GL.iNet MT2500A (Brume 2) Mini VPN Security Gateway for Home Office and Remote Work-VPN Server&Client for Home and Office, VPN Cascading, Internet Security, 2.5G WAN, *NO Wi-Fi* (Aluminium Alloy Case)

This little appliance is incredible. There are many features packed into a very small package. One feature is the adguard home feature. Once I turned this on, everything behind this router was protected from ads and information being collected on me. It was very interesting to see all the items from streaming boxes on my network that were collecting information on our families view habits as well. I highly recommend!

Works great and I love the small form factor

Good device. Simple set up. Have this and a vpn running on an Asus router. Had my setup in FL and was logging in from the Arabian Gulf. I was expecting the servers running on the Brume to be faster than the Asus but this wasn't the case. Perhaps user error but both OpenVPN and WireGuard on the Brume were Significantly slower than the OpenVPN server on the Asus. The Brume server therefore ended up being my backup. Was getting 70mbps peak on Asus and hardly 30 on the Brume. Bandwidth at "home" was 500 down 100 up. Distance definitely played a role but would have expected the same affect on the Asus router as well. Shrug. Anyway - its worth a purchase regardless. I was using the Beryl AX as the client.

This is a no brainer solution for remote tunneling back to your home network. I am not an IT pro so set up was a bit tricky. The Brume2 is the easy part. It's the particular, less documented ISP modem firewall settings you need to be familiar with to make it work. In my situation I have ATT Fiber with a Netgear Mesh router. All of my hair pulling was caused by the ATT Fiber modem. But rest assured the Brume gateway works great once you dial in the modem settings. Basically the ATT modem does not have port forwarding. You have to use IP Passthrough. Set the IP Passthrough to the mac address of your main router. You also have to delete all the default packet filtering rules set by the modem. I have the Brume gateway behind my Netgear router. The Netgear assigns a NAT IP address to the Brume. If your gateway is behind your router you will set port forwarding to the IP of the gateway. Make a note of the Brume default port number and forward to the same port number. Should work like a charm.

One of the best routers for WireGuard VPN.

Nice compact and attractive design, well made metal box but cheap electronics - broke exactly after one year. Worked fine all this time but after 12 month would refuse to reboot. Even flashing the firmware did not help. I saw others on Reddit with the same issue, the only solution is to replace the board. Avoid: these are not made to last.

My use case is probably more specific than most, and this is where this device would shine. I am a digital nomad, and wanted to setup a Zero-Tier device at my home, so I can leverage the public IP at my house (in case my corp office ever blocks cloud-based Wireguard VPNs). I did NOT want to replace my existing router, since my current router is more powerful than even the Gl.inet Flint. So I wanted a dedicated device for Zerotier only, and did NOT need wifi. I hooked this into the LAN port of my existing powerful router. I hooked this into my Zerotier account and figured out the routing. I can now pull my house IP on my cell phone via Zerotier app, so the routing is working. However, the speed is slow (which i guess doesn't surprise me). Next, I need to figure out how to force my travel router (beryl AX) to force traffic through the zerotier network as well. Overall, it does what I need it to do in a small an efficient form factor.That being said, it is good to restate that my use case is very specific. I have used this as a dedicated zerotier server/endpoint ONLY, and nothing more. I did NOT want to replace my existing router. For this use case, this is the correct device for my needs.

This router worked great until it stopped working after 1 year. Purchased on Feb 19, 2023, so it failed just a few days outside of the 1 year warranty. :-(