Ubiquiti - UniFi Travel Router (UTR)

I agree 💯, I carry one with me just for the family trips so I don't have to sign into 3 phones two tablets and a Firestick. Travel case fits everything plus an extra Ethernet cord as I hard wire at hotel whenever physically possible. Had to dump aac address here or there but all good But your point makes the Unifi WiFi 5 argument stronger. As it's "enough" for most.

It's a travel router. Like, yes, I have a Slate 7 as well, but realistically, I'm never going to be doing anything while traveling that would require 6GHz or MLO or 2.5Gbe+ ethernet.

Let's be real, not even the majority of *the people using Unifi devices* let alone general population traveling is ever going to saturate a 2.5Gbe link while traveling. Whether local or upstream. I can probably count the number of people that are going to be running "a local livestream or recording network" while traveling on one hand. Or running a NAS and using it so much that it will actually saturate that link. Like, come on. *Could* it be used for these things? Sure. Will it realistically? We both know the answer is going to be no. And this is coming from someone that *does* bring a 3TB portable media library with me while traveling. But even I know I will never get close to saturating that link. Even remotely.

>The point isn’t whether everyone will saturate 2.5 GbE I mean, it is when my entire argument is that it's a travel router that doesn't *need* those features, but sure, "not the point". >No disrespect, but I think your take is off. People who buy UniFi gear are *more* likely to want higher-speed local networking, not *less* My take is that **even within this circle** the number of people who will actually take advantage of 2.5Gbe/6GHz/MLO while traveling for anything more than shits and giggles is absurdly small. To the point where companies adding these features to travel routers are doing it just to tout that it's available rather than because it's actively being used and taken advantage of by their customers.

"Handy mit USB an den Travel Router anschließen, während der Travel Router mit WAN verbunden ist" Ja, funktioniert, habe ich gerade getestet. 

Ja, das geht, habe es mit USB-Tethering getestet. 

GL.inet for family travel (all devices preset to connect to it, with VPN available for selected needs) and UniFi Travel Router for solo use. Quick and easy in both use cases. GL.inet worked fabulously all over Europe for 5 weeks; UniFi would have been perfect as well if it had just been me. Smaller, too.

Yes, that’s actually one of the intended use cases for the UTR.

I think teleport may work on networks without a public IP as it uses the unifi servers s connection broker, like tailscale. But some public wifis may block WireGuard or VPN in generell. In this case vpn back to home won’t work

Unifis FAQ say that it won’t work with wpa enterprise or passpoint 2.0 networks. So eduroam probably won’t work.

Using your mobile in tethering mode will work via the second usb-c port

According to unifi and NAS compares any unifi device adopted into your home network will work as configured when connected to the UTR

Only bummers for me are WiFi 5 and 1gbps WAN and LAN ports. My Slate 7 does WiFi 6 with MLO. Sometimes when I'm doing some extra work in some funky place around the house, I'll put my Slate 7 into AP mode, attach it to an RJ45 coming out the wall, and now I've got the power of a full-fledged AP wherever I'm at. This looks more slim, and likely it's a better UI than Gli-Net's stuff. But I think I will wait until the next version.

I love my Gl.inet but the design decisions on the UniFi Travel Router were really good: - low power (you don’t need a huge battery to use it for long periods) - can use PD so any usb-c/usb-c cable and adapter is fine (can also be powered by your phone!) - compact form factor (fits in a pocket) This resulted in these limitations: - max wireguard speed (from my tests): 120-130Mbps - max wifi speed when used as repeater: ~300Mbps So if you’re travelling, using public WiFi, hotel WiFi, plane WiFi, etc. this makes a lot of sense since your bandwidth will be lower than these limits 99.99% of the time! If Gl.inet made a similar router which is OpenWRT-based and has all the features of their routers, I would buy it in a heartbeat!

Latest firmware update has a public wifi mode which actively forwards you any web connection for login. Works really well.

Do not put a deco mesh system into your 32,000 sqft mansion.  You should be looking at higher end systems like UniFi, HpE, Ruckus. I’m not super familiar with engenius.  You need a centrally managed system and with an estate of this size a high end system will be a drop in the bucket of your build budget.

Yeah. I did. Along with hpe and ruckus. A number of my wealthy clients specifically request UniFi and in my experience they stay happy with it and I rarely have to touch anything. It’s also commonly used at resorts, hotels, etc What’s your beef with UniFi?

Ubiquiti makes UniFi. Yes.

Have you looked into Unifi? It’s not the cheapest and gets hate from the open source crowd because, well, it isn’t open source. It works really well though and they have a huge ecosystem to build out your network.