More companies need to give those board views in the manuals, thats such an easy way to show good will towards techie and repair minded customers, the rest will ignore the manuals anyway so no harm.
The reason GLNet has the board view in the manual, is that some of their routers just have a GPIO header for you to use for porjects. This one doesn't, but they still list the GPIO pin for the LEDs and such.
I have a couple of questions about this device: A. I am planning to move abroad and need to connect my machine, which is set up by a client. I cannot download any VPN on it. If I use this device, can I use it to show that I am connected to the client server from Canada? B. In case I do not have access to the main internet router (I can only get a Wi-Fi connection), how can I connect this device to the main router if I do not have access to the router ports for a wired connection? Is there a way to connect it via Wi-Fi instead of using a wired connection?
Been using GLiNet routers for years, as I travel on tour as an events technician. Great for hotel wifi, even used it in a pinch to network together some massive shows. Worked like a charm!
If that's the case I imagine it's not difficult getting past the captive portals with the router? I average 100 nights a year, I'm VERY interested in this.
@@vincentking8267 No not hard at all. Once you do it on any device, it's logged in. Sometimes it will auto kick you off after a certain period, but just log back on. It logs on on the router end so it's for all devices.
Imagine I could just go buy a router with openWRT 😭😭😭why is this so hard. I don’t need your custom firmware just save money and if you really want, make your devs work on openWRT. I’ll buy your devices. Sigh
I'm loving that more and more options are up for portable routers. Jeff at Craft Computing reviewed something more as a high end access point and this is an amazing alternative for the budget.
I've been using the slate plus on a very regular basis (travel over 150 nights a year for work) and it's been great. It's nice to have a vpn built in and not have to connect 5+ devices every time i get to a hotel. It occasionally will need a reboot and will lock up, but it's been great. I think GL.iNet did just go close source on their software so that's something to take into consideration.
I was running an stock openwrt build on mine for a bit, there were a few issues I was having, but that's mostly on me for not fully understanding some things about the radios and DFS channels. I ended up switching back to the gl.inet build because it was easier to deal with (not that openwrt couldn't be configured, it was a bit more complex than I was willing to deal with at the time)
I've got a similar work situation to you so this sounds super interesting to me. (Especially with Netflix changes + other streaming clients being unhappy out of home country). How does something like this handle Hotel WiFis with login pages etc.?
@@NoBug404Yes, but they also have different featuresets and can have different speeds. ZT is a basic VPN on a lower OSI level, without a „good“ support for DNS through the tunnel, but offers a broader support of protocols, also you can configure all your devices to be in one subnet. Tailscale offers a lot more functionality, like „MagicDNS“, Funnel, Tailscale SSH and much more, but doesn’t put all devices in a subnet, the access is managed by ACLs instead. Separating clients is imho easier with ZT (put them in a different network), but TS has nice bells and whistles. I use both.
I have an older model of their travel router. Love it. Great to house your VPN on so when you travel and have one lan drop on a hotel room you can route all your traffic and devices through that (or through a wifi bridge if there's no drop).
It is also great to allow you to use a chromecast in a hotel. You connect it to the hotel internet and then the chromecast to the internal network you create and you are set
I was at a hotel recently and noticed that there's a Chromecast connected to the TV in every room, but the hotel staff didn't think to actually set the things up properly, and it wouldn't work on the hotel's wifi because of the captive portal. So me and my friends decided to give it a factory reset and put it on my phone's hotspot. It worked quite well since the phone was connected to the hotel's fast wifi 6 network and relaying that
I've used mine (AX1800 AKA Flint) for the past year and a half, and it's been solid. I only had to reboot once after setup and since then, it's been just fine. Definitely a great niche (sort of) brand and exactly what I was looking for. Got so tired on NetGear's BS with their WiFi routers lol (Netgear in my experience has been pretty stable, but I ended up having to put a timer on it so it would shut off at 3 AM and reboot to make sure it didn't randomly cutout throughout the day which was annoying during the working from home/Zoom era of my job.)
I've never jumped to buy something so fast from a short circuit video. This is perfect for me. I often have to setup little ad-hoc networks for my work.
But cringe that he showed the custom, non-OpenWRT interface and said that OpenWRT is SOOO noob friendly. Well, the real thing (stock LuCI) is anything but noob friendly. Very powerful and refined, but definitely not noob friendly. Not one wizard in sight.
I do the same thing with HVAC BMS. Put into access point mode, set the second port to act as a switch and boom. You got an inline router. When I showed it to my boss he bought 5 of them.
@@fader52Awesome! I used to travel with a wireless router, but the antennas usually got messed up in my carry on and hated carrying an extra plug. The moment I saw USB-C, I ordered it.
Pro tip, buy a pelican case and a phone battery. Strip out a usb cable to a switch and add an ethernet passthru. Now you can slap the pelican case anywhere rain or snow and plug in to the panel.
@@fader52 same use em in field all the time. The puli has a SIM card version so you can also have LTE. 5v and it has onboard battery. I power it from the usb ports of the BMS controllers. It's great for setting up vertiv units or other field devices from your phone...
I've used different versions of these for years. If you travel a lot they are very handy. You only have to setup your devices to connect to the router then connect this router to whatever hotel you're at. When you have both work and personal phone/laptop or a tablet and streaming stick and you do it every week or so this is a fantastic benefit. These usually support VPN connections to, whether you need to connect to your home region or home network you should be good to go.
yes but the hotel's i been to barely give 3mbps for each client. Using a single router limits all my devices to that 3mbps instead of getting each 3mbps. its a downgrade if you ask me. Unless that hotel room has a uncapped speed LAN port. then yeah this router would be extremely useful.
@@realcartoongirl If you stay out of motels with numbers in the name you tend to get better service. Many larger hotels will limit the number of clients you can connect under your room number though and this helps a lot. Also many major hotel chains loyalty programs grant their higher speed internet if it its applicable. If you don't travel enough to warrant that then you probably don't travel enough to need a travel router. Personally I find it invaluable.
Had one for a bit now and it’s amazing for traveling. Just a reminder when connecting to hotel WiFi in repeater, do not have a vpn on cause then you won’t get the login page that most hotel WiFi have
as a travel event network engineer, i travel with this model and earlier versions for years. its an absolute must to deal with Hotel internet and being able to use the hotels wifi as my internet connection and protecting myself behind the router.
That's the best router I have ever seen. It's actually cute and UI is amazing too. The features it provides is alot to expect from a router. Very very impressive.
