Small portable wifi router pro#
Small portable wifi router mac#

Some notes before we startīefore I start there are a couple of points to make. And, you’ll be finally glad to hear after reading up to this point, I got it working!

When I came back I decided I would give it one last go. So, I spent another hour troubleshooting. Couple that with a lack of sleep and jet lag and I was grumpy and determined. When I cannot overcome a problem I can find difficult to let go. I concluded that this hotel had a new, more restrictive system that the travel router could not work with. The forum post mentioned The Marriot were upgrading the wifi service across their hotels. But the instructions were not clear and eventually I had to throw in the towel and give up. It was The Marriot hotels’ weird and wonderful way of doing things that the travel router needed a helping hand with. It wasn’t the travel routers fault apparently. Exactly the same issues - couldn’t connect to the internet and couldn’t even ping the gateway!Īfter several hours of troubleshooting I found a forum post outlining a workaround. I then tried to connect the travel router to the hotel wifi. I couldn’t even ping the hotel wifi gateway! Any device I connected to the travel router private hotspot couldn’t get internet access either. The Marriot Hotel I was staying at provided an ethernet cable for internet, as well as wifi.

Small portable wifi router mac#

As the travel router does nto have a browser to sign in we need to give it the MAC address of a device that does. This is usually done using the MAC address of the device, to permit access. Most hotel wifi uses a captive portal sign in page to register the device. So here I am in a Marriot owned hotel in Kansas City, Missouri and it was time to try out creating my first private wifi hotspot. I connected it to my home wifi, connected devices to it and it just worked. When it arrived, the first thing I did was a factory reset it (suggested by a helpful Amazon review). The base model, Mango has everything I needed but for a little more money the Shadow (AR-300M) has the better Qualcomm CPU. They tick all of the boxes and have good reviews. The last one wasn’t a deal breaker as I use IPVanish on all of my devices but it’s a nice to have.Īfter a bit of research I settled on the GL.iNet range of products.

No battery (as I want to pack it in checked baggage).

Simple, so less to manage and go wrong.

Run off USB power (so no lugging around power packs and cables).

There are a lot of travel routers available so it was important to narrow that down by creating a list of what I needed: The solution would be to create my own private wifi network that it can connect to. The Chromecast doesn’t have a web browser so can’t connect. Hotels tend to use captive portals for signing in to their wifi via the web browser.

So I don’t need to spend time trying to troubleshoot problems. It’s just one of those things that just works. Something I find doesn’t actually get any easier the more you travel.

Small portable wifi router pro#

Here's a small selection of Telstra's most popular mobile broadband plans that the Telstra 5G WiFi Pro is available on.I’m travelling a lot more these days so spending time in hotels is now for winding down and sleeping to minimise the effects of jet lag. It will set you back a whopping $598 outright, or an additional $16.63 per month over 36 months if you add it to your monthly mobile broadband bill. The one downside to Telstra's 5G pocket WiFi is that it doesn't come cheap. No need to worry if you can’t get Telstra 5G yet either, as the Telstra 5G WiFi Pro also supports 4G, so you can expect the same reliable 4G speeds when you're not within 5G coverage. Still, if you're able to take advantage of super-fast 5G speeds, Telstra's 5G WiFi Pro is one of the better portable solutions currently available on the market. There are 4G WiFi devices with better battery life if that's a major consideration. It's a portable powerhouse is a future-proof 5G modem that fits in the palm of your hand and a solid NBN alternative. The 4,500mAh battery lasts up to 9 hours, and the device weighs a light 200g. The Telstra 5G WiFi Pro offers 30 simultaneous WiFi connections, support for WiFi 6, and an ethernet port for wired gigabit speeds.