GL Technologies via Amazon has
GL.iNet Dual Band WiFi 7 2.5G (Beryl 7) Portable Mini Travel Router (GL-MT3600BE; Mint Green)on sale for
$110.49.
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Features:- Dual band network with wireless speed 688Mbps (2.4G)+2882Mbps (5G); Dual 2.5G Ethernet Ports (1x WAN and 1x LAN Port); USB 3.0 port
- Max. VPN speed of 1100 Mbps (WireGuard); 1000 Mbps (OpenVPN-DCO)
- OpenVPN and WireGuard are pre-installed, compatible with 30+ VPN service providers (active subscription required
- Built with OpenWrt 21.02 (Kernel 5.4.281) for maximum customization and advanced networking capabilities
- Supports WPA3 protocol–Preventive measures against password brute-force attacks
- Capable of hosting a VPN server and VPN client at the same time within the same device
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I bought this for a trip I'm currently on in Europe and so far it's been a great little travel router. Initially I bought it for a cruise coming up in October so we could purchase 1 Internet plan and share it between the two of us, and decided to use the Europe trip as a testing ground.
Overall it's been working great, the RAM can be a little light for those that want to use adguard home with a bunch of rules, while simultaneously trying to run a vpn and tailscale. I was initially running into the unit constantly crashing, but it turned out that all the adguard lists i was using was eating up all the available RAM (the threat intelligence feed itself has a million+ rules). I ended up ditching the use of adguard home on the router itself, and also ditching the use of my private Internet access vpn on the router as well. I instead opted to just connect the router itself to my tailscale network and have it use my pihole server back at home to handle dns queries and ad blocking. I was able to also setup the router to use my home pihole server as an exit node so all client traffic on the travel router looks like it's coming from my home making it easy to skirt any Netflix geolocation blocking no matter where I am. Being able to offload the ad blocking duties to my home pihole instance turned this into a pretty solid piece of kit and I'm happy I decided to buy it. Definitely something I will bring with me everywhere I go since it allows me to connect back to my network at home from wherever I am.
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I bought this for a trip I'm currently on in Europe and so far it's been a great little travel router. Initially I bought it for a cruise coming up in October so we could purchase 1 Internet plan and share it between the two of us, and decided to use the Europe trip as a testing ground.
Overall it's been working great, the RAM can be a little light for those that want to use adguard home with a bunch of rules, while simultaneously trying to run a vpn and tailscale. I was initially running into the unit constantly crashing, but it turned out that all the adguard lists i was using was eating up all the available RAM (the threat intelligence feed itself has a million+ rules). I ended up ditching the use of adguard home on the router itself, and also ditching the use of my private Internet access vpn on the router as well. I instead opted to just connect the router itself to my tailscale network and have it use my pihole server back at home to handle dns queries and ad blocking. I was able to also setup the router to use my home pihole server as an exit node so all client traffic on the travel router looks like it's coming from my home making it easy to skirt any Netflix geolocation blocking no matter where I am. Being able to offload the ad blocking duties to my home pihole instance turned this into a pretty solid piece of kit and I'm happy I decided to buy it. Definitely something I will bring with me everywhere I go since it allows me to connect back to my network at home from wherever I am.
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If you're asking if there's a way for a provider to tell that you're using a vpn that you've setup on this router, like say Netflix recognizing that you're using a vpn from overseas to access content from Netflix USA and potentially blocking your access because it can tell you're using a vpn; then it would depend on the vpn you're using. If you setup this router to use the vpn application the router itself has in it's firmware (that allows you to easily connect to the vpn provider you pay for such as PIA, Nord, Proton, etc) then Netflix could potentially detect it depending on which vpn server from your provider you've chosen to connect to. I personally have PIA and they have several streaming optimized servers you can choose to select. These servers often change ip addresses more frequently making it harder for Netflix to block them. If you use one of your providers standard vpn servers, it's ip has likely been logged as a server that handles vpn traffic so it would likely be blocked by Netflix.
The difference between using the standard vpn option on the router (signing into my PIA account and using their servers) and the method I've gone with, is that I've essentially created my own personal vpn that routes all my travel router traffic back to my pihole server at home. This allows all my traffic while connected to my travel router to look like it's coming from my home ip address. So if I were to use Netflix while abroad, all they see is that I'm using Netflix from the same ip typically do; which is my house. This is different than Netflix seeing hundreds or thousands of different connections coming from a single vpn provider's ip which would likely draw suspicion leading to Netflix to block traffic coming from that ip (which is why several providers have streaming optimized connections).
You don't necessarily even need this router to setup and do what I'm accomplishing. This router just allows me to share the ability with more people easily, the router was a purchase I wanted for my cruise anyway. I have tailscale setup on my Android phone as well so when I have it turned on, I can be connected to cellular data and still have my traffic appear to be originating from my home as well. The setup really only requires you setup a tailscale account which is free, and installing tailscale on a device back at home that is always on, and allowing it to act as an exit node for your tailscale network traffic. I personally have a Pihole server at home that's always on so it was the natural choice to use.
It sounds complicated and it can be if you're not familiar with these kinds of things. But, I can also say that when I set all this up, I didn't know anything about this stuff either. Utilizing chat gpt and gemini, between asking it questions and giving it screenshots of what I'm seeing, it has been much easier for me to get these things setup with little prior knowledge and learning along the way.
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I bought this for a trip I'm currently on in Europe and so far it's been a great little travel router. Initially I bought it for a cruise coming up in October so we could purchase 1 Internet plan and share it between the two of us, and decided to use the Europe trip as a testing ground.
Overall it's been working great, the RAM can be a little light for those that want to use adguard home with a bunch of rules, while simultaneously trying to run a vpn and tailscale. I was initially running into the unit constantly crashing, but it turned out that all the adguard lists i was using was eating up all the available RAM (the threat intelligence feed itself has a million+ rules). I ended up ditching the use of adguard home on the router itself, and also ditching the use of my private Internet access vpn on the router as well. I instead opted to just connect the router itself to my tailscale network and have it use my pihole server back at home to handle dns queries and ad blocking. I was able to also setup the router to use my home pihole server as an exit node so all client traffic on the travel router looks like it's coming from my home making it easy to skirt any Netflix geolocation blocking no matter where I am. Being able to offload the ad blocking duties to my home pihole instance turned this into a pretty solid piece of kit and I'm happy I decided to buy it. Definitely something I will bring with me everywhere I go since it allows me to connect back to my network at home from wherever I am.
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