I've had one of these for just over a year now and it's an absolute game changer. When I travel for work events, I no longer have to worry about connecting my phone and work laptop, personal laptop, and chromecast to some janky hotel or convention center WiFi, I can just connect the travel router to it and know that all my devices are already paired to the router. Plus the VPN switch on the side makes switching back and forth between US internet and local internet very easy.
I installed an FTP server on this and I have my Sony cameras upload to a USB drive during shoots. Allows me to have instant back ups that I can review on a phone and tablet.
Crazy this video popped up and I saw your comment like an hour after I discovered the FTP feature on my A7IV! I was thinking of turning a raspberry pi I have into an FTP server and using it for a live feed of photos during a shoot but then was thinking of a portable router solution. This is sweet
I love their travel routers! Your own private network away from home and if you're at a place where you're only allowed one connection, you're all set :) Plus, nothing beats setting up a VPN on it and all devices connected will automatically use it for internet access
Another plus is family saves just travel router network & password in their devices. I connect the travel router to hotel WiFi and everyone in the family is connected. We don't have to go thru rounds of "what's the name of the network & password?".
I keep one of these in my suitcase at all times, really useful when you’re traveling with a bunch of devices and you only have to authenticate on the hotel web portal once for everything or need to share files between them. My Beryl is an older model and probably a little long in the tooth because the routers vpn connections are like 30Mb/s compared to the 100+Mb/s regular. Might upgrade after seeing this
well if the case is hotels use only then they barely have functioning internet speed so not sure you will squeeze much more of juice with wifi 6 router
@@xeon2k8when I’m squeezing 100Mb/s out of a hotel but 30Mb/s on VPN at the hotel with my current Beryl, I can only assume I’ll be able to pull the full 100Mb/s on VPN with a new one based on this video. Luckily work regularly puts us up in a hotel with ok internet
I have a couple of questions about this device: A. I am planning to move abroad and need to connect my machine, which is set up by a client. I cannot download any VPN on it. If I use this device, can I use it to show that I am connected to the client server from Canada? B. In case I do not have access to the main internet router (I can only get a Wi-Fi connection), how can I connect this device to the main router if I do not have access to the router ports for a wired connection? Is there a way to connect it via Wi-Fi instead of using a wired connection?
@@dailyscenesfromcanada22021 yes it has integrated VPN. 2. Yes you can make phone hotspot connect this router to it and then connect any devices via this router
I have a TP-Link AC750 and it's been a lifesaver. Every hotel or airbnb I go to I just set it up and my personal and work laptops, my 3 cell phones, and my Switch all just connect to my router. It saves a ton of time and adds an extra layer of security.
I bought that exact one last week in order to connect my Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro to my wifi network. Basically a wifi to LAN adapter. I chose it because of how compact it is, the USB-C power input, and the low price. I'm very happy with it. I didn't expect to see it here AFTER I bought it.
This was a 15 min infomercial and I'm not even mad. I've been looking for a low cost solution like this for a while. This looks like the perfect thing for IT depts. to issue to work from homes as a hardware VPN solution.
I was wondering when GL inet was gonna sponsor LTT :D I have the ATX1800 and use it every time I go travelling - even when just visiting family for extended time. Getting to a new place and only setting up one device is an amazing experience. Not just my devices, but also girlfriend's
I have the AX1800 which is their home WiFi router (not meant for traveling, but nothing is stopping you) and it's been solid! I just wish NordVPN would let people use their NordLynx (Wireguard with Nord's touch on it) protocol which would allow it to be used on other things and not just their app. I think there's a way to work around it from my research, but just haven't done it yet. Though, not having to do some hackery would be nice.
These are awesome. I have these for travel but also for my smaller office. If internet goes down (cable modem or fiber) I can quickly boot it up connecting to my cell phone hotspot and the ethernet is configured to serve out my static IP to my internal router so that my internet is back up in a few minutes. Very handy.
I keep one of GL.iNet's older travel routers in my backpack for work. It's pretty handy for field-configuring new hardware. I can just stick my router into an unmanaged switch, the router assigns IPs to a couple dozen factory-new devices, and I can get right to work. Plus, it runs on standard USB power, and USB ports are pretty easy to come up with in commercial racks.
This has been fantastic for me at work. Giving me internet access on site and being able to wirelessly connect my laptop to BMS panels and check field devices. Absolutely makes my life better
IME, the main use case is "hide the captive portal from your chromecast" or something similar. You use the network on your phone/laptop to get past the captive portal, and then everything else can connect to the network and won't deal with captive portals. They do wireless to wireless bridging too, which is how I've usually used it.
I've had this router for about 6 months now and using it while traveling with a Xbox series S has made unplayable wifi at hotels almost playable. More in the sense of internet stability but not speed. This this is actually fantastic. I've used it to create a WiFi network in a facility I was working in so I could connect to some equipment that cannot be put on a network and running a long cat cable was not an option. It is super flexible in what you can do with it.
@@maxime_vhw it’s because some countries use slightly different frequencies for mobile phones which isn’t a problem but many countries prohibit devices from being able to transmit on unlicensed frequencies
I have had one of these for a few months now. Two use cases for it. 1, I have taken when traveling for work. Connect it to the hotel wifi, and connect all my device to my router, which usually consists of 4 or 5 separate devices, and then with a flip of a switch, VPN to my home wire guard network for secure browsing for my whole mini network. 2, I have used this while RVing with the family. Wifi signal usually sucks at campgrounds, but I can put that up high to pick up the signal, and it has better antennas than phones and tablets, and then our phones, and wifi only tables all have internet access with one secure connection.
I’ve had the slate model for several years. It was supremely useful deployed oversees where I had to pay per device internet. The speeds of the old version were adequate for that use case.
We use one on vacation. The resorts we frequent have a 3 device limit unless you pay $50 a week. The thing pays for itself in 2 vacations or less. The basic ac models are even cheaper. It’s also nice to plug this in the wall and not have to configure kids devices.
