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I have this and used it on a 2 month trip through china. I had it auto connect to my wireguard VPN at home and sometimes to mullvad. It worked great for my uses and had excellent throughput. I ran it off a 5 port charger I had and it didn't have an issue and could tell it to connect to the hotel/train wifi's and sometimes my hotspot. I had it set to encrypt my connection before allowing internet traffic through so I'd not have any problems with the stupid great firewall.
It doesn't have 5G onboard, you get it through a tethered device. This seems very similar to the Beryl AX, down to the WireGuard and OpenVPN speeds, though the Beryl AX is cheaper, has a 2.5G WAN port.
Love how you assume everything about a person for a single comment as you have literally no idea why I was using a VPN or anything so whatever floats your boat son.. It literally matters not that they know or don't know it was wireguard. I used it for a purpose and it served that purpose. Yes I also had an esim from 3HK but guess what? That esim isn't going to let me push hundreds of gigs to google photos and everything else I was doing. Would you like to actually comment about the deal or just bash people?
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I have this and used it on a 2 month trip through china. I had it auto connect to my wireguard VPN at home and sometimes to mullvad. It worked great for my uses and had excellent throughput. I ran it off a 5 port charger I had and it didn't have an issue and could tell it to connect to the hotel/train wifi's and sometimes my hotspot. I had it set to encrypt my connection before allowing internet traffic through so I'd not have any problems with the stupid great firewall.
you knows just about nothing about the firewall, or IP network.
they don't have to decrypt the traffic to know it is a VPN connection... in fact, it is freaking obvious it is a VPN connection going to your server if you do openVPN or wireguard. they just decide not to block it since you server at home isn't big enough for them to register. the act of adding encryption isn't what made your connection possible. unless you do some fancy stuff like shadowsocks or shadowsocksR (SS/SSR), V2ray, Clash. those disguise your connection using HTTP/HTTPS/SSH ports, and you are utilizing a large pool of cloud sever providers as your connection points.
that said, if going over the firewall is all you want to do, keep in mind that just about anyone can get extremely cheap eSIM data that allows you to browse anything you want, and if you want to enhance privacy by adding IPsec, sure. but that IPsec isn't what allows you to go through the firewall. that's why if you use a US cell carrier that has foreign data plan, even if you are in China, your data is not subjected to firewall blockage, even if it is from the same domestic cellular provider (china unicome, china mobile).
i think the last i check was like 12 dollars for a 15G data, and 30 dollar for unlimited monthly data. just got a phone that accepts esim and run whatever vpn you want there. i have a travel router, but i felt for your use case, you better off with a cellphone that takes eSIM.
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you knows just about nothing about the firewall, or IP network.
they don't have to decrypt the traffic to know it is a VPN connection... in fact, it is freaking obvious it is a VPN connection going to your server if you do openVPN or wireguard. they just decide not to block it since you server at home isn't big enough for them to register. the act of adding encryption isn't what made your connection possible. unless you do some fancy stuff like shadowsocks or shadowsocksR (SS/SSR), V2ray, Clash. those disguise your connection using HTTP/HTTPS/SSH ports, and you are utilizing a large pool of cloud sever providers as your connection points.
that said, if going over the firewall is all you want to do, keep in mind that just about anyone can get extremely cheap eSIM data that allows you to browse anything you want, and if you want to enhance privacy by adding IPsec, sure. but that IPsec isn't what allows you to go through the firewall. that's why if you use a US cell carrier that has foreign data plan, even if you are in China, your data is not subjected to firewall blockage, even if it is from the same domestic cellular provider (china unicome, china mobile).
i think the last i check was like 12 dollars for a 15G data, and 30 dollar for unlimited monthly data. just got a phone that accepts esim and run whatever vpn you want there. i have a travel router, but i felt for your use case, you better off with a cellphone that takes eSIM.
Love how you assume everything about a person for a single comment as you have literally no idea why I was using a VPN or anything so whatever floats your boat son.. It literally matters not that they know or don't know it was wireguard. I used it for a purpose and it served that purpose. Yes I also had an esim from 3HK but guess what? That esim isn't going to let me push hundreds of gigs to google photos and everything else I was doing. Would you like to actually comment about the deal or just bash people?
