GL.iNet Slate 7 (GL-BE3600) Portable Wi-Fi 7 Router Revealed

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1 GL.iNet Slate 7 Travel Router @ CES 2025
1.1 What Can This Travel Router Do? Who Needs the GL.iNet Slate 7 Router?
1.2 GL.iNet Slate 7 Router Hardware Specifications
1.3 Final Thoughts – Should You Wait for the GL.iNet Slate 7 Router?
1.4 Why Not Just Use a Mobile Hotspot instead of a Travel Router?
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GL.iNet Slate 7 Travel Router @ CES 2025

As someone who travels a lot professionally and personally, having a decent mobile router is absolutely essential for me. At any given time, I carry a mobile phone, a laptop, a tablet, and a network-enabled camera. The minute you start traveling with my partner or colleagues professionally, the devices can comfortably hit 10 to 12 network-ready client tools easily. That’s why I’ve always been a tremendous fan of both mobile routers and mobile internet management systems, as these allow you to create an easy pop-up network for a family of devices quickly and securely when done right. For the last two years, a lot of my travel has included the use of GL.iNet Beryl mobile travel routers and the Puli AX router. These two systems have not let me down, and when I heard that the brand was working on a Wi-Fi 7-enabled travel router, you better believe I was interested! Which brings me to the new GL.iNet Slate 7 router, which I had the opportunity to get my hands on at CES 2025.

Feature Details
Model Slate 7 / GL-BE3600
Processor Qualcomm Quad-core @ 1.1 GHz
RAM DDR4 1GB
Storage 512MB NAND
Wi-Fi Standard 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be
Wi-Fi Bands Dual-band: 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz
Wi-Fi Speeds – 2.4 GHz: 688 Mbps
– 5 GHz: 2882 Mbps
Ethernet Ports 2 (1 WAN, 1 LAN)
Ethernet Speed 2 x 2.5 Gbps
USB Port USB 3.0
Power Supply USB-C (5V/3A)
Power Consumption <8W
Encryption Support OpenVPN, WireGuard, AdGuard, Tor (natively supported)
Control Interface Touchscreen control panel
Additional Controls Physical “Mode” button
Special Features – LCD panel for QR code generation
– Retractable antennas
Weight <200 grams
Dimensions 130 x 91 x 34 mm
Operating Temperature 040°C (32104°F)
Use Cases Travel router, secure connectivity for remote workers, portable internet solution

Let’s discuss what this system can do, what it can’t do, what hardware it runs on, and whether this needs to be your next travel hardware upgrade!

 

What Can This Travel Router Do? Who Needs the GL.iNet Slate 7 Router?

It’s an important question. Travel routers are not built equally and tend to arrive with a variety of hardware support under the bonnet. A travel router is more than just about having access to the internet. If all you want is a basic connection to the internet, most devices that you take with you on the go will have the simple wireless capability to connect to public Wi-Fi and hotspots. However, how secure are these public hotspots? Is data necessarily encrypted securely enough? And are there any limitations to per-device connections? This is often where a travel router absolutely excels in its functionality.

The benefit of travel routers like the GL.iNet Slate 7 and the Beryl that came before it is that you can connect all of your wireless and wired network devices to it as needed, and then set the wireless router to connect with the public Wi-Fi connection. For example, let’s say you are connecting your phone and your laptop to the internet while you are in a coffee shop. If you already have the travel router SSID saved to your phone and laptop, all you need to do is connect the travel router to the public Wi-Fi, and then both of your handheld network devices will be able to take advantage of that public internet connection. But with the added benefit that you can control the network traffic that is exchanged between those devices and the travel router, their priority of bandwidth, and even apply VPN and encrypted tunnel software to the travel router to ensure that data exchanged between the router and the public Wi-Fi service is completely encrypted and anonymized as needed.

GL.iNet travel routers all arrive with the ability to apply your own user credentials from popular internet security services such as OpenVPN, WireGuard, AdGuard, and Tor. Once signed into on the Slate 7, you can enable or disable these via the on-screen LCD of the device or even a physical mode switch in some cases. The ability to choose when to apply security services, depending on the trustworthiness of the Wi-Fi you are using on the go, is phenomenally useful. But the benefits of a travel router do not stop there.

