HooToo Filehub, Wireless Travel Router, iPhone iPad Portable SSD Hard Drive Reader, Photo Backup Device, 10400mAh External Battery Pack Travel Charger - TripMate Titan

If this thing actually worked well it would be the best thing since sliced bread. I went with this mainly because of the built in battery. There is no electricity at some hotel pools and boat docks as well. Upon setting this up at home next to my home router I soon realized how bad this thing is. Just tethering off my main home router with it sitting right next to it it was getting around 1mps. I walked into the next room and had hardly any signal. If it's this bad in my home I can't imagine how miserable it will make us on vacation. Sorry but returning.

There are those products that when you take them out of the box, they just work. They have an intuitive interface and are put together in a rock solid system that make you tell everyone about your new product. Then there is the HooToo Wireless Travel Router. The interface is not intutive. Items are scattered and clicking on things doesn't always work. It seems to reboot 100 times just to configure it and by the way, when you update the firmware you start over. Get all this done and you have a router that barely picks up a signal that other devices see without problems and then rebroadcasts that speed so slowly you give up. Traveling with this frustration device would not be worth it. Also, if you are tempted to download their app for it, do not give into that temptation. Its tragically bad.

Easy to use! Works great!

Just purchased a few more for work (these have become indespensable, so I’m updating my previous review of the TripMate.I first bought the HooToo Nano for personal use and gave it a stellar review. It was the perfect companion for business travel and occasional family trip, especially at hotels with weak WiFi or that charged for WiFi, but had an Ethernet port available.After showing it to my IT department, we thought a perfect work use case would be our quarterly meetings we hold at a nearby hotel. In the past, we weren’t allowed to use the hotel’s public unsecured WiFi since it could be compromised. The Nano would work for this perfectly since it could change an unsecured public WiFi network to a secured private network. However, one that had a 10k mAH battery like the Titan would be even better since we wouldn’t need a power plug and it could last for the entire day’s meeting, so we bought that one for the company to test.Long story short... it worked perfectly, giving us a completely secured WiFi network where our employees could all access the internet without violating our corporate policy.We’ve since bought a bunch more and implemented a program where employees can check them out as a package for offsite meetings, travel, etc. (also with a 1 foot Ethernet cable). IT set-up the configuration to match our corporate offices so no additional setup is needed by employees. Simply turn it on and you’re good. It’s made us all fans of HooToo!

My primary use case for all of the HooToo line of product is bridging hotel wifi to stream to a Chromecast while traveling for business (typically casting from either my phone or laptop and using the HooToo to bridge the hotel wifi because Google decided the Chromecast shouldn't be able to deal with that on its own).Once you get past the quirks that these products have in terms of how to get that set up (software is somewhat non-intuitive, but customer service and the internet are full of references how to get it up and running... eventually), they work. However, even with the latest FW update on the HT-TM05 (082 as I write this) the bridged speed is poor, and of course they only support 2.4GHz band (which is generally fairly congested, especially in hotels), which doesn't help for throughput. With the old FW (022), speed was deprecated more than 90%. Now it's cut in about 30-50%, which is acceptable for a singular HD video stream to run decently without buffering, but still poor if you are trying to stream from multiple devices simultaneously (like if you bought the product to avoid multiple device connection fees, or have kids/spouses also wanting to watch streams on their devices).Customer service is really responsive, which is a plus. They just can't really help on the technical side for what seems to be an engineering problem with the hardware being used even after the latest FW upgrade.The battery is great, if you need that in a pinch (I don't personally, given I'm mostly using this in a hotel room), but there are more functional dedicated battery backups out there.External connectivity and NAS support are a plus if you want to stream your own stored content (which works much better overall than external network connection).The RJ45 connection only being a WAN port is a bummer as well since that limits another use case for this particular family of devices, but doesn't factor into my overall review score.

I wanted to like this. And some reviews for the new as well as the renewed were pretty good. But for me, it looks like it will be returned. I want it mainly for a bridge and the speed is just so slow. I've tested it several ways … different networks … using different channels … and I rarely even get half of the original speed. The other features seem fine. It has my phone's files, though I didn't try to transfer them to a USB drive, but it looks like that would've worked great. And using it connected to a wired ethernet cable also worked great. But as a bridge to repeat a wireless signal, it just didn't do well. The original speed would be 30 Mbps, but the Tripmate Titan would be somewhere between 5 and 10 … and sometimes less. Even at 10, it wouldn't stay consistent … and sometimes it would simply disconnect. This has been frustrating trying to get this to work. The app would also often simply disconnect. Using a computer browser is more stable, but again, the Tripmate Titan would not stay always connected to the wi-fi, and when connected, it often was just too slow to do more than check email. I wanted to like this.

This product gives value for money, I use it everywhere. It is like having your own private wireless router where ever you go. I can connect all my phones and ipads, macs without having to change the passwords for each of them, when i connect to a new network. Now all i need to do is to set up the HooToo wireless with the new network and everything else syncs with it.

I love it. Connected two 4 TB USB hard drive. Working perfectly. Just what I needed for long time. Easy to setup and use.