Can confirm, this is a great device. Have used across multiple trips and is great to connect to hotel WiFi even as a repeater (where no ports are visible..)
that's actually really cool, and that failover could be very useful for streamers who might stream in their hotel room and dont want their stream to end if the hotel's wifi goes down or something similar or if your hotel room has a spotty wifi connection this would be a really easy to use extender. basing the firmware off of openwrt was definitely the right choice for them as it comes with so many features that I doubt it would have if it was proprietary.
nope....while ping is just sending packet over time, stream connects you to the server and keeping that connection. Failover would switch you to another connection, but would not restore your streaming session, due to you using now another endpoint. And actually not switching, all connections are active and set in route table with priority. Test sucks, as if link is gone (i.e. unplugged), linux would smoothly remove that link from the route table - but in reality, link would still up (you still plugged and last mile gear would work just fine), but no connectivity (due to issue somewhere in the middle chain between you and provider net core/exchange). So as always, no proper testing on LTT )))
@@s.i.m.c.a They never claimed this would work with streaming, they did a simple test, seemed to work, that's it. I'm seriously thinking about buying one of this tiny things for my new apartment, both me and my boyfriend work remotely, so if the power goes out or the internet just fails, I can just connect my phone for tethering, 2-3 clicks and we are back in business! Amazing little thing
The issue with connection dropping during failover can be resolved by using the SmoothWAN firmware, a fork of OpenWRT, which will let you create a reliable internet connection, using multiple WANs for seamless failover, using Speedify VPN for lossless and bonded speeds terminating over a single IP address. The GL.iNet Beryl AX is not supported (hopefully in the future?), but it does support PC Intel/AMD, The RPi 4/Pi 400, and the GL.iNet Flint and Slate AX. Support is being added for the Flint 2, along with other Pi clones, but is currently a WIP. It is a significantly lower budget alternative to commonly used enterprise solutions with the lack of an off-the-shelf consumer solution, as of the time of writing. You can run another VPN over top of the bonded connection, such as a work VPN, or a home VPN server to bypass the captcha and IP blocking issues that nonresidential connections can bring.
@@s.i.m.c.a true that there’s a difference between ping and live streaming, but a temporary disconnect that the viewers might not even notice is far better than disconnecting and having to manually turn on your phone’s hotspot and reconnect. (i’m not sure how twitch/yt handle unexpected disconnects - maybe it’s different per platform or it’s a protocol thing since both use RTMP, but I’m pretty sure that the user’s will see a loading indicator until the connection is restored). I do agree that the test of just unplugging the cable isn’t the best, but even if it’s a few seconds of downtime, it’ll still be quicker than manually connecting to some backup internet.
I use an Opal for streaming at hotel. Idk what that other dude was talking about. But I use an ATEM for streaming, so maybe bc of the built in buffer it can handle the fail over. 🤷🏻♂️ but the failover to phone tether works for me…
this is so normal and easy!!!!!!!!!!!1111one!!! I actually have this exact same model. I used for travel and recently used it on a cruise and had it powered with a power brick and repeated the wifi on the cruise. Worked great.
Not having to reconnect every device to a new network, not having to trust in whatever hardware everyone else has had access to, all the settings preconfigured to work best for your devices, etc. You'll probably keep discovering conveniences honestly, it's just very handy
Traveling with the family and all their devices, the convenience factor alone was worth it not having to input a new network credentials at every Airbnb/hotel we stay at. Among all the other great features out of this $80usd box.
We use these all the time for cinema tuning, its an easy way to plug in and makes an easy access point for control of the entire system from the theatre instead of in the booth. These are a god send for us!
@@realcartoongirlI guess it would take too long to show everything. It's just the normal Luci UI, nothing special about it. You can access it via some link in the clean UI.
I use this on family vacations to bring my home network wlan name with me. So baby monitors, Roku, PCs, and phones just connect and work. Also a little more secure than hotel open WiFi and your on your own network. Also don't have to constantly reconnect to guest network portals.
I travel all over the world for work. What’s awesome about these is you can have your vpn settings preset into the interface and connect this to the hotel Wi-Fi. Awesome for personal security
Well this video works. I just bought one to play with and use for easier phone hotspot when I'm out and about. For less than 100 bucks this thing is super cool.
I've used a 'portable' WiFi as my main WiFi for about 4 years because I ran an ethernet cable and couldn't get WiFi signal in my room and it has worked amazingly and is super simple to set up
The older "Slate" model (GL-AR750S-Ext) was quite a bit smaller- about the size of a deck of cards, but a little thicker. :) Wish they kept that form factor for the new models. They're all awesome little devices, though!
I could see using this as a router you ship with a laptop to a remote worker or traveling worker, they plug in the router to their internet, and the computer would be configured to only connect to this WiFi. Then, if they came to the office, it would auto-connect to the office WiFi. And with ZeroTier, you could have it connecting to your servers easily. I would like to see a version with a built-in 4/5G cell modem, but that USB port is handy.
They have several higher end models that have 4g integration for wan failover or dual wan. I hook my cell phone via USB 3.0 port FL to use my cell as a 4g failover for when my local wifi is questionable
I have this router and it's great. Alot of places like hotels have a device limit which this circumvents. All my devices are connected to the router, and all I have to do is connect the router to an ethernet connection or Wi-Fi and everything gets data. I also have ControlD DNS over HTTPS servers configured so no matter where I am, certain sites are always routed through the correct location so you never get geo-restricted, and with a flick of a switch I can also be running a VPN if I need the added encryption. Never had any issues with speed, and the small size and USB-C power makes it so easy to take around with you.
A similarly priced device, is the Mikrotik hAP ax2, which has many, many more features and possibilities for the advanced user. However (!) this seems to offer an extremely user-friendly web GUI with a bunch of easy-to-use at hand features out of the box. This device seems to follow in the footsteps of Mikrotik in terms of price and hardware capabilities, while also being less complicated for less advanced networking users. Looks very interesting!
They've only shown the tip of the iceberg. You can essentially do everything that RouterOS does and much more, but it may not have a GUI for it like RouterOS does.
Being based on OpenWRT is a massive perk imo. If this was using some proprietary firmware i'd write the product off as being another product churned out that will be abandoned short into its life.
It does generally take about a year to get a plain OpenWRT build for these routers, but the good news is they've started using more standard RealTek parts so support is much better documented and will likely last a lot longer.
Xiaomi routers also use OpenWRT as their base. Except then they proceed to lock it down -- like almost no one else does. I had to jailbreak my two Mi access points, and it is very risky if you don't know what you are doing.
@@Mr_Soleotbh for a hobbyist I think it's worth the pick up at launch for these even with that caveat. For privacy and openness, I of course want clean firmware available, but they give you access to LuCI ootb so it's useful right away. And if you're into openwrt there's other small routers out there too, but these are quite convenient
I want one of these, and the fact that they provide pictures of the board itself is super friggin cool. Like, if they support modding this device I could totally see this thing taking off in the tech community. Now if only I had the money to buy one or travel. Wow it's only $99, honestly that's cheap enough to be an impulse purchase for me. If this is still $99 by the time I get paid I will probably snag one. Oh shit, discount code... Fine you win LMG. EDIT: $83 for this guy isn't a difficult choice. I totally snagged one while I can.
I have their Slate Plus model that I use with my Star Link. I use it when I go overlanding, converted my star link to 12V and the GL iNet router is absolutely perfect, running from USB 5V. Almost 30% power efficiency gains.
