You NEED this if you use public WiFi - GL-iNet Slate Plus 

For me it was mainly because of the price. The Plus was on sale for $70 and it was a great bang for the buck when it came to performance for the buck. The Beryl AX wasn’t out at the time but I do like having the extra Ethernet port compared to the Beryl AX.

They have a separate kind that includes battery. I prefer this because it keeps it compact, and you can run it off the same battery that you can use to charge other devices.

Thanks for checking out the video! These definitely pack a lot of features that punch above its weight class!

Thank you for checking out the video!

Lmao! My family always makes fun of me for that! Ordinary people will never understand 🤜

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Yup it works with portable battery bank. I don’t think being solar changes anything. Btw I’m also a canadian (living in Texas for over a decade now). Grew up in Toronto!

I can assure you that the USB ports of any laptop is sufficient to power the router.

The next time I’m at a location with a captive portal, I’ll take some screen recordings for a future video. Thanks for checking out the video.

I am looking for the same guide.

I'd love to know more about this too

You don’t need a secondary radio. It can already do that. You can use wifi to connect to hotel wifi and also use wifi to connect your devices to this router. I believe it splits up the 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands to do that.

It is only safe and secure if you pair it with a VPN connection. You don’t need to necessarily pay for a VPN service. You can also host the VPN service at your home. That way all your Internet traffic will route through your home. There’s many videos online on how to set up your own VPN service at home.

Nope. The settings remain on the router itself. Not dependent on the computer.

Well that is what I thought but it is not connecting. I installed it using wifi but I was told it is best to use ethernet because the connection is more secure. On the second laptop I tried to do the ethernet way. I would need to connect the regular home router to the slate and then I should be able to pick up signal right or do I also need a ethernet cord going to laptop.

I honestly think the Slate Plus is the best bang for the buck currently on Amazon. I if money is not an issue, go with the Slate AX

Does Slate Plus handle EAP like Slate AX? Beryl AX does not

Yup Slate plus does handle EAP.

The Opal can do everything this router can do (just slower). And yes you can use the opal to connect to VPN to hide locations abroad assuming that you either subscribe to a VPN service (like NordVPN) or you have your own VPN server at home. However, if your work devices use GPS data (I.e. on a mobile phone) then this device won’t help you mask your location.

It has WAN failover and load balancing. The only caveat is that your source has to be different. Like you can’t use two Ethernet ports. You can use one Ethernet internet source and one mobile hotspot source and have one be the backup if the primary source goes down.

I have not seen any noticeable performance difference. Keep in mind hotel wifi and public wifi tend to be slower in the first place so this likely won’t bottleneck anything.

@@TechTalkwithSamir thanks!

Yup. You sure can. It’s all in the firewall settings.

Yes this one is higher end compared to the Beryl. This one is the second highest end one they offer. The best is the Slate AX.

@@TechTalkwithSamir thank you!! Subscribed

@TechTalkwithSamir would be great if you can do a tutorial on the functions and adding vpn clients etc

Thank you. I appreciate the support.

@TechTalkwithSamir samir, could you explain how to connect a USB 4g dongle modem to the slate and if any settings needs to be changed... I can't find any video on this... I want to connect a USB dongle to use as the Internet source.

I’ve accessed it using my mobile and iPad. However, some parts of the UI is a little weird on a touch device but definitely functional.

@@TechTalkwithSamir awesome , thank you.

@@TheRike3680 There is an app for GL Inet where you can access settings etc. on the router.

Yup you sure can use your hotspot box. I’m not sure if it will connect via USB but at the very least you can have the travel router connect to your hotspot using wifi and then turn on the VPN to route your traffic through your home internet.

@@TechTalkwithSamir awesome thank you 🙏

Yup you sure can.

Some home routers have Wireguard built into them. Some ASUS routers have Wireguard built in as a client or server. I can connect my travel router as a client to my ASUS router as a server and be secure. However i use my Firewalla devices to run vpn connections so the travel router can just focus on the routing only.

