GL.iNet - Slate (GL-AR750S-Ext)

I have an older Slate and use it as my travel router. It can connect to my FWG with no issues over wireguard. The FWG applies all of the normal security rules to the traffic, just like being at home.  I personally prefer the Slate for travel and would highly recommend it.  On a side note, I have had issues with some places not allowing VPN traffic, including OpenVPN on port 443. So, in a situation like that, the Purple would be better as it can apply all of the proper network security measures on its own.

I use my GL routers while traveling and then use them to combine multiple devices to phone home via wireguard, no issues in any aspect. I view them as different use cases for me personally. I wouldnt mind the loss of a Slate/Beryl/Mango as a Firewalla given the different functions. Also I generally like having the extra lan ports on the GL Routers at some locations... Added, this is for trading situations where I hard wire 2 laptops I use in trading for and use a 3 port router.

I have found zero drawbacks to using my Slate as a travel router. I bought it for exactly that purpose. I almost bought another one to replace the Flint I had to repurpose elsewhere. The Slate is awesome for connecting to hotel captive portals, or using my phone connection (tethered with USB, it charges the phone too!). What I've most recently is use it to provide connectivity to my spouse's festival booth. Open wifi signal showing 1 bar that would never actually give me an IP on my phone, and the Slate grabbed it, and gave me a steady/fast signal that covered me all the way across the festival grounds to the food trucks. I've got a 5K battery that will keep it powered for an hour or so, but that was just to see 'how long'. For a real job like that, I'd bring my EcoFlow (because the register and everything else would need power too).

Yes to both. [One of these](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NR1SPBV). Slate's power port is USB-C. My only disappointment with this is that the battery doesn't work like a UPS. If using it connected to the mains, and the power drops, the battery is not engaged quickly enough to keep anything connected to it from losing power. The Slate is rated to draw 5V at 4A. At "full bore", this would take around 75min in ideal conditions to use up 5000 mAh. Consider that 5000 milliamps is 5 amps.

I would say unless you have a need to do site-to-site VPN that two-way communication between your home and away devices, the purple is an overkill as a travel router. If you just need one-way, like VPN to home to watch streaming media or send a print job to home printer, a Slate can fully do the job, and is much cheaper. And I do not think the wifi capability of the purple is as good as Slate.

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.

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.

how about a travel router, like a gl.inet, which runs openwrt as a firewall? hardwire between the cable modem and the WAP dealy. that would be pretty straightforward. unless your Deco is doing SSL inspection, which I really doubt and you would probably notice, your banking should all be over HTTPS and therefore encrypted. Now, quicken files in the cloud I dunno about.