I have used a travel router for years. Even for camping. I soldered in a battery connector with those breakout pins. 2 Lion batteries last for 4 days. Solar or a water generator makes it last for weeks. I bring a hard drive with a copy of my NAS files. So anyone can watch shows and movies. I also have a WiFi pineapple and yaggi for caching public WiFi.
Even for home these routers are great. Powerful chipsets, big RAM and flash. The addition of OpenWRT puts them ahead of any consumer router in terms of customization and security.
I dont have this model but have used earlier models of this. I travel in industrial environments and use this device so I can wifi to a industrial network and connect to PLCs and such for service. Very handy.
I have the older Slate model and I love it! I installed easytether on it so I could bypass my phone plan's hotspot limit and connect as many devices as I want to through the travel router. It's a great setup for a backup internet connection for power outages or for traveling.
Quite like this kind of open source firmware wireless router, bought the oldest generation of their wireless router 8 years ago, thanks to the open source firmware I can still use the latest firmware. To watch this down-to-earth company grow and develop, feel quite good!
I have this and love it. I use it to hose into my unify network back at home when I travel. I love that my travel chromcast and all of my devices just work whenever I connect to hotel Wi-Fi.
I've been using the slate version of this when traveling and it works awesome. Super handy to route VPN, or when working remotely to be able to double VPN into the office thru a US based IP address.
Just got the GL.Inet SFT1200 as an early Father's Day gift. Pretty sweet little travel router. Agreed that it was not something I thought I needed or even wanted initially.
I travel a lot for work, and I often stay in hotels for 3 months at a time. I like to bring my gaming laptop and Quest 2/3 and I used to bring a full sized router so I can wireless connect the headset and computer. I actually just bought this router to replace the big ass router I used to bring because of the compact size. many hotels don't have functional RJ45 ports anymore but I can still hook it up to the computer and play my games without internet.
I’ve been using this router since the day it was released! One of the best purchases of my life so far! My wife and I call it Baymax, since it look like one! I love it for WiFi 6 to use my VR rig wirelessly!
I use the latest beryl ax with zerotier integration to route my traffic back out my Public IP at home. I have a Brume 2 to complete the Zerotier connection at home. I love it for this, plus all the other mentioned reasons. Easy to handle multiple devices when traveling. Replacing terrible routers when traveling through Airbnb's. Etc etc
I thought the category was going to go away after widespread mobile adoption but after I started traveling with multiple devices I've come to live the category again.
Recently used my Beryl AX on a trip and it provided great range for our Cabin\Chalet (2 story). Speed was good and happy it had AdGuard Home enabled for ads blocking.
Finally, a device which isn't just an MiFi-Router AND has this many functions. (And in addition, it is availably and cheap unlike many other devices like this).
If I traveled a lot I would totally get this. In fact when I eventually get around to taking a tour of Europe I will definitely get one of these to bring with me.
If you're in the market to have this plus a nice built in 5g modem for a cellular plan that you can tack on while you travel the GL-XE3000 (Puli AX) is a good new model that even has a internal battery so you can freely travel for quite a few hours (depending how often and hard you hit it)
Surprisingly robust. As a dude who has no clue about networking tgis video was very easy to follow surprisingly. Cool device, i wish id have a use for it lol
I have the older version of this router, and I use it all the time! I have it setup to connect to my home VPN. I will frequently use it to repeat hotel WIFI, so I don't have to add my phone/laptop to the hotel WiFi, and the little VPN switch is wonderful. I also use USB tethering with my phone a lot. Possibly most important, you can do all that management stuff with the mobile app!
More companies need to give those board views in the manuals, thats such an easy way to show good will towards techie and repair minded customers, the rest will ignore the manuals anyway so no harm.
Yeah how about we lock down your Devices USB ports for security reasons and sell you USB-Security for 4,99€ per month?
The reason GLNet has the board view in the manual, is that some of their routers just have a GPIO header for you to use for porjects. This one doesn't, but they still list the GPIO pin for the LEDs and such.
Like that Soviet mouse they did a video on a while ago
I think some TVs still have manuals with the boards on them.
I have a couple of questions about this device:
A. I am planning to move abroad and need to connect my machine, which is set up by a client. I cannot download any VPN on it. If I use this device, can I use it to show that I am connected to the client server from Canada?
B. In case I do not have access to the main internet router (I can only get a Wi-Fi connection), how can I connect this device to the main router if I do not have access to the router ports for a wired connection? Is there a way to connect it via Wi-Fi instead of using a wired connection?
Been using GLiNet routers for years, as I travel on tour as an events technician. Great for hotel wifi, even used it in a pinch to network together some massive shows. Worked like a charm!
If that's the case I imagine it's not difficult getting past the captive portals with the router? I average 100 nights a year, I'm VERY interested in this.
@@vincentking8267 No not hard at all. Once you do it on any device, it's logged in. Sometimes it will auto kick you off after a certain period, but just log back on. It logs on on the router end so it's for all devices.
Is it chinese spyware tier tho?
yes, some just come through other times you have to do with your phone there's an easy Mac address cloner toggle in the settings @@vincentking8267
I don't know if it does but I know of but the hardware is fully open source it runs on openWRT you can load other firmware to it@@Ultrajamz
The software looks better than all routers I ever had. So many features. Tailscale built in amazing.
well, that's what happens when you run openWRT under the hood.
open source router firmware should be the standard.
Imagine I could just go buy a router with openWRT 😭😭😭why is this so hard. I don’t need your custom firmware just save money and if you really want, make your devs work on openWRT. I’ll buy your devices. Sigh
Damn, I thought the days of excitement over a router were done. This is a really cool little box.
I wish my ex also thought small things were cute
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me too kid
Don’t worry theres some one out there who thinks small things are cute. You just need to find the one.
Linus found one in Yvonne. 😂
Not cute enough apparently.
I'm loving that more and more options are up for portable routers. Jeff at Craft Computing reviewed something more as a high end access point and this is an amazing alternative for the budget.
I've been using the slate plus on a very regular basis (travel over 150 nights a year for work) and it's been great. It's nice to have a vpn built in and not have to connect 5+ devices every time i get to a hotel. It occasionally will need a reboot and will lock up, but it's been great. I think GL.iNet did just go close source on their software so that's something to take into consideration.
The close sourcing was due to copyright iirc... some people are working on making firmware to work on clean owrt.
I was running an stock openwrt build on mine for a bit, there were a few issues I was having, but that's mostly on me for not fully understanding some things about the radios and DFS channels. I ended up switching back to the gl.inet build because it was easier to deal with (not that openwrt couldn't be configured, it was a bit more complex than I was willing to deal with at the time)
I've got a similar work situation to you so this sounds super interesting to me. (Especially with Netflix changes + other streaming clients being unhappy out of home country).
