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I carry one of those tiny wireless routers in my carry on wherever I go. If I have to buy internet on the plane or if I am in a hotel that limits the number of

by jjeaff 4y ago

I carry one of those tiny wireless routers in my carry on wherever I go. If I have to buy internet on the plane or if I am in a hotel that limits the number of devices, I always connect through the router and use it as an access point for all the other devices. The other added benefit is that all my other devices already have my AP's wifi creds and will connect to it automatically.

darig 4y ago
t-0 4y ago
I've been thinking about doing somethign similar and am really interested in what hardware you're using for this and what your setup looks like. Do you run a VPN service directly on your router, for example?
- jenrzzz 4y ago
  I use the TP-Link TL-WR902AC for this, it's cheap and has a MAC cloning feature that makes it pretty easy. Unfortunately the firmware isn't updated anymore and it's missing a VPN client, but apart from that it gets the job done.
3np 4y ago
Which one do you use?
- mmmmmbop 4y ago
  Not GP, but I've been using the GL.iNet Beryl (GL-MT1300) and I'm really happy with it.
  - 3np 4y ago
    I've been intending to do the same with their Mudi (E750) and between not feeling comfortable trusting their builds and being unable to get my own working (upstream openwrt has stability issues and I guess they have some patches to make the modems work properly; still haven't been able to get a properly working image from working through their repos yet). It's quite frustrating as it's ideal on paper but they fall on the last mile to make it practically open.
nullify88 4y ago
What do you do when wifi has a captive portal though requiring a user name and password? I use my Samsung S10 for exactly this as it has multiple radios that allows connecting to wifi and hotspotting to share that connection with other devices. Great for Chromecasting.
- SargeDebian 4y ago
  The first device to connect has to go through the captive portal, then the rest doesn’t. Also works well if your 2nd device doesn’t support captive portals (Chromecast, Tesla car).
- 867-5309 4y ago
  you would need a router which supports WISP Repeater mode. some GL.inet products support this
- richiezc 4y ago
  I used just clone the MAC address across my iPhone and laptop and switch between them, so I guess you could use your phone to get through the captive portal and then connect with a travel router that clones the phones MAC address.

by jjeaff 4y ago

darig 4y ago

t-0 4y ago

I've been thinking about doing somethign similar and am really interested in what hardware you're using for this and what your setup looks like. Do you run a VPN service directly on your router, for example?

jenrzzz 4y ago
I use the TP-Link TL-WR902AC for this, it's cheap and has a MAC cloning feature that makes it pretty easy. Unfortunately the firmware isn't updated anymore and it's missing a VPN client, but apart from that it gets the job done.

3np 4y ago

Which one do you use?

mmmmmbop 4y ago
Not GP, but I've been using the GL.iNet Beryl (GL-MT1300) and I'm really happy with it.
- 3np 4y ago
  I've been intending to do the same with their Mudi (E750) and between not feeling comfortable trusting their builds and being unable to get my own working (upstream openwrt has stability issues and I guess they have some patches to make the modems work properly; still haven't been able to get a properly working image from working through their repos yet). It's quite frustrating as it's ideal on paper but they fall on the last mile to make it practically open.

nullify88 4y ago

What do you do when wifi has a captive portal though requiring a user name and password? I use my Samsung S10 for exactly this as it has multiple radios that allows connecting to wifi and hotspotting to share that connection with other devices. Great for Chromecasting.

SargeDebian 4y ago
The first device to connect has to go through the captive portal, then the rest doesn’t. Also works well if your 2nd device doesn’t support captive portals (Chromecast, Tesla car).
867-5309 4y ago
you would need a router which supports WISP Repeater mode. some GL.inet products support this
richiezc 4y ago
I used just clone the MAC address across my iPhone and laptop and switch between them, so I guess you could use your phone to get through the captive portal and then connect with a travel router that clones the phones MAC address.