Agree on the weight and size, the priority of travel routers should be portability. This push for wifi 7 and speed more than 1Gbit is kind of ridiculous if you think about it, where are hotels that give you that?
Still, nobody forces you to buy them. The problem is that good old travel routers get forgotten and receive less updates/features.
Luckily Unifi entered the market with a great 90 gram travel router, hopefully that will help to shift the focus on portability
My USB150 is the last GL iNet router I still use for travel. I have a pair of them, and they are still great.
I use a couple of AR300M units running OpenWrt as VPN servers at locations that only have 50 Mbps or less of upload speed. They are rock‑stable.
I have replaced my AR750S, which was my main travel router, with something smaller that has a 2 GHz quad‑core CPU, 4 GB of RAM, and 32 GB of eMMC, so I know it is absolutely possible to build small and capable travel routers.
I agree that it is sad that GL iNet has lost its way in the world of travel routers.
Thank you for your continued support and appreciation of GL.iNet products.
We’ve forwarded your suggestions to our product team for consideration in future product planning.
We also understand that you—and many others—have specific expectations regarding the size and weight of travel routers. With that in mind, we’d like to clarify a few points:
This is exactly why we introduced the SIMPoYo uFi (96.3 × 32.3 × 11.4 mm; 40 g) and SIMPoYo 5G uFi (100 × 40 × 13 mm; 40 g). These are designed to provide seamless cellular connectivity along with WireGuard VPN support in a compact, lightweight form factor. However, due to their compact size, they cannot offer as many features as our larger travel routers.
As for mini routers like the GL-MT300N-V2, it is still available for purchase. We are also evaluating the possibility of releasing a next-generation version, though this is unlikely to happen in the near term.
Other slightly larger but more powerful devices, such as the Beryl 7, are also very popular among our users. We’ve seen strong positive feedback from groups like digital nomads (who often stay in semi-fixed locations and require faster network speeds), users staying in Airbnb accommodations, and those who want a dual-purpose device—serving as a home router while also being portable for travel.
I think the size is fine. Your backpack or suitcase is not made for ants rather humans. If you can carry a battery bank, you can carry the travel router.
If SimYouPo also Works in African countries like Ghana, Cameroon and Ivory Coast it would be useful for me as Travel router. However these countries are not (yet?) on the supported list.
I have one of the SimYouPo dongles and find it utterly useless to be honest with you. I can now stick any SIM or eSIM in my 5G phone in any country and tether that to my UniFi travel router without the need for any of the faff from GL.iNET and their oversized (and admittedly overpowered) so called travel routers.
During a recent trip to the UK, I ordered one and had it shipped to my hotel in London. It works great there, including attached to my Beryl 7. Back home in the US, not so much.
i agree. I am a big fan of gl inet devices and own a dozen of them, but it’s really frustrating how the company loses a grip on the travel aspect of devices.
