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What is the use case for these?
Great question, so it's more for people who travel (use public wifi), and want their private data, private. For example, you connect to hotel wifi, but because this router has more features, it adds a vpn tunnel, or more flexibility of connecting all of your devices to route through this device with the features it offers.
I've used them in older hotels (mainly outside the US) that still have an ethernet jack (and crappy wifi), then every other device I have can connect the travel router (thus enjoy the much faster hardwired connection). Or I used to use one in an RV, that way I only have to point a single device to the RV park's wifi signal, and again, every other device with me just connects to this per their standard settings. Saving manually connecting 5-6 devices to each new access point.
And of course the privacy stuff DVD7227 mentioned.
FWIW, most of these travel routers have multiple modes so they can be used for many different configurations with a flip of a hard wired switch (storing each config so you can just 'switch' between modes without going into the settings). Wired access point, router, repeater, extender, bridge, etc. Not sure about this exact router though.
Used to use this a lot when worked overseas and traveled a lot for work.
Purpose would be to plug into a local ethernet port (hotel,worksite) to then have a network I can use with other devices, and usually perform better than hotel wifi.
Problem nowadays is many hotels no longer have a jack available and are wifi only, but there's a few random cases I run into still nowadays.
Less of an issue now with better standard charging adapters and power banks, but mine was similar usb-c and every now and then brought an incompatible usb-c adapter.
Much cheaper prices on fleabay. New and opened box. Always a crap shoot there, but made me more wonder why there is such a cheap market for these by resellers.
Like what LuckySeven says works mainly used for travelling and using overseas hotels but nowadays most places are just Wifi now.
This comes with AP/RE switch mode so you can still grab the Wifi signal from hotel and use this router as your main connection. More secured and if you have plenty of devices needing to connect you can bypass the hotel device limit.
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Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank DVD7227
And of course the privacy stuff DVD7227 mentioned.
FWIW, most of these travel routers have multiple modes so they can be used for many different configurations with a flip of a hard wired switch (storing each config so you can just 'switch' between modes without going into the settings). Wired access point, router, repeater, extender, bridge, etc. Not sure about this exact router though.
Purpose would be to plug into a local ethernet port (hotel,worksite) to then have a network I can use with other devices, and usually perform better than hotel wifi.
Problem nowadays is many hotels no longer have a jack available and are wifi only, but there's a few random cases I run into still nowadays.
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This comes with AP/RE switch mode so you can still grab the Wifi signal from hotel and use this router as your main connection. More secured and if you have plenty of devices needing to connect you can bypass the hotel device limit.
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