Another example of a travel router’s benefits being perhaps overlooked is the ability to attach storage to a travel router via native internal storage or a USB drive. This storage then becomes accessible over the network via popular services such as Samba or FTP, allowing connected individual devices to the travel router to share that media, target that storage media for backups, or be used for communal data sharing when on the go. Imagine you are a small company traveling together, or a group of students working on a project on the go. The utilization of a travel router will allow all of those users and their devices to only have to use a single SSID that they sign into once, with secure authentication. Then the public Wi-Fi or trusted Wi-Fi service just needs to be connected to the travel router physically via a WAN connection or wirelessly via the mobile app synced with the travel router.

Ultimately, this all adds up to saving significant amounts of time when connecting lots of devices to new public Wi-Fi services. It increases the security of all those connected devices via a single pathway, prevents device restrictions when users try to sign into public Wi-Fi with limited client connections allowed, and allows for shared storage to be provided conveniently yet securely to users in the chosen network.

GL.iNet Slate 7 Router Hardware Specifications

The GL.iNet Slate 7 mobile router is very similar in general specifications to the Beryl AX predecessor travel router. However, it has scaled up practically every hardware specification in this new revision—from more modern network connectivity to simple but essential base-level hardware specifications in storage, RAM, and processor ability. Here is a brief overview of the hardware specifications that are confirmed so far:

The physical design is only fractionally larger than the predecessor Beryl device. The Slate 7 opts for a slightly more industrial design, favoring a black, sharp-edged aesthetic. It is still pocket-sized, measuring 130 mm by 91 mm by 34 mm and weighing just under 200 grams.

The router includes two solid, foldable antennas that can be adjusted 180° from flat to vertical against a wall if needed. Each antenna is Wi-Fi 7 ready, which improves the overall bandwidth and frequency afforded to each band. The Slate 7 supports dual bands at 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz, offering speeds of 688 Mbps and 2882 Mbps, respectively. Needless to say, this bandwidth is shared across multiple devices and their individual Wi-Fi 5/6/7 network adapters.

Currently, there is no confirmation on support for the 6 GHz frequency or 320 MHz band frequency packets. It appears the Slate 7 does not support 6 GHz, but until the official release, full confirmation on this detail is pending.

The physical network interfaces are impressive for a travel router. The previous generation had one 1 Gbps Ethernet port and one 2.5 Gbps Ethernet port. The new device upgrades both ports to 2.5 Gbps, with one as a dedicated LAN port and the other configurable as a WAN or LAN port. There is no confirmation if this device supports multi-channel or port trunking, but at this scale and hardware spec, it would not be surprising if it doesn’t.

The system does not feature an internal battery, as found in the Puli AX mobile router. Instead, it features a USB-C power input for a 5V connection and is reported to consume less than 8W at full utilization. This is based on the official specifications, pending confirmation through testing.

The Slate 7 also includes a USB 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps) Type-A port, which can be used for tethering or connecting a storage drive. FTP and other services available in other GL.iNet travel routers are supported here as well. This USB port can also be utilized by installed applications via the GL.iNet router software.

Information is still limited on the precise CPU model that is featured inside the Slate 7 router, but documentation available during CES indicates that it is a quad-core Qualcomm 1.1 GHz ARM CPU. This would be twice the cores available than that of the MediaTek CPU inside the Beryl AX travel router, though the clock speed is a pinch lower.

The system also arrives with an impressive 1 GB of DDR4 memory internally for handling network operations alongside that quad-core ARM CPU. Once again, they have doubled the available memory that you would find on the Beryl AX travel router, scaling up from the original 512 MB. This memory is fixed to the internal PCB and cannot be upgraded. This is not a huge surprise, as that’s fairly standard for both router devices and for ARM-powered devices too.

Alongside the ability to add additional storage via the USB port, the system already arrives with its own internal storage, doubling the 256 MB featured in the Beryl AX. The Slate 7 features 512 MB of base storage. This isn’t huge in terms of storing your domestic data, but for storing and deploying applications installed via the GL.iNet router software, it is a decent amount of base storage to get the job done, alongside storage for logs and for creating multiple profiles with the system.

