GL.iNet GL-AR300M16-Ext Portable Mini Travel Wireless Pocket Router - WiFi Router | OpenWrt | 2 x Ethernet Ports | OpenVPN/Wireguard VPN for Public & Hotel Wi-Fi | USB 2.0 Port | 2 x External Antennas

Uses OpenWRT which admittedly puts it outside of the scope of non-technical users, but also makes it a hidden gem for replacing an unreliable wifi extender or adding wifi to an ethernet-only device using a minimal footprint (in my case, an older laser printer). The best part for me is that with OpenWRT and admittedly the power of your chosen AI platform to fill in any knowledge gaps, you can configure this in a way that is just not possible with normal retail firmware.

Always good, no 5ghz but very customizable with multiple 3rd party ,DDwrt ,OpenWRT ready to install firmware, capable of USB duel band/ 5ghz wifi USB adapter add on for multiple radios that help a lot when using Wifi Pineapple /clone firmware.

I bought this to use as a small network with my telescopes MiniPC and my laptop when far away from WiFi. Setup was easy and it seems to work just fine.

These work great with small portable mixers. I have two Soundcraft 24ui mixers and each one has one of these as their router/wifi connection. Zero Dropouts once you put this into your mixer system.

This is a reliable workhorse of a router: I built a wireless guest subnet with it and never touched it again.

Could barely get this thing set up without it randomly disconnecting. Once set up, I couldn't get it to stay connected to any WiFi hotspot in repeater mode, nor will it stay connected to any client connected to the device itself either. I even fed it 100W and it would still randomly disconnect. Rebooting the device takes forever, in excess of 5 minutes before its WiFi SSID will appear in your network list. I've heard good things about this brand for travel routers, but I took a chance on this one due to it's price and having external antennas.

I'm a BAS technician and this little router is very handy; have had it for a few months now, it works for light weight tasks, but when i've loaded it, say RDP over wifi with heavy file transfers, I ran into it over heating and turning off after 15 minutes or so. Then when i've tried wifi and lan with wan port, rdp, other tcp connections, two laptops connected to it at the same time, it didn't last more than a few minutes before it would cycle power. It does lightweight things and good for the price but not heavy traffic.

I am using it to remotely monitor my astrophotography rig. Remotely in this case is within 50 feet or so, the telescope being outside and I am inside. It sits on the power station, no connections to the astro rig computer. I use Remote Desktop Connection on an Android tablet to monitor the progress. The astro computer is running NINA. A shout out to Patriot Astrophotography for doing a video on this and how to connect a camera to show the rig within NINA. I haven't got the camera yet.This wifi router is easy to setup. Select the router in the wifi choices and enter the default password. At some point an Ethernet cable needs to be attached to get Internet access to update firmware. Go th the network selection for more setup choices to change the SSID.I got an excellent reception on my cell phone within about 50 ft, I was outside and the router was inside.I kept getting dropped when I was using my home WIFI. I then used my cell phone as a hotspot and lost connection once in a couple hours. So, I searched the Internet and found this unit. I haven't actually used it beyond initial setup, powered things off and back on to be sure it reconnected. Shows lots of promise.