Slate (GL-AR750S-Ext)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

How good is the WiFi? Compares to the GL.inet I use as a travel router this is *tiny* but in larger airbnbs even the GL.inet with its extendable antennas is sometimes struggling to provide full WiFi coverage.