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The router/modern is battery powered or it will run continuously off a USB charger. The one I'm using currently is a Vodafone (Huawei) R216. Here are the specs:

The router/modern is battery powered or it will run continuously off a USB charger. The one I'm using currently is a Vodafone (Huawei) R216. Here are the specs: https://wirelessgear.com.au/vodafone-pocket-wifi-4g-r216-modem/ https://wirelessgear.com.au/vodafone-pocket-wifi-4g-r216-mod.... That link is the first one I found, if it doesn't work for you just search the modem's model number. The R216 lasts for at least 6 hours on battery, often much longer (and the battery is removable, so you can have spares to extended its operational life). Whilst this modem is principally an ISP one (Vodafone) it comes unlocked. I note that that link says it's locked but it's likely not - as most assume ISP-supplied stuff is but to be sure you'd better check that's so where you are. Also, if you aren't using a Vodafone SIM then first just check that it works even if it's guaranteed unlocked (some other SIMs may need setting up). If the R216 isn't available or its locked in your country - or you have that common aversion to using Huawei equipment - then there are several other brands that are essentially equivalent. If you want the details I'll provide them. Note this is a real router/modem and it'll run up to five smartphones/PCs at a time (which can be very handy). Some others that are a little more expensive can connect 10 devices to each other by their WiFi LAN and or to the SIM's mobile network. Also the R216 will take a micro SD card (one's mobile NAS so to speak :-)). Given its small size size and usefulness I'd never be without one (I've three of this model and several earlier types).

Iolaum 5y ago
Regarding a portable router - I wonder what you think about that one? https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e750/#specs https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e750/#specs It's about double the price, based on openWRT (but not fully open source).
- hilbert42 5y ago
  That Mudi GL.iNet router/modem combination seems a very substantial device with excellent specs. I've not seen it previously (but I've not been looking of late either), with specs like that I'd certainly consider it when deciding my next purchase. Here, it seems to me the key issue of whether to buy that one in preference to, say, a somewhat lesser model with fewer features will depend on how you use it. Right, that's stating the damn obvious but from experience I've found it's very important when it comes to mobile stuff, all too often I (and others) have glanced over this important portability factor. If your intended use is to, say, carry it in your luggage and only use it after you arrive in your hotel or conference room then I'd reckon there'd be nothing better than to buy the Mudi GL.iNet device. On the other hand, if you intend to use it like I use my Huawei R216 router/modem, that being as part of my kit to replace a normal default-type Android phone (as per my previous posts to 1tSlEv and 1vuio0pswjnm7), then a physically smaller device would seem preferable. As mentioned, carrying around three devices instead of a single smartphone is rather inconvenient in that there's more bulk to carry around, also there's more chance of losing one of the devices. I'm pretty adept at doing so now but when I first started some years back I'd sometimes only take the smart and dumb phones and forget the router/modem—thus I'd have phone access but no internet (right, being Don Quixote and always tilting at windmills isn't necessarily the easiest way to run one's life) :-) My 'combo phone' isn't the only stuff that I carry around, it has to share my pockets with other junk like screwdrivers, pliers, thumbdrives, multimeters, etc. so physical size is major consideration. From the specs, I've noticed the size of the Mudi GL.iNet router/modem is 145 x 77.5 x 23.5mm and weighs 285 grams; by contrast, my R216 is 95 x 58 x 11mm and weighs only 77 grams. Thus my R216 is only about 22.9% the volume of the Mudi unit and weighs just a nudge over a quarter of its weight. This difference is very significant if one is trying to carry it in, say, one's jeans' pocket along with both a dumb and smart phone. This brings me to one of my pet peeves; that being the ongoing and progressive decrease in the depth of men's trouser pockets over recent decades. This is no joke or trivial matter; I lost an almost brand new HTC smartphone after going to a concert and sitting in laidback seating, it just slid out of my pocket without me noticing its loss, by the time I had then it was too late. If I were a conspiracy theorist rather than someone who understands that such negative occurrences are 95% the consequence of fuckups then I'd believe there was a conspiracy between phone and clothes manufactures to sell more phones! I cannot understand why the average guy isn't up in arms over the continual withering of his pockets; after all, surely the cost of extra cloth necessary to correct the problem would hardly be measurable in the overall schema of things (BTW, this pocket problem even extends to coveralls/overalls). Anyway, as someone who's been sartorially challenged from birth, I've largely overcome the problem by ignoring fashion altogether and taken to wearing ex-military BDs or equivalent cargo pants. Penny-pinching accountants haven't yet sufficiently infiltrated their manufacturing to have made much difference. The upshot of this is that I keep the smartphone in one of my trousers side pockets and the dumb phone in the other whilst the R216 router/modem I put into one of my shirt pockets. The caveat here is that it's important to have shirts whose front pockets can be buttoned or zipped up to stop the device falling out whenever one leans over. Given the average size of shirt pockets—and they too have been shrinking in recent years—then there's no way the Mudi GL.iNet router/modem would fit in them.

