GL.iNet GL-AR300M16 Portable Mini Travel Wireless Pocket Router - WiFi Router/Access Point/Extender/WDS | OpenWrt | 2 x Ethernet Ports | OpenVPN/Wireguard VPN | USB 2.0 Port

My only reason for purchasing this router is for use on cruise ships. I cruise a lot with my wife and mostly cruise with Royal Caribbean. Just got off a cruise on Allure of the Seas and the device worked great. Was able to connect to ships Wi-Fi and connect both our phones to the internet, saves on purchasing 2 or more internet accounts. Using my iPhone connected to the router first and selecting the ships WiFi, the Captive portal launched automatically and was able to enter my Royal Caribbean username and PIN number successfully. Then I connect phones/etc to the routers name. I power it using a small 5000 mah battery backup and conceal both devices in my shorts pocket and stay connected throughout the ship all day long on a single charge. Great device for cruise ships, just buy! Update 10/01/24: Works on Carnival ships also! Just got off Carnival Dream cruise ship. Worked like a charm, same as on Royal. Was able to connect to ships Wi-Fi and then launched login screen by going to carnivalwifi.com. On login screen was able to enter folio number and birthdate.

Easy to use and very powerful for the price

Good little unit, especially for the price. With OpenWRT it has extraordinary features and flexibility, while pulling down just under 1W on average, so my typical "10,000mAh" battery pack could run it all day. Various small things could be slightly better. It should use USB C power - who uses micro-USB these days? Also, as a travel router it should have some sort of cable management for packaging the cables you need. It weighs almost nothing because inside is mostly air that could instead be cable storage/management. They should recess the sockets so cables can stay attached, perhaps with guides to wind the cables around the unit when it's packed. Of course 5GHz ac and a USB 3 port would be awesome (a mini-Beryl), but for $30 it's hard to find something significant to complain about.

Awesome device. I wrote a horrible review early in this process. I'm redoing that... USB tethering worked great. My provider theories me to 5mb but I'm looking for stable internet for devices, not speed. I can use my phone itself for large for transfers. Huge note: your phone is the internet using this device. It provides a network but you're phone ISN'T ACTUALLY ON THAT NETWORK! Beware media casters. Frustration will Mount I promise. Onto wireless tethering through my phone hotspot. This works great BUT... For devices connecting through this device is great but for devices communicating within the network speeds are ridiculously slow. What I think is happening is if you're serving media, for instance, all of the traffic has to come back through the router to the phone itself, then get routed and then back through this device. Device. It's truly unusable for device to device connectivity when using your phone's hotspot to connect to this device. But otherwise it works great and that's possibly the best way to use the device that I found. To get around this device to device limitation, I'm actually using the repeater mode to pass through my phones hotspot or to USB tether to the device. Then I use the ethernet port to provide internet to an actual full-size router that I have here in the house. All of my devices connect to that and internal communication is at that maximum speed. But external communication is then through this device and everything works perfectly. I would take this to a hotel and a heartbeat or a cruise ship but you have to keep in mind the device to device is going to cripple you. This device to device issue does not exist. If you're using router mode or USB tethering because in that instance the device handles communication between devices and only internet traffic itself comes back through your phone. Overall I love the device. I got rid of cable and my house is not online at all but all of my devices are stable and when I walk in the door I turn on my mobile hotspot. This device automatically scanned recognizes that it's there, connects to it and then passes traffic through it until I leave the house again. I don't have enough speed to serve media online, but I can I can watch video and surf the web and all of my devices are connected to the internet when my phone's in the house. It's a great device that I initially gave a horrible review to. My horrible review was the media server speed in repeater mode. Use USB. It saves your phone battery and you don't run into this nonsense of device to device. But in all instances your phone providing the internet is not on the resulting network. So you create a network and connect all your internal devices to it and then go on your phone which is the source of the internet. Start a video and try to cast it to one of your devices and those devices aren't there because your phone is on a different network.

