GL.iNet - Puli AX (GL-XE3000) Wi-Fi 6 5G Cellular Router with Battery

GL.iNet has some good products. I ran their 4g version for 2+ years as my primary. Had to do some hacky stuff to disguise it but it worked. Three things: I had a retired Apple phone and changed the IMEI on the device to appear as an iPhone. Second was modifying the firewall to adjust the TTL values, so that downstream traffic wouldn't appear as coming through a router. Third, I used WireShark VPN. The CPU in the model didn't love that extra workload so it slowed down quite a bit. These were all done to take advantage of the unlimited data phone line package I had. This surely was against the terms of service. This version below has a battery, the X3000 I believe is identical without the battery. There aren't very many other consumer friendly 5g modems that I know if. You could also roll your own. Use an older tiny form factor PC to build a router, install OpenWrt on it, and use USB tethering, or a USB hub with Ethernet. You might want a smart plug to float the phone battery and reduce degradation. [https://store-us.gl-inet.com/products/puli-ax-xe3000-wi-fi-6-5g-cellular-router-with-battery/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=productpage&_gl=1*spri6f*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3NDg3OTM2MTIuQ2owS0NRanc5T19CQmhDVUFSSXNBSFFNalM1bXBhYUY5bkJacFVhZHh4UDVtWWNWMGtXYWFNNWpQanZwb01YbG9mcVZ3UWNMQnZDUk1fc2FBa2xoRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*NzIxNjg4ODc5LjE3NDg3MzIxMTYuNjgzMTAxMzY2LjE3NDg3OTM1ODYuMTc0ODc5MzYzNA..*_ga*NjEzMjI4NzguMTc0ODczMjExNQ..*_ga_34T6Q5NL0V*czE3NTE0NjA2MDgkbzQkZzEkdDE3NTE0NjA2NDIkajI2JGwwJGgw](https://store-us.gl-inet.com/products/puli-ax-xe3000-wi-fi-6-5g-cellular-router-with-battery/?utm_source=website&utm_medium=productpage&_gl=1*spri6f*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3NDg3OTM2MTIuQ2owS0NRanc5T19CQmhDVUFSSXNBSFFNalM1bXBhYUY5bkJacFVhZHh4UDVtWWNWMGtXYWFNNWpQanZwb01YbG9mcVZ3UWNMQnZDUk1fc2FBa2xoRUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*NzIxNjg4ODc5LjE3NDg3MzIxMTYuNjgzMTAxMzY2LjE3NDg3OTM1ODYuMTc0ODc5MzYzNA..*_ga*NjEzMjI4NzguMTc0ODczMjExNQ..*_ga_34T6Q5NL0V*czE3NTE0NjA2MDgkbzQkZzEkdDE3NTE0NjA2NDIkajI2JGwwJGgw)

Wifi7 would definitely be overkill since the Q3 doesn't support it. 6e is also overkill unless you live in an area with highly congested 5GHz bands. Wifi5 or 6 are more than enough, as long as you have a decent wifi router/access point. I prefer brands with built-in VPN facilities, as they tend to have faster processors and more memory. More than happy with my Gl.inet AX3000.

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.

Hi, I hade similar problem, I used Mikrotik than Ubiquity Edge X, but half year ago I have found GLI.net It’s OpenWRT by default and it cost similar to TP-Link. It have WireGuard, Tailscale and AddGuard as native app ;)

Exactly. Don't waste money on these shitty consumer routers. The only decent ones are from gl.inet that come with openwrt. If you need more, look into opnsense on something like qotom or other minipc, mikrotik, ubiquity and separate access points.

Poor performance, very poor routing performance. And overpriced.