GL.iNet - Beryl AX (GL-MT3000)

How small you wanna go? Look at Gli-net's travel routers. I carry one in my luggage and they're great.

How small you wanna go? Look at Gli-net's travel routers. I carry one in my luggage and they're great.

Most “normal” routers cannot use an existing wifi network as their WAN. GL.iNet is really best in class when it comes to this.

Agreed, I have their $37 travel router and it would work great for 700 square feet, hell, it stays connected a long way away. I had it set up in my 4th floor hotel room in Jamaica and was still connected at the pool outside.

I am going to buy a home router as well as a travel router from GLI in order to work abroad using my home IP address. So far I think I am going for the Beryl AX as my travel router, but I am not sure which GLI home router to get as some of the specs seem overkill. I won't be connecting any device to the home GLI router at all. I just need it for VPN purposes when I am abroad. Everything else at home will be using the ISP provided modem. Any recommendations? Wondering if I can just get two Beryl AXs

1. I got into self hosting because I was tired of paying for services that never quite delivered how I wanted and stopped working if my internet did. 2. I travel enough that I frequently use an older Gl.Net router to provide some protection and get more of my devices connected if I have to pay for a connection. I have also been wanting a KVM for my home server so I can better administer it from afar. In particular one that might let me restart or power it up with button presses or a jumper interface. 3.I learn a lot from Reddit, but probably most from encountering a problem and researching it until I find a solution that suits my needs and capabilities. That research takes me everywhere… but mostly Reddit these days. 4. I’d love a lower-power feature rich NAS. I consult for a lot of friends and families, and these have become a popular request. Ugreen might have the best offering for now, but I do feel like there’s still room for improvement. Edit: Products I’d choose if I won would be the POE KVM and travel router.

I've had an MT3000 router for a couple of years and I'd say that it's one of the best purchases I've made. My primary internet connection is over a 5G network given that I travel a lot. This router is extremely portable and versatile. It's feature-rich. You can create dedicated VPN tunnels using WireGuard or OpenVPN. You can aldo run Tailscale, ZeroConf, and several other applications on it. It supports DNS over HTTPS in addition to DNS over TLS. I think you can also install AdGuard Home, an ad filtering app. Highly recommended! Forgot to mention that you can use either the vendor's GUI or Luci to manage this device.

Some hotels still with ethernet in room, this is the easiest and just plug and use your WiFi. For WiFi only, just use your router to connect the hotel WiFi and use it as INTERNET instead of ethernet WAN connection. For the login page thing, it's CAPTIVE PORTAL, once your router connected to the WiFi, just use ANY ONE of your connected client device to surf internet and it should bring you to login, then all good for remaining devices. A good OpenWrt travel routers nowadays are GL-INET MT1300 (Beryl), MT3000 (BerylAX), Cudy TR3000

Not many home routers make it easy to setup for what you want to do. The Gl.inet routers are designed to do this. I use a Beryl AX. It is easy to set it up to connect to the trailer park network and then rebroadcast by creating on her own private network (2.4 ghz or 5 ghz or both). I have used this for several years and it easily covers large hotel rooms. I see no reason that it can not cover a large trailer as they tend to have open layouts and thin walls. Of course her wifi will never be better than what her park offers.

Notice how many users like the Beryl AX https://www.reddit.com/r/GlInet/s/mJZWCSKwAq

I'm using my Beryl AX as a home router. I get better coverage than a TP Link AX access point. And its not as small of a difference as someone would think. I get nearly a full signal in my upstairs bathroom (as far away as I can get in my house) and the router is in the basement on a rack. I also maintain approximately 700mbps at that distance, the TP Link AP I was using topped at 400mbps and it was closer in proximity. I have idea why, but I get way better coverage with the Beryl. I'd expect no less from the Slate 7 but I don't know what chipset it uses. I've been tempted to get the Slate 7 so I'm going to save this thread.

Wifi 7 is not gonna make me move. So happy with my Flint2 + 2x BerylAX in AP mode. I’m not going to change anywhere soon.

GL.Inet 100% as it runs relativley pure OpenWRT and has a bunch of nice features that while you might not use them this time are great for other times, like you can connect it to public wifi and then your devices to it to isolate them, and as mentioned above setup a VPN service on it to send all your traffic though the VPN. i'm pretty sure TP link dosnt have these features or if it does they are way more basic. I deff know it dosnt let you connect to public Wifi's and use that as a wan connection cuz iv had to reaseach it recently due to moving to an appartment with shared wifi.

Just look on fb marketplace and get something there. Unless you are getting Gl.inet or ubuigity stuff there is no need to drop top $$$$ on that home WiFi crap. I only seen one good recommendation given on here u/justifiers gave you the best option. The deco stuff is about to be banned in the us. The flint3 is a solid choice, I have a gl.inet travel router that is Rock solid. When you start pricing out all these so called mesh packages, you will soon find it costs the same or a little more to get ubiquity. The banana pi routers are also a good choice

I have three GL.iNet routers: a Beryl AX, Opal, and Marble. The user interface may be similar across them, but I haven't been able to get the Marble to pass through the login portal so that it can authenticate and use the free wifi available here. Both the Beryl AX and Opal connect to the same wifi network, then display a link to the login portal. After I authenticate, I can access the free wifi. It might be user error, but I think the Marble simply doesn't offer it because a home router doesn't need to connect to public wifi.

