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...

I use a pre-historic Linksys EA3500 (with OpenWrt) for precisely that. It's an 8/64 device, but it works. It's not the smallest (though smaller than its successor, EA4500), but can be had very inexpensively. I also use a Linksys WHW01 (with OpenWrt) as an access point, so I see no reason why you can't use one as a wireless bridge. It's a tiny tower about 3 inches square at base and about 6 inches tall... Equally easy to get on the cheap (in my neck of the woods, that is).

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???