as a travel router, maybe i don’t want a display that a hotel housekeeper, thief or other nontechnical non-owner can conveniently see (and gather info without their own devices) that i should only have access to. 🤔 the beryl slate ax is solid enough. as well as the model before that one.
TBH I wish they’d dump the screen and focus on weight savings. It’s light don’t get me wrong, but as a backpack only traveller, I haven’t yet been able to justify the current weight. Would love to see something closer to 100g.
I want to see if they are improving how these handle captive portals. It feels like hotels and such are constantly making it harder to get these travel routers to work seamlessly.
THIS!!!!! I travel with the Gl.inet Puli AX (as I can 'dock' it at the office on mains power, but travel with it on the battery), but I was staying at the Excalibur in Vegas during the CES show...and MAN ALIVE, even with 5G coverage, the network radio noise was a comedy!
@@tama47_ I've been on hotels where you setup the router. Get the initial captive portal login on one device and get everything running properly. A few minutes later you have no internet on any of your devices. Only thing that fixes it is a full reset of the router. This has become a frequent problem on at least one hotel chain.
Hope it’s better than their GL.iNet GL-A1300. I bought that one and i exchanged it because it kept loosing connections and the second one does the same one.
I remember when you did your Beryl review and commenting / asking when they were going to build in provision to install an NVMe so that we could have a micro-NAS to go. By the way, I did buy a Beryl. And, while I'm on that subject, why does GL.iNet have soooo many routers ? I can't help but wonder if they pared back some of the numbers and upscale the features on those that remain, the economics of it would balance out.
Just connect to an SSD via USB 3.0? I think the USB speed is barely a limiting factor here. The LAN speed and the WiFi speed will cap out before the USB 3.0 speed. Making NVMe useless and adding extra cost.
@@tama47_ Given the range of prices and capabilities of GL iNet's offerings, plus the convenience of an NVMe slot, the extra cost would be negligible to all but the most price conscious cheapskate.
@@DavidM2002 The last point about the price is the least of my concerns in my comment, but okay. What is the benefit of NVMe to you? When your devices, nor the router, can even fully utilize it.
I hope it's better than the Beryl AX, but i suspect they use similar firmware with similar limitations and bugs. I just returned that one because getting VPN to work properly was a nightmare. I tried all the tricks and workarounds i could find (and there are many many people with similar problems), but there is no way you can access your remote home LAN if the ip range is the same as the local network you are connecting from. I ended up using the app on my phone, which made a one click connect and works flawlessly.
Finally someone who does
a good review
i have one of the existing models which runs off of usb power. Totally amazing hardware.
as a travel router, maybe i don’t want a display that a hotel housekeeper, thief or other nontechnical non-owner can conveniently see (and gather info without their own devices) that i should only have access to. 🤔
the beryl slate ax is solid enough. as well as the model before that one.
Tbh, I'd be amazed if there isn't a setting to disable the display. But then again, to be fair, I didn't ask!
TBH I wish they’d dump the screen and focus on weight savings. It’s light don’t get me wrong, but as a backpack only traveller, I haven’t yet been able to justify the current weight.
Would love to see something closer to 100g.
Yeah it's a waste of power too in addition to adding cost/complexity
I want to see if they are improving how these handle captive portals. It feels like hotels and such are constantly making it harder to get these travel routers to work seamlessly.
THIS!!!!! I travel with the Gl.inet Puli AX (as I can 'dock' it at the office on mains power, but travel with it on the battery), but I was staying at the Excalibur in Vegas during the CES show...and MAN ALIVE, even with 5G coverage, the network radio noise was a comedy!
I’ve never had issues with captive portals on the GL.inet, just connect to the router’s Wi-Fi and the captive portals usually show up on my phone.
@@tama47_ I've been on hotels where you setup the router. Get the initial captive portal login on one device and get everything running properly. A few minutes later you have no internet on any of your devices. Only thing that fixes it is a full reset of the router. This has become a frequent problem on at least one hotel chain.
Cant wait for your flint 3 review
Currently using the Beryl AX as a vpn client. Nice, looking forward the new version.
what is the range for these? like square footage?
Anything on the Flint 3? I really want to see some information about it, saw it in you short about the Slate 😁
Id comes wid an internal badderie.
Does it have SIM card?
Hope it’s better than their GL.iNet GL-A1300. I bought that one and i exchanged it because it kept loosing connections and the second one does the same one.
I remember when you did your Beryl review and commenting / asking when they were going to build in provision to install an NVMe so that we could have a micro-NAS to go. By the way, I did buy a Beryl. And, while I'm on that subject, why does GL.iNet have soooo many routers ? I can't help but wonder if they pared back some of the numbers and upscale the features on those that remain, the economics of it would balance out.
Just connect to an SSD via USB 3.0? I think the USB speed is barely a limiting factor here. The LAN speed and the WiFi speed will cap out before the USB 3.0 speed. Making NVMe useless and adding extra cost.
@@tama47_ Given the range of prices and capabilities of GL iNet's offerings, plus the convenience of an NVMe slot, the extra cost would be negligible to all but the most price conscious cheapskate.
@@DavidM2002 The last point about the price is the least of my concerns in my comment, but okay. What is the benefit of NVMe to you? When your devices, nor the router, can even fully utilize it.
@@tama47_I’d say the benefit is not having spinning disks which are prone to failure when traveling.
@@sonarun I was talking about SSDs
I hope it's better than the Beryl AX, but i suspect they use similar firmware with similar limitations and bugs. I just returned that one because getting VPN to work properly was a nightmare. I tried all the tricks and workarounds i could find (and there are many many people with similar problems), but there is no way you can access your remote home LAN if the ip range is the same as the local network you are connecting from. I ended up using the app on my phone, which made a one click connect and works flawlessly.
problem 1gb of memory RAM only ? hm mm
I asked last month if they would do a WiFi 7 slate travel router and they said they would think about it 😂
Well they’ve been thinking about it for a while, from the look of it.
Yea that prototype must have been in development for months before I asked for a black wifi7 version of the Puli 😄
@@princessponee I hope they add a SIM to it
It wouldn't be a proper travel router without one 😄
@@princessponee most likely they will just tell you to tether your phone or buy the crazy expensive $250 5G module. Or they release a new Puli, idk.
As a more stable alternative Mikrotik hAP ax lite or hAP ax lite LTE6
Cant wait to see a dual 10gb wifi 7 router from them
Not in the travel size because of power consumption of 10GB ports
And still no SIM card...
That’ll add $200 to the price
@tama47_ I had a router with a 4G SIM card, and it cost around 150€.
I find a bit hard to believe that the SIM card alone would cost 200€/$...
They already have a model with 5G LTE support, but the cost for that cellular connectivity is higher.