Interestingly, this is one of the first GL.iNet travel routers to feature a touchscreen LCD panel. What that means in reality is that although this router can still be managed and configured via the partner client app available via iOS and Android (as well as over the local area network and IP via GUI in the browser), it also features the ability to be managed directly on the physical device itself. This panel, although it looks a little dated in its black-and-white display, means that next to no power is being utilized when displaying it.

In my brief time with the LCD panel controls, it was very reactive, provided all the network information that I seemingly needed to see which devices were connected, allowed me to activate or deactivate active encryption/VPN services, and also allowed me to monitor system resource utilization in real time. I was pretty impressed with them squeezing that onto this travel router to allow me to very quickly identify what the system is doing as well as action things I want it to do on the fly without the mobile app authentication needed.

Final Thoughts – Should You Wait for the GL.iNet Slate 7 Router?

All in all, I’m really happy with what we’re seeing in the scale-up on this device from the Beryl AX. As mentioned earlier, it is effectively doubling the specifications and feature set of its predecessor, and the Slate 7 is gearing up to be a superior travel router in terms of usability and capabilities. That said, I still can’t really call this the ultimate travel router as, frankly, that is still the GL.iNet Puli AX. I understand that this device serves as a successor to the Beryl AX router, and therefore it makes sense that it would be similarly scaled in hardware and design. However, the Puli AX is simply still superior thanks to more antennas, a higher hardware level, SIM/LTE support, and a removable battery pack for portability.

Nevertheless, the GL.iNet Slate 7 looks exceedingly promising and definitely is a device worth keeping an eye on for your travel needs. With full confirmation still yet to be provided until their full review, it seems rather promising. And now that we’re seeing more client mobile devices from the likes of Google and Apple rock out with Wi-Fi 7 included, travel routers that support this protocol are going to be growing in appeal quite rapidly for those on the go. I will hold off my full review on this device until I’ve got one in the studio for testing, but until then, I like what I see!

Why Not Just Use a Mobile Hotspot instead of a Travel Router?

A lot of people will ask why you would bother using a travel router when you could just use a mobile hotspot on a phone and then connect all of your devices—and those of your friends and family—to it. A mobile hotspot works and, in practice, is great for when you want to use your SIM. Additionally, mobile hotspots require additional power to work, which can seem inconvenient when compared to utilizing your mobile phone, which already has a battery! However, SIM/LTE/cellular data mobile hotspots are not designed for large-scale client network sharing and typically handle packets of data across multiple connected devices poorly compared to a dedicated router.

Equally, you cannot physically attach multiple devices to a phone conveniently, other than a single device utilizing USB tethering. A decent travel router, however, will provide physical connectivity for multiple devices, as well as USB tethering. Finally, if you connect a mobile phone to a public Wi-Fi hotspot and then enable a hotspot on your phone to allow other devices to connect, it leads to significant drag and reduced packet management—all resulting in terrible speeds. Travel routers differ in their hardware specifications, and some are better than others, but in most cases, a travel router will always provide a better experience.

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      215 thoughts on “GL.iNet Slate 7 (GL-BE3600) Portable Wi-Fi 7 Router Revealed”