How does something like this handle Hotel WiFis with login pages etc.?
Can you connect to a public WiFi with a splash screen and all broadcast its own wireless network for clients to connect?
@@bobbydini5567 Should work! You can use repeater mode for that.
that tailscale integration is a big selling point, this is as cool as it can possibly get
Yeah that's gotta be new since I've had the older model for a year now. I use zt+tail scale all the time.
Why would you use zerotier and tailscale? Aren't they doing the same thing?
@@NoBug404Yes, but they also have different featuresets and can have different speeds. ZT is a basic VPN on a lower OSI level, without a „good“ support for DNS through the tunnel, but offers a broader support of protocols, also you can configure all your devices to be in one subnet. Tailscale offers a lot more functionality, like „MagicDNS“, Funnel, Tailscale SSH and much more, but doesn’t put all devices in a subnet, the access is managed by ACLs instead. Separating clients is imho easier with ZT (put them in a different network), but TS has nice bells and whistles. I use both.
@@NoBug404 1 OR the other are built in ready to use
I love tailscale, but I am worried it's ease in network penetration is one day going to break the internet
I have an older model of their travel router. Love it. Great to house your VPN on so when you travel and have one lan drop on a hotel room you can route all your traffic and devices through that (or through a wifi bridge if there's no drop).
It is also great to allow you to use a chromecast in a hotel. You connect it to the hotel internet and then the chromecast to the internal network you create and you are set
I was at a hotel recently and noticed that there's a Chromecast connected to the TV in every room, but the hotel staff didn't think to actually set the things up properly, and it wouldn't work on the hotel's wifi because of the captive portal. So me and my friends decided to give it a factory reset and put it on my phone's hotspot. It worked quite well since the phone was connected to the hotel's fast wifi 6 network and relaying that
I have one of their even smaller, more basic, models - and it’s fantastic for this!
also works well for online play with the Nintendo Switch
Okay wtf, massive kudos for the board shots
AND OPEN WRT??
I've used mine (AX1800 AKA Flint) for the past year and a half, and it's been solid. I only had to reboot once after setup and since then, it's been just fine. Definitely a great niche (sort of) brand and exactly what I was looking for. Got so tired on NetGear's BS with their WiFi routers lol (Netgear in my experience has been pretty stable, but I ended up having to put a timer on it so it would shut off at 3 AM and reboot to make sure it didn't randomly cutout throughout the day which was annoying during the working from home/Zoom era of my job.)
I've never jumped to buy something so fast from a short circuit video. This is perfect for me. I often have to setup little ad-hoc networks for my work.
Me2, watched the video, and bought the device with discount right after!!!
I learned so much about routers in this. I didn't even know there were open source router firmwares. Such a cool product
But cringe that he showed the custom, non-OpenWRT interface and said that OpenWRT is SOOO noob friendly.
Well, the real thing (stock LuCI) is anything but noob friendly. Very powerful and refined, but definitely not noob friendly. Not one wizard in sight.
Had one for over a year. Comes in handy to connect to a PLC system wirelessly so I can do my IO checks solo and observe field devices.
I do the same thing with HVAC BMS. Put into access point mode, set the second port to act as a switch and boom. You got an inline router. When I showed it to my boss he bought 5 of them.
@@fader52Awesome! I used to travel with a wireless router, but the antennas usually got messed up in my carry on and hated carrying an extra plug. The moment I saw USB-C, I ordered it.
Pro tip, buy a pelican case and a phone battery. Strip out a usb cable to a switch and add an ethernet passthru. Now you can slap the pelican case anywhere rain or snow and plug in to the panel.
@@fader52 same use em in field all the time. The puli has a SIM card version so you can also have LTE. 5v and it has onboard battery. I power it from the usb ports of the BMS controllers. It's great for setting up vertiv units or other field devices from your phone...
I have a tiny TPLink one that I use for the same purpose. It's so handy
I've used different versions of these for years. If you travel a lot they are very handy. You only have to setup your devices to connect to the router then connect this router to whatever hotel you're at. When you have both work and personal phone/laptop or a tablet and streaming stick and you do it every week or so this is a fantastic benefit. These usually support VPN connections to, whether you need to connect to your home region or home network you should be good to go.
yes but the hotel's i been to barely give 3mbps for each client. Using a single router limits all my devices to that 3mbps instead of getting each 3mbps. its a downgrade if you ask me. Unless that hotel room has a uncapped speed LAN port. then yeah this router would be extremely useful.
@@realcartoongirl If you stay out of motels with numbers in the name you tend to get better service. Many larger hotels will limit the number of clients you can connect under your room number though and this helps a lot. Also many major hotel chains loyalty programs grant their higher speed internet if it its applicable. If you don't travel enough to warrant that then you probably don't travel enough to need a travel router. Personally I find it invaluable.
@@willstikken5619 can you use the router to join another wi-fi as a client and then it NAT devices behind it?
Best travel router I’ve ever owned. Very impressive offerings in a small package.
Had one for a bit now and it’s amazing for traveling. Just a reminder when connecting to hotel WiFi in repeater, do not have a vpn on cause then you won’t get the login page that most hotel WiFi have
Sim slot would be rad for a travel router.
Split it with my friends and rock it with a battery pack.
Inbuilt tailscale is awesome
I have this, and its been great in hotels when you have multiple devices and a chromecast. And it works with a USB batterypack also.
I have an older version of this. It's very impressive, I was shocked by how reliable it was and how flexible it is.
as a travel event network engineer, i travel with this model and earlier versions for years. its an absolute must to deal with Hotel internet and being able to use the hotels wifi as my internet connection and protecting myself behind the router.
That's the best router I have ever seen. It's actually cute and UI is amazing too. The features it provides is alot to expect from a router. Very very impressive.
I've had one of these for just over a year now and it's an absolute game changer. When I travel for work events, I no longer have to worry about connecting my phone and work laptop, personal laptop, and chromecast to some janky hotel or convention center WiFi, I can just connect the travel router to it and know that all my devices are already paired to the router. Plus the VPN switch on the side makes switching back and forth between US internet and local internet very easy.
I have so many GL.iNet devices across all generations/iterations, I'm glad you guys are showcasing this device
I installed an FTP server on this and I have my Sony cameras upload to a USB drive during shoots. Allows me to have instant back ups that I can review on a phone and tablet.
