GL.iNet GL-MT300N-V2 (Mango) Portable Mini Travel Wireless Pocket VPN WiFi Router - 2X Ethernet Ports | USB 2.0 | OpenWrt | OpenVPN/Wireguard for Public & Hotel Wi-Fi | Easy to Set up via Admin Panel

I confess I'm a Linux user... but this thing is awesome. It's the Swiss army knfe of routers, inexpensive and tiny. It's based on OpenWRT (a good thing) The FCC site shows it has two F antennas (simple but effective) driving a MIMO chip. I was initially disappointed it didn't have external antennas but after using it it's a killer. I sometimes work in my cargo trailer (a Faraday cage) and it works great, outperforming my USB two external antenna wifi dongle. With a bit of work you can harden this thing even more against snooping and attacks. The only negative is that it doesn't play well with stock NordVPN but there are ways around this (.ovpn config file) ..Tom

This is the best travel modem out there. It's tiny. It's light. It's full featured and incredibly configurable through a simple administrative panel that's easy and intuitive to use. It uses open source OpenWrt firmware but the Admin Panel tames all the complexity. It's just so darn useful. The main function is the repeater mode where you can login to a public Wi-Fi connection, and the device creates another Wi-Fi connection you or your entire party can login to. It's also easy to add a VPN (OpenVPN or Wireguard) to the connection and has a little toggle switch to enable and disable the VPN as you want. It can get Internet from any Wi-Fi source or through tethering from your smartphone or from a cellular data dongle if you have one of those. It also has an ethernet WAN port if your Internet connection is wired and an Internet LAN port if you want to connect your computer wired to the router. They thought of everything. The configuration panel makes all these various setups easy to select and configure. It's a really good device and so small and easy to travel with. Whatever your situation, this little device works and works well. It's 2 Ghz only but has 300 mbps throughput. No power supply is included, just the USB power cord and a short flat Ethernet cable are included. Since it supports OpenWrt, you can install custom firmware if you want and use this for something else. It has a built in system to install factory firmware from scratch if you have to. The GL.iNet people have done a great job with this little thing.

The GL.iNet GL-MT300N-V2(Mango) Portable Mini Travel Wireless Pocket VPN Router is a great little travel router, and when I say little - it is super small! I purchased this router before a trip and set it up in advance. Set-up was pretty straight forward through the web interface. I hooked up a tablet, 2 phones, an Amazon Echo Dot and a Roku before I left home. At the first hotel, I had to play around a little with the router to get it to connect, I also had to go through a captive hotel web portal (which I did on my phone). After the router connected all of my preset-up devices connected like a charm. At the second hotel, the router did not want to connect. The hotel 2.4 GHz wifi was pretty weak, and this router will not connect to the 5GHz band. I eventually got the router connected, but it was pretty tedious. Especially frustrating considering my Roku and tablet could connect to the hotel wifi no problem. I always had to direct connect through the web interface, I could not get the GL.iNet app to work at all. I only wish that GL.iNet made a router in this small form factor that was both 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. So, all in all - when you get it to work the router is pretty nice, but it could be better with 5 GHz capability, stronger antenna, and a working app.

Small and perfect for streaming devices to get past Geo-restrictions to watch content from other countries. The downside is that it's powered through micro USB instead of USB-C. It does not come with a USB charger so you need one. Works with surf shark wire guard VPN. You can connect your cell phone as an Internet provider in a pinch if necessary. Surf Shark doesn't have a VPN client for Apple TV. This solved the problem.Additional Info.The router runs OpenWRT and supports multiple VPN profiles in memory which can come in handy to access streaming content from across the globe. It supports multiple protocols such as Open VPN, L2TP, IPsec, WireGuard, & IKE2. The company also provides cloud management apps for Android and perhaps Apple. So once you set up your various VPN profiles, switching between them can be done easily with the phone app. Several popular VPN providers are already listed but you can manually set your VPN profiles using your provider vpn.conf from their website or enter it manually with a cell or PC.Here is another plus, if you add an inexpensive ethernet switch to the LAN port, you can connect multiple streaming devices. I use an Apple 4K Gen 3 and a Nvidia Shield TV 2019. My Roku can connect to this router using the built-in 2.4Ghz wifi hotspot this router provides.This won't replace a full home main router unless your needs are very modest. But given its small size, the modest needs of streaming devices, and how small streaming devices like Amazon Sticks, Roku, and Walmart streaming devices are, it is a no-brainer for travel as you can put them inside a case and pack it with your luggage. Just a reminder, this does not come with a USB dongle/charger. But most people have many lying around in draws from old phones.