      13. I guess this would be ideally suited great router. My estimation for power consumption would be about 11 kwhr per month or about S$3.20 per month. My research also says it can be plugged in to usb powered. If true, this is great!!!???? All the other brand seems to be an overkill in comparison. Economically priced similar to Asus router.
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      15. I’m in the states and will most likely use Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile etc.. Did you have to take your router down to the cell store to get the sim card activated? Did you use prepaid? I’m having issues getting sim cards.
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      16. I am not as tech savvy as I’d like to be. I have the GL.iNet router. I tried setting up an Eeero and it won’t detect it. My end goal is to set up cameras on a lot and a shop that are subject to break in attempts. As such, I bought a Eufy S3 camera system (because of the AI to minimize false alerts both for my own sanity and to limit data usage) I pre purchased the outdoor eero that covers 15,000 sq feet thinking I would hook cameras up to it and be fine…and I already have a few Eeeeros. What would you suggest I do? I think I am using the Eeeros in the wrong way…but from experience (a huge lot with adobe walls…it just served as my wifi extender…I think …it worked)
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      17. interesting speed test results – I am currently on a TP Link Archer MR200 running off data SIM – getting 50-80Mbps download depending on where but way off your upload, usually at about 15mbps, but I don’t need too much of that, so that works. Plus, the one I got was only £90 here in the UK (about $120?) so a fraction of the price of this one, but again, no battery (although I did get a cigarette lighter adaptor for it so works nicely in the car/van). Interesting to see differences ????????
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      19. Got the Spitz AX3000 ( no battery) in the Amazon day sale recently for £329 (35% off) was£489 tried it for the first time in the caravan last weekend worked a treat ????
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      20. Thanks – I followed one of your earlier videos and bought an X3000. Superb piece of kit. On a poor 5g signal I get 400mbs down and up to 30 mbs up. At peak times when there is congestion I get 200mbs down and about 15mbs up. More than enough and then some. So instead of Virgin at their new offered contract of £68.00 p.m. I pay £15.00 p.m. The router will pay for itself many times over.
        I can’t see a use for a battery version in the home. I just switch to mobile phone modem to feed the tablet a signal. If it were critical I would have a back up power source. But then the mast will probably be down anyway.

        A big thanks!
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      25. Hi, The GL-XE3000 Puli AX doesn’t use the hotspot data plan.? I ask because I have a GL-750v2 but when I use the SIM card for WAN needs a plan with Hotspot data included and when the Hotspot data plan is over there is no connectivity over WiFi or LAN but internally the has internet because can download pluggings. I think they get the connection directly from the Normal Data Plan and not from the HostPot Data Plan so need to confirm if the GL-XE3000 Puli AX device is not a Mobile Hotspot Router and it is a Cellular Router because I think there is a difference between this type of devices.
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      28. Any idea on how this compares to the RUTX50 you reviewed quite a while ago, in terms of performance? I’m looking at TRM500 (newer than TRB500 and only need modem) and the GL-X3000 and not sure what to get. I have a separate router anyways, so only need the maximum performance for 5g connectivity. 100€ difference between both devices.
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      32. Don’t know anything about these things but seen good reviews on this model , so sent gor 1 today 65 quid off amazon, hope it does what I want and that’s to get wifi up my garden to my bar, so I can watch premier league footy and rugby without losing signal.
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      37. Could you do a comparison between
        These:
        GL-XE3000 Puli
        Gl-AX3000 Spitz
        Teltonika RUTX50
        Teltonika RUTC50
        Would be helpful to pick between them.
        Currently trying decide between This GL-XE3000 Puli and the Teltonika RUTC50.
        Any help or details and comparison… Possitives… negatives etc.
        Number of users could be an important factor
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      40. Waited for this review for quite a while, thanks! I would really like to see your point or test on:
        1) While driving and for the scenario of a stationary remote work like in RV. Plus a separate test with connection to home network.
        2) Your take on a barrel charger instead of USB-C
        3) Testing the speed and reliability for a remote connection to a home network with different methods.
        4) Using it for a home failover setup connected to UniFi gear.
        5) Speed or use cases limitation as a file server.
        6) This one vs Starlink

        P.S. update the description. Seems like you copied it from previous one: “Let’s find out in today’s DWR-2101 D-Link Mobile Router Review” lol
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      41. I have recently tried using Zyxel Nebula 5G NR FWA510 and ZTE 5g cpe mc888.

        The network provider coverage map shows that my area has 5g coverage, even when using the router, I could use 5g NSA connection option,(Selecting 5g SA just stays disconnected as I guess there is no SA infrastructure yet there) but I am getting way higher speeds with 4g LTE than 5g NSA.

        5g NSA ~40 to 50mbps
        4g LTE ~ 170 to 240 mpbs
        (The only better thing about using 5g NSA is LOW LATENCY, I don’t know how it works but latency is always very low on 5g NSA signal even though the download speed is less)

        Considering the above, I configured the router to stick with 4g LTE all the time as even auto switching to 5g NSA would reduce the speed. I believe considering the current 5g infrastructure in UK and Ireland, we won’t be able to use the 5g NSA and SA to its optimum level for still couple of years. There is nothing bad about having a future proof device but for the time being having just good 4g LTE router would save some cost and still we get the same higher speeds.

