That night, as the generator coughed and the rain hammered the roof, I watched the VPN uptime tick past 8 hours. The "ghost in the antenna" was me.
The router’s LEDs blinked in an anxious pattern. Green. Yellow. Green. Red. Disconnected. Configure VPN on HUAWEI E5172
The login page appeared—sterile, white, too cheerful. Default credentials: admin / admin . It worked. The dashboard showed four bars of signal strength, a fake promise. That night, as the generator coughed and the
I went back. Advanced settings. 1200 . Then, a secondary DNS: 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) – not the ISP’s poisoned DNS. the connection would lag
I uploaded the survey data. 4.2 GB. Two hours. The progress bar never stuttered.
I opened a terminal. Pinged the outside server: 64 bytes from ... ttl=52 time=187ms . High latency. But clean. No loss.
I needed a VPN. Not for privacy. For survival. Someone was watching the packets. Every time I tried to upload the geological survey data, the connection would lag, then drop. A silent tap . The only way out was a tunnel: a VPN.