Yup pretty much!!

how did it go for you? Did your employer find out?

@@peterhuang1431 i actually never used it haha

I don’t see why not. But I personally have not used it on a cruise ship.

I will give it a test in June.

It’s pretty straight forward to setup. I did make another video on my channel that shows step by step on how to configure Wireguard VPN on this router (assuming you have a Wireguard server).

@@TechTalkwithSamir Thank you for the video, and for responding. I am having a terrible tyime trying to connect by tethering (android), or accessing the I.P. address. When in do, its super slow to open, then I cant request my connectiong. Also, the router just has a flashing light on the front.

Flashing light typically means it hasn’t yet established an internet connection (which can be normal when you’re first setting it up without an Ethernet cable plugged in to the WAN port). I recommend connecting a laptop to one of the lan ports and going to 192.168.8.1 from there when trying to configure it. The issue with trying to do it using wifi is that your device might default to another wifi connection while the router is rebooting. As a result, even after the reboot, your device might not be connecting back to the wifi of this router (especially if there’s other wifi connections in the range that you’ve previously connected to). As for tethering with android, I personally only have iOS devices so I haven’t tried android. Maybe someone else in the comments can provide more details about android tethering with this router.

@@TechTalkwithSamir I'm having a very difficult time connecting to the IP. I'll give it a shot per your explanation and see what happens. I think I got one that doesnt work, to be honest. Everything i have tried from multiple sources isnt working. I also havent seen anywhere that said to hook to ethernet while doing the setup. I'll keep you posted. Until then, have a great week

Found it needed a Firmeware upgrade, as well as the info on connecting to it with a phone needs to be updated. Its working now. I do appreciate your help, thanks

If you read the entire thread, there is ONE guy, with unknown motives, claiming that the firmware 'phones home' to a web address owned (he says) by the People's Liberation Army. No one has been able to reproduce his results, and the thread has been heavily moderated due to being accusatory and borderline off-topic. After basically saying, "put up or shut up", the mods let the thread time out and expire. One seemingly paranoid netizen does not a conspiracy make... FWIW, I would call attention to the many buggy products that gl-iNet has released. It's almost a given that a user will need to perform a firmware upgrade right out of the box, especially on the lower-end products. My original Slate died an unceremonious death after following their instructions to backup settings when moving from 3.x to 4.x firmware, and then trying to restore them. I needed something quick to replace it, and bought the SFT-1200 Opal. It was buggy from the start, and there was no 3.x firmware upgrade. In the end, I had to download a beta 4.x and manually flash it. It now works, sort of... None of this is a big deal to me, as an engineer, but to an end-user without much technical interest, it might be a show-stopper. The Slate is a good router, especially at that price point, but I would stay away from the lower-end models. Just my 2¢.

Plz can you make a video how can I connect to my home network while I'm out?

You need a vpn server at home. I have a UniFi system at home and my gateway has a built in functionality for Wireguard server. Alternatively you can setup a Wireguard server using Linux or Raspberry Pi using Pi VPN. There are lots of tutorials online about how to do that. I may make something in the future.

@TechTalk with Samir have all of them but don't know to do that

@@TechTalkwithSamir I just got one using your affiliated link. I have a UniFi SE network setup at my house and would like do the same as you. If you have time, please make a video on how to. Thanks for your time and support.

Sounds good. I’ll work on a video to show how I setup Wireguard VPN on my UDM-SE and set it up on the GL-iNet router.

This was just a high level overview of the device. I did make another video on how to setup Wireguard VPN with it.

Is that the only thing you have to pay for?

Not if you have a vpn server like Wireguard at home. For instance some home routers support Wireguard as an option as a server. You just create the Wireguard configuration file from your home router and import it to the travel router and you are all set and that is free to do.

A good vpn is cheap no stress

How is that a problem? I would never want or use a free vpn. You couldn't even pay me.

Then you should know how to make one with a raspberry pi 4

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