Last edited by Jerky_san September 4, 2024 at 01:08 PM.
you knows just about nothing about the firewall, or IP network.
they don't have to decrypt the traffic to know it is a VPN connection... in fact, it is freaking obvious it is a VPN connection going to your server if you do openVPN or wireguard. they just decide not to block it since you server at home isn't big enough for them to register. the act of adding encryption isn't what made your connection possible. unless you do some fancy stuff like shadowsocks or shadowsocksR (SS/SSR), V2ray, Clash. those disguise your connection using HTTP/HTTPS/SSH ports, and you are utilizing a large pool of cloud sever providers as your connection points.
that said, if going over the firewall is all you want to do, keep in mind that just about anyone can get extremely cheap eSIM data that allows you to browse anything you want, and if you want to enhance privacy by adding IPsec, sure. but that IPsec isn't what allows you to go through the firewall. that's why if you use a US cell carrier that has foreign data plan, even if you are in China, your data is not subjected to firewall blockage, even if it is from the same domestic cellular provider (china unicome, china mobile).
i think the last i check was like 12 dollars for a 15G data, and 30 dollar for unlimited monthly data. just got a phone that accepts esim and run whatever vpn you want there. i have a travel router, but i felt for your use case, you better off with a cellphone that takes eSIM.
Interesting alternative with eSIM. Are you taking about adding international data to T-Mobile/ATT/Verizon (or its MVNOs) or a data only eSIM app ie Airlo
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I'm a bit lost, can anyone help explain what these are mostly used for? For example, what would be the advantage of this over connecting directly to a (for example) hotel wifi and just using the VPN connection on your laptop/phone?
Easier to set up all your devices to connect to your travel router and only have to set up the hotel Internet connection once through the router.
Logging into a captive portal, especially if you need to reauthenticate every 24 hours, gets real old if you travel with more that 1 device. it's also a real pain on devices like a Roku or fire stick or gaming devices.
I'm only on the road about 4-5 one week trips a year, but adding a mobile router to my setup was a game changer in ease of getting setup/settled and managing connectivity.
I have a GL.iNet GL-AR750S-Ext (Slate). Is the asus better?
Yes. I believe Slate is EOL and the performance is as you'd expect for a device that's 5+ years old. (I have two of the same one.) Slower wifi, and slower VPN performance.
But those are differences where any new GL.Inet would be an improvement over your Slate. This Asus has the additional benefit that it's part of the normal Asus ecosystem so if you have an Asus primary router, you could use this as an AiMesh node at home, but then detach it to come on the road with you when you travel. This has identical hardware to the Beryl AX.
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Is this something that can be used if you work from home, to hide/mask that you are traveling with the work laptop and the laptop will still have the home IP?
Or am I in the wrong place?
Is this something that can be used if you work from home, to hide/mask that you are traveling with the work laptop and the laptop will still have the home IP?
Or am I in the wrong place?
if you set up an openvpn server on your home router and use this to vpn into it...then yes...
Please don't blast a luddite but how would one do that? Thanks!
You can install OpenWRT on a Raspberry Pi.
Most Android phones have hotspot capability built in. More advanced routing capabilities can be achieved if the device can be rooted, but a VPN or adblock needs an app at most.
Last edited by wherestheanykey September 5, 2024 at 02:10 AM.
