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GL.iNet GL-MT3000 Beryl AX Pocket-Sized Wi-Fi 6 Wireless Travel Gigabit Router
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If the hotel/plane/whatever charges for wifi per-device, pay for only one device and then share it. The router connects it's "wan" to the hotel wifi via the wifi radio, but also uses the same wifi radio to create my own wifi network for all my devices. It's a wifi-to-wifi router.
If the hotel has a captive portal, and I have a lot of devices (personal laptop, work laptop, maybe kindle, maybe tablet, maybe streaming stick on TV) then I can use the travel router. I don't have to reconfigure EVERY device. They already know my private network's SSID and password. I just log into the router and select the upstream wifi network, then log into the captive portal once. That one captive portal login enables access for all of my devices. This is especially important if I have a lot of devices AND the hotel forces a relogin of every device every 24 hours, and I'm staying for a week or more.
If my device doesn't have a good way to log into captive portals, this takes care of that. For example, the original Chromecast had no UI for portals at all. Putting it behind the travel router ensured it worked.
One time I stayed at an airbnb and the Internet they gave me went down. I found the router, and was surprised to see they appeared to have two different Internet connections into two different routers. The first router showed no link. OK that's down. I tried plugging my laptop into the 2nd router and it worked great. But I didn't know the wifi name/password for that router. So, I dropped my travel router beside it, connected via Ethernet, and had my own wifi network for the rest of the trip.
Just a month ago I stayed at a hotel that offered free wifi, but they artificially limited each device to like 3 mbps. So, I connected my laptop's built in wifi as connection #1. I connected my travel router to wifi, then plugged ethernet from that into my laptop as connection #2. I put my phone on the wifi, enabled USB tethering, and connected that to my laptop via USB as connection #3. Then, I used Speedify to bond all 3 of the laptop's wifi connections. That got me 9 mbps on their 3-mbps-per-user wifi.
Note: Modern phones can generally do wifi-to-wifi routing. This has eliminated most of my need for a travel router. However, I still carry a travel router just because it's nice to have the local LAN not go down every time I leave the room with my phone. For example, if I want to leave my laptop downloading a file while I'm away doing some activity all day...
A lot of people use travel routers for VPNs too. I never do that, and instead just do a VPN right on my end device.
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If the hotel/plane/whatever charges for wifi per-device, pay for only one device and then share it. The router connects it's "wan" to the hotel wifi via the wifi radio, but also uses the same wifi radio to create my own wifi network for all my devices. It's a wifi-to-wifi router.
If the hotel has a captive portal, and I have a lot of devices (personal laptop, work laptop, maybe kindle, maybe tablet, maybe streaming stick on TV) then I can use the travel router. I don't have to reconfigure EVERY device. They already know my private network's SSID and password. I just log into the router and select the upstream wifi network, then log into the captive portal once. That one captive portal login enables access for all of my devices. This is especially important if I have a lot of devices AND the hotel forces a relogin of every device every 24 hours, and I'm staying for a week or more.
If my device doesn't have a good way to log into captive portals, this takes care of that. For example, the original Chromecast had no UI for portals at all. Putting it behind the travel router ensured it worked.
One time I stayed at an airbnb and the Internet they gave me went down. I found the router, and was surprised to see they appeared to have two different Internet connections into two different routers. The first router showed no link. OK that's down. I tried plugging my laptop into the 2nd router and it worked great. But I didn't know the wifi name/password for that router. So, I dropped my travel router beside it, connected via Ethernet, and had my own wifi network for the rest of the trip.
Just a month ago I stayed at a hotel that offered free wifi, but they artificially limited each device to like 3 mbps. So, I connected my laptop's built in wifi as connection #1. I connected my travel router to wifi, then plugged ethernet from that into my laptop as connection #2. I put my phone on the wifi, enabled USB tethering, and connected that to my laptop via USB as connection #3. Then, I used Speedify to bond all 3 of the laptop's wifi connections. That got me 9 mbps on their 3-mbps-per-user wifi.
