GL.iNet GL-BE3600 (Slate 7) Portable Travel Router, Pocket-Sized Dual-band Wi-Fi 7 Travel Gigabit Router, OpenVPN & Wireguard for Public & Hotel Wi-Fi Use, Suitable for Business/Cruise/RV/Plane/Hotel

Great router, gonna be an incredible addition to my travel kit

The Slate 7 is my first travel router but GL.iNet have been on my radar for a while due to their numerous offerings, which have a strong following and high reviews. Being new to them I will say that it's been a bit of a game changer in regards to my hotel travels and from now on has become an essential for future trips.To put it simply, trawl for Google and you'll find numerous guides on how to set it up. Whilst daunting and seemingly 'techy', it's really just follow the steps so don't be too frightened. What you're really gonna want this for is to share 1 hotel wifi input, and output your own private network which your devices will then connect to instead of the hotel's. Why you may ask? This is mainly security (being in control of your own network and being able to run a VPN on all of your network traffic), but it also has the extremely useful case of splitting 1 paid connection to 1 device, to numerous devices at no extra charge. The other use case is enabling devices that struggle with pop up pages with public wifi like Fire Sticks.Once setup correctly, this enables it all, and does so like any WiFi network you've ever used before would. It can be left on the entire time with no issues and has no trouble passing through the internet speed that is input into it. Range is also never a problem - hotel rooms are tiny compared to its capabilities and whilst it has support for 120+ devices, realistically again this is going to be overkill. I also want to highlight how thrilled I am that its main power source is a bog standard USB C - no rubbish proprietary port and additional cables to pack, so in a pinch you can source a replacement cable/plug anywhere.Overall highly recommended to anyone travelling to hotels - as long as you're confident in following guides and troubleshooting initial teething problems

Arrived as described, as pictured, safe and sound. Build quality wise its pretty special, it has a dense plastic housing finished in a mat grey which gives it a slate look (hence the name) and you also get a nice LCD display which can be configured to give anything from traffic info to the time and date, it’s a novelty but a nice feature nevertheless. It looks and feels like a quality piece of kit - its quite a heavy item also.Function wise it has you covered with router, extender and access point modes, my own experiences with the device I have used this as my main router serving the entire house, covering half of the house’s wifi requirements as well as Ethernet connectivity (with the aid of a switch) to other access points and wired devices all over the property – all in around 25 devices. This came in quite handy actually as my existing router failed and with this taking its place for the last couple of weeks – it’s been rock solid.Performance wise I can’t really knock it at all, it works exceptionally well for such a small device, gives me near enough every megabit of my internet connection over Ethernet and not far off over over 5Ghz wifi either, I’ve been quite impressed with this to the point I will likely leave this in place as my main router.Configuration is done via a browser and has to be one the most well laid out setup pages I’ve used to date, its simple, clearly laid out and everything is fully configurable, you also have pre-set modes for functions such as access point and extender modes. You do have a cluster of Apps built in that cater for things like VPN’s, parental controls and an ad guard App which is supposed to pretty good when it comes to blocking ads and trackers – I’ve not tried any of these thus far.In the box you get a USB C to C cable, USB power supply with an assortment of plug adapters and a short Ethernet cable.Mild criticisms:For a travel router this is quite a heavy device, its also quite power hungry, you’ll need a decent PD/QC enabled power bank to run this reliably if you have no access to mains power, it will run from a standard 5v USB power supply/power bank but you’ll need something that can deliver at least 1.5 amps continuously.Highly recommended.

The GL.iNet GL-BE3600 (Slate 7) Portable Travel Router arrived the next day.The Travel Router was well packed and came with ethernet cable/USB power cable and instructions.I found the travel router to be well made and was a compact size which made it very portable with the fact it can be powered by USB from the mains or any battery source.There was 2 Ethernet confections one for in and 1 for out/1 USB C power in and 1 USB A slot as well as 2 flip up side aerials .There is a touch screen on the front of the router where you can put in the settings /scan QR codes monitor speed in real time, switch VPN on/off, and switch providers /do updates etc.It will provide a wifi hotspot devices if needed which supports WPA3 protocol as well as lots of other settings as well as VPN settings.It has a dual band network with wireless speeds of 688Mbps and 2882Mbps and there is about 30 service providers on the system if neededWe found it was easy to connect as a hotspot and provided a good connection away from the main router giving you a good speed with WiFi 7 if your devices take WiFi 7 or it will still work well if your devices work on WiFi 5/6 as some of our older computers did, overall we are pleased with this small portable router for how well it works and how useful we think it will be to us.