ExpressVPN + Billion Router Setup

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ExpressVPN doesn’t document how to do this, but here’s what worked for me on a bipac-8700vax.

First we need to grab some details to let us set things up

1. Login to your account on the ExpressVPN site

2. Go to My Subscriptions > Set up ExpressVPN, it should take you to https://www.expressvpn.com/setup#manual

3. Go to Manual Config > PPTP & L2TP-IPSec

4. Copy the Username, Password

5. Select the region you are in/want to connect to and copy the hostname. eg la3-ubuntu-l2tp.expressprovider.com

Then we take this info and set up the VPN on the router

1. Login to the router as the admin user

2. Go to VPN > PPTP > PPTP Client

3. Configure a new connection;

   1. Name = Give it a name

   2. WAN Interface = Default

   3. Username = Whatever was provided in step 4 above

   4. Password = Whatever was provided in step 4 above

   5. Auth. Type = MS-CHAPv2 - this is important, Auto did not work for me

   6. PPTP Server Address = Whatever was provided in step 5 above

   7. Connection Type = Remote Access

   8. Time to Connect = Always - assuming you don’t want to have to trigger a manual (re)connect

4. Add

Now we can start the initial connection and check it

1. Status > VPN > PPTP

2. Click the Connect button

3. Status > Log > System Log - for any diagnostics