket.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">You can then carry out various tasks such as read, erase, blank check, write and verify.<br />We already knew that the data code on our bios chip was corrupt so our first step was to delete the original code within the bios chip. We then got a copy of some good bios code from the faulty laptop manufactures web site and used this good bios data code to "write" to our bios chip. The programmer software will also verify that the new bios code has been correctly written and read from the chip. <big><small><br /></small></big><br />And thats it. The process of updating our corrupt bios code was as simple as mentioned above.<br /><br />To confirm that our bios chip code had been written correctly we put our bios chip back into our faulty laptop and bingo the laptop had come back to life.<br /><br />In our final conclusion to our review we can honestly say that our dealings with <a href="http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_dynamicIndex.asp">MCUmall</a> and the purchase of their latest <a href="http://www.mcumall.com/comersus/store/comersus_viewItem.asp?idProduct=4312" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">MCUmall True-USB PRO GQ-4X Willem Programmer</a> has overall been a good experience. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The company dealt with our sales order with out any prior knowledge that such a review would be made by ourselves. We have based our review solely on our experience with this great budget product with out any external influence whats so ever.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We hope our readers have enjoyed our review and will come back to <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" style="color: #ff6600;" target="_blank">www.punj.co.uk</a> for our views on more technological products. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><small><big> </big></small> <br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-16442043605390207412010-08-07T15:44:00.008+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.899+01:00Failed bios Amilo L6825 laptopA friend recently gave me a Fugitsu Amilo L6825 laptop which was completely dead. He asked me to see if i could do a cheap repair or else he would buy a new one and scrap this non working laptop.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjB-rZGMMBhy1CeZy7L-oxwMR9s-K0UcUH3DifwjpS414Iw-uzIsZXkNsyvWM7I079D1Qf8acl30Tkxt5qy606F3qZ4mlk_yyKZXcyg4MA53-opUt-mc98DOOB-Xf4CRgEA10l3UDE0s/s1600/Amilo-L6825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqjB-rZGMMBhy1CeZy7L-oxwMR9s-K0UcUH3DifwjpS414Iw-uzIsZXkNsyvWM7I079D1Qf8acl30Tkxt5qy606F3qZ4mlk_yyKZXcyg4MA53-opUt-mc98DOOB-Xf4CRgEA10l3UDE0s/s200/Amilo-L6825.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When i say dead the laptop had no indicator illumination of lights or disks spinning. My friend told me that he was on the Fujitsu support site and noted that his bios was not the current one as shown on their website. So for what ever reason he decided to update his bios on the laptop. When doing this update he encounted a problem where the laptop switched itself off during the update process. This resulted in the laptop now having a bad corrupt bios. The bios is the first part of software code to run when you switch on a computer. This code gives instructions for the power on self test (post). This self test checks and ensures that the computer has all the required parts eg disks memory etc and that they function.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">The laptop had been running Windows XP and had all his important info on the hard disk eg emails photos etc. Normally i can recover a bad bios. Most modern computer bioses can be recovered by using a crisis disk whether this be via a floppy or usb disk media. On some computers however when the bios boot tables become corrupt this can be problematic as this normally requires the bios chip to be manually reprogrammed or replaced. My friend said that he had followed the instructions within the bios update utility but half way through the update the laptop switched its self off. As the laptop showed no signs of life whats so ever i had to open the laptop casing up to get to the bios chip. For a change this laptop was quite easy to work on. The laptop bios was a plcc32 chip part number A29040AL-70.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQsOoc_Gk9EvbSptMPlQIX0JlA7oNAvleF5J0QLKwZVOt_Jv62R5LoWtazPBblXGHyhaN_8M3o_gGWZGbXfAcOVnT9aJok9ugIbxvnOI8c1s6BFe8mQhyphenhyphens6FtKVLaZ2nZZAK0i8gOuXu8/s1600/amilo+bios.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQsOoc_Gk9EvbSptMPlQIX0JlA7oNAvleF5J0QLKwZVOt_Jv62R5LoWtazPBblXGHyhaN_8M3o_gGWZGbXfAcOVnT9aJok9ugIbxvnOI8c1s6BFe8mQhyphenhyphens6FtKVLaZ2nZZAK0i8gOuXu8/s200/amilo+bios.