Note: Modern phones can generally do wifi-to-wifi routing. This has eliminated most of my need for a travel router. However, I still carry a travel router just because it's nice to have the local LAN not go down every time I leave the room with my phone. For example, if I want to leave my laptop downloading a file while I'm away doing some activity all day...
A lot of people use travel routers for VPNs too. I never do that, and instead just do a VPN right on my end device.
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If the hotel/plane/whatever charges for wifi per-device, pay for only one device and then share it. The router connects it's "wan" to the hotel wifi via the wifi radio, but also uses the same wifi radio to create my own wifi network for all my devices. It's a wifi-to-wifi router.
If the hotel has a captive portal, and I have a lot of devices (personal laptop, work laptop, maybe kindle, maybe tablet, maybe streaming stick on TV) then I can use the travel router. I don't have to reconfigure EVERY device. They already know my private network's SSID and password. I just log into the router and select the upstream wifi network, then log into the captive portal once. That one captive portal login enables access for all of my devices. This is especially important if I have a lot of devices AND the hotel forces a relogin of every device every 24 hours, and I'm staying for a week or more.
If my device doesn't have a good way to log into captive portals, this takes care of that. For example, the original Chromecast had no UI for portals at all. Putting it behind the travel router ensured it worked.
One time I stayed at an airbnb and the Internet they gave me went down. I found the router, and was surprised to see they appeared to have two different Internet connections into two different routers. The first router showed no link. OK that's down. I tried plugging my laptop into the 2nd router and it worked great. But I didn't know the wifi name/password for that router. So, I dropped my travel router beside it, connected via Ethernet, and had my own wifi network for the rest of the trip.
Just a month ago I stayed at a hotel that offered free wifi, but they artificially limited each device to like 3 mbps. So, I connected my laptop's built in wifi as connection #1. I connected my travel router to wifi, then plugged ethernet from that into my laptop as connection #2. I put my phone on the wifi, enabled USB tethering, and connected that to my laptop via USB as connection #3. Then, I used Speedify to bond all 3 of the laptop's wifi connections. That got me 9 mbps on their 3-mbps-per-user wifi.
Note: Modern phones can generally do wifi-to-wifi routing. This has eliminated most of my need for a travel router. However, I still carry a travel router just because it's nice to have the local LAN not go down every time I leave the room with my phone. For example, if I want to leave my laptop downloading a file while I'm away doing some activity all day...
A lot of people use travel routers for VPNs too. I never do that, and instead just do a VPN right on my end device.
Great post. I'll add even the firestick (4K) that can handle a basic captive portal choked on a pop-up that required me to scroll to the bottom and agree to the terms (Marriot property). So I broke out the Beryl MT-3000 and no problem getting thru the captive portal and all my devices connected. I generally don't use the Beryl if I get my handful of devices connected to the local WiFi...just so I can keep or pack the Beryl the night before heading out.
If the hotel/plane/whatever charges for wifi per-device, pay for only one device and then share it. The router connects it's "wan" to the hotel wifi via the wifi radio, but also uses the same wifi radio to create my own wifi network for all my devices. It's a wifi-to-wifi router.
If the hotel has a captive portal, and I have a lot of devices (personal laptop, work laptop, maybe kindle, maybe tablet, maybe streaming stick on TV) then I can use the travel router. I don't have to reconfigure EVERY device. They already know my private network's SSID and password. I just log into the router and select the upstream wifi network, then log into the captive portal once. That one captive portal login enables access for all of my devices. This is especially important if I have a lot of devices AND the hotel forces a relogin of every device every 24 hours, and I'm staying for a week or more.
If my device doesn't have a good way to log into captive portals, this takes care of that. For example, the original Chromecast had no UI for portals at all. Putting it behind the travel router ensured it worked.
One time I stayed at an airbnb and the Internet they gave me went down. I found the router, and was surprised to see they appeared to have two different Internet connections into two different routers. The first router showed no link. OK that's down. I tried plugging my laptop into the 2nd router and it worked great. But I didn't know the wifi name/password for that router. So, I dropped my travel router beside it, connected via Ethernet, and had my own wifi network for the rest of the trip.
