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I use the GL.inet Shadow and have been happy with it. If you want 5Ghz and don’t mind that it’s a little larger (still small), I’d consider the Slate. It supports the latest version of OpenWRT. https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-ar750s
They include a custom GUI on top of OpenWRT, which I like. But LuCI is still there.
I have a slate (705S) and I love it. I have a wireguard server set up on an RPi at home and when I travel I plug in the slate, connect it to the hotel wifi (or Ethernet if I can), and flip the switch to turn on the VPN. All my traffic goes through my home connection, and I can still access my internal services.
I've even used it to save the day when an AirB&B's wifi was too weak for the living room smart tv to connect when the family wanted to watch a movie.
I'm also currently exploring options for travel routers and am particularly interested in their interaction with captive portals.
My main question is: Are there any travel routers out there that offer the ability to automatically log into captive portals? This feature would be incredibly convenient for frequent travelers like me, eliminating the need to manually enter credentials each time.
Additionally, I'm curious if there are any plugins or software modifications that can be added to existing travel routers to enable this functionality. If anyone has experience with setting up a travel router to automatically handle captive portals, your insights would be highly valuable.
I bought the GL-AR750S a while ago and kept it stock. It's a customized version of OpenWrt with an "advanced mode" that lets you get into what I believe is just the regular wrt configuration portal.
I didn't have anything that the router couldn't do from VPN to repeating to spoofing Mac to get through cafe-style portals at hotels.
Looking at their website, it looks like their newer models still use wrt https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/start.
As others has pointed out, I'm using the GL.inet 750s (slate), I'm in a hotel right now using it! I got mine several years ago and I'm not sure how easy they can be found now. Like you pointed out, I wanted to run stock openWRT on it, it wasn't available when I first bought it, but now it is a supported device. It's nice, I keep two backups, one for wired ethernet (when the hotel has it) and the other is for wifi where I connect the 2.4 radio in client mode to the hotel internet and the 5ghz radio in master mode as an AP and bridge the ethernet ports. It works well, but it does have a micro USB for power.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| AP | WiFi Access Point |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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