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hook this up to a usb-c battery pack to keep on during the flight. go to your phone and connect to the router wifi address. then go through the standard process to logon to the GLI web portal address. then select the plane wifi. should pop up with the plane login. this works most of the time. this is great for multiple devices on a plane!
Was just about to post this. I've been waiting for it to return to this price again. Excellent router for travel.
Edit: See my reply. While I think the price could be lower, there are not many options for travel routers. With reduced competition, prices stay higher. This is generally regarded as the best WiFi 6 travel router.
sharing internet service is definitely a popular use case for travel router (think airline and mostly.. cruises).
but the best use case for me is to use the same network name as one i use at home, so when arrive a location, you just have one router to setup and all your device will connect as if you are at home.
I use one of these as my home firewall and backup wifi, after I got fed up with the hardware I was running OPNsense on. (I have a separate WiFi access point) As the Gen Z say, I'm obsessed with it. I installed native OpenWRT on it and it's easily able to keep up with my gig fiber internet, complex firewall rules, etc.
I'm going to keep it in this role for a few more months, and then switch to one of Gl.inet's Wifi 7 models. Then the Beryl AX will become an actual travel router for me.
i have a Pixel device that can share WiFi as hotspot. Can anyone share advantages of using this GL.iNet over a pixel device?
This router has more functions and features. For our specific case, just to share Wifi on a few devices, I think Wifi sharing using Android suffice the need. However, some wants to use tethering to mobile data to by-pass hotspot data metering. Alternatively, some may want to have more devices behind the router or have VPN setup...etc.
I have the AXT1800 and it's not supported by openwrt. I bought it thinking it was but it's GL-iNet's proprietary flavor of the firmware.The MT3000 being offered here is supported by openwrt though: https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-mt3000
sorry in advance, new to the travel router game. So I could buy an internet connection on a plane and use this thing to share to other devices? How does that work? Do I buy it on my phone and then connect the phone to the router?
You can also download media to a flash drive, plug in the flash drive and stream it multiple devices. I did this worked great, ran it on a 10k mah battery pack on a 12 hr flight, no problem.
You can also download media to a flash drive, plug in the flash drive and stream it multiple devices. I did this worked great, ran it on a 10k mah battery pack on a 12 hr flight, no problem.
I agree. I didn't say it was an excellent price, just an excellent travel router. I need one for some travel coming up. There just aren't any better options in this general price range. The TP-Link AX3000 for $56 after Prime cashback is a cheaper option, but it does not run OpenWrt. It's new enough that reliability is unknown. I'd rather spend the extra $20 on a known product like this one instead of the TP-Link one.Other people don't care about that and can look at that as an option. If you don't need a travel router, there are many other options.
I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but using the stock OpenWRT (not Gl.inet's firmware version) I have cellular hotspot connected as a backup WAN device over USB. The hotspot gets internet over LTE and the router connects to it over USB instead of WiFi.
If my AT&T Fiber connection goes down the router detects that and switches over to hotspot. It took a bit of research and tinkering to figure out how to get that to work.
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Edit: See my reply. While I think the price could be lower, there are not many options for travel routers. With reduced competition, prices stay higher. This is generally regarded as the best WiFi 6 travel router.
but the best use case for me is to use the same network name as one i use at home, so when arrive a location, you just have one router to setup and all your device will connect as if you are at home.
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I'm going to keep it in this role for a few more months, and then switch to one of Gl.inet's Wifi 7 models. Then the Beryl AX will become an actual travel router for me.
Slay.
Some use cases / reasons:
1800 has the pre-installed OpenWRT. According to this thread, it may be supported by OpenWRT - https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/14950
Other models do.
https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/e...rials/eap/
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Other models do.
https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/e...rials/eap/
I looked it up, and it's some form of wifi auth, but it sounds vague.
How big of a deal is it and how bad is it not to have it? Thanks
This or the AXT1800?
Other models do.
https://docs.gl-inet.com/router/e...rials/eap/
but it doesn't via stock firmware.
https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/eap-o...3000/55181
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If my AT&T Fiber connection goes down the router detects that and switches over to hotspot. It took a bit of research and tinkering to figure out how to get that to work.
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