I wanted to use this to create a VPN tunnel between two of these devices using the wireguard function. I have two serial to Ethernet devices which communicate on a local LAN but I need to have that communications over the Internet. This device should have been able to do this. I was able to setup the server device and added a client but when I tried to create the configuration file for the client it errored out every time. I spent a couple days farting around with this thing but couldn’t get this part to work. I even tried to SSH into it but there was no file created. I tried to create one from scratch but that failed too. Too many trips down the rabbit hole on this one, I sent the devices back and gave up in frustration. I’m going to try this with the more expensive GL.iNet GL-MT3000 (Beryl AX) next and see if it works any better for me. It’s supposed to have a better UI with more memory to support that. Fingers crossed.

Se state cercando un dispositivo ad alte prestazioni per la vostra rete gigabit, magari anche utilizzando una vpn sul router, questo dispositivo NON fa per voi, dovete proprio cambiare fascia di prezzo. Se invece vi serve un dispositivo che vi lasci sperimentare configurazioni esotiche in liberta, o per svolgere qualcosa (dove le performance sono secondare) che il Technicolor della TIM si rifiuta di fare anche dopo averlo sbloccato, o se vi serve un router molto economico e di facile utilizzo, allora non andate oltre. (In pratica è un routerino per smanettoni taccagni). Non ho avuto modo di provare se raggiunge veramente le prestazioni indicate a causa della mia situazione di rete, ma non ho motivo di credere che non siano quelle indicate. Molti si lamentano delle basse prestazioni usando VPN, dicendo che con wireguard scende a 50 mbps e con OpenVPN molto meno, a queste persone dico di leggere meglio il sito del produttore, perché parla proprio di 50mbps quando si usa wireguard in condizioni ottimali. È un dispositivo comodo per provare con le VPN ma come già spiegato, non è un dispositivo ad alte prestazioni. PER L'UTENTE BASE: Si tratta di un router economico e grande come il caricabatterie di un cellulare, e le prestazioni lo rispecchiano, ma non è tutto qui. Non supporta gigabit, ha due porte FastEthernet (100mbps) configurabili come LAN+WAN od entrambe come porte LAN, non ha la porta per il DSL (quindi vi serve un modem per attaccarlo alla linea fissa), supporta wifi a 300mbps e può essere usato come wifi extender (ma ho dubbi sulla sua portata), ed ha una porta USB a cui si possono collegare chiavette per la condivisione dati, o dei router 4G o telefoni in tethering per l'accesso ad Internet. L'interfaccia web è anni luce avanti a quella del Technicolor della TIM e piuttosto semplice da usare, ma comunque mancano alcune configurazioni di cui non si sente troppo la mancanza. Comunque troverete un opzione per installare una seconda interfaccia avanzata (LUcI) molto più potente che probabilmente non saprete usare. PER L'UTENTE AVANZATO: Il dispositivo monta una versione piuttosto vanilla di OpenWRT, ma essendo quanto di più vicino possibile all'open-hardware potete installarci direttamente OpenWRT (per me non lo ho ritenuto necessario). Potrete configurarlo nei modi più esotici, ma dovrete sporcarvi le mani con SSH (avete già accesso a root) o con LUcI perché l'interfaccia web del produttore è un po' "limitata". A contrario del vostro TG789VAC-v2 sbloccato, non crasherà giocando con tethering e bridgeing, e riconoscerà subito i dispositivi in tethering e li userà per l'accesso ad internet, tuttavia ricordate che l'hardware limitato. In questo momento io (non avendo una linea fissa) sto usando una saponetta (ZTE MF90) collegata via USB per l'accesso ad internet, ed ho collegato via ethernet un router TIM da usare come switch+AP, e la LAN è messa in bridgeing con una rete ZeroTier per poter accedere da remoto ai dispositivi come se fossi in LAN, e sembra funzionare perfettamente. Se devo trovare un difetto, lo ho dovuto riavviare qualche volta in questi mesi (motivo della stella in meno in stabilità), spero che non succeda quando deciderò di accedere in remoto altrimenti resterò bloccato fuori. Onestamente, dopo l'esperienza TG789VAC, mi sembra già impressionante che stia funzionando tanto per cominciare. NOTA: Se volete usarlo con un dispositivo in tethering, fate attenzione perché il dispositivo utilizza come LAN la rete 192.168.8.0/24, e fanno lo stesso anche alcuni dispositivi 4G (ad esempio il HUAWEI e3372). Un router non può funzionare se la sua LAN usa lo stesso indirizzo della WAN, quindi servirà cambiare l'indirizzo di uno dei due dispositivi per farli funzionare insieme.

