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not OP but I’m using a GL.iNet travel router. It’s tiny. USB powered so can be plugged to a power bank. It has an Ethernet connection as well, can use your phon

not OP but I’m using a GL.iNet travel router. It’s tiny. USB powered so can be plugged to a power bank. It has an Ethernet connection as well, can use your phone’s tethering as well. Great little gadget for travel.

voltagex_ 4y ago
I found the GL.inet gear underpowered, although I've only used their cheap stuff and finicky re: firmware -the last one had removed OpenWRT luci by default
- 3np 4y ago
  The firmware is a huge mess and it's especially unfortunate that there seems to be some undocumented custom drivers or something else I haven't been able to identify yet which is missing from upstream OpenWRT, making it unusable for certain of their devices. The gl.inet firwmare itself has a lot of missing updates and I am yet to successfully make custom builds of it (though in theory it should be possible through what's on their public Github repos, save for a handful of packages they provide as binary-only). They do not respond to issues or PRs on GitHub. I should have taken better notes on building a firmware but I think what eventually allowed me to replicate and make custom build was to just build as if a normal openwrt dist from https://github.com/gl-inet/openwrt https://github.com/gl-inet/openwrt with a fork of https://github.com/gl-inet/gli-pub https://github.com/gl-inet/gli-pub. Ended up ditching their custom hacky wireguard/tor functionality and mostly treating it as an openwrt dist. Still stuck on a fork of the custom 19.07 (4.x kernel) for E750 (despite my efforts to bring it to 21.02). MT1300 doesn't seem to have had any issues on vanilla openwrt 21.02, though. The mwan3 stuff can be worth keeping and extending on using the uci module, though. It really is a shame as there are so many great things with the E750 and it has potential to be the perfect travel router. If there is anyone else who wants to take this to the next level, I could be down for making this ore structured and collaborate on making a more open, accessible, secure and hackable dist either just for the E750 or glinet in general.

voltagex_ 4y ago

I found the GL.inet gear underpowered, although I've only used their cheap stuff and finicky re: firmware -the last one had removed OpenWRT luci by default

3np 4y ago
The firmware is a huge mess and it's especially unfortunate that there seems to be some undocumented custom drivers or something else I haven't been able to identify yet which is missing from upstream OpenWRT, making it unusable for certain of their devices. The gl.inet firwmare itself has a lot of missing updates and I am yet to successfully make custom builds of it (though in theory it should be possible through what's on their public Github repos, save for a handful of packages they provide as binary-only). They do not respond to issues or PRs on GitHub. I should have taken better notes on building a firmware but I think what eventually allowed me to replicate and make custom build was to just build as if a normal openwrt dist from https://github.com/gl-inet/openwrt https://github.com/gl-inet/openwrt with a fork of https://github.com/gl-inet/gli-pub https://github.com/gl-inet/gli-pub. Ended up ditching their custom hacky wireguard/tor functionality and mostly treating it as an openwrt dist. Still stuck on a fork of the custom 19.07 (4.x kernel) for E750 (despite my efforts to bring it to 21.02). MT1300 doesn't seem to have had any issues on vanilla openwrt 21.02, though. The mwan3 stuff can be worth keeping and extending on using the uci module, though. It really is a shame as there are so many great things with the E750 and it has potential to be the perfect travel router. If there is anyone else who wants to take this to the next level, I could be down for making this ore structured and collaborate on making a more open, accessible, secure and hackable dist either just for the E750 or glinet in general.