Recommendations For Travel Router

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Re: Long term sustainablity/future proofing if/when GL ceases firmware/support.

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Looking for the perfect device/system for TOR inside VPN and VPN inside TOR

I see this as a hardware question rather than software. Regardless of the device, OP, you’re going to want vanilla OpenWrt to have full access to the OWRT ecosystem rather than waiting on GL to update GL repos for the ‘latest & greatest’. I say this because you’re going to be getting into far more advanced configuration than the GL GUI/repos allow & some of the GL functions conflict w/ more advanced OWRT packages. A quick overview: The Flint v2 (GL-MT6000) is slowly getting mainline OWRT 23.0…

Re: Powering

@C-pher

The one thing I’m trying to figure out is if these can be powered off a cigarette lighter with a 3A or so charger. I’m not really seeing much about it other than it’s USB-C powered and comes with a Power Supply.

The Slate AX includes a 5V/4A (20W) power brick but draws “<8.75W” . This assumes there’s no external USB3 SSD/HDD attached. I have one connected to a 15W Samsung travel charger.

Be aware PD/QC may/will reboot the GL device as other devices are connected/disconnected:

USB power delivery into Beryl?

The MT1300 works with a PD adapter but doesn’t take advantage of PD because it isn’t charging anything. The multiple outlet PD devices are amazingly small and versatile but they do active management of output to each device, and when a new device is plugged in, they reconfigure to reflect that. As @alzhao says, that causes the router to reboot. Something like the Nano or, better the Nano II, with only a single port doesn’t have that problem. But then you are still taking two adapters, one fo…