        Can you confirm if this router has option to stick to particular network? like 4g LTE and not just auto select?

        Also, do you know any 5g sim router that has an option, where you could allocate specific bandwidth to specific device? like configuring max download speed e.g. 10mbps for specific mac id? I don’t see this option in the 5g routers I used.

        Thanks for the review.
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      49. I have the MT3000 and I have a big bitch to air to GLiNet. For god sakes give us a proper PDF manual that we can store on our devices and markup / highlight / annotate or… I know that these aren’t overly complex devices but just how much effort would it take to give us a proper manual? I’m sure that most of your routers all use the same interface so it’s not like you have to create a different manual for each of the routers that you sell. And, speaking of which, why do you sell so many different routers anyway ?
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      52. One thing I’m not happy about – when you switch the device to access point mode, you can’t access the web UI without doing a soft reset (4 sec press) to put it back in router mode. Without the UI, how do you install firmware updates to get important security fixes? Perhaps you can ssh into the underlying openWRT OS and perform the updates with opkg, but that simple command line tool is designed to update packages, not an entire firmware image. Anyone know?
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      55. just want to ask… here a lof ot the times the price is negative.
        but what about the NETGEAR Nighthawk M6 Pro (MR6450) for nearly 950€?
        I don’t think that the Netgear thing is twice as good.

        Sometimes, I really miss the reflection if a price is really high, or too high. Here for me, yes it is high. But when you look up 5g Routers… all are about 300€ easily and the extreme things easily way over 500€
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      57. Also GL.inet’s cloud management service is a total joke. Its basically read only, you can’t manage anything but the SSID’s. You want to do anything? You have to do remote shell. You want notifications? LOL good luck, only goes to the email address you registered and they don’t allow multiple users to login to the account.
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      58. If you ask for the Moon, then are given it. You still have to pay (£500)for the rocket to get to your Moon. It certainly is a svelte, pocketable travel router. Must bigger and it would need its own seat on a plane.
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      60. not that I’ll buy this or anything but here are some questions for a “deep dive”, feel free to pick some of them and ignore the ones that are too nerdy;

        are the cellular antennas swappable for an external directional antenna?

        can you confirm if it’s 4×4 mimo, or some sort of low band antennas and high band antennas where only one set is used?

        what is the exact modem? Qualcomm x55 maybe? so it has dual sim, is it DSDS (dual sim dual standby), or dual active(both SIMs maintain a network connection), or does it basically act like a sim selector?

        LTE band locking(I need this a lot in remote places so I reckon some people will look for it too)?

        mwan3? or does it have something else for load balancing or bonding?

        how does it handle ipv6 addressing when multiple WANs are present?(it’s kinda messy in vanilla openwrt per my experience)

        Is the battery removable for those hot situations (for example if this is going to be mounted in a car you don’t wanna leave the battery in it i guess)

        it’s probably not legal but, is it possible to modify imei number to avoid paying insane taxes on some countries?

        i guess that’s all
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      63. I absolutely HATE GL.inet products.

