GL-inet, we need a proper cellular router

Routers Cellular, USB modems
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Hello Gl-inet,

I am a frantic gl-inet fan and ive been using your products for a long time,
but in my opinion company is missing an opportunity for creating a true gl-inet-ish perfect cellular router.
The current options all have drawbacks..

Pls hear me out, we desperately need a simple but perfect cellular router which is:

  • powered by usb
  • battery is not necessary
  • has 2 ethernet ports (wan+lan)
  • tiny and slick design, (take an old GL-MV1000 / Brume or Brume 2 for reference).
  • 5g is not really that important as 4g is usually sufficient

I would really love to see that from gl inet rather than giving away my money for some random stuff.

thank you!

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Hi

Thank you for your suggestion.
We will submit it to the product team for consideration in future product planning.

Additionally, would the Puli / XE300 model without a battery meet your requirements?

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Thank you very much for your suggestion.

Do you think our XE300 or X750 models cannot meet your requirements?

If powered only by USB, it might be a bit difficult, but if you don’t need Ethernet ports, we do have similar SIMPoYo uFi product

We are also working on the specifications of new 5G products, and we can take your needs into consideration.

Could you please share with us more about your application scenarios?

XE300： GL-XE300 / Puli - GL.iNet

X750： GL-X750 / Spitz - GL.iNet

SIMPoYo uFi： SIMPoYo uFi (SP-N150C4) – Plug & Play 4G USB Dongle with Hotspot - GL.iNet

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similar to this?

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I’d take a Collie over those two offerings:

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@will.qiu thank you,
Puli is the closest to what everyone needs; it just should not have a battery and be of a smaller size,

@Hoff the first and the foremost, all non-usb options are non-relevant;
me (and i am sure a lot of other folks) need it as a travel router, if you travel a lot you would need a bulk of different power socket plugs/cables for all the regions if your device does not support powering over usb..
This is silly, we’re past the power-socket epoch. Even the laptops are powered via usb-c these days, why taking a step back?
These days people grab a single usb brick and connect devices to it. I am traveling with a single backpack, sorry i will not carry a set of cables for each device for each region, this is completely wrong in 2025. Whenever i get power adapters for usb devices these days - they go straight to trash can.
The glinet started as a travel products company and the expectation from them is to deliver light and travel’able devices.

I checked SIMPoYO page - it says it supports only bands of a specific region (bands 1/3/..)?
That’s not serious.
5g is not really necessary as you can get a decent speeds via 4g these days, but a decent 4g suporting multi-regions is a must. Just grab a decent 4g module and put it in Brume 1 similar enclosure.

Hecatae, that microtik thing is powered either by DC or via microusb.
Microusb in 2025 , are you serious? How many people have microusb adapthers these days?
Should they carry one with them on each travel?
Collie is powered by DC as well.

@Hoff the use case is very simple, gl inet is a travel routers company, and in a spirit of a travel I need something i can grab, put in my backpack and go.
No additional power blocks, no power cables, i simply dont’ have a space for it, nor the weight of my backpack allows me.
It must support different regions (power-wise and band-wise), bullet proof vpn, be light, be cool, be gl inet.
I just want the company to carry on the idea it started with.

thank you!

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A cellular router without universal and global eSIM support? Not even worth the paper it is sketched on.

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Come on, you don’t need a complete adapter, a single cable will do, If a device fits my needs i’ll take that few grams of extra cable in my bag.

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@Lastimosa i just realised that even current Puli - XE300 does not contain proper esim support, this is a joke. Of course esim is essential.

@Hoff we obviously need a proper esim support in the router..

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Just to let GL-inet know.. I agree with Mobisid..

Here is what i was looking for but didnt find.. (well actually did find but its from another company)

I want a failover Module.. Not a router, not wifi just a failover in line module

  1. cellular failover
  2. esim or sim card (both)
  3. No wifi.. Eithernet in and out
  4. Failback
  5. No battery

Primary Ethernet line goes into the module. If the module doesn’t notice any ping responses after x time.. Then cellular kicks in.. Once primary gets responce then it turns off cellular and goes back to primary Ethernet..