Linksys - EA3500 App-Enabled N750 Dual-Band Wireless-N Router with Gigabit and USB

>Are there specific devices for the latter use-case? A lot of people seem to like what GL.iNet is putting out. I don't have any firsthand experience with those devices, so I can neither confirm nor deny. In my opinion, the usability of a device as a travel router boils down to small size and a hard-to-break-in-the-luggage design (meaning, no easy-to-break antennas). GL.iNet does the hard-to-break thing by implementing antennas that fold snugly against the case. Methinks internal antennas would work even better, so my travel router is a Liva Z tiny PC with a non-stock Wi-Fi card. It's about 5" square, antennas are internal, so it's very well suited to traveling... >Some other comments seem to imply that I need special radios on the router for this to work. You need at least one of two things, (1) a dual-radio device, or (2) a radio capable of simultaneously operating in AP mode and STA mode. I have a pre-historic Linksys EA3500 that's actually both. I use it with the `travelmate` package I mentioned in my previous message. It provides Wi-Fi in 2.4 GHz (N) and 5 GHz (AC) bands, but also uses the 5 GHz radio for uplink...

Any that can run OpenWrt. Any Wi-Fi card capable of AP mode is also capable of station mode. Most modern Wi-Fi cards capable of AP mode are also capable of simultaneously working in AP and station modes in the same frequency band. But stock firmware may or may not have these configuration options available. So you find an OpenWrt-compatible router, install OpenWrt onto it, and configure it the way you need. I used to do this with a pre-historic Linksys EA3500. Ideally, you want a triple-radio device (say, Linksys LN1301); that way, one radio can be dedicated to the wireless WAN connection, and the other two can operate in AP mode, each in its own frequency band.

lets just say I'm skeptical, not paranoid of being tracked, but I know that companies do, and I want to stream my movies and music to my family. I just have some trust issues. I just hate being tracked. But I'me more interested in a newer, but not new Router that I can install Nord VPN on for whole home VPN. I looked at open wrt for my older Linksys 3500, but it's not capable of wifi 6.

Thats why I was asking for recommendations for a "newer" used router. My old Linksys(Cisco) router was ok, but now my 2 phones are wifi 6 and the 2 Ipads are too. I see too many contradictory "recommendations. I thought [Netgear Nighthawk](https://www.tomsguide.com/best-picks/best-wi-fi-6-routers#section-the-best-wi-fi-6e-router-overall) was a good router, but too many are saying that they are intermittently unreliable. TP Link is also mentioned. Of course I can flash a used router to WRT, but I would really like to keep my NordVPN software, and install that to my router, easier for me. thoughts???