Just a month ago I stayed at a hotel that offered free wifi, but they artificially limited each device to like 3 mbps. So, I connected my laptop's built in wifi as connection #1. I connected my travel router to wifi, then plugged ethernet from that into my laptop as connection #2. I put my phone on the wifi, enabled USB tethering, and connected that to my laptop via USB as connection #3. Then, I used Speedify to bond all 3 of the laptop's wifi connections. That got me 9 mbps on their 3-mbps-per-user wifi.
Note: Modern phones can generally do wifi-to-wifi routing. This has eliminated most of my need for a travel router. However, I still carry a travel router just because it's nice to have the local LAN not go down every time I leave the room with my phone. For example, if I want to leave my laptop downloading a file while I'm away doing some activity all day...
A lot of people use travel routers for VPNs too. I never do that, and instead just do a VPN right on my end device.
Those systems often function on MAC address, so when my time would run out, I'd randomize the MAC address and reconnect.
(Some phones/devices can do this directly, but mine phone couldn't, so it was a handy way around those limitations.)
Great post. I'll add even the firestick (4K) that can handle a basic captive portal choked on a pop-up that required me to scroll to the bottom and agree to the terms (Marriot property). So I broke out the Beryl MT-3000 and no problem getting thru the captive portal and all my devices connected. I generally don't use the Beryl if I get my handful of devices connected to the local WiFi...just so I can keep or pack the Beryl the night before heading out.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N72FMH5
The one big downside is size. My new one will be more than double the size. In the pics below, I'm moving from the 1st one on top to the 3rd one down. So maybe sometimes I'll still carry the old one when space is tight.
https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/size-...ison/21756
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If it'll be as a travel router, unless you're staying in very high end places it's unlikely you'll be making use of internet faster than gigabit speeds.
The Beryl has a 2.5gbps WAN port, and a gigabit LAN port. The Slate has three gigabit ports (one WAN, two LAN).
The Beryl can technically achieve faster WiFi speeds, at 300 megabytes/sec, while the Slate can "only" achieve a maximum of 150 megabytes/sec.
The Beryl can achieve up to ~18 megabytes/sec with OpenVPN, and ~36 megabytes/sec with Wireguard, while the Slate can achieve up to 68 megabytes/sec for OpenVPN and Wireguard.
The Slate is slightly larger by about 1/5".
In practice... while using this with airport/hotel WiFi? None of those theoretical maximums are going to matter. 😂
I consider myself as hitting the jackpot if I'm ever at a hotel that can get anywhere near that OpenVPN maximum on the Beryl.
But if you'll be stationary in places with gigabit or 2.5 gigabit ethernet you can plug it into? Maybe the above will matter more.
For reference, gigabit internet is 125 megabytes/sec, and 2.5 gigabit would be 312 megabytes/sec.
tl;dr the Beryl is a big upgrade from the older Glinet travel routers that could do closer to 3 megabytes/sec on OpenVPN and 10 megabytes/sec on Wireguard, but the difference between the Beryl AX MT3000 and the Slate AXT1800 won't be noticeable for the average person, IMO. Unless there's a specific metric above that applies to your specific use.
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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N72FMH5
The one big downside is size. My new one will be more than double the size. In the pics below, I'm moving from the 1st one on top to the 3rd one down. So maybe sometimes I'll still carry the old one when space is tight.
https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/size-...ison/21756
I'd say the jump to the Beryl AX (the Slate Plus and non-AX Beryl are more lateral upgrades to the Opal) would be worth the extra cost if you make use of OpenVPN or Wireguard, even over the Opal.
If that won't apply to you though, the Opal's a solid upgrade over the Mango, for that sweet sweet 5Ghz band. 😊
It is decently bigger though, about twice and wide and 1.5 times as deep. So not something you can stick in a pocket like the Mango.
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