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Review on 🌐 GL.iNet GL-AR150 White Mini VPN Travel Router: Wi-Fi Converter, OpenWrt Pre-Installed, High Performance, OpenVPN & WireGuard by Owen Blanco

Revainrating 5 out of 5

The box that made it!

I opened the box and checked the steps. It seems very functional for what it advertised. If you just want to do what's advertised, you're good to go. This seems like a great travel router. However, once I realized that it was a Linux minicomputer with an available USB port that I could plug a large USB memory stick into, I wanted to take it a step further and make it a streaming medium, on kids can look at our phones when we are traveling and the internet is not available (planes, trains, cars etc.) - I searched for instructions and found some - I followed the process and after much trial and error I was able to install the minidln start. I then played around with different builds and at one point I thought I'd bricked the box. but was able to get it back with 30/30/30. Then I uploaded a new build and the USB stopped working. It took me a few days to trawl through the howto to find the right build to get this little gem singing again and I was able to restart the minidlna media server. I went to do a stress test and was able to connect 5 devices and stream at the same time and everything seems to be working fine. Well! It also turned out that if you need to connect to a Wi-Fi that requires web page authentication, you connect the device and then open the computer web page to enter the data.

Pros
  • Weight
Cons
  • Some small things