Crazy this video popped up and I saw your comment like an hour after I discovered the FTP feature on my A7IV! I was thinking of turning a raspberry pi I have into an FTP server and using it for a live feed of photos during a shoot but then was thinking of a portable router solution. This is sweet
@@Whiskeyj456 it’s been very reliable. I’ve done shoots where I just popped out the USB drive and handed it to the main photographer.
I love their travel routers! Your own private network away from home and if you're at a place where you're only allowed one connection, you're all set :) Plus, nothing beats setting up a VPN on it and all devices connected will automatically use it for internet access
Another plus is family saves just travel router network & password in their devices.
I connect the travel router to hotel WiFi and everyone in the family is connected.
We don't have to go thru rounds of "what's the name of the network & password?".
I keep one of these in my suitcase at all times, really useful when you’re traveling with a bunch of devices and you only have to authenticate on the hotel web portal once for everything or need to share files between them. My Beryl is an older model and probably a little long in the tooth because the routers vpn connections are like 30Mb/s compared to the 100+Mb/s regular. Might upgrade after seeing this
well if the case is hotels use only then they barely have functioning internet speed so not sure you will squeeze much more of juice with wifi 6 router
@@xeon2k8when I’m squeezing 100Mb/s out of a hotel but 30Mb/s on VPN at the hotel with my current Beryl, I can only assume I’ll be able to pull the full 100Mb/s on VPN with a new one based on this video. Luckily work regularly puts us up in a hotel with ok internet
@@mycosys I’m not using OpenWRT
I have a couple of questions about this device:
A. I am planning to move abroad and need to connect my machine, which is set up by a client. I cannot download any VPN on it. If I use this device, can I use it to show that I am connected to the client server from Canada?
B. In case I do not have access to the main internet router (I can only get a Wi-Fi connection), how can I connect this device to the main router if I do not have access to the router ports for a wired connection? Is there a way to connect it via Wi-Fi instead of using a wired connection?
@@dailyscenesfromcanada22021 yes it has integrated VPN.
2. Yes you can make phone hotspot connect this router to it and then connect any devices via this router
I have one and I love it! It's currently serving as a wireless bridge, but I love how portable it is! And it runs OpenWRT!
Im a trucker, im ordering this right the heck now. This is a golden piece that i need
I have a TP-Link AC750 and it's been a lifesaver. Every hotel or airbnb I go to I just set it up and my personal and work laptops, my 3 cell phones, and my Switch all just connect to my router. It saves a ton of time and adds an extra layer of security.
The first time I got myself one of these I didn't realize how handy it actually would be! I love mine and this one looks even better
ive had a Beryl for about 2 years now, rock solid. Great to VPN back to home, one of my favorite tech gadgets ever
I bought that exact one last week in order to connect my Elegoo Neptune 4 Pro to my wifi network. Basically a wifi to LAN adapter. I chose it because of how compact it is, the USB-C power input, and the low price. I'm very happy with it. I didn't expect to see it here AFTER I bought it.
This was a 15 min infomercial and I'm not even mad. I've been looking for a low cost solution like this for a while. This looks like the perfect thing for IT depts. to issue to work from homes as a hardware VPN solution.
I was wondering when GL inet was gonna sponsor LTT :D I have the ATX1800 and use it every time I go travelling - even when just visiting family for extended time. Getting to a new place and only setting up one device is an amazing experience. Not just my devices, but also girlfriend's
I have the AX1800 which is their home WiFi router (not meant for traveling, but nothing is stopping you) and it's been solid! I just wish NordVPN would let people use their NordLynx (Wireguard with Nord's touch on it) protocol which would allow it to be used on other things and not just their app. I think there's a way to work around it from my research, but just haven't done it yet. Though, not having to do some hackery would be nice.
I did it the lazy way and just used the same SSID/Password for my wifi as my parents.
You should check out the gl.inet mudi. It’s wonderful
@@JulianSildenLanglothis is way smarter than buying a travel router :)
These are awesome. I have these for travel but also for my smaller office. If internet goes down (cable modem or fiber) I can quickly boot it up connecting to my cell phone hotspot and the ethernet is configured to serve out my static IP to my internal router so that my internet is back up in a few minutes. Very handy.
I keep one of GL.iNet's older travel routers in my backpack for work. It's pretty handy for field-configuring new hardware. I can just stick my router into an unmanaged switch, the router assigns IPs to a couple dozen factory-new devices, and I can get right to work. Plus, it runs on standard USB power, and USB ports are pretty easy to come up with in commercial racks.
This has been fantastic for me at work. Giving me internet access on site and being able to wirelessly connect my laptop to BMS panels and check field devices. Absolutely makes my life better
IME, the main use case is "hide the captive portal from your chromecast" or something similar. You use the network on your phone/laptop to get past the captive portal, and then everything else can connect to the network and won't deal with captive portals.
They do wireless to wireless bridging too, which is how I've usually used it.
I've had this router for about 6 months now and using it while traveling with a Xbox series S has made unplayable wifi at hotels almost playable. More in the sense of internet stability but not speed. This this is actually fantastic. I've used it to create a WiFi network in a facility I was working in so I could connect to some equipment that cannot be put on a network and running a long cat cable was not an option. It is super flexible in what you can do with it.
How was online gaming with it? I’m about to start a job that travels a lot and I wanted to buy this! Any information helps!
Missed opportunity that it doesn't have a sim slot.
various differences between different countries
@@UKsystems Okay? They would just need hardware that supports multiple bands, many phones have this too.
@@maxime_vhw it’s because some countries use slightly different frequencies for mobile phones which isn’t a problem but many countries prohibit devices from being able to transmit on unlicensed frequencies
I was watching for that reason. So does that mean I can't use it as a myfi and do a wireless sim from my mobile service?
Real question is if it supports esim, all modern countries should have esim
I have had one of these for a few months now. Two use cases for it. 1, I have taken when traveling for work. Connect it to the hotel wifi, and connect all my device to my router, which usually consists of 4 or 5 separate devices, and then with a flip of a switch, VPN to my home wire guard network for secure browsing for my whole mini network. 2, I have used this while RVing with the family. Wifi signal usually sucks at campgrounds, but I can put that up high to pick up the signal, and it has better antennas than phones and tablets, and then our phones, and wifi only tables all have internet access with one secure connection.
I’ve had the slate model for several years. It was supremely useful deployed oversees where I had to pay per device internet. The speeds of the old version were adequate for that use case.
We use one on vacation. The resorts we frequent have a 3 device limit unless you pay $50 a week. The thing pays for itself in 2 vacations or less. The basic ac models are even cheaper. It’s also nice to plug this in the wall and not have to configure kids devices.
Got one for a trip and it’s worked well! It was better than the router at the place I stayed at.
