Med boaters - will you get to your boat this year?

Hurricane said:
Thanks John for resetting my router.
It seems to last a few days.
I've bought a new Teltonica RUT950 that will replace the domestic one when I next get out there.

But, as you say, lovely weather out there right now.

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Thanks again
Mike
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When you set the Teltonika up, make sure you setup the watchdog that will reboot it if the connection drops.

We have thousands of them. They are a bit fragile, don’t mount it somewhere it’s going to get too hot.
 
jakew009 said:
When you set the Teltonika up, make sure you setup the watchdog that will reboot it if the connection drops.

We have thousands of them. They are a bit fragile, don’t mount it somewhere it’s going to get too hot.
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Thanks for the advice.
I saw that feature when I was reading through the manuals.
Yep - it is on my list to set up.

My current domestic router has a similar feature that I thought would be an interim fix but it doesn't seem to resolve my problem.
I think the problem is that these routers use NVRAM which deteriorates over time/use.
The old one has been fine for the last four and a half years - been running 24/7/365 without any issues.
Only had problems over the last month or so.

Interesting that you have thousands of them.
I will be using it as an "upstream" router so all it needs to do is a simple internet connection.
I like the dual SIM idea even though you can only use one at a time.
I also have a downstream router (flashed with DDWRT) and I am using OpenVPN back to my home system.
I see that the RUT950 does something similar but I have invested so much time getting DDWRT working that I will be sticking with DDWRT flashed routers for my VPN tunnel.

Thanks for the comment
 
Hurricane said:
Thanks for the advice.
I saw that feature when I was reading through the manuals.
Yep - it is on my list to set up.

My current domestic router has a similar feature that I thought would be an interim fix but it doesn't seem to resolve my problem.
I think the problem is that these routers use NVRAM which deteriorates over time/use.
The old one has been fine for the last four and a half years - been running 24/7/365 without any issues.
Only had problems over the last month or so.

Interesting that you have thousands of them.
I will be using it as an "upstream" router so all it needs to do is a simple internet connection.
I like the dual SIM idea even though you can only use one at a time.
I also have a downstream router (flashed with DDWRT) and I am using OpenVPN back to my home system.
I see that the RUT950 does something similar but I have invested so much time getting DDWRT working that I will be sticking with DDWRT flashed routers for my VPN tunnel.

Thanks for the comment
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When you first set it up you will think it’s a bit crap. The web UI is very slow and crashes every few minutes. But once they are setup they are pretty reliable.

DD-WRT, that’s a blast from the past. I remember flashing Linksys years ago and reselling on eBay.

OpenWRT is much more actively developed and is actually used as the base for the Teltonika factory firmware.

Using it as an ‘Upstream’ router won’t work very well since you will have double nat and accessing it will be a pain. I’d just turn your existing router into a dumb access point (you can still leave the openvpn server on it) and let the Teltonika be the gateway.

The Teltonika has good openvpn support though, or I’d just suggest signing up for their RMS service. Then you can still login to it when you bork your VPN config :) I think that has a managed VPN service now.

Sometimes less is more
 
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Woke up this morning to lots of condensation inside the boat. I noticed the air con system has a dehumidify setting (Princess V39) I’ll try running that for a few hours and see if it helps. Any other suggestions? Should I run the heater or open the port holes? Tell the wife to stop spending half an hour in the shower?!
 
Greenhorn said:
Woke up this morning to lots of condensation inside the boat. I noticed the air con system has a dehumidify setting (Princess V39) I’ll try running that for a few hours and see if it helps. Any other suggestions? Should I run the heater or open the port holes? Tell the wife to stop spending half an hour in the shower?!
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Suggest that you open up a new thread for your topic to get more specific replies. This one is getting near to 2000 posts and is more about dogs and med weather (which is great by the way) :)

and dolphins! I’m really missing Empuriabrava now,

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jakew009 said:
When you first set it up you will think it’s a bit crap. The web UI is very slow and crashes every few minutes. But once they are setup they are pretty reliable.

DD-WRT, that’s a blast from the past. I remember flashing Linksys years ago and reselling on eBay.

OpenWRT is much more actively developed and is actually used as the base for the Teltonika factory firmware.

Using it as an ‘Upstream’ router won’t work very well since you will have double nat and accessing it will be a pain. I’d just turn your existing router into a dumb access point (you can still leave the openvpn server on it) and let the Teltonika be the gateway.

The Teltonika has good openvpn support though, or I’d just suggest signing up for their RMS service. Then you can still login to it when you bork your VPN config :) I think that has a managed VPN service now.

Sometimes less is more
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Thanks again - so I won't worry too much whilst I'm setting it up.

I go a long way back with DDWRT - so I consider it as "the devil that I know".
It was quite difficult in the early days to use with the original WRT54G's - especially using OpenVPN
Needed separate reboot scripts etc but I did get it working reliably.
I then upgraded to a more recent build and the more recent WRT1200, WRT1900 and now the WRT3200 hardware.
On these new routers. DDWRT works really well.
The OpenVPN tunnel connects immediately with no issues.

I am aware of OpenWRT but never used it.
I've "kind of" got used to the DDWRT Web GUI so I have resisted moving away from something that works (don't mend something that isn't broken etc)
But, would you suggest that I look into OpenWRT? - what benefit would it give me?

I said that the downstream router is a DDWRT router - thus providing me with a LAN that connects to my home LAN using a DDWRT router as a server.
All works really well.
Yes, I understand that a dumb access point might be better but there are two reasons not to do that.
I overcome the NAT routing issue that you mention by setting up a dedicated route in my home PC's routing table to route into the boat's upstream LAN thus giving me access to the internet router (soon to be the RUT950) - if that makes sense.
But, more importantly, I have a similar setup at home so both the boat and the home systems have downstream routers creating a secure OpenVPN tunnel between them.
This means that I have two LANs (subnets) on the boat and two LANs (subnets) at home.
At each location the downstream LAN can be considered as secure and connects (via OpenVPN) to the other secure downstream LAN.
This leaves the upstream LAN to be considered as insecure - so thats where I connect the dubious cheap IP cameras etc that could compromise security.

All this sounds complicated but to build it is quite simple (apart from making up all the OpenVPN certificates and keys etc - I have made my own CA Certification Authority)

Introducing yet another VPN inside the Teltonica firmware would probably complicate things.
Thats why the RUT950 will probably just be a final upstream router.

It would be good to hear your thoughts though.
 
Mike & Jake, would be nice to have this discussion in a separate thread... looks like more are installing cameras/monitoring/etc equip and would benefit from getting the right kit!
 
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