Here is what to do: Use a Gl-inet router (gl-inet Beryl is what i use). Connect this via ethernet (wifi is also possible) to the host router. Now setup your own wifi network being careful to not use the same channel as your host. Then if you use a VPN service such as Nord, setup your gl-inet router to connect to a Nord server (this is very easy to do) Now you will have your own wifi network with all traffic routed through the VPN. And you have not messed with your hosts internet system. This is what I do.

I have a Beryl and it’s great, would buy again.

GL.iNet Beryl AX is recommended. You can use it as a repeater, so it broadcasts new WiFi using the existing one. You can have a VPN installed on the router to make things even more secure. I would not remove the existing one. Don’t even connect your router to the existing one using Ethernet. That is a good way to get kicked out.

Same here. I have the Beryl AX and it works great. Last time I used it, I connected to the hotel wifi, created my own network off of that, and used wireguard to VPN back to my main network at home.

I use a Beryl AX to connect to my Firewalla Gold at home via WireGuard. The GL.iNet routers are not as "polished" as the Firewallas when it comes to firmware, but I love my Beryl AX for travel. It's so versatile and always worked (hotels, AirBnb, airports and even on airplanes). Regarding your point of the policies, the travel router will appear as a VPN device on the Firewalla and you can apply whatever policies to it (and this will take care of the devices connected to it), but not individually per device. Keep in mind that when GL.iNet releases new devices, they take a few months to become stable. I believe this will be especially true for a new device that requires new drivers for its WiFi 7.

In your price range? I think I'd go for the Opal over the Mango. It's only a few dollars more, but it's got more features and ports. I have one and it works well for the price point. Above that, I also have the Beryl AX and it's really nice, way more powerful than the Opal, but also over twice the price. After that there's the Slate 7, which is newer, much more powerful, and way more expensive. I know for a fact that the Opal and Beryl AX can run off a power bank for hours. If you plan to use the VPN options on any of these units, I'd really go for the Beryl AX at a minimum.

I have this exact setup. Glinet router with VPN just for streaming tvs as many as five on at a time. How much you want to spend? Future proof now or test the setup? How big of a house? Tested all the devices. Looked at current Amazon prices. Travel routers are great. Opal for $30 handles just fine as long as it's not trying to cover a house > 3000 sq feet. 4k films with bitrates over 70 will struggle since the max Wireguard speed is quite low vs anything else. Also wifi 5 Beryl ax 3000 which I've had for a while at $70 can cover that space and handle high bitrate 4k video. It's wifi 6. There are others in the $60 to $90 range Future proof you could look at the newer more expensive options.

I love their products, I have one of their travel routers and it’s extremely handy.

Beryl AX hands down. When I connect to the free wifi, I get 50mbps through the Opal, but I get 220mbps and up via the Beryl AX (even with the VPN running) With the Opal, I have to connect via the 5ghz band, and then I cannot use it for connecting devices to it, they have to use 2.4ghz. Again, this could be user error. The speeds for connected devices are fine, but if I did need to transfer files across the network, then I may see some limitations. The only advantage the Opal has is the three ethernet ports. The Beryl is superior in every other way. It can connect to the free wifi, as well as run the vpn and Tailscale without skipping a beat. The speeds are much better when connecting to the same wifi, and I can use the 5Ghz antenna both for the free wifi and to allow devices to connect to it. The Opal can run a vpn also but at lower max speeds. Tailscale is too much for it. If you have time, you can wait for sales on the Beryl AX. I bought mine at the lowest price a bit before Black Friday, and it comes back around at that price every few months. Right now I have the Opal acting as a failover connection for my Marble, mostly because of the low power draw. But if I didn't care about the cost of it all? I'd have just gotten a second Beryl AX and connected a switch to it rather than the Marble and Opal combo. It's that good, and the speed of the free wifi are better than one of my home networks. I just need to find someone selling a lightly used Beryl AX ??????

I am rooting on the Gl.iNet routers atm. If you only need wifi 6, look at the Gl.one Beryl AX which offers 2.5gbps WAN and 1gbps lan. If your internet plan is only up to gigabit you can also go with a more stylish Gl.iNet Marble.

I'm using the Beryl AX as non-travel router for my small apartment and it's been great. Using it mainly for Openwrt and SQM. It has 2.5Ghz WAN which is more than I need

Carnival has banned travel routers. That said, I bring one on every cruise and vacation I take and have never had any cruise line notice it, let alone take it. I've never used internet on Carnival, but on Princess, sharing the connection was easy. I use a Beryl AX by GLi-Net and I've never had an issue adding it to any hospitality network. I set mine up to use the same wifi SSID as my house so that devices like my kid's oxygen monitor, ebook readers, etc. all just connect to that without issue.

I've been quite impressed with this tiny little GLNet travel router. I use it when I'm out with the RV and starlink. It runs wrt software that is really configurable. Captive portal was easy on it too. I run an opnsense firewall at home but that little router is great too.