GL.iNet GL-AR300M-Lite mini Router, Wi-Fi Converter, OpenWrt Pre-installed, Repeater Bridge, 300Mbps High Performance, 16MB Nor flash, OpenVPN, Programmable IoT Gateway

GL.iNet GL-AR300M-Lite Mini Router, Wi-Fi Converter, OpenWrt Pre-installed, Repeater Bridge, 300Mbps High Performance, One Ethernet port, 16MB Nor flash, 128MB RAM, OpenVPN, Tor Compatible This is excellent value and high quality device and is ideal for IoT development as well as a travel router. I bought one for evaluation in November 2017 and just came on to buy two more (11th Jan 2018) but Amazon seems to have blocked the listing even though the manufacturers say they have stock with Amazon. Please let me buy some more Amazon :)

This is working really well and gives me WiFi throughout my flat. Previously I could only get WiFi if I was sat by the front window because I'm using my neighbour's WiFi ;-) I nearly gave this five stars because now I've got it working, it's working brilliantly. However, it took a bit of time and an email to customer support to work out how to set it up. Customer support was excellent and they got me up and running straight away, but it wasn't easy to find the customer support email address. Also, I'm not entirely sure how secure this thing would be. I won't go into details here for obvious reasons, but I reckon it'd be fairly crackable if you put your mind to it. It also seems to make the speed of the WiFi connection slower. Having said that, if you need military strength security and you want blisteringly quick data transfer you're not going to be buying a £20 router from Amazon. Basically, if you're looking for something that'll take a weak WiFi signal and rebroadcast it, this is an excellent choice at a seriously reasonable price.

First of all, it's even smaller than I thought! Bought this to run the JetApple Internet booster program. It works perfectly. Now, I can watch my favourite TV shows in China, use Google and Facebook with no problem. Thanks to the GL.iNet and JetApple, my Internet life back alive! BTW, the JetApple has 30-day free trial service now. Just need this gadget.

Errrm. It does the job. What i didnt realise is that when running the vpn, you can only get a maximum of 11 or so mbps due to the processing restraints in the unit. Its fine for miwt things but 1080p video streaming can suffer. And you can forget 4k streaming. I foubd a better way was to run my vpn off the pc and share my pc's connection like a hotspot. That way you retain 99% of you full speed potential

Works flawlessly and uses a proper small router/CPE OS. I have it upgraded to LEDE from the stock OpenWRT, no issues on upgrade. The only caveat is that it is missing any feet and some of the cooling is from underneath. Either mount it vertically or use a spare set of sticky feet.

This is really good. Very small and portable and great when travelling abroad. Put a firestick or the like in a hotel tv, connect the router to your VPN service (that's really easy in the interface) and you can watch TV from home.

slightly narrow range otherwise perfect for purpose.

It's really useful, if you have VPN subscription. The setup is not always obvious, took me hours to find out how's working.

Devo dire che questo è proprio un acquisto azzeccato. E' un dispositivo veramente piccolo e versatile. Il mio utilizzo è molto basico, ma cercavo proprio un dispositivo che facesse questo. In poche parole, il mio problema si presenta quando faccio i viaggi con mia figlia in macchina, le piace molto guardare i cartoni sullì'Ipad, allora ho comprato una bella chiavetta da 128GB mettendole su un bel po di cartoni in modo da fargliene vedere uno diverso ogni volta e... tah dah... l'Ipad non riconosce la chiavetta poichè mi dice che richiede troppa tensione per poter funzionare. Allora grazie al cielo ho trovato questo fantastico dispositivo. Lo attacco alla presa usb/accendisigari con il corretto trasformatore (preso a parte), collego la chiavetta USB al GL.Inet e con l'ipad accedo a tutti i file che ci sono sulla chiavetta. In una sola parola: FANTASTICO... ora mia figlia può vedere tutti i cartoni che vuole ovunque... basta solo avere una presa di corrente a portata! NB: Inizialmente non mi leggeva le chiavette USB e non riuscivo a capire perchè, stavo quasi per mandarlo indietro quando con un ultima prova mi sono accorto che non riconosce le chiavette USB se ci sono degli spazi nel nome. Tolto lo spazio ha funzionato tutto correttamente.

other router like hootoo does not have uboot feature, it has open vpn buit in and you can also load the tor network.