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The laptop bios chip was also placed in a socket which meant it could easily be taken out. On some motherboards the bios chip can be soldered onto the motherboard which then requires the chip to be unsoldered for reprogramming or replacement. Bios eeprom programmers can be purchased with test clips that can be clipped to the chip but these are quite expensive to buy. For those who don't have an eeprom programmer the bios chips are quite cheap to buy of fleabay. The sellers can also send the chips pre-programmed with the bios code of your choice. I however have an eeprom programmer which supports this particular chip. I have a usb pro GQ-4x supplied by a company called MCUmall Electronics in Canada.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I was able to use my eeprom programmer to re-program the bios code back on to his existing chip. On completing the bios recovery the laptop was fully recovered. My friend was amazed and very grateful for having his laptop bought back to life. The most important thing was he was able to get his precious data back.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On giving his laptop back to him i gave him that most important advice "If it ain't broken don't fix it". i couldn't understand why he needed to update the bios in the first place. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This type of repair can be very expensive and some manufacturer support engineers sometimes replace the motherboard rather than the cheaper solution of repair or replace the chip. In some cases this repair can cost up to or more than the original computer itself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As this was a repair for a friend this cost him just one hours labour.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">--Another gadget saved from the ever growing landfill--<br /><br />Check for more updates at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">www.punj.co.uk </a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-72055796550603252522010-08-06T17:00:00.006+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.918+01:00Wireless router problems<div style="text-align: justify;">I recently had someone having problems with a <b>Netgear RangeMax Dual Band Wireless N Router Model WNDR3300</b>. The problems reported were that the wireless connection was always intermittent. The client workstations would keep on connecting and then in a short time disconnect from the router. The signal bar on the workstations were also constantly going up and down. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOtVYcO9RmQxGFHXNG6G9AUGNy4Q4S1SRaK-n3GS-7n58M_hi1Bv2tHAY_g4rlieA1p4dkXDS-UdCmMIY8-ZgwHFU4WwGQv0dCejet-TfxG5muWt9RIzVoBZKRs3Aa_9NOFKYLOkW1vaE/s1600/Netgear-WirelessRouter_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOtVYcO9RmQxGFHXNG6G9AUGNy4Q4S1SRaK-n3GS-7n58M_hi1Bv2tHAY_g4rlieA1p4dkXDS-UdCmMIY8-ZgwHFU4WwGQv0dCejet-TfxG5muWt9RIzVoBZKRs3Aa_9NOFKYLOkW1vaE/s200/Netgear-WirelessRouter_1.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After ensuring that the router had the latest firmware it was assumed that the router maybe experiencing some interference which may be effecting the wireless network. The router setup menu was accessed and it was noted that the wireless channel was set on the auto channel.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We then decided to set the channel setting to channel 2. Once the router had been re-booted it was noted that 5 of the 6 workstations now had good wireless signal and a very satisfactory connection.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">We then worked on the 6th workstation which was a HP laptop. First of all we checked the HP website to ensure that we had the latest wireless drivers installed. Then we checked for a suitable connection by means of connecting by a hard wired Lan connection.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />We noted that the laptop would work via the Lan connection but the browser seemed some what slower in response compared to the other work stations. Our next approach was to check our anti virus software for updates. We then noticed that this laptop had been running without any anti malware / spyware utility.</div><br />The laptop was then installed with a free popular anti spyware utility and checked for undesirable infections. When the program completed we noted that it found numerous infections. We opted for our program to delete all infections found. After re-booting the wireless connection on the laptop seemed to have been repaired.<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />So in the final summary our wireless network seemed all of a sudden not to like the default channel that it was set on. This was rectified by setting the channel to channel 2. It was assumed that some interference was probably being picked up which we were unable to identify. The laptop had been proven to contain malicious malware activity which played havoc on the working of the router and laptop.