After trying for two days, I gave up and contacted Astrill Technical Service and read through the DD-WRT forum.Īstrill recommended then another DD-WRT firmware. It seemed that the router did just not respond to the installation, neither through the Astill application, the Astrill website, a command under the Administration tab of the router or through a telnet session. There are several different methods to install the Applet, and I tried all of them, without success.

However, when I tried to install the Astrill Applet, I was unable to do so. The router worked well, the internet access was ok, and the LAN/WLAN, both were ok. Thereafter, I upgraded the firmware to the lastest DD-WRT version for this router.Īll was fine, and the firmware version shown was DD-WRT v24-sp2 (12/22/14) std - build 25697. Then, I flashed the router first with the factory-to-DD-WRT firmware. Hence, I purchased a 2nd hand D-Link DIR-825 revision B1.īefore changing anything, I checked that the router worked well with the original firmware from D-Link.

However, this router is not suitable for DD-WRT. I have already another router for my local network and WLAN (TP-Link Archer C7, 1750). Therefore, I decided to purchase a suitable router, to flash it with DD-WRT and to install the Astrill Applet. I noticed that several users in the forum installed the Astrill Applet on their routers. However, Astrill offers a special VPN protocol (still based on OpenVPN, but with further encryption) that is more difficult to detect, and which still works in China. However, the so-called 'Great Firewall' got more and more sophisticated and is now able to detect most of the VPNs, which are then subsequently also blocked. For instance Google and whatever is linked to it is not accessible anymore without VPN. I live in China, and it is well known, the government here increasingly blocks foreign websites etc. Posted: Tue 17:35 Post subject: DD-WRT router with Astrill VPN Applet - some information

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