Can confirm, this is a great device. Have used across multiple trips and is great to connect to hotel WiFi even as a repeater (where no ports are visible..)
that's actually really cool, and that failover could be very useful for streamers who might stream in their hotel room and dont want their stream to end if the hotel's wifi goes down or something similar or if your hotel room has a spotty wifi connection this would be a really easy to use extender. basing the firmware off of openwrt was definitely the right choice for them as it comes with so many features that I doubt it would have if it was proprietary.
nope....while ping is just sending packet over time, stream connects you to the server and keeping that connection. Failover would switch you to another connection, but would not restore your streaming session, due to you using now another endpoint.
And actually not switching, all connections are active and set in route table with priority. Test sucks, as if link is gone (i.e. unplugged), linux would smoothly remove that link from the route table - but in reality, link would still up (you still plugged and last mile gear would work just fine), but no connectivity (due to issue somewhere in the middle chain between you and provider net core/exchange). So as always, no proper testing on LTT )))
@@s.i.m.c.a They never claimed this would work with streaming, they did a simple test, seemed to work, that's it.
I'm seriously thinking about buying one of this tiny things for my new apartment, both me and my boyfriend work remotely, so if the power goes out or the internet just fails, I can just connect my phone for tethering, 2-3 clicks and we are back in business! Amazing little thing
The issue with connection dropping during failover can be resolved by using the SmoothWAN firmware, a fork of OpenWRT, which will let you create a reliable internet connection, using multiple WANs for seamless failover, using Speedify VPN for lossless and bonded speeds terminating over a single IP address.
The GL.iNet Beryl AX is not supported (hopefully in the future?), but it does support PC Intel/AMD, The RPi 4/Pi 400, and the GL.iNet Flint and Slate AX. Support is being added for the Flint 2, along with other Pi clones, but is currently a WIP. It is a significantly lower budget alternative to commonly used enterprise solutions with the lack of an off-the-shelf consumer solution, as of the time of writing. You can run another VPN over top of the bonded connection, such as a work VPN, or a home VPN server to bypass the captcha and IP blocking issues that nonresidential connections can bring.
@@s.i.m.c.a true that there’s a difference between ping and live streaming, but a temporary disconnect that the viewers might not even notice is far better than disconnecting and having to manually turn on your phone’s hotspot and reconnect. (i’m not sure how twitch/yt handle unexpected disconnects - maybe it’s different per platform or it’s a protocol thing since both use RTMP, but I’m pretty sure that the user’s will see a loading indicator until the connection is restored). I do agree that the test of just unplugging the cable isn’t the best, but even if it’s a few seconds of downtime, it’ll still be quicker than manually connecting to some backup internet.
I use an Opal for streaming at hotel. Idk what that other dude was talking about. But I use an ATEM for streaming, so maybe bc of the built in buffer it can handle the fail over. 🤷🏻♂️ but the failover to phone tether works for me…
this is so normal and easy!!!!!!!!!!!1111one!!! I actually have this exact same model. I used for travel and recently used it on a cruise and had it powered with a power brick and repeated the wifi on the cruise. Worked great.
Not having to reconnect every device to a new network, not having to trust in whatever hardware everyone else has had access to, all the settings preconfigured to work best for your devices, etc. You'll probably keep discovering conveniences honestly, it's just very handy
Traveling with the family and all their devices, the convenience factor alone was worth it not having to input a new network credentials at every Airbnb/hotel we stay at. Among all the other great features out of this $80usd box.
We use these all the time for cinema tuning, its an easy way to plug in and makes an easy access point for control of the entire system from the theatre instead of in the booth. These are a god send for us!
it running openwrt is so much better than those random gaming web interfaces
the page he showed you was a proprietary interface by glinet. the openwrt part is not even shown
@@realcartoongirltheir interface is just a skin for OpenWRT. There is an option to switch to the stock OpenWRT interface.
@@realcartoongirlI guess it would take too long to show everything. It's just the normal Luci UI, nothing special about it. You can access it via some link in the clean UI.
I've had a tplink N300 nano router for years. Used it on deployments and whole traveling. Auper useful for sure.
I use this on family vacations to bring my home network wlan name with me. So baby monitors, Roku, PCs, and phones just connect and work. Also a little more secure than hotel open WiFi and your on your own network. Also don't have to constantly reconnect to guest network portals.
This is exactly my use case! I purchased one a year ago and it's been fantastic! Also, networks that only allow for one device, it's a nice hack.
I travel all over the world for work. What’s awesome about these is you can have your vpn settings preset into the interface and connect this to the hotel Wi-Fi. Awesome for personal security
"Power adapters for travelling to all the different countries" ... New Zealand and Australia just cried a little
I purchased this product on Amazon with AU plug.
It's USB C though, so use any charger that is 15w+
Well this video works. I just bought one to play with and use for easier phone hotspot when I'm out and about.
For less than 100 bucks this thing is super cool.
I would say it's pretty average size.
I've used a 'portable' WiFi as my main WiFi for about 4 years because I ran an ethernet cable and couldn't get WiFi signal in my room and it has worked amazingly and is super simple to set up
ok the tetthering part is sooo cool
The older "Slate" model (GL-AR750S-Ext) was quite a bit smaller- about the size of a deck of cards, but a little thicker. :) Wish they kept that form factor for the new models. They're all awesome little devices, though!
Ordered this thing a few weeks back. Using it for the first time rn in a hotel for work travel. Best thing ever!
I could see using this as a router you ship with a laptop to a remote worker or traveling worker, they plug in the router to their internet, and the computer would be configured to only connect to this WiFi. Then, if they came to the office, it would auto-connect to the office WiFi. And with ZeroTier, you could have it connecting to your servers easily. I would like to see a version with a built-in 4/5G cell modem, but that USB port is handy.
They have several higher end models that have 4g integration for wan failover or dual wan. I hook my cell phone via USB 3.0 port FL to use my cell as a 4g failover for when my local wifi is questionable
I have this router and it's great. Alot of places like hotels have a device limit which this circumvents. All my devices are connected to the router, and all I have to do is connect the router to an ethernet connection or Wi-Fi and everything gets data.
I also have ControlD DNS over HTTPS servers configured so no matter where I am, certain sites are always routed through the correct location so you never get geo-restricted, and with a flick of a switch I can also be running a VPN if I need the added encryption.
Never had any issues with speed, and the small size and USB-C power makes it so easy to take around with you.
A similarly priced device, is the Mikrotik hAP ax2, which has many, many more features and possibilities for the advanced user. However (!) this seems to offer an extremely user-friendly web GUI with a bunch of easy-to-use at hand features out of the box. This device seems to follow in the footsteps of Mikrotik in terms of price and hardware capabilities, while also being less complicated for less advanced networking users. Looks very interesting!