        1. DHCP reservations NEVER save
        2. The LTE modem cuts out ALL THE TIME. This happens on multiple routers we have
        3. WIFI will stop working for no reason. This is a big issue for us because we use WIFI as WAN. The solution is to connect via ethernet and run a command in SSH to reset wifi
        4. You get more than about 30 devices connected to it on wifi and ethernet and it will tell you that there’s too many devices connected.
        5., UI is too rudimentary and advanced features are command line only
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      65. I got the Beryl AX (GL.iNet GL-MT3000), a fabulous travel route for weekly travel! For $80 USD, it has all but the 5G SIM and battery. But I definitely would get the fancier one if I was taking a camper on long trips.
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      69. It’s good, not perfect. My Spitz router (puli without the battery) has had problems with 5G SA and some sim plans. (EE works via tethering but not when the same sim is internal) – their support is good but still haven’t been able to resolve the issue.
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      73. You may be only getting a 4G connection with those speeds. Presumably as 5G SA is relatively rare still in the UK, those aggregated upload speeds are probably over 4G as well?
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      75. As a “WAN 2” for a day job and a mobile router when travelling its the Ubiquiti Mobile Router UMR for me. OK, it 4G and not 5G but it’ll run off a phone battery pack (that I have anyway else my laptop) else PoE or mains. Also, works with or without the antennas. Sorry, but no way I’m moving around with that thing! ????
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      77. I’ve got the X3000 load balanced across two 5G smart phones, love it. Looking into running it with a pass through charging battery bank as a DIY UPS solution…
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      82. I’m looking for the best hotspot device and so far only came across so many YouTubers shilling for products instead of actually putting devices through the gauntlet of fire.
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      93. Nothing to do with being old skool techy on a desk top. Phone apps are shyte and will never compare to a desktop machine end of story. Throw those phones away they give me a headache looking at them for more than 10secs
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      95. ?? Great Video: Could you do a video (or simply ‘comment’) on Mobile Router -v- carrying either a spare phone (with a pre-paid Pay As You Go SIM) and / or using one of those phones that can take two SIMs. (Using a spare phone instead of a mobile router would presumably mean you could call someone – from your ‘primary’ monthly plan mobile – while simultaneously accessing the web from your 2nd, pre-paid, SIM on a spare phone. Also, that kind of set-up would give you a back-up phone too. A medium spec ‘spare’ phone might cost about the same? as a mobile router (could buy a second-hand one). Only thing is, could two people connect to a single spare mobile (either one-at-a-time, or both at the same time?) Cheers
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      104. you should dump the firmware and examine it I wouldn’t trust a networking Appliance that’s made by a Chinese company whose CEO is married to someone who literally works for the CCP
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      106. Digital nomad here: Used the old Bery now for some time and will switch to the newer AX version because of the better WireGuard Speed. The GliNet Devices are fantastic: affordable, leightweight, small, and a clean UI but Luci is available if needed.
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      112. most smartphones slows internet speed because of many backgroud services and manufactures app. delete them all. OR using Custom ROM to clear out those app and bloatwares. . I get less than 70ms in most of games. and video Streaming up to 1080p on capped speed as low as 6mbps and full 4k video streaminh with pure high speed data????
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      114. Just bought one of these and you can’t beat it for the price. If you want more USB ports, add a hub. Worked fine for me with storage and tethering. As far as having battery power, well this router runs fine with the USB power supplied by my laptops.

        I live in hurricane country here in the U.S.A. I have a backup generator for power but when city power goes down, so does the wired ethernet. All wired ethernet depends on local boxes in the neighborhood that run on battery backups when power is down. Instead of buying an expensive wireless hotspot, I only need it for emergencies, I can tether my 5G phone using this router. I connect it in place of the cable router on my network and you can’t tell the difference. Plus I can use this with my phone when I travel or even locally.
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      115. This is a dumb question, so if i purchase a hot spot router do i have to pay for internet subscription even though its taking it away from my cell phone data? And if it is taking it away from my cell phone data then I assume I could only use as much data according to how much inteneret i have on my plan right?
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      121. was checking these routers out and prices are just mad, better off getting used 5g phone and leave it on the cord when at home and bringing power bank when out (it still holds for 8-12 hours on its own)

        Currently use burner 4g+ poco x3 with 4~6 devices connected, for example my xbox one downloads at around 110mbps. Been thinking of getting 5g phone for better speeds as upgrade is around 100euros.
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      123. Nice review ! You made me want to buy this piece of kit lol. Bought one after some research and watching your review. Was looking for a travel router to make life easier on our vacations. Not having to deal with all the hassle of configuring 10 devices separately on a campsite with captive portal crap. Having a WG connection to our safe home network before entering the big bad internet is a great feature. It works like a charm. Been using it a lot on remote locations. It does the job really well. Tried running custom firmware but no proper firmware is available yet with wifi support so left it stock. Other than that. Happy kids, happy wife, happy life !
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      124. Made in china – chinese company – reading company site blogs folks see network traffic going back to china – no thanks! Probably cheap for a reason. HOw about hooking wireshark up to the WAN port and analyzing what chinese domains it is phoning home too?
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      128. Would this be perfect for a hotel situation where the wifi just seems to be too weak from the amount of people? To the point where i can’t really use it. If not what would you suggest? (Gaming involved)
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      131. For all you tech savvy people you can just make your own lte Hotspot router with a raspberry pi. You can use your already used Sim that you have in your phone.
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      136. How well does repeating wifi work on this? I own a GL-AR750 and a bit older gl.inet travel router and they seem to really struggle with many Hotel wifi signals. Throughput is often absolutely terrible, to the point that you can’t even stream simple Youtube videos. And that’s not even with enabling any VPN. Whereas when I connect directly to the Hotel’s wifi using my phone I get at least 3x the throughput. I suppose if it were a regular repeater then 1/2 the throughput would be expected, but I wish there were two wifi chips that can operate on separate frequencies. Anyway, is this performing any better in real world scenarios?
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      137. Great video, thank you! I have a question regarding the VPN: I would like to set up a HTTP Proxy and connect it to a VPN. I read that it’s possible with the gl.inet but I would like to have different IP addresses for different phones connected to the router.

