GL-AXT1800 / Slate AX

> What inspired you to start your selfhosting journey? What's one project you're most proud of so far, and what's the most expensive piece of equipment you've acquired for? My laptop was too loud to keep it on at night. So I moved most services on dedicated hardware. Most expensive was a Slate AX, lol, but that's not part of the permanent infra. > How would winning the unit(s) from this giveaway help you take your setup to the next level? Comet would allow me to manage the monster in the garage in the fortuitous case sshd fails. Flint 3 would just be cool, even if it does look like Batman's router. > Which channels do you most frequently use to learn about or purchase IT equipment? Amazon, it's always Amazon. > Looking ahead, if we were to do another giveaway, what is one product from another brand (e.g., a server, storage device or ANYTHING) that you'd love to see as a prize? A radio-transparent cupboard for all my apartment's network equipment!

I have the GL-AXT-1800. I have traveled extensively all over the world with it for the last 3-4 years. I use NordVPN with it to get FuboTV, Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV and Youtube and Apple Music. No problems works great and all my other devices auto connect to my SSID using the NordVPN link from my router. I also travel with my Apple TV hard wired into my GLinet router. I bring an HDMI cable to use on the hotel tv. I usually just remove the Hotel HDMI cable and use mine. I also bring a couple TriBit bluetooth speakers. It works for me and sounds awesome. You can also add NordVPN to your Apple TV. It works by double VPN as well!

Update: slate ax purchased and works like a champ. Recommend.

Gl I net has a few great options. I personally have the Slate 7 and it’s a more than capable travel router, I choose it over the UniFi even though I have a complete UniFi setup at home.

> I think for this travel router to be a great success, it should have 4g or 5g built in and wifi 7. Of course price would go up but I'd pay for those features. And power consumption. I compared the Slate 7 (wifi 7) with Slate AX (wifi 6) and I was shocked at the power consumption difference: "<18W" vs "<8.75W." That's more than double! It's a factor since I often use a battery pack to power my AX.

Just to confirm, this is Ubiqui's direct competitor to GL.iNet? I love my little inet; it does exactly what I need: masquerades as a device while broadcasting a mini-network for my multiple devices or devices incapable of connecting to hotspot login screens (e.g. chromcasts, game consoles). I've even used it on the road hot-spotting from the cellphone! I use it often traveling to get past the "one-device-at-a-time" restriction. If this does that, I'm sold. I'd love to get something a little smaller, and "seamlessly" connects home.

1. I was sick of buying servers in the past which cancels or change what they are (contract wise) or even not change with too little ram or cores (or slow ones). Root servers was too expensive in the past so I started to do servers in my home. 2. I am still running old 1gb routers+switches and really wanted to upgrade to something faster, also use a KVM would save me to walk two floors and working in the cold basement. 3. Amazon mostly, that's were I bought a GL-AXT1800 too. 4. NAS systems should be more affordable and more powerfull without draining a lot of power. I used QNAP in the past and it was awefully slow and are obsolete 2 years later.

I say anything but I don't actually like the models that have the two USB ports next to each other. Makes it hard to plug in a cellular USB modem.  Other than that the GL-AXT1800 has been great and the slate 7 had been even better.  The Beryl AX would be a solid choice.