They've only shown the tip of the iceberg. You can essentially do everything that RouterOS does and much more, but it may not have a GUI for it like RouterOS does.
I have this for months now, and I love this router. Lots of feature in a small package.
Being based on OpenWRT is a massive perk imo. If this was using some proprietary firmware i'd write the product off as being another product churned out that will be abandoned short into its life.
It does generally take about a year to get a plain OpenWRT build for these routers, but the good news is they've started using more standard RealTek parts so support is much better documented and will likely last a lot longer.
Xiaomi routers also use OpenWRT as their base.
Except then they proceed to lock it down -- like almost no one else does. I had to jailbreak my two Mi access points, and it is very risky if you don't know what you are doing.
@@Mr_Soleotbh for a hobbyist I think it's worth the pick up at launch for these even with that caveat. For privacy and openness, I of course want clean firmware available, but they give you access to LuCI ootb so it's useful right away. And if you're into openwrt there's other small routers out there too, but these are quite convenient
I bought this a week ago to use as a travel router. Still haven't set it up yet but I'm glad I seen this first. Really useful!
I want one of these, and the fact that they provide pictures of the board itself is super friggin cool. Like, if they support modding this device I could totally see this thing taking off in the tech community.
Now if only I had the money to buy one or travel.
Wow it's only $99, honestly that's cheap enough to be an impulse purchase for me. If this is still $99 by the time I get paid I will probably snag one. Oh shit, discount code... Fine you win LMG.
EDIT: $83 for this guy isn't a difficult choice. I totally snagged one while I can.
I have their Slate Plus model that I use with my Star Link.
I use it when I go overlanding, converted my star link to 12V and the GL iNet router is absolutely perfect, running from USB 5V.
Almost 30% power efficiency gains.
This would be so nice for college cause college wifi sucks ngl
I have used a travel router for years. Even for camping. I soldered in a battery connector with those breakout pins. 2 Lion batteries last for 4 days. Solar or a water generator makes it last for weeks. I bring a hard drive with a copy of my NAS files. So anyone can watch shows and movies. I also have a WiFi pineapple and yaggi for caching public WiFi.
I work as an IT field tech and these devices come in clutch for sure. Good vid. A little late to the party though. Cheers
Even for home these routers are great. Powerful chipsets, big RAM and flash. The addition of OpenWRT puts them ahead of any consumer router in terms of customization and security.
You guys still upload ?
Gotta love tech that publishes board diagrams ❤❤❤
0:09 that's what she said
I dont have this model but have used earlier models of this. I travel in industrial environments and use this device so I can wifi to a industrial network and connect to PLCs and such for service. Very handy.
2.5G wan and 1G lan seems dumb... Usually your lan is faster than your wan...
I have the older Slate model and I love it! I installed easytether on it so I could bypass my phone plan's hotspot limit and connect as many devices as I want to through the travel router. It's a great setup for a backup internet connection for power outages or for traveling.
Is easytether simple to install?
I have these routers for years. They are great and cheap. It's really a good product!
I have this exact model and love it, runs on a 10000mah battery pack no problems.
Check out the glinet mudi
How long does the battery last with moderate network use (web browse, VPN, AdGuard, etc.)?
@@jowdyboy It ranged from 10%-20% per hour on 10000mah.
Quite like this kind of open source firmware wireless router, bought the oldest generation of their wireless router 8 years ago, thanks to the open source firmware I can still use the latest firmware. To watch this down-to-earth company grow and develop, feel quite good!
I have this and love it. I use it to hose into my unify network back at home when I travel. I love that my travel chromcast and all of my devices just work whenever I connect to hotel Wi-Fi.
iv been using this for dorm room usage for about a year and a half now and i can said that this is one mighty little router
I've been using the slate version of this when traveling and it works awesome. Super handy to route VPN, or when working remotely to be able to double VPN into the office thru a US based IP address.
Just got the GL.Inet SFT1200 as an early Father's Day gift. Pretty sweet little travel router. Agreed that it was not something I thought I needed or even wanted initially.
I kickstarted these when they where 1st in development, they work perfectly. I travel 2 to 3 times month and it's a great solution.
I travel a lot for work, and I often stay in hotels for 3 months at a time. I like to bring my gaming laptop and Quest 2/3 and I used to bring a full sized router so I can wireless connect the headset and computer. I actually just bought this router to replace the big ass router I used to bring because of the compact size. many hotels don't have functional RJ45 ports anymore but I can still hook it up to the computer and play my games without internet.
I’ve been using this router since the day it was released! One of the best purchases of my life so far! My wife and I call it Baymax, since it look like one! I love it for WiFi 6 to use my VR rig wirelessly!
I use one paired to a 2tb SSD with movies. Then the kids can access movies on road trips without needing Internet it works great
I have the older smaller yellow version (30$). Has come in handy soooo many times over the last few years.
I use the latest beryl ax with zerotier integration to route my traffic back out my Public IP at home. I have a Brume 2 to complete the Zerotier connection at home. I love it for this, plus all the other mentioned reasons. Easy to handle multiple devices when traveling. Replacing terrible routers when traveling through Airbnb's. Etc etc
I thought the category was going to go away after widespread mobile adoption but after I started traveling with multiple devices I've come to live the category again.
Recently used my Beryl AX on a trip and it provided great range for our Cabin\Chalet (2 story). Speed was good and happy it had AdGuard Home enabled for ads blocking.
Finally, a device which isn't just an MiFi-Router AND has this many functions. (And in addition, it is availably and cheap unlike many other devices like this).
If I traveled a lot I would totally get this. In fact when I eventually get around to taking a tour of Europe I will definitely get one of these to bring with me.
If you're in the market to have this plus a nice built in 5g modem for a cellular plan that you can tack on while you travel the GL-XE3000 (Puli AX) is a good new model that even has a internal battery so you can freely travel for quite a few hours (depending how often and hard you hit it)
@@hiRyan329329 Thanks for the recommendation!
I love my dream machine pro. But this little thing having tethering options, vpn options and being a genuine nice all rounder for networking is epic.
Ive been using the opal for years in my teaching studio. Love these things.
Surprisingly robust. As a dude who has no clue about networking tgis video was very easy to follow surprisingly. Cool device, i wish id have a use for it lol
I have the older version of this router, and I use it all the time! I have it setup to connect to my home VPN. I will frequently use it to repeat hotel WIFI, so I don't have to add my phone/laptop to the hotel WiFi, and the little VPN switch is wonderful. I also use USB tethering with my phone a lot.
Possibly most important, you can do all that management stuff with the mobile app!