I am new to this. Can someone explain to me why I would want this when traveling and staying at a hotel? Could I use this vs buying internet access at the hotel? Do I just tether my phone's data to run through this? Can I then access my WiFi devices such as multiple iPads via this connection? Trying to figure out the benefits and if it's something that would be useful to me. TIA
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Would want OpenWRT if possible.
they don't have to decrypt the traffic to know it is a VPN connection... in fact, it is freaking obvious it is a VPN connection going to your server if you do openVPN or wireguard. they just decide not to block it since you server at home isn't big enough for them to register. the act of adding encryption isn't what made your connection possible. unless you do some fancy stuff like shadowsocks or shadowsocksR (SS/SSR), V2ray, Clash. those disguise your connection using HTTP/HTTPS/SSH ports, and you are utilizing a large pool of cloud sever providers as your connection points.
that said, if going over the firewall is all you want to do, keep in mind that just about anyone can get extremely cheap eSIM data that allows you to browse anything you want, and if you want to enhance privacy by adding IPsec, sure. but that IPsec isn't what allows you to go through the firewall. that's why if you use a US cell carrier that has foreign data plan, even if you are in China, your data is not subjected to firewall blockage, even if it is from the same domestic cellular provider (china unicome, china mobile).
i think the last i check was like 12 dollars for a 15G data, and 30 dollar for unlimited monthly data. just got a phone that accepts esim and run whatever vpn you want there. i have a travel router, but i felt for your use case, you better off with a cellphone that takes eSIM.
they don't have to decrypt the traffic to know it is a VPN connection... in fact, it is freaking obvious it is a VPN connection going to your server if you do openVPN or wireguard. they just decide not to block it since you server at home isn't big enough for them to register. the act of adding encryption isn't what made your connection possible. unless you do some fancy stuff like shadowsocks or shadowsocksR (SS/SSR), V2ray, Clash. those disguise your connection using HTTP/HTTPS/SSH ports, and you are utilizing a large pool of cloud sever providers as your connection points.
that said, if going over the firewall is all you want to do, keep in mind that just about anyone can get extremely cheap eSIM data that allows you to browse anything you want, and if you want to enhance privacy by adding IPsec, sure. but that IPsec isn't what allows you to go through the firewall. that's why if you use a US cell carrier that has foreign data plan, even if you are in China, your data is not subjected to firewall blockage, even if it is from the same domestic cellular provider (china unicome, china mobile).
i think the last i check was like 12 dollars for a 15G data, and 30 dollar for unlimited monthly data. just got a phone that accepts esim and run whatever vpn you want there. i have a travel router, but i felt for your use case, you better off with a cellphone that takes eSIM.
they don't have to decrypt the traffic to know it is a VPN connection... in fact, it is freaking obvious it is a VPN connection going to your server if you do openVPN or wireguard. they just decide not to block it since you server at home isn't big enough for them to register. the act of adding encryption isn't what made your connection possible. unless you do some fancy stuff like shadowsocks or shadowsocksR (SS/SSR), V2ray, Clash. those disguise your connection using HTTP/HTTPS/SSH ports, and you are utilizing a large pool of cloud sever providers as your connection points.
that said, if going over the firewall is all you want to do, keep in mind that just about anyone can get extremely cheap eSIM data that allows you to browse anything you want, and if you want to enhance privacy by adding IPsec, sure. but that IPsec isn't what allows you to go through the firewall. that's why if you use a US cell carrier that has foreign data plan, even if you are in China, your data is not subjected to firewall blockage, even if it is from the same domestic cellular provider (china unicome, china mobile).
i think the last i check was like 12 dollars for a 15G data, and 30 dollar for unlimited monthly data. just got a phone that accepts esim and run whatever vpn you want there. i have a travel router, but i felt for your use case, you better off with a cellphone that takes eSIM.
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Logging into a captive portal, especially if you need to reauthenticate every 24 hours, gets real old if you travel with more that 1 device. it's also a real pain on devices like a Roku or fire stick or gaming devices.
I'm only on the road about 4-5 one week trips a year, but adding a mobile router to my setup was a game changer in ease of getting setup/settled and managing connectivity.
But those are differences where any new GL.Inet would be an improvement over your Slate. This Asus has the additional benefit that it's part of the normal Asus ecosystem so if you have an Asus primary router, you could use this as an AiMesh node at home, but then detach it to come on the road with you when you travel. This has identical hardware to the Beryl AX.
Or am I in the wrong place?
Or am I in the wrong place?
Most Android phones have hotspot capability built in. More advanced routing capabilities can be achieved if the device can be rooted, but a VPN or adblock needs an app at most.
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