One advantage of a travel router, to me, is convenience. It's pretty great to have my own (portable!) LAN while out and about. I just show up at the hotel and

One advantage of a travel router, to me, is convenience. It's pretty great to have my own (portable!) LAN while out and about. I just show up at the hotel and get my router online. After configuring that singular device, my other stuff all works together: My Chromecast, my laptop, my smart speaker, whatever gaming system I may have, some ESP32 project or other that I've been tinkering with, or whatever -- I just turn stuff on and it simply works. With a travel router that additionally uses VPN to tie my travel LAN to my home LAN, then: Whatever other network services I have at home are also available to me on the road. It can be very transparent. And that all conspires to mean that I can spend more time doing whatever it is that I feel like doing instead of futzing around with networking.