GL.iNet - GL-AR150

GL.iNet, ASUS, and TP-Link are the established names in nano-routers with GL.iNet being the newer, but rising popularity one. Key features: - Can power with USB (usually means there is a drive, switch, PLC, whatever in the cabinet that can power it without an AC receptacle). - More than one physical port can be very useful. - Client and AP at once mode for sharing public wifi to multiple other wifi devices is great for hotel rooms.

This is day 1 buy for me. Price is fantastic too. If you’ve never used a travel router it makes a huge difference in staying connected and the overall experience is super nice.

So I use my GLI version and think of the times when you travel and the WiFi is just terrible in the hotel. This is often because of poorly placed APs or simply not enough of them installed. The simplest thing it will do is pickup the hotel WiFi signal, and then rebroadcast that signal in your room. I think of it as a much larger more powerful WiFi antenna for my phone, laptop etc. It’s even better if the room has an Ethernet port available at a desk or wall, now it’s not rebroadcasting a signal it’s directly connected to the network and you have your own small AP just for your room. It will also work with cellular networks etc. If you travel and consistently find that the WiFi is bad, this kind of product makes things much better.

As someone who just got done traveling to multiple places and staying for a week at those places, trying out a couple different travel routers at each place (GL iNet & Asus Go), I like the Asus the best. I love the form factor of the GL iNet, but after 6 hours or so it disconnected. I had to unplug it and plug it back in. Google mentioned something about the WAN settings (I’d have to find it). Whereas the Asus just worked. It never disconnected, worked fine in WISP mode and just regular eithernet. So now my go to is the Asus Go for my travel router.

I've been quite impressed with this tiny little GLNet travel router. I use it when I'm out with the RV and starlink. It runs wrt software that is really configurable. Captive portal was easy on it too. I run an opnsense firewall at home but that little router is great too.

well you need to touch their modem, thats how the internet connection gets into the property. if they have a seaprate modem and router then you can unplug their router and plug in yours, I personally like the GL-iNet traver routers, but any router would do in this case. however if they have a combo router-modem then your gonna need to plug your router into theirs anyway to get internet, and while you could setup a VPN on the GL.Inet that sends all your trafic though it, but at that point you might aswell save yourself the money on the router and just run the VPN directly on your devices.

GL.Inet 100% as it runs relativley pure OpenWRT and has a bunch of nice features that while you might not use them this time are great for other times, like you can connect it to public wifi and then your devices to it to isolate them, and as mentioned above setup a VPN service on it to send all your traffic though the VPN. i'm pretty sure TP link dosnt have these features or if it does they are way more basic. I deff know it dosnt let you connect to public Wifi's and use that as a wan connection cuz iv had to reaseach it recently due to moving to an appartment with shared wifi.

I love their products, I have one of their travel routers and it’s extremely handy.

This looks great! I use a gli.net travel router now for WireGuard vpn access when traveling, but not having to reprogram all of the families devices when traveling would be great. The form factor also looks fantastic.

It’s what I do currently with a glinet travel rtr and a wyze cam. Shouldn’t be anyone in my hotel room while I’m gone. Not a one for one match for solution, but similar use case and result; and I get local recording on the SD card

How small you wanna go? Look at Gli-net's travel routers. I carry one in my luggage and they're great.

How small you wanna go? Look at Gli-net's travel routers. I carry one in my luggage and they're great.

1. I got into self hosting because I was tired of paying for services that never quite delivered how I wanted and stopped working if my internet did. 2. I travel enough that I frequently use an older Gl.Net router to provide some protection and get more of my devices connected if I have to pay for a connection. I have also been wanting a KVM for my home server so I can better administer it from afar. In particular one that might let me restart or power it up with button presses or a jumper interface. 3.I learn a lot from Reddit, but probably most from encountering a problem and researching it until I find a solution that suits my needs and capabilities. That research takes me everywhere… but mostly Reddit these days. 4. I’d love a lower-power feature rich NAS. I consult for a lot of friends and families, and these have become a popular request. Ugreen might have the best offering for now, but I do feel like there’s still room for improvement. Edit: Products I’d choose if I won would be the POE KVM and travel router.