Dieser Router ist quasi für alle diejenigen gedacht, die im Urlaub oder unterwegs an einem WLAN-Zugang mehrere Geräte anschließen möchten. Man kann damit aber auch noch viel mehr machen, denn installiert ist von Haus aus ein openWRT, was aus diesem Router quasi ein Multifunktionsgerät macht. Aber ganz abgesehen davon, kommt das Gerät mit einer eigenen und gut gemachten Benutzeroberfläche, die die wichtigsten Dinge zusammenfasst und so auch Laien dieses Gerät bedienen können. Die Fähigkeiten, die bei den anderen Geräten dieser Baureihe von GL-iNet in den anderen Rezensionen beschrieben sind, treffen eigentlich auch hier zu. Wichtig: Die Änderung der MAC-Adresse ist nur mit den Geräten mit dem Atheros-Chip (AR150, AR300) möglich. Nicht bei den Geräten mit den Mediatek-Chips. Auf der Website des Herstellers gibt es mehr Infos dazu. Dieses Gerät hier gab es für einige Tage im Angebot - die kurzfristige Preissenkung hatte der Hersteller auf seiner Facebook-Seite bekannt gegeben und da habe ich dann umgehend bestellt. Ich habe zwar auch schon die normale Version (also nicht Lite, mit 2x LAN und dem NAND-Speicher), aber diese Möglichkeit hier wollte ich mir nicht entgehen lassen. Wieso? Weil es sich hierbei um eine kleine 5-Mann Firma aus Hong Kong handelt, die nicht nur diese gute Hardware selber entwickelt hat und vertreibt, sondern auch noch eine gute eigene Firmware (das GUI eigentlich) anbietet und vor allem sehr guten Support auf vielen Kanälen. Für mich ist das so unterstützenswert, weil ich gerade diese gute Mischung aus eigener Firmware und gutem Support bei so vielen anderen Produkten so sehr vermisse. Rein von der Funktionalität her dürfte das Gerät hier auch den doppelten Preis kosten. Also, ist diese Lite-Version (AR300M-Lite) im Vergleich zur Vollversion (AR300M) so viel schlechter? Nein, natürlich nicht. Es kommt auf den Einsatzzweck an. Für mich entscheidend ist die kleine Bauweise und der verwendete Chip. So kann ich das Gerät unabhängig vom Stromnetz an einem Akkupack betreiben und an einem anderen Ort aufstellen, wo es eigentlich nur einen Internetzugang braucht. Für mich ist das Gerät die viel bessere Alternative zum Tp-Link TL-MR3020, wobei das Vorgängermodell AR150 mit dem gleichen Chip wie das Tp-Link Gerät eigentlich schon ausreichend ist. Nur war das nicht im Angebot :-)

I really like this device for travel. I have an echo dot that comes with me and it automatically connects to my gl-inet network by prior configuration. On travel, - I turn on the router, - connect to the gl-inet network with my tablet, - configure the router to connect to the hotel network in as a repeater in WISP mode, -finally I log into hotel network with my tablet. Now the dot, all of my family's devices and the camera I travel with work. Note the camera is the cheap wyze that records on motion or sound (12 secs sent to the amazon cloud). It is not the fastest device though we do watch Netflix just fine with it and we don't have any issue with some Hotel's idiotic policy of only using two devices sinc all they can see is the gl-inet device. The cons: - I thought it wouldn't power up.... the problem is the pc board is loose in the case and mmy micro sd power connector juct could not reach deeply enough into the case for a good connection. Flex the plastic a bit if it will not power on and insert the plug deeper. In my case, I popped off the bottom plastic snapin cover, pulled out the board and plugged in in, - Confusing user interface for non technical types (also a big plus). All most of you need to know for a travel router configuration is REPEATER-WISP. DONE. - On the manufacturer website this is an end-of-life product. Despite the cons, this was a great purchase for us. DIYers, you can get root by design. Enjoy.

Un petit routeur WiFi qui tourne sous LEDE (noyau Linux 4.4.92) épatant pour le prix. Par rapport au modèle GL-AR300M-Ext, celui-ci a perdu un port LAN, de la mémoire NAND (16Mo au lieu de 128) et, pour le modèle qui en dispose, de deux antennes externes, mais pour le prix (moins de 20€ livré) c'est je pense l'un des meilleurs petits routeurs/répéteur/point d'accès WiFi d'autant que le puissance en WiFi n'est pas du tout ridicule. Il est très facile à utiliser de base via la page de configuration par défaut (en anglais). Le tethering USB (avec un smartphone) fonctionne à merveille tout comme l'OpenVPN. Et surtout, il permet toute la puissance de réglage d'OpenWRT/LEDE (load balancing WAN/4G par exemple). Enfin, il est minuscule et peut s'emporter partout.