Iolaum 5y ago

Regarding a portable router - I wonder what you think about that one? https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e750/#specs https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-e750/#specs It's about double the price, based on openWRT (but not fully open source).

hilbert42 5y ago
That Mudi GL.iNet router/modem combination seems a very substantial device with excellent specs. I've not seen it previously (but I've not been looking of late either), with specs like that I'd certainly consider it when deciding my next purchase. Here, it seems to me the key issue of whether to buy that one in preference to, say, a somewhat lesser model with fewer features will depend on how you use it. Right, that's stating the damn obvious but from experience I've found it's very important when it comes to mobile stuff, all too often I (and others) have glanced over this important portability factor. If your intended use is to, say, carry it in your luggage and only use it after you arrive in your hotel or conference room then I'd reckon there'd be nothing better than to buy the Mudi GL.iNet device. On the other hand, if you intend to use it like I use my Huawei R216 router/modem, that being as part of my kit to replace a normal default-type Android phone (as per my previous posts to 1tSlEv and 1vuio0pswjnm7), then a physically smaller device would seem preferable. As mentioned, carrying around three devices instead of a single smartphone is rather inconvenient in that there's more bulk to carry around, also there's more chance of losing one of the devices. I'm pretty adept at doing so now but when I first started some years back I'd sometimes only take the smart and dumb phones and forget the router/modem—thus I'd have phone access but no internet (right, being Don Quixote and always tilting at windmills isn't necessarily the easiest way to run one's life) :-) My 'combo phone' isn't the only stuff that I carry around, it has to share my pockets with other junk like screwdrivers, pliers, thumbdrives, multimeters, etc. so physical size is major consideration. From the specs, I've noticed the size of the Mudi GL.iNet router/modem is 145 x 77.5 x 23.5mm and weighs 285 grams; by contrast, my R216 is 95 x 58 x 11mm and weighs only 77 grams. Thus my R216 is only about 22.9% the volume of the Mudi unit and weighs just a nudge over a quarter of its weight. This difference is very significant if one is trying to carry it in, say, one's jeans' pocket along with both a dumb and smart phone. This brings me to one of my pet peeves; that being the ongoing and progressive decrease in the depth of men's trouser pockets over recent decades. This is no joke or trivial matter; I lost an almost brand new HTC smartphone after going to a concert and sitting in laidback seating, it just slid out of my pocket without me noticing its loss, by the time I had then it was too late. If I were a conspiracy theorist rather than someone who understands that such negative occurrences are 95% the consequence of fuckups then I'd believe there was a conspiracy between phone and clothes manufactures to sell more phones! I cannot understand why the average guy isn't up in arms over the continual withering of his pockets; after all, surely the cost of extra cloth necessary to correct the problem would hardly be measurable in the overall schema of things (BTW, this pocket problem even extends to coveralls/overalls). Anyway, as someone who's been sartorially challenged from birth, I've largely overcome the problem by ignoring fashion altogether and taken to wearing ex-military BDs or equivalent cargo pants. Penny-pinching accountants haven't yet sufficiently infiltrated their manufacturing to have made much difference. The upshot of this is that I keep the smartphone in one of my trousers side pockets and the dumb phone in the other whilst the R216 router/modem I put into one of my shirt pockets. The caveat here is that it's important to have shirts whose front pockets can be buttoned or zipped up to stop the device falling out whenever one leans over. Given the average size of shirt pockets—and they too have been shrinking in recent years—then there's no way the Mudi GL.iNet router/modem would fit in them.