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For people with similar problems our advice would be to ensure that your wireless network is not prone to interference and the most important advice do ensure that your security anti-virus and anti-malware software are up to date.</div></div><br />Check for more updates at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">http://www.punj.co.uk</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-53708795518909568992010-08-03T17:14:00.006+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.927+01:00Amstrad DRX180 Sky+ BoxI was asked to look at an Amstrad DRX180 Sky+ PVR satellite box. The problems that the user reported was that the box was giving a "No signal" on tuner 2. This prevented him to record a different channel to the one being watched.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_FjsXE_nT4Gs5tS-SMExCNcu906RkN8rNDncD5bv7EKHGCBXmC8pHffzSbGgVxNinjd8XCL2JGRSEOON-TzSwdVfhbY3ZyCs8RCnKmQYV16n73_dEQA2QM8eV96QMvVI-0s7YZqnDHg/s1600/amstrad_drx180.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="71" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8_FjsXE_nT4Gs5tS-SMExCNcu906RkN8rNDncD5bv7EKHGCBXmC8pHffzSbGgVxNinjd8XCL2JGRSEOON-TzSwdVfhbY3ZyCs8RCnKmQYV16n73_dEQA2QM8eV96QMvVI-0s7YZqnDHg/s200/amstrad_drx180.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br />The box was out of warranty and sky in his opinion was charging a lot of money to send an engineer out to have a look at his box. Sky had quoted him for replacement reconditioned box.<br /><br />I opened the case and immediately noticed a 470uf 16v capacitor quite local to the tuner with a bulging case. The capacitor was un-soldered and replaced with a 470uf 25v capacitor. <br /><br />Replacement of this capacitor satisfactorily repaired the box. On researching these symptoms further on google it seemed that this type of problem of no signal on tuner 2 was quite common on this particular type of box. Sometimes this was repaired by replacing the hard disk drive. The hard disk on this box seemed ok as once the capacitor had been replaced the recording seemed to work.<br /><br />The cost of the capacitor was a few pence.<br />--Another device repaired by replacement of a capacitor costing a few pence--<br />Check for more updates at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">http://www.punj.co.uk</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-81927230938628390532010-08-02T21:15:00.006+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.947+01:00Linksys 12v 1A power supply unit causing havoc on DSL line<div style="text-align: justify;">Recently i was given a Linksys 12 volt 1000mA power supply unit which had been causing havoc to a users dsl connection. The user over a period of a few weeks had noticed his dsl router connection to randomly re-sync causing the isp's DLM system lowering his connection speed. At first it was thought that there was a line fault as there was sometimes a buzzing noise being heard on the telephone line. The user reported a fault to his telephone service provider. After a few days the telephone company's engineer had diagnosed the problem to be the user's equipment. I was called to see if i could help.<br />The fist thing i did was to go into the routers web configuration page to look at his router stats. I noticed that the router had been re-syncing multiple times and the line stats were very bad as well. The DL noise margin had crept up to 15db and the line attenuation of 36db didn't reflect to the lousy line rate of 800kbps.<br />To eliminate equipment i first tried a spare replacement belkin router. This immediately improved the line stats and line rate. So it was thought that the Linksys router was probably the cause of his problems and would probably be best to replace.<br />As the user was going on his annual holiday he asked me to repair or find a replacement router. I opened up the router and could not see anything wrong. Then i tried a replacement power supply and the router immediately was showing a more appropriate line stats. <br />So the problems was the power brick power supply. I decided to crack open the power supply.<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFCLDb2lnqnKRW_v0mDCDbqCFBM8OSPSQo-cAvGyYR8QHBvYWO-SEwz2-hgBkHsHDyz0DzyVFJowrOX8ldIH2KqR1uovRNGKOr8YNXlaLkakuS-DXLSjEJrTIzDTnoTIlaI5i9ZPKlSQs/s200/belkinPSU.jpg" width="200" /></div><br /><br />The power supply was very basic consisting of a transformer, a pcb with four diodes and a smoothing capacitor. I tested the transformer on the secondary side which was giving out approx 17V under no load which seemed correct. I then tested the four diodes on the pcb which two tested unsatisfactory. The 2200uf smoothing capacitor also showed a capacitance reading of 83uf with an esr reading of 19.5 which defiantly was a sign of failure.