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.
i used to say glinet but the unifi one is pretty clean. the only downside is wifi 5 which is still plenty fast enough for most hotel/airport/airplane connections
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.
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
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