Astrill Setup Manual:Installing Astrill VPN applet onto your DD-WRT flashed routers

Router setup wizard from Astrill application

Quick and Intuitive way to install Astrill vpn on Router.

It is mandatory to have a router which is flashed with DD-WRT or Tomato firmware and then you can use this Router Setup Wizard to install Astrill applet onto your router.

Step 1

Click on HELP tab from Astrill applicatio and select Router Setup... option to open Router Setup Wizard.

Step 2

Select Install Astrill on my router', check Find my router automatically and click on Next button.

You will prompted that installation is successful.

Here's how Astrill VPN applet on DD-WRT firmware router looks like:

http://192.168.1.1/MyPage.asp

Here's how Astrill VPN applet on Tomato firmware router looks like:

http://192.168.1.1/user/cgi-bin/astrill.cgi

You need a router with supported firmware:

DD-WRT: v24 Build 13309 or newer.

Supported builds: OpenVPN, Big, Mega, Giga.

Tomato: v1.28 or newer.

Supported build: VPN.

You can click here to view list of supported routers

Note: Router MUST have 8 MB FLASH MEMORY for OpenVPN to be installed.

Note2: We even provide pre-installed routers with Astrill VPN at very affordable rates. All Astrill VPN routers come preinstalled with Astrill VPN and ready to use immediately. You get access to all Astrill VPN servers (115 servers in 48 countries with free and unlimited switches), and you have option to add private IPs as well. You can order them from this page - https://www.astrill.com/astrill-vpn-routers

Web install from DD-WRT

It is possible to install Astrill OpenVPN applet on DD-WRT compatible routers without using Astrill application. Please note that requirements are the same, minimal build is 13309 (v24 or newer; Mega, Big, VPN, OpenVPN builds).

To install Astrill OpenVPN applet on your router, first navigate to the router web control panel using your browser, e.g. it could be located on http://192.168.1.1. Click on tab Administration->Commands. If you are prompted for a password, the default is root/admin (unless you have changed it). You will see a screen similar to this one:

In the Commands box type:

eval `wget -q -O - http://www.astrill.com/ddwrt/install/YOUR_EMAIL/YOUR_PASSWORD`

Please replace YOUR_EMAIL and YOUR_PASSWORD with appropriate values and make sure you don’t remove backtick (`). It’s not an apostrophe (‘).

Then hit “Run Commands” and wait a few moments. If everything went correctly, you will see the following screen:

If you have any error on this step, please double check your firmware version, make sure it has OpenVPN 2.0+ The best is to contact our support and we can schedule a remote desktop session.

Astrill is now installed on tab Status->My Page, so let’s go there. You will see the following screen:

Choose a server from the drop down box and hit Connect. We will be soon adding more servers to Astrill DD-WRT.

If you run into any problems, make sure you tried the following:

1. Reload router defaults settings
2. Connect ADSL modem to WAN port to router
3. Install Astrill on your router.

Command-line setup methods

It is also possible to install Astrill applet on DD-WRT flashed routers using command line as well. You can check the following articles for reference.

Windows via telnet

For Windows, you might need to enable the Telnet(Windows built-in Client):

1. To Telnet into Router, kindly open Command Prompt and enter the following command 'Telnet Your Router's IP address', for e.g. 'telnet 192.168.4.1'

2. Once you will be able to see the login option, kindly input the login credentials

The username that should be used is 'root'.

Please note that while inputting the password, you will not be able to see any asterisks/stars or any characters. Hence, after entering the password simply press 'Enter' key.

3. After successful login, you will see that the command line path will change to root.

4. Then copy the command provided by the Members Page > TOOLS > Router Set-up, as mentioned in the screenshot below:

5. Then input the correct IP Address of router and click on 'Install'

6. You will then be navigated to Router's Command Shell window. Just copy the command and paste it within Telnet window.

7. After successful installation of Astrill applet, you will be able to see the confirmation message(as mentioned within the screenshot below)

Windows via putty

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Mac OS X via terminal

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