I purchased a Google Home Hub Max for my mother who had gone into a nursing home. Turns out that the nursing home WiFi for residents was enterprise grade and required both Username and Password. Also turns out that the Google Hub products do not connect to enterprise grade WiFi and only work with standard domestic type WiFi. I know very little about computing, WiFi, routers, etc, but this device fixed the problem and her Google Home Hub Max is now effectively connected to the nursing home enterprise WiFi (via the GL-AR300M16 Mini Router) and working perfectly.

Love the item: I bought this for extra security but it adds so much more: with the built-in VPN client; I can now easily spawn QEMU VMs and let them use the selective routing on the VPN without having to configure every one to do so. As an added plus; all the VMs and my workstation are now isolated and hidden from the network.

📝 DESCRIPCIÓN Mini router portátil con VPN integrada, ideal para viajes y proteger tu conexión en redes públicas. Compacto y potente. En Amazon puedes encontrar otro modelo con más velocidad y banda de 5Ghz: https://amzn.to/42jtrn1 🧾 ESPECIFICACIONES - Velocidad: 300Mbps (2.4GHz) - Memoria: 128MB RAM + 16MB Flash - SO: OpenWrt preinstalado - Conexiones: 2 puertos Ethernet - VPN: Soporte OpenVPN/WireGuard - Peso: 39g - Alimentación: USB 5V 📦 CONTENIDO - Router GL-AR300M16 - Cable Ethernet - Cable USB - Manual en español 💶 PRECIO - 13 de Enero de 2025: 25,52€ 🟢 PROS • VPN integrada fácil de configurar • Tamaño mini ideal para viajes • Consumo energético muy bajo • Buen rendimiento para su tamaño • Precio muy competitivo 🔴 CONTRAS • Solo banda 2.4GHz • Velocidad limitada con VPN activa 8️⃣ VALORACIÓN Cogí este mini router principalmente para usarlo en casa y para llevarlo de viaje, y hasta el momento cumple perfectamente con mis exigencias. Configurar la VPN fue más sencillo de lo que esperaba - en unos minutos ya tenía mi conexión segura funcionando, siguiendo el tutorial de Gl.iNet En casa lo uso como segundo router para aislar algunos dispositivos inteligentes y para ver contenido en streaming. Aunque pequeño, aguanta bien varios dispositivos conectados. La velocidad es suficiente para navegar y ver contenido en streaming, eso sí, cuando activas la VPN lógicamente baja un poco (como ocurre con cualquier conexión vpn). Lo que más me gusta es su versatilidad. Puedo alimentarlo con un powerbank, lo que lo hace perfecto para viajes. El diseño compacto cabe en cualquier bolsillo, y los 39g de peso pasan desapercibidos en la maleta. Eso sí, si necesitas banda 5GHz o velocidades muy altas, este no es tu dispositivo. ✅ CONCLUSIÓN Excelente relación calidad-precio para quien busca un router portátil con VPN. Ideal para viajeros y usuarios que valoran su privacidad. 👍 RECOMENDABLE. ✳️ Espero que mi comentario ✍️ te haya podido servir de ayuda 😃

Ce petit routeur est une vraie pépite pour les voyageurs et les bidouilleurs. Il tourne sous OpenWrt et permet de configurer facilement un VPN (WireGuard ou OpenVPN), ce qui est idéal pour sécuriser sa connexion en déplacement. Malgré sa taille minuscule, il reste stable et fiable. Les menus sont clairs, on peut ajouter des plugins et personnaliser selon ses besoins. Il fonctionne uniquement en 2.4 GHz, mais pour un usage nomade ou en relais WiFi d’hôtel, c’est largement suffisant. Un excellent rapport qualité/prix pour ceux qui aiment avoir le contrôle de leur réseau.