        My questions are:
        1) will it be possible to switch the IPs without a big hustle in-between connecting the phones?
        2) do you think social media platforms like TikTok should be able to detect that it’s a VPN or will it be safe since the VPN isn’t on the actual mobile device but on a router?
        I hope you can share your thoughts on these-would appreciate it a lot ????????
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      141. It does actually have an internal fan, but it never kicks in. See the setting at 16:00 next to the CPU average load.
        Personally I would see more value if the 2.5Gbps were on the LAN side rather than on WAN, and currently the interface doesn’t allow changing their purpose. I’m sure it can be done via LuCI, but I didn’t dig that deep yet.
        I ran some tests on my unit and it doesn’t seem to consume more than 5V 1.5A under full load (iperf3 16 thread via wifi 6 + phone charging via the USB port + phone WAN speedtest), not sure why a 3A power brick was spec’d for it.
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      146. Seems you didn’t check GL-iNet Mango… it’s smaler, but has surpisingly features, too. Used it for weeks in my caravan with a 4G-Stick to feed my family withtheir loved internet for streaming stuff on several devices in parallel. All run by a small powerbank for hours. Updating of OpenWRT was successful. Thanks for your comprehensive review!
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      148. I love the GL product range and have the GL-AR750. Pretty much the entire range is the same in terms of function, the main differences will be things like faster speeds. Software and capabilities like VPN etc are generally standard across the board which is great if you want to get the cheaper options. For those who have trouble with tethering, please check your Mobile device APN settings (probably just google your provider name and the word APN to find the right one).
        You can also tether with hotspot to free up the USB port if you need to.
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      150. Have one of these used it recently as travel router in Cairo tethered to a pixel phone using local sim worked a charm. Have the older version of beryl to as backup internet plugged into my udm pro se using the UniFi failover and a dongle with 4G sim plugged into Beryl works a so well
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      151. How fast can this router go when its in repeater mode ? My macbook pro currently connect to wifi at 866mbps, i was wondering if i can get this to be a wifi repeater connecting to another wifi 6 router, will it connect at 1500mbps, and then i will connect my mac to it via ethernet.
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      154. I’ve been looking at these as well to replace my old TP-Link travel router. But, as to connecting it to your laptop for power, I was warned that there may not be quite enough power available from the laptop’s USB port and dropped connections may occur.
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      158. My phone hits 98mbps speeds easily even when tethering I reach 70mbps

        But using my routers (Zte n Huawei ) with the same SIM card I barely get 11mbps whereas it is stated up to 150mbps

