The TRUTH About Travel Routers: What You Need to Know!

[@chaddicusthegreat]

If you have access to an ethernet port then yeah, this is a great option and I totally recommend. Too bad most hotels and stuff use APs so not necessarily useful in that case

[@ModernBroadcast]

Happy Holidays! Your question will be featured in tomorrows video! That's a fair point, I still enjoy the idea of it as all my devices have it saved so i'll only need to log in once then all my devices will connect.

[@franko6127]

Cool video - thanks for the info. The points about devices essentially being pre-configured for the travel router at any point basically sold it for me. Also (and I don't think you covered it, but I may have missed it) - I am pretty sure you can tether a mobile device via USB cable and broadcast that cellular internet connection to other devices. Perfect for a road trip with kids and tablets/music players/etc.

[@ModernBroadcast]

Happy Holidays! Your question will be featured in tomorrows video! That's true! The router is honestly in my togo bag at all times in case I go somewhere. For me its honestly the time saver of connecting 1 device to the internet then all my device auto connect.

[@franko6127]

@@ModernBroadcast Love it! Thank you! I'm about to pick up the Beryl AX :)

[@eliasthienpont6330]

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[@ModernBroadcast]

Lets goooooo!

[@jtiger102]

Cruise ship use may start to become a thing of the past. Royal Caribbean just banned travel routers. I have not found a hotel with an active Ethernet port in the past 2-3 years. WISP can still work though, provided you can get the router to connect properly. There have been a couple of occasions where the captive portal would not allow the router to connect. IT Support with the hotel was clueless.

[@ModernBroadcast]

Happy Holidays! Your question will be featured in tomorrows video! I saw this after I read your comment initially! Insane, but also makes sense when money is involved haha.

[@HKM-1701]

Love my Beryl AX. I travel to MX often, always bring it with me. Also, these are now banned on cruises.

[@farchord]

Awwwwh! Thought that would be useful for that reason.

[@LZeugirdor]

Side note, I've wanted to make my own little OpenWRT modem/router with a data radio and sim card to WIFI. I know those exist already but they're so limited and can only offer so much. I figured I could set up a VPN on it that compresses data to my endpoint at home which decompresses it. Not only is this great for data saving but it offers the protection of encryption so it's a double win. It can be put in a variety of cases too so you could take a compute module 4/5 and make it look like a portable battery in case cruise ships want to get smart or something. With OpenWRT even if it doesn't get data you can still configure it to connect to an open network and keep it on the WAN side of the firewall.

[@ACuteAura]

compress what? almost all http traffic already uses at least gzip on the wire. oh, and these usually run OpenWRT with a nicer frontend, but at least the Beryl you can just flash vanilla OpenWRT to. No idea why one would though, it has VPN with split/policy routing (even automatic setup for Mullvad with just your login code), multi-WAN, failover, VPN server... even VLANs if you somehow need those on the go.

[@fyodorbukreev9888]

While I love the concept of such a product, I feel like there's a bit of fearmongering in your video. As far as I understand, generally people on public(or private) networks in fact can't see your traffic when you use https websites. And almost all websites are https nowadays.

[@stealth210]

Yes, agree. While I like the idea of a travel router preset up to connect to my home VPN, modern traffic is all TLS 1.2/3. They can see what domains/IPs you are connecting to, but the actual data payload is already encrypted. It's not like there is a whole lot of plain text traffic anymore on the network like there would have been even 10 years ago.

[@RT-qd8yl]

@stealth210 Being able to see the domain/ip is a risk in itself; it didn't matter what the data payload is. Simply visiting a particular site is enough get the the hammer falling.

[@Seikatsu121]

What do you do if the network has a sign up page or something before you have internet access?

[@ModernBroadcast]

Happy Holidays! Your question will be featured in tomorrows video! you'll connect this and have your phone/tablet/computer connected to it in the setup mode and it'll get the sign up page. 1 and done. Video coming out soon of me setting this up while at the hotel.

[@barcley00]

Is it ATX or AXT?

[@ModernBroadcast]

@@barcley00 axt