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.
@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.
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
cellular failover
esim or sim card (both)
No wifi.. Eithernet in and out
Failback
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..
For our new products, we will make every effort to adopt Type-C interfaces.
We are currently planning a 5G USB dongle that will support global frequency bands. For the existing 4G USB dongle, we are also looking for solutions that can support global frequency bands. All of our products will support Type-C power supply.
In addition, we are also exploring a lightweight 5G Hotspot product solution — similar in concept to the E750, but at least one-third lighter in weight, with support for a high-definition large display and VPN encryption.
As for your point about a battery-free, lightweight product (supporting cellular connectivity, Wi-Fi, and VPN), this indeed had not been considered before, but we will now include it in our product requirements.
Regarding the choice between Cellular 4G or Cellular 5G, our research indicates that most customers prefer support for 5G.
Indeed, some of the earlier Puli-XE300 units with the EP06-A module did not support eSIM. However, all the newly sold units are equipped with the EG25-G module, which fully supports eSIM.
Could you please share the link to this product? Your idea is indeed a very good one.
Most of our products do include Wi-Fi. Based on our current models (for example, the X3000), it seems possible to meet your requirements, though the price may not have much advantage.
HI Hoff. So the unit i ended up with was the simplifi connect 2 = Link
On the connect 2 you have wifi but ill be turning it off and just using the Ethernet port. It has passthrough and will just pass through the primary internet till it goes down, then will use cellular and send that data down the eithernet line to my comptuer .. Then failback once primary is back on.. What i dont like with the connect 2 is the fact that there is wifi (not needed) as well as the Ethernet in port uses a usb3 to Ethernet dongle.. I wish there was a simple port in on one side and port out on the other.
Though this is “A” solution.. Its not what id really like. I would like a small module that has cellular antennas on it. No wifi.. Id like a Ethernet line in and then a Ethernet line out on the other side (so this module is a inline device). Ethernet goes in with primary internet passthrough.. Module pings the line and if it notices no response from primary after x time (say 1000ms) then it switches over to the built in cellular failover and pushes the cellular data down the Ethernet line.. Then when the primary internet comes back on– cellular stops off and goes back to “normal” (primary internet). There would be no wifi built into this.. Its just a failover module. Simple little box.. Line in, line out, primary stops, cellular takes over, then returns to primary once that is back available.
I agree generally with the need for a new small, portable cellular router and there have been several other posts with a similar desire for an updated Puli, but not so big and expensive like the Puli-AX. For me the important things are:
2 ethernet ports (both can be used as LAN)
Relatively small and portable (probably no external antennas)
Hi SennaFan, today, we talk about this product what you say, it is easy and simple product, our product team will continue to evaluate and promote the implementation of the features you require in new products. However, we will retain Wi-Fi, as this is an essential feature for many consumers. In addition, we will directly adopt support for 5G NR cellular connectivity, since pure LTE 4G products are gradually being phased out.
hello @Hoff thats great to hear!
the only remark i have about 5g is that generally 5g modules require way more power, so it may be challenging to retain usb 3A power source while having 5g module support.
Maybe it may will work if the module itself will be connected via m2 interface under the hood, so anyone could swap it with a different module if required?