        So I don’t know if my cellular provider slows tethering or whatever
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      161. You didn’t mention 4G LTE Routers as another alternative. I’m not clear if I can get my phone to link to a normal wireless router for a LAN with NAS for video creation, or do I need to buy a 4G router? I’ll be stuck with another $260 for NetGear one with 1Gb Ethernet.
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      162. importantly both solutions still will rely on coverage from the CELL towers where ever you are…
        so thats something to consider.. will the mobile hotspot give you an advantage of picking up a signal in a remote cottage compared to your cell phone?
        which device is better?
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      163. Where looking for a 5G router of some sort when in Thailand on visit but the price on those 5G routers was simply to high for our one and half month visit so we used a locale 5G sim for one our phones, Samsung 20 FE 5G. When the comes that we like to have wifi camera then we look at another and more permanent solution.
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      170. What! No baseball cap or dark glasses? No backdrop of your latest RV or 4×4 Jeep? How refreshing. Enjoyed your presentation for the no squit and informative video that it is. Thank you.
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      172. Thanks for the video. I Hoped to use my mobile phone in my new rented flat, tether it to laptop and TV for Netflix and zoom calls, and a bit of online work, but signal is poor in the building, lots of thick old walls and trees, do you have any advice for a cheap signal booster that I could put on the window sill or something?
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      183. Ok, and how about ping? In the middle of the night I have 70 ping via usb tethering (in CS:GO). During the day, it is twice or sometimes three times longer.
        Will such a router make things better? Thanks and sorry for my english.
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      184. thanks!
        now i will stop using my iphone as a router, it deteriorates the phone’s health and value. I will use a bag from now on for that portable router. i don’t mind the “inconvenience” of it.
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      191. Please, i have a question. Tell me how do we get internet from portable router like tplink750.. I am kinda confused.. Do we need to recharge or connect it somewhere.. Please solve this doubt of mine ????????????
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      196. Don’t get a turbo Hotspot 2. They are junk. Just use your phone as a hotspot. trust me. There are more options with using the phone as hotspot as well. You can figure those out yourself. wink wink…
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      197. So I did an experiment last night for a podcast. We record most of the eps over zoom but I wanted to do mine live from city centre using my generic Android tablet (the podcast is being recorded by my friend a few miles down the road on his laptop) Now using the phone was fine for a normal chat. But as soon as he started sharing his screen or recording the zoom my audio quality and video quality dropped considerably to the point where it was unworkable and they couldn’t make me out. Do you think one of these routers would help with the quality? Or what do you advise in relation to mobile routers?
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      198. One of the things most reviews do not address are items that cannot use WiFi. If you tether your phone to one of these routers, you can hard connect an ethernet into your item that cannot use WiFi. Now, it depends on the router sometimes (because maybe a lack of ethernet port). But, something videos on YouTube rarely talk about.
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      201. Sorry if this is a dumb question.. But… If I put a Sim card in my phone and play games will it be faster if I put that Sim card in a router and connected my phone to the router? Or will the extra step for the data not be worth the bigger antenna of the router? If my question makes sense.
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      203. A lot of talk, but no testing / benchmark = useless.

        Until you actually do the testing or can point to a published benchmark, all the talks are just speculation.

        A dedicated hotspot may in theory have more room for better antenna and a more purposeful design, but I am not sure at all if what you can get on the market are not optimized for providing just enough performance at the lowest cost vs better performance vs a typical smart phone.

        The manufacturing economic of smartphone has such a big advantage in term of scale so even a $99 smartphone like a last year Moto G has a much better processor, 2-4x the amount of RAM, and about the same size of battery as a dedicated hotspot device that I am not at all sure it does not also outperform the hotspot in terms of speed and throughput.
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      210. the problem here is that you would either need another plan, or need to take your sim card out of your phone to use in your mobile router and lose your access to calls on your phone while using it. i cant seem to find any information as to how to tether your phone to a router and use the routers Ethernet ports to connect devices. example: frank has a camp with no internet access but has good cell signal. frank doesn’t want a separate plan to pay for as he only goes to camp twice a year. frank just wants to tether/connect his phone to a router for the internet and let his router do the rest for his wired and wireless connections. i should be able to do this with a USB-C to Ethernet adapter, and connecting to a router in theory but cant seem to find any info. would hate to spend money only to find it doesnt work. any suggestions?
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      211. I’ll be traveling from the US to eastern Europe for a few weeks. I’m looking to get the best possible internet performance on the go and am wondering if I should add a hotspot data plan to my existing AT&T (and possible roaming charges) or go with a local SIM? It’s just for temporary use so I’m leaning towards a local SIM, but curious if there are downsides. I need around 25-30 mbps. Thanks.
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      212. Thanks for the video mate!!

        Exactly what I was after.

        My partner and I run a photography business and send raw images and video data around the world and country on a daily basis. Sometimes 10-50gb or so a day.

        Have been mobile hot-spotting for a while but it’s been painful, been looking at a dedicated 5G router for a while and this answered my questions.

        So thanks a bunch mate!! ????????????????
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