<br />I replaced all four of the diodes with some spare IN5400 and soldered a new 2200uf 25V capacitor. The casing was glued back and the router and repaired power supply put back on the user's dsl line.<br />The results were a complete success as the sync rate immediately jumped up to a more respectable 7345kbps and the line noise lowering itself to 7db.<br />The cost of the the components replaced were under two British pounds and the client recently reported that he has never had his router work so well.<br /><br />-- Another piece of electronic equipment saved from a journey to the ever growing landfill --<br />Check for more updates at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">http://www.punj.co.uk</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-85265563096271596342010-08-01T10:48:00.007+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.959+01:00ESR Micro capacitor test meter<div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Read this blog contents also at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/microesr.html">http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/microesr.html</a></i><br /><i>*Permission granted to post above link by the website owners at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">http://www.punj.co.uk</a>*</i><br /> <br /><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Well anyone who dabbles alot in electronics will tell you that it can be very useful to have an esr meter to test for bad capacitors. When the hobbyist then researches to get one of these handy items for the toolkit they can be quite expensive and sometimes quite difficult to understand. So what is esr and its revelances on a capacitor.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">ESR can be explained as follows. A capacitor consists of metal plates, which are filled with a dielectric that separates the plates consisting of an oxide layer on the lining, and the electrolyte. All this is placed in an aluminum at the connection plates. This, in turn, causes resistance to form a pathway deterioration for the alternating current within the capacitor, causing heat, and consequently, accelerates the processes described above. All losses may be summarized in the so-called equivalent series resistance (ESR) - an imaginary resistor in series with the capacitor itself.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">When you google esr meter for info on these items you will find quite a few. I found that these meters can be quite expensive and also not very user friendly for the lame hobbyist.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I however came along one such meter which was not only within my tight budget but very user friendly to use.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The esr meter that i found on google and bought was a little device called EsrMicro V4.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0Dq1-OMGB1YNWzrtPrKAy03EGFKdGC2bxnqkNsAGcusraBxYg7lBB33ojPM2bQbT-tHXU87ZxK-S4UohRj5jMmK6puO67PsyeIJetXGS0HZWTOVhyvynUMjNuEw_v3PXmq0_j5UAEbE/s1600/EsrMicro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="140" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-0Dq1-OMGB1YNWzrtPrKAy03EGFKdGC2bxnqkNsAGcusraBxYg7lBB33ojPM2bQbT-tHXU87ZxK-S4UohRj5jMmK6puO67PsyeIJetXGS0HZWTOVhyvynUMjNuEw_v3PXmq0_j5UAEbE/s200/EsrMicro.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">This little device was purchased from Russia <a href="http://www.radiodevices.info/zakaz_e.php">http://www.radiodevices.info/zakaz_e.php</a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">At the time when i bought this it cost 75US Dollars which included taxes and shipping. If you need one you just fill out the order form and a chap called Mike will email you back on how to complete your order. I also found Mike very good at communicating with any queries relating to the product or order.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Mike also frequents occasionally at the <a href="http://www.badcaps.net/forum">http://www.badcaps.net/ </a>where he has acquired a very good reputation. Just do a search for esr meter on the site and you will note the very happy customers around the world he has sold these meters to. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The order took 10 days for delivery which is not bad for delivery to the UK. The meter will come without batteries and a very basic manual. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Using the meter is very easy. You can use the meter probe lead or you can use the meter socket pins to check a capacitor. The meter will give a very clear reading of the esr reading and the capacitance reading.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: justify;">One very important thing to bear in mind is that you must ensure that when testing existing capacitors that they have been fully discharged. The meter incorporates only a very simple protection by the use of diodes. This minor protection against a capacitor discharging on the meter can quite easily cause major damage to the meter. But comparing this to other meters which can literally cost hundreds of dollars if you ensure that you carryout discharging of your electronic component capacitors this meter will serve you well.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have now used this meter a few times and can say it greatly helps in the diagnostics of my electronic projects very well.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I will in time post further blogs on how this meter helped and the kind of bad readings of a capacitor which can only be found by using such instruments as this.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">---Hope this was a good read ---</div><br />Read this blog contents also at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/microesr.html">http://www.punj.co.uk/punjwebfiles/electronics/microesr.html</a><br />*Permission granted to post above link by the website owners*<br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a></div>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7874386329035577426.post-65377350483068054892010-07-31T14:48:00.005+01:002014-06-13T23:14:35.979+01:00Our repairs on a DVD player with bad capacitorsOver the years like most people i have noted that electronic gadgets just don't seem to last that long. I have replaced tv's, video players, dvd player etc. In the past i have just threw the faulty goods into the the great ever increasing landfill. These days however we have to think about our environment and take responsibility for the world we live in.<br />The Internet and world wide web has proved to be so useful in enhancing our knowledge and sharing interests and experiences. Indeed you can find new hobbies and learn about almost any subject.<br />I've done just that in the past. Recently one of our long serving DVD players decided to just die completely on us. This player had served us well and was over five years old.<br />The symptoms was just a red flashing light at the front of the dvd player and everything else completely dead.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Rsz4pX_1bIfCqyB4BlwXdZzIfqmivigd5xE7TDrjKkj95FXOH-5lpFJnIZq5R94Nxe4uhEzRua3WGZFcSdBPd11dbNzKIqVz3TvflEI9XHZSJwPeVAZN1MIC1q-ZTBytq22R77Xu5S0/s1600/matsuidvd225small.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="92" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Rsz4pX_1bIfCqyB4BlwXdZzIfqmivigd5xE7TDrjKkj95FXOH-5lpFJnIZq5R94Nxe4uhEzRua3WGZFcSdBPd11dbNzKIqVz3TvflEI9XHZSJwPeVAZN1MIC1q-ZTBytq22R77Xu5S0/s200/matsuidvd225small.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Matsui DVD225</td></tr></tbody></table>On opening the case i noted that dreaded electronic disease "bad caps". The Internet is full of reports on this type of failure and by googling just "bad caps" you will find many topics on this subject. The bad cap problem seems to have effected every kind of electronic device.<br />On opening the case of our DVD the main power supply PCB had 3 bulging capacitors. On close examination with a magnifying glass you could also see that 2 of the capacitors had leaked their contents onto the PCB.<br />The next thing to do was to un-solder those bad capacitors. I used my new 30w soldering iron with one of those solder suckers to remove the bad caps. The faulty caps were rated 1000uf, 470uf and 220uf with a voltage rating of 16v. I had some new Rubycon capacitors of the same capacitance value and a voltage rating of 25volts. I carefully soldered the new caps closely baring in mind the correct polarity. Then after putting the case back on and switching on was very pleased to see the dvd player come back to life.<br />The whole repair excluding my own labour rates was under a few UK pounds. And the time of the full repair was less than half an hour.<span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><span style="background-color: #9fc5e8;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></span></span><br />The most joyful experience is the satisfaction of repairing and learning along the way.<br /><br />I have also recently purchased one of those esr meters for testing capacitors and will blog info on this soon. The meter i purchased for my basic electronic tool kit was very good quality purchased from the internet but also very reasonably priced.<br /><br />Hope you have enjoyed my blog today and don't forget feel free to leave any comments below.<br />Check for more updates at <a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/">http://www.punj.co.uk</a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.punj.co.uk/" target="_blank">punj</a>Punj